The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-10
Ewing Herbert Goes Into De.
tails of the Matter.
Takes McNeal to Task for Diff.
fering With President.
HE URGES PROTECTION
Hiawatha Man Dwells Upon the
Prosperity of Farmer.
Also of Manufacturer and PeO.
pie Generally.

pic UoHeraIIy.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
see that the Hon. T. McNeal |
makes the highly important point in |
his campaign as a congressional cor
respondent that he is no relation of |
mine. If he was 1 would say nothing |
about it. am sure. And. knowing all |
about the tariff and being prepared to |
make a better tariff bill than the |
Payne bill which our president, Mr.. |
Taft, says is the best one ever writ |
ten. he complains because I am
ignorant of the tariff. The Hon. Nc
Neal is the only man who knows all |
about it. Will he kindly explain how
it is that with a lower duty on print |
paper newspaper men pay more for |
paper than they have been paying |
With free hides and lower duties on |
all that is used in shoes will the |
eminent tariff authority tell us why |
the price of shoes has advanced |
VIII he also state why a merchant |
sells the same goods at some seasons |
of the year, bearing the same duty, |
for less money than at other seasons |
of the year? In other words the suit I
of clothes that sells for SIS with an /
alleged tariff thereon of $4.64 is often |
sold for $10-the same identical suit. |
And yet the Hon. McNeal weeps as
he struts about in his $50 suit because
we farmers have to pay $4.64 tariff to
the clothes maker.
AS a matter of fact we couldn't |
afford to let the cheap clothes man in |
free, as he proposes, if the manufac- |
portective policy protects the pro-
Queer. the workman and the capital |
iSts-so long as it protects all-it |
seems unfair and untrue to say that
-. &..sIz 1,0
manufacturer gets it. Hon. T. Nc !
Neal is old man now His hair |
is whitened by his years of continuous
and arduous efforts to enlighten and
uplift stumbling mankind. The sole |
of his trousers is worn from mucH |
sitting in a swivel chair in an official |
place figuring out the wrongs visited |
on the people by the Republican |
party that has apparently made mis- !
take in keeping him in office. 1t does |
not seem that by this time he might |
have learned that there will never be |
a tariff that will suit everybody. There |
will never be a tariff arrangement
that will give the seller protection and
the buyer free trade. If the American
manufacturer pays the American |
labor and the American farmer and
then chooses to enter a foreign mar |
ket and meet the prices competition /
fixes in that market he does no one
an injustice. So long as the farmers
and the workmen of the country
are prosperous the tariff isn't as bad |
as Hon McNeal says it is.
McNeaI and President Differ.
The president says it is the best tar
iff bill ever written. Hon. McNeal says
it isn't. Then it follows, of course, that
the president is wrong. He should have
got Mr.. McNealS opinion before he |
spoke. Before the Dingley bill was
framed there were 3 million workmen
unemployed in our country and Hon. |
hi
and grouchy and greedy from high NV
ing, was on his uppers at about that
period. With the farmers he had no
Republican market for his wares at that |
time-and he has no Republican mar
ket with his wares at this time-but the /
farmers have and they will not vote to
give it up None of us were very pros
Porous under Cleveland's rule and the
Wilson tariff bill but under Mckinley |
and the Dingley tariff all have thrived |
Farmers Are Prosperous.
The farmers have had well-paid Ia
Dor to take away their produce at good
prices. When the Dingley bill was
passed a lot of Highbrows like Hon. I.
McNeal talked just as he does now
about the Payne bill. They said ne
cessities cost about As per cent too
much. The fact that American goods
were sold abroad cheaper than at home
was played UP the same way as now;
The cost OF wearing apparel was figured
to show that there was tax on 1t
paid the manufacturer, But the farmer
rode to town on a $50 load of corn
that a little time before brought him
SO. The farmers friends kicked on
the McNeal kind of duty-the bellacher's
duty-the tariff of imagina.ion-the
snarl of the greedy who want 1t all for
themselves-but the farmer kept right
on getting his and has become greasy
with prosperity.
His products brought him four times
as much as they did before the Dingley
bill. And now Hon. McNea1 wants the
farmer to think that he is abused because
the prices of other products have increased
in proportion to his products. Under the
Democratic low tariff Hon. McNea1 now
favors 500 bushels of corn brought the
farmer enough to buy buggy. but under
the Republican tariff bills of Dingley and
Payne the 500 bushels of corn will buy
the farmer the same buggy, self binder.
suky plow, suit of clothes and give
him wad of money to spend for some
thing else, or put in bank.
Looking Through Gimlet Hole.
The Hon McNeal is looking through a
gimlet hole and can't see general pros
facturer has sold some junk on hand for
about II cents cheaper in some heather
land than he could sell 1t for at home.
The Hon. McNeal has lived long enough
to know that very few Americans have
any kick coming. And surely a man who
has MIXED the Republican cow as long
as he has should quit kicking her.
EWING HERBERT. |
Hiawatha. Kan, Nov. 9, 1909.
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