The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-10
REEDER ON THE STAR.
Sixth District Congressman Relieves
His Mind on Calamity Prophets.

To the Editor of the State Journal:
Doubtless the reading public have
by this time, read and digested the
speech made by Speaker Cannon be-
Kansas City on November 26th. as
well as the editorial comments of the
Kansas City Star in the issues of that
paper Immediately following.
If there exists individuals among
the men who compose the Republican
party, of Kansas and the middle west,
who do not clearly understand the
position of the Star and it's Demo-
of that paper in its recent issues,
makes their position, of supporting
Democratic policies so plain that they
can no longer be misunderstood.
Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, also
spoke in Kansas City last week. and
while the Star SO bitterly denounces
Speaker Cannon and the Republican
party; it in the same issue lauds' the
Democratic senator, as an ideal
representative of the people. This
who are acquainted with the political
pedigree of that paper, and are
familiar with its Democratic ante
eedents and its support of Grover
one who believes in Republican
policies, be longer buncoed. by this
exponent of Democratic doctrine; the
Star stands for free trade, cheap
farm products, and pauper labor.
In its issue of November Is, this pa
per attacks Congressman Calderhead,
for his defense OF the president and the
Payne tariff bill, under the headlines
of "Calderhead's Defense and on the
adjoining page, copies from the Pitts
burg Leader. under the headlines Eng
lish Workmen Starving an article
showing the deplorable condition of the
working classes in free trade England"
Nothing could better show the incon-
ststency OF the Star than these two ar
tlcleS. While it tells. the public that
it is conversant with the fact that the
policy of free trade has wrecked the
great British kingdom. yet it would in
vite Republicans in the wonderfully
prosperous west, to join it and its Dem
ocratic following, in their efforts to
! bring about the same policy in this
country, with all of it's attendant mis-
cry and disaster.
If this was the first offense of this
paper, its action would not be of a
character so criminal, but I appeal to
the farmer and business man to re-
member that only a few years since the
Star by expounding the same doctrine
that 1t is now filing the pages of its
paper with, SIded the Democratic party
| in forcing upon the country the Will
| son tariff bill. and it condemned then
| as 1t condemns now. any person or or
! ganfzatlon that stood for the policy of
| protection.
| w ull5 oil cl4SSGS VI interests Will SUI
| fer, f the policies advocated by this
paper prevail yet the farmer above all
| others will meet with the greatest dis
| aster; he above all others should know
| that if he is to find a ready market at
| the present splendid prices that he is
receiving, he must lend his support in
| favor of the doctrine of protection, that
| will keep the great industrial world
| with its thousands of institutions at
work. for after all the dinner table of
l h -fTIrf
! ket; he should also remember that the
i Kansas City Star stands for the policy
| that would drive the industricI world
! cut of business, bring stagnation to the
commercial world. and again sill the
| farmers granaries with the products of
the fields. for which there would be no
market. The Star is now, as it was a
little more than decade since, the ad-
vance agent of business disaster.
! Very respect fully,
| w. A REEDER