The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-28
After Republican Senators Who
DenOunce Tariff Bill.
FOES OF PROTECTION.
Calls Those Who Favor a Re-
vision Downward.
League Members Called Upon to
Buckle on ArmOr.

Washington, Aug. 2s.-Now the
American Protective Tariff league has
declared war on those Republican
senators and representatives who are
denouncing the recent tariff measure
and who voted against 1t. Through
the American Economist, the league is
turning it's batteries on the downward
revisionists. and declaring that nothing
less than the control of the Republi-
can party is at stake.
AS the Economist sees it, such sem
ators as Bristow, Dolliver. Cummins,
Beveridge, Nelson, Clapp and La Fol-
lette are bent on wrestling the control
of the Republican party from the
hands that now direct it and taking
it over unto themselves. The latest
issue of the Economist discusses the
speeches Senator Cummins has made
since he has been in the west, and it
says these forebode struggle for con-
troll.
"Protectionists may as well under
stand this now it says. TT is better
to understand this now than to make
the discovery after the mischief has
been DONE"
Moreover, as the league leaders see
it. the enactment of the recent tariff
law has not settled the tariff question.
1t is asserted that grave possibilities
affecting the future of protection in
the United States are seemingly in
volved in the contest which has just
ended in the enactment of a tariff re-
vision law. 1t would certainly appear
that the outlook for tariff tranquility
and for the permanency of the policy
of protection to American labor and
industry has not been improved as a
result of the fierce struggle for the
relaxation and virtual abandonment
of the. cardinal principle of protec-
ton Interparty conflict concerning
the protection policy is in fair way
tn he carried n Stnhh0TnlV and
aggressively than ever before"
1t does not escape the notice of the
league that Senator Cummins has de-
termined to carry the fight into every
convention between now and the ma
tiona1 convention of 1912. with a view
''to contesting the nomination in every
congressional district of every candi-
date who does not pledge himself to
the policy of a general tariff reduc-
tion.''
1t is made plain by the Economist
that from its viewpoint every sup
porter of downward revision is a foe
to protection. In the speeches made
in the senate and house those Repub-
ncans who voted against the tariff bill
made it clear they were friendly to
the protective system. but were OPP
posed to excessive duties. High pro-
on by the league to buckle on their
armor and get into the fray before at
is too late" 1t is clear the officials
and leading spirits of the organization
'"The board of regents of the Uni
versity of Kansas have voted to es-
tabIish new school at the univer-
sity.' said DR.. Fred S. Long. of Law
renee, Kan, who is at the Raleigh,
"to be known as the school of educa-
ton. This school will embrace all
the activities of the university which |
have a direct bearing on the second
airy educational institutions of the
state.
heretofore there has been a de-
partment of education in the univer- |
scope has been limited to instruction |
in pedagogy and other subjects which |
would prepare students to fill posi- |
tons as teachers in the high schools.
work in pedagogy, which will be
broadened by the addition of new
subjects. the work of the high school |
visitor in inspecting and regulating |
tension work. Richard r. Price, of
Hutchinson, was recently appointed !
to head the latter department"
Official Washington takes no stock
in the recent report that four Indian
girls of the Haskell institute had fall |
len into the hands of white slave
tFafichsFs J. .. o; M Glrag the dis ds
partment of the interior that the
charges were erroneous and had no
foundation whatever. However. the |
officials here will watch the matter
closely, and is determined to see to
it that these wards of Uncle Sam are
properly safeguarded.
D. C. Tillotson of Topeka has been
in Washington this week attending
the annual encampment of the ma
tionaI organization of Sons of
Veterans, u. S. A. He was appointed
a member of the committee on resolu-
tons.
Rural letter carriers appointed for
service in Kansas. James T. Sellens
and John H. Donecker at Bunkel Hill;
Arthur G.. Spalding and Ellen H.
Spalding at Bunker Hill; John w. Nc
Adams and John H Light at Kismet.
Katie Foote has been appointed
postmaster at Black Wolf Ellsworth
county. Kan, to succeed c. Foote, re-
signed.
Cabbell postoffice, Logan county,
Kan, will be discontinued on
TWO COLORED BOYS KILLED.