The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-04

grace? He wants to go to congress
that's his wall He vents to sell the
Philippines as he has sold oil stock. He
wants to down Uncle Joe Cannon be-
cause the Insurgents want good
PARTISAN dcwned. He is opposed to the
Payne tariff law because he can make a
better one easy enough. He is opposed
to President Taft and the Republican
majority in congress because he has
become SO progressive that he actually
advocates the tariff principles of Cleve-
land and Bryan.
Tariff Not to Blame.
Hon. McNeal intimates that the
tariff has raised the price of cotton
silk. The truth is the tariff hasn't
raised the price. The supply and de-
mand have fixed the price. The crop
was short. The factories are idle for
lack of cotton. And as America pro-
duces most all the cotton of the world
it couldn't import enough to turn
wheel even if there was no tariff. The
tariff is largely made to protect the Ia
Dor and capital employed from the time
the seed is planted until it is placed
on the market in cloth and the differ
ent articles of need.
English and American Labor.
Now no tariff can be devised that
Will pay the farmer and the factory
laborer and ignore the capitalist or
manufacturer. In England, where
are out of work all the year around. Ia
Dor is paid less than half what 1t is
paid in America. Wooden goods sci.
for less than they do in America. This
is awful, Miss Eva says Uncle Tom.
Yet with free wool and half-starved Ia
Dor it is to be expected that wooden
garments are cheaper than they are
in this country. What of it2 Does
any farmer who grows sheep want
free wool market? He had that ex-
,e.v-sA hot oh Tn,
this country the sheep is protected. So
is the farmer who grows him and the
worker WHO weaves the cloth. But
Uncle Tom wants the manufacturer
who furnishes the money to buy the
wool and employ the men to produce
the articles in demand to meet the Eng
lish price. Is that reasonable or pos
s:ble?
Explains to Uncle Tom.
Uncle Tom is also grieved be-
cause articles of American manufac-
ture are sold abroad for less money
American farmers and laborers are
paid American prices what fault can
be found if the manufacturer gives
away his products, or sells as he
pleases. He might be selling an
article he couldn't sell at home. He
might be selling an oversupply and
pocketing the loss. He might be adj
vertising his product by a cut price.
Say an American implement house
does sell binder for $25 less to
farmer in Europe than an American
farmer pays. Couldn't such a con-
cession be made to get the machine
in general use in Europe? Couldn't
any American implement maker
afford to make a reduction in order
to gain trade? Wouldn't he be
obliged to meet the market price
! wherever he sought trader
Labor Should Get It's Share.
"An our people have the right to
| ask is that labor gets its share of the
price of the product from the seed to
sale. Does the laborer get that? The
! fact that there are more prosperous
well-to-do people in our country than
in any free trade country is the reply
| that stands against all declaimers like
! Uncle Tom. 1t may be that a few
pounds more sugar can be bought for
/ q dollar in free trade country, but
| if the free trade man in the free trade
country hasn't got the dollar, why
the cheapness doesn't even commend
the free trade theory.
Uncle Tom Has Gone Democratic.
'sUncle Tom has gone Democratic.
He has turned back the clock of his
life and is now a Cleveland-Bryan
Democrat. He offers no Republican
principles as a candidate for con-
gress and isn't entitled to a place on
the ticket at the primary election as
Ia Republican candidate. He is a