Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-08-05

i MAM Iva NAAaNt AAAAAS"NA ~A~NFN - =
lumber producer, or q cotton grower
Ana Congressman Calderhead vOtet
to maintain tho higher tariff SEIZED
ules Of the Aldrich Bill on all sthes'
products. And besides there are onl!
| i76,OO0 consumers in the Fifth Dis
trict. what could the interests Q
| that number Of mere people amour
to as against an infant industry Q
two sheep to the square mile, with
congressman like Calderhead3--Kan
sas City Star.
Let's see. The population Of tn
Fifth district is 10000 or abou
$4,000 families. OF these 10000
families live on the farms. Full!
$4,000 OF the remainder are directly
dependent on the prosperity Of thu
farms for their bread and butter
stores, banks, professional men ant
in fact all dweliers in the towns De
pend on the farmers business IN one
way or another. The Star sent a cor
respondent to write up this section
last week and he reported 1t marvel
ously prosperous--the towns growing
rich, the farmers buying bank stock
and motor cars and rejoicing In their
success. The excess wealth over their
former earnings have come to the
farmers either directly or indirectly
because of the high prices for their
produce. And these prices are good
because they are employed In the
factories Of the nation men who are
getting good wages and can afford
to buy the products Of the Fifth
district farms at good prices. the
motor cars and the bank stock and
the paid off mortgages have come
under the Dingley tariff. Under
the Wilson tariff enacted by the DEM
ocrats in accordance with the Stars
ideas the Fifth district farmers were
poor, their farms mortgaged; the
towns were poverty stricken and for
lorn.
So 1t is reasonable that Mr.. Calder
head In standing by the Republican
principal Of protection and in sup
porting President Taft's ideas on the
tariff was not injuring the Fifth dis
trict. What we want here is a mar
xet for our production at high prices
not merely chance to save a cent
4 pound on some article that is but
A trIfIe in the years expenses.
OF course the ideal way to prosper
Is to pay a low price for everything
you buy and get a very high price
for everything you sell. But the
$4,000 families Of the Fifth district
would rather risk their financial
future on getting a high price for
what they sell and paying a good
price for what they buy than to sell
products 1t low figure and buy at
! cheap price. 1t must be one way
Or the other.
No economist has yet evolved
scheme by which everybody can sell
Il high price and also buy cheaply
md section that sells much more
han it buys ought not to complain
While 1t has the better Of the bargain.
The Cedar Rapids, Iowa.. Repubh-
AN has some suggestions that are
worth reading-Iowa like Kansas
las become rich by selling Its sur
,lus products at high prices:
III hides go on the free list let
hoes 20 there also. The hide is the
inished product Of the farmer Just
Z much az the shoe is the finished
,rOduct Of the manufacturer. Let
he sauce be the same for the goose
d for the gander. Let us be Impair
Ial. II the farmer does not need
protection, then the manufacturer
oes not need 1t. II we want free
rade, let's have 1t. The sooner the
etter in order that we may try y,
cts all 60 to the poor house, If that
, necessary in order to get wisdom {
We have got 1t that way before.
here Is no need Of manufacturing
. this country. Japan and Germany ,
an attend to all such matters for US.
freak down the tariff wall that We
ear 90 much about in the speeches.
( the demagogues and honest men,
Unfortunately, and let US try I'M
ortIng everything that they can
make It cheaper for Us abroad. OF
curse, they can make It cheaper
broad. Japan can make cotton /
,oods for a fraction Of what they /
ost here. she pays her men and ,
1omen 20 and 30 cents a day and
hey work u hours a day. They ,
an do It cheaper than our men and Q
women. why not let them do III
let us all rely upon the foreigner.
let the ships busy. Bring In goods
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