The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
HON. M'NEAL
Is Again POintedly Addressed by
Hon. Herbert.
Who Inquiries to Know the
Whichness.
CORN AT Is AND A CTS.
Says McNeal Asking for Repub-
lican Votes
While Running on a Democratic
Platform.
CORN AT Is AND Al CTS.
Calls the ''Insurgent" the
Twelfth Obstinate Juryman.

To the Editor of the State journal;
My Democratic friend. Hon. T. NC
Neal. has evidently had his good hui
NOR and digestion disturbed by dis
putation of his alleged knowledge of
public questions. He has side-stepped
and bluffed in a manner that has
made him the one best laugh the peo-
pie have had since the Pop period
He threw the first brick by declaring
that he wanted to debate with Con-
gresham Anthony, who replied that
he had no time to divide with him.
Being a voter and truth seeker I sug-
gested that he debate with me. He
replied with withering scorn that l
wasn't his eoual-that he desired to
shed his light where it would do some
good-that he wished to speak to the
ignorant and down-trodden people.
He has been coarse and rough IN ms
talk-has sneered at my personal APP
pearance.
\ Question of Beauty.
Not having a hair of his owr-be-
ing so bald that he is nearly naked-
he condemns me for having more ha1r
than he has. And because he is him
self a rarely beautiful person he says
I am not in his set because OF my
homely features. And finally he states
that no difference what L say he Will
have nothing more to say to me
Well. doubtless the real reason why
he is anxious to quit is that he hnds
himself before the people asking Tor
Republican votes on a Democratic
platform. He has exposed hlmseH
and if he has concluded to shut up he
shows some sense for the first time
since he announced his candidacy.
In his affected disdain for me he
brands me as a seeker of notoriety
and calls me a liar-at long distance,
Of course. He does this because his
modest and shrinking nature is always
in revolt against appearing in the spot
light and yet for several years no
= event has happened that he couldnt
be induced to attend for a fee varying
from a free lunch to $25 and eX-
penses.
Now that he declines to say any
thing more. what shall we do for
guidance in determining whether or
not we are to suffer or prosper under
the new tariff law?
To whom shall we ignorant ores look
for knowledge now that the fountain
Of thought is dry?
When Will he sell the Philippines and
what price will he ask?
How Will President Know?
How will President Taft know that he
is wrong in thinking the new tariff law
the best ever written. if Hon. McNeal
declines to speak further?
How will the people know how much
more they are paying for sugar than
they should if he doesn't figure it out
FOR them?
And mercy onus-think of the money
the people Will lose on shingles without
knowing it if he doesn't tell them
about it. The buying power of corn
be says. is growing less.
Quoting from the same authority he
quotes from, the Republican hand
book of 1908. the latest one issued, /
find that the Dingley tariff law went
INTO effect in July. 1897. In 1896 corn
sold in Kansas for 1Sc a bushel The
average price paid for corn in the
United States in 1906 was 2115c a bush
The price of corn has averaged 44c
1 bushel in Kansas since the Dingley
bill became a law. 1t has aVera ged
81 O6 cents a bushel in the United States
;nder the Dingley bill
Corn at IS and A Cents.
If a man bought a buggy with 500
bushels of corn at Is cents in Kansas
IN 1906 he could certainly buy that same
buggy in Kansas with corn at A cents
bushel and have money left to buy
a binder. sulky plow. suit of clothes
and have some money left to spend or
bank.
He could do it for two reasons-first,
because 44c bushel is more than 1Sc
I buShel. Second. the same buggy
sells for SIS less, a better binder sells
for no more and for some less and so
loes the sulky plow. The suit sells
for little more. or a little less. per
caps, but he has more money for his
corn than in 1906. The things he buys
have not increased in price as much
as the things have that he sells. OF
course, no tariff law will be perfect
enough to prevent fluctuation in prices.
If Hon. I. McNeal is wrong in deny-
ing this statement of the increased
purchasing power of corn it follows
that he is wrong in the other propo-
sitions he makes to convince the farm
ers that it is all a mistake-that they
haven't prospered.
Articles may be selected from the
tariff law to support free tradt: areu-
by loyal Republicans is not to the dis
puted:
That in the history of our country we
have had prosperity under a high tariff
and adversely under a low tariff.
We have all shared in the benefits of
protection-even the Hon. 7. McNeal.
So why should he milk the cow and
then kick her when a fly makes her
swish her tail?
1t is the Republican idea to place a
duty on the things we produce and ad-
nit free those we can't produce.
''McNeal May Produce a Better"
The Hon. McNea1 may be able to pro-
duce a better system than this but no
great statesman from Washington tc
Taft has been able to devise anything
better. Hon. McNeal says he can and
having spoken he now proposes to re-
main silent
1t is time. for even as he weeps and
walls over the price of suSar-ths
money the sugar thieves are stealing
he price may go down; also the price
IF shingles and other prices he finds
'ault with may slump.
Without sufficient tariff on sugar we