Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-07

CAVubA w eA-S NDNJ ~ tA-~A~rs---s~'
why Is the cost Of living high?
Not because Of the tariff, certainly,
because the Increased cost Of inn
ported goods to the consumer there's
Of is inhnitesimai. There is not a
farmer in Kansas, or anybody else
for that matter. who Is mathemati-
clan enough to figure out the addi-
tional cost OF suit Of clothes be-
cause Of the tariff.
1t Is because Of the high prices OF
meat, flour, cattle, hogs, horses,
mules. corn, wheat, oats, hay, pota-
toes, cotton, tobacco, and everything
else the farmer produces and sells
that we use or consume.
zenophen, wonderful thinker
and writer Of ages gone by, and it is
as true today as then, said: When
agriculture flourishes all other pur-
suits are in full yigor, but when the
ground is forced to lie barren other
occupations are almost stopped. as
well by land as sea-"
And what is the, farmer producing
and selling in these United States
today? over S,OOO;OOO,0OO bushels
Iof corn, over 1000, 100000 Of oats,
over $50, 100000 Of wheat. and
everything else produced by the far
mer in proportion all valued this year
at $4,000, 100000. We who are not
farmers may well say: "My fiscal
plans | find Good Times pinch me
the same old way" But when the
farmers are prosperous we are.
Cleveland and his cohorts, aided
and abetted by self-styled Republi-
cans-renegades then as now--car-
ried the country in war on the tar
if. and every farmer who will stop
to think will recall what followed.
In 1893 saw fine 4-year-old
Norman ercheron mare sell on the
streets of winfield for IS. Do they
want to repeat the experiment over
again? If they do, let them follow
the lead of the Stubbses, the Bris-
lows. the Murdocks and the Madisons
in kansas, the LaFollettes and the,
Cummingses and other Democrats
elsewhere-Democrats CARRIED In
Republican clothes to give their
monthly declarations responsibility
and il they should succeed, low
prices Of the farmers products will
come again, and the cost Of living
/ vii come down with dull thud, and
then they will know where they are
at.
They followed that gang in KAN
sas last year, and now they must pay
out Of their pockets this year mil
lion dollars more than last, which,
I with more than 100000 paid Kansas
lby the general government on war
claims used In addition, brings the
grand total we pay for stubbs and
his reformers, more than we ought
W. "a $1,000, OOO---more tina ma dol
liar each for every man, woman ana
child in Kansas. But It is worth
the price II thereby the people are
made to understand the vicious
character Of these spurious so-called
reformers, the Kansas City Star, the
Topeka Capital and Bill White in
cluded. (.
Kansas people have been smisled
to their own hurt by like reformers
before, and they paid In cold cash
for their folly then, as now. WIN
some one tell us what has become
Of those other reformers7 They
have long since gone where the
woodbIne twineth," never to Pc
heard Of more, and these will go
the same way as soon as the people
find them out.
Those past and present were ana
are IAN tarred with the same stick"
Climbing out on a limb where they
were herdine by themselves, freed
as a good husbandman came along
Of the parent Republican tree, TAFT
and BY his winona speech sawed the
limb OF between them and the trdnk'
and thereby freed the party Of these
political larvae. which the Repub-
iican party, II wise. will see DO not
again fasten themselves on 1t.
The new tariff law is the best ever.
Few increases except on whisky,
LIQUORS. wines, silks and high class
cotton goods, and the poole Of KAN
sas don't need to buy them unless
they want to.
Joe Cannon and Senator Aldrich
are two Of the greatest men this ma
ton ever produced. and II is high
time that Republicans returned to
their taria mooringA refusing 70
heed the nee trade heresies Of the
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