The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-18
Ewing Herbert Thinks SEIZED
ules Too Low Now.
Cites Cases of Trust Articles
Where Prices Lower.
PROTECT THE FARMER
Meat Would Be 6 Cents Pound
But for Tariff.
Ii Regulars Loose in 1910 Will
Win Great Victory 1912.

To the Editor of the State Journal:
The backbone of the Insurgent move
ment seems to be well-broken. The
president has been kind to the Insur-
gents, although he has insisted that
the present tariff bill be given a chance
because it would be almost impossible
to prepare for another revision of the
tariff during his administration. He
is glad to learn that some of those who
voted against the new tariff law will
not leave the party but will work for
further adjustment within the Repub-
lican party lines.
We little men can't know a great deal
about a great subject like the tariff, so
if great man like President Taft says
the present law is all right we've got
to trust him.
The men who think the tariff causes
high prices and those who think prices
are made by supply and demand are
confronted by statesmen who insist
that the trusts fix the prices. Well. the
sugar trust is acting very decent. then.
The price of sugar has fallen within the
past ten years. The price of steel and
Oil hasn't advanced although both are
trust controlled products. Ten thou
sand articles have increased in price,
however. and fortunately most men are
making enough to buy them.
In the east the factory hands are
crying out against the high prices or
farm products. It will probably be
one can have it all his own way Free
hides haven't made shoes any cheaper
A reduction on coffee hasn't decreas-
ed the price. 1t must be clear even
to insurgents that the tariff isn't too
high whole
1t may be too low. The govern
ment isn't collecting sufficient duty
to pay expenses. The only way the
bulk of the money needed can be had
is by tariff duties.
James Hill is pleading for lower
tariffs with Canada doubtless because
he owns vast interests there and
without duty to pay he would find a
market for them in America. He
came from Canada, and great man
though he is, he is thinking about as
much of developing that country as
he is of developing America.
He has made hundred million
dollars under the present protective
system and now sees where he could
make more If he had no duties to
pay, but he will have to pay his trib-
ute towards keeping up government
expenses.
The farmers have reason to be in
terested in the tariff. Without a tar
if duty to pay, South American Re-
publics can deliver meat to the Amer
lean market for six cents a pound.
liza far cheaper than the American
farmer sells it.
Reduce the tariff and the price of
the farmers land will go down and
SO will farm produce.
Protection all around means good
prices all around.
Times have always been good under
high tariff and have always been bad
under low tariffs.
Little in Attacks on Speaker.
The cry against Cannonism and the
attacks on the great speaker have
simmered and f1iclzered until there is
little left in them. In a letter to a
Kansas friend Mr. Cannon says: 81
am satisfied that 80 per cent of the
Republican party are Republicans
without any qualifying adjective of
any kind, and the small percenta ge