The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-18
Railroad Owner Says It Is a
Question Not Affect
ing the Nation.
HE DENIES FIXING PRICES
he HAS JUST RETURNED FROM A
FISHING TRIP IN LABRADOR
AND PROMISES TO SEND JOE
CANNON A SALMON.

Washington, July 17.-Jim Hill
dropped into Washington with flan-
mel suit and palm leaf fan and adapt
ed himself to the ways OF the COM
munity. He just stepped away from
fishing camp in Labrador on his way
West to look after his foremost in
terests.
His first move was to take off his
coat and comment on the weather. He
spent an evening telling John Carroll,
his personal attorney. and half dozen
friends all that he had seen and en-
joyed in Labrador. Then he visited
President Taft and chatted for a few
minutes. Then he went up to Capitol
Hill and told Uncle Joe Cannon, one
of his cronies, the precise dimensions
of salmon he had caught and order
ed shipped to the speaker packed in
big lot of ice.
Tired Of the Tariff.
THE tariff" he laughed when that
omnipresent Washington bugaboo, was
paraded before him. why. 1 haven't
read it. I am tired of the tariff: the
people are tired Of the tariff All they
want is to have the talk about the tar
iff stopped so that the procession can
move on.
mo, the procession is not standing
still. Things are going along nicely.
Business is better than it was and
business is getting better.
The passage of the tariff bill isn't
going to stimulate it to any great ex-
tent.
ITS politics-too much politics.
The sooner the people come to know
how little the tariff has to do with
prices they will know that the tariff
is not a local issue, but concern of
| all of the people"
How about the prospects for
crops?'
Good. Not for an extraordinary
crop but for valuable crop. Wheat
will bring good price and the farm
er will be well compensated for his
labor. 1t is not an inflated price; it
| is not due to speculation. 1t is the
actual value of the foodstuffs fixed
| in the markets of the world. 1t takes
on an average 100000 bushels of
wheat more each year to feed the peo-
| pie of this country. AS the country
grows the necessity Of the home mar
ket increases, and the world price of
wheat must be paid IN our own coun-
! try. ---
No Laws for Prices.
"Sixty-five percent of our people are
living in the cities. Only 35 percent
are tilling the SOIL That So percent
cannot consume the manufactures of
the IS percent. We must have a mar
ket for our manufactures. After all,
there are but four sources of wealth
the sea, the forest, the mine and the
farm. You cannot fix the prices of
their product by statute.
! IF farmer can get IS cents a bu-
shell for his corn he is not going to
feed it to hogs to have them die of
cholera. Consequently the price of
meat is going up and the wage Garner
will have to turn to breadstuffs for
his food. This is true throughout the
world
THE cost of living is the proof OF
the tariff theory. If the time is not
here it is not far distant when the
people will see that it is the demand
for supplies that makes the prices Of
foodstuffs and not the tariff.
When the cost of living equals the
income then the people will learn tina,
the tariff is not local issue. Their
there will be reestablished the natura
/ laws regulating costs and profits. Jus
now the people expect big things
They like to see big things. The gov
ernment needs lot of money. The
tariff produces much revenue. With
that revenue the people are accustom
ed to seeing a great deal of money.
And right along this line" con
cluded Mr.. Hill as he got into taxi
cab and started for his train, now
would be a good time to begin prac
t{cipo a liftIo ocopDp,y"