The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

exports for the same months increased
over those for last year by Al million
dollars $41,000,000) and rs million dol
lars ($25,000,000) more than for the same
Period in 1907. This is AN indication
of what we may expect from the set
Element of the tariff question. Busi-
ress that had halted has gone ahead
with confidence, knowing just what are
the regulations which the government:
imposes upon Importation.
There are other and even Better
:igns in our purely domestic affairs
The railroads. the manufacturing
establishments, merchants and pro-
ducers of every kind are going for
ward in confidence in settled condi-
tions. 1t is predicted in railroad cir
Giles that there will be as much capital
employed in double tracks, increased
terminal facilities. ETC., in the next
five years as there is already invested
IN these roads.
Now, gentlemen, there is only one
thing that can halt this confident
move forward to give the country an
other era of prosperity such as we had
from 1897 to 1907, and that is agita-
lion for the mere purpose of agita-
ION, without any we'll conceived
healthy purpose in view.
The senators and representatives
who call themselves insurgents and
the Payne BILL voted to increase or
maintain the duties on the industries
and products of their own states and
sections. They were protectionists for
their own people, but they were OPP
! osed to protection for other people in
other sections.
Senator La Toilette did not vote to
increase the duties on lead and zinc,
but he defended the finance commit
tees schedules on those products in
speeches. saying they were not high
trough, explaining, however, that he
could not vote on the question because
he said he had a personal pecuniary
interest in the outcome
la Toilette and Bristow.
Senators La Toilette and Bristow
GEd the other insurgents voted to in
crease the duty on barley and barley
malt for the reason that their con-
stituents produce barley. In other
words, these gentlemen who call them
selves insurgents voted with the Re-
publicanS on schedules that protected
the products of other sections of the
country. That was their right, but
when they voted with the Democrats
against the final enactment of the bill
lhey voted to maintain the old sched-
ules of the Dingley tariff law and were
Let supporting the pledge of the Re
publican platform or the pledges made
by President Taft.
There was not one member of the
Republican majority who secured in
The bill as enacted all that he had
contended for. President Taft, Sena-
lCr Aldrich and myself all accepted
more compromises than the socalled
insurgents were asked to accept. In
illinois we wanted free lumber, and
my constituents wanted a duty on pc
troleum because they have the great
est independent oil producing district
in the world. We were beaten, but we
cid not make our own interests the
only Interpretation of the Republican
pledge to revise the tariff
Senator Cummins complains that I
nave read him out of the Republican
rarty. Other sensitive gentlemen made
The same complaint against President
Taft. The senator does me too much
ronor. I have not the authority to
read any man out, nor have I the dis
position. I think 1 may say the same
81 the president. I have been a mem
Ter of the Republican party since it
was organized and have never known
II any man or group of men being
read out of any party except by them
selves.
Opposition to Lincoln.
There was a minority in the party
opposed to President Lincoln's con-
quot of the war. some because he did
not move fast enough and others be-
cause he went too fast. Some of these
eople took themselves out of the
PARTY and supported General McClel-
ian against Lincoln in 1864. There
were Republicans who were dissatis-
AiCu Will IIeSlQ0HL OIFanI S admins
ration, and, not being able to control
The party. they went out and supported
Greeley in 1872.
In 1884 there was minority that
opposed the nomination of James G.
Flame, and after participating in the
convention went out and supported
Mr.. Cleveland at the polls. aiding in
his election. In 1896 there was an
other minority that opposed the adop-
zion of the gold standard as a part of
70 ~ lot <N,- rrNI-
Crganized the silver party and then
joined the Democrats in support of
Mr.. Bryan. In the same year there
vas minority in the Democratic par
~ opposed to Mr.. Bryan's free silver
platform, but in reality supported Mr..
Mckinley, contributing to his election.
These men who found themselves in
the minority in their own party and
too much committed to their ideas to
accept the will of the majority. read
themselves out of the parties to which
they had formerly belonged. That
was their right. and is the right of
every man today. 1t is Senator Cum
Minis right and Senator LaFollette's
right: but manly men of all political
views have in the past exercised that
right openly and have not gone about
in garments Of martyrdom because
they were not allowed to control the
majority. These men did not lose ga st
as citizens. They exercised an
inalienable right to unite their efforts
with any party that best represented
their views. 1t is the kind of in
dependence that wins respect and that
counts in our political contests
The senator, I think, aptly recalled
the story of the three tailors of Tooley
street who met and prepared the pre-
amble, 1--WE, the people of England -
This is good illustration of the ego
that often dominates the minority
everywhere. in town meetings, state
legislatures, federal congresses, in
churches, and In every place where
men must cooperate. The tailors OF
Tooley street are ever with us, and
when they cannot be eve. the peo-
ple'' in action as well as in the pre-
amble. they take it out in resolving
and declaiming.
Convention of 1880.
There was one gigantic struggle in
the Republican party which is
m emOrable as the greatest convantior,