Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-06-24

did not intend to do injustice to an!
portion Of the land or show partially
to any portion. We are preparing leg
islation to establish justice and eQui
ty in the whole nation
II have Just one reply to you whs
say goods are sold cheaper abroad
than at home. that II the goods senl
abroad were emptied into the ocean
the wages OF the men who made them
would be paid Just the same.
when saw the south It was de-
vastated by war; It was poor. I know
how poor 1t was when l went home
from Appomattox, realize the hero
ism with which they finally returned
to their labors on their homesteads,
but / know that until the operation
Of the Dingey law spread its influ-
ences and its sustaining hand over
you, you paid no attention to fac
tories, and know that since that
time you have built more cotton
mills than you built before in hun
dred years. Applause on the Repub-
lican side.)
~ know also that $500 indepen-
dent saw mill owners sent their dele
gates to represent them before our
committee. The water power which
turns the wheels had been turning
there from the time before the first
governor of Georgia took his seat.
The power to turn all that great for
est into lumber for us to use In a
market 500 miles away was open,
and yet not a sawmill turned wheel,
except for their own little home con-
sumption, until the Dlngley law fur
nished protecting hand over them
and then they sold lumber to little
New England"
Mr.. Slayden: "Does the gentle
man know that at least one state in
the south, the only one for which l
claim the privilege Of speaking, even
in part, produces one crop worth
more each year than any other crop
of any nature whatever produced by
any state in the Union, and on top
Of that the people of Texas contri-
butte a million of dollars to help pay
the pensioners in Kansas? (Laugh-
ter on the Democratic sioe.)
Mr.. Calderhead: Upon that
subject want to say one word. We
frequently have heard 1t charged
that the poor south is taxed to pay
the pensions to my comrades. ] want
to remind them hat the only tax
they pay for that purpose Is the
internal revenue tax levied up
ON whiskey, beer and tobacco, and
the payment of that is purely avol-
untary matter with each man"
Mr.. slayden: "They pay 1t, do
they not? They do not do like the
daughter on the Republican side.)
people Of Kansas, drink without pay
ing the tax" daughter from the
Democratic side.)
Mr.. Calderhead: "Pay 1t? OF
course they pay its Unfortunately It
may be for them they have paid
more attention. to the, CONSUMPTION
which results In paying the tax than
they have to turning the steel shafts
that hold the spindles in the cotton
mills. daughter and applause on
the Republican side.) -g
"Wherever / have, had the pleas
ure and honor of hearing those gen
tlemen( Democrats) talk about poll
tics from the stump in the last ten
years, / have heard these same Ques-
tions nut to the audience as an evil
dence that the Republican party was
unjust totths gentlemen and his peo-
pIe ana unfair in partially to New
England.s I am not from New Eng
land. / have seen very little OF IT.
The emily portion that | have ever
seen has been the heart Of Connecti-
cut. I live west of the Missouri riv-
er. For twenty-eight years never
was east Of 1t.