The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-16
KANSAS CONAENT
THE GRUMBLING JOB.

liz 1IhO JOD.
If you sometimes think you have
hard job you should, content yourself
with the assurance that there are 9TH
ers in a worse predicament- For in
stance: There are many men who are
hired to find fault with the present
tariff law for the sole ben eft of free
trade papers and insuruRent politi-
clans. That job is the essence of fruit
less exertion coupled with grilling
Drain flag and turbulent emotional in
sanity.
A continued campaign of warfare
against the Payne Tariff Bill. in the
face of the splendid working of that
law, Is about the hardest job that
thinking man could undertake. To be-
gin with, the law is working splendid
ly. The increased revenue brought in
is now more than $50.000.000. 1t is
estimated. also, that the increase in
wages during the first year of the
tariffs enactment will approximate
half 2 billion dollars.
Prosperity is as apparent as the
MONDAY sun without a cloud in the
sky. No one is complaining of condi-
tons except those who are hired to do
so-and they certainly earn their mon
ey. The farmer and the wage Garner
alike, have never known more pros
porous times. No man who wants
work is idle. And every man who
works earns good wages.
In the face of all this splendid re-
cord of the new law why should a
DemocraticHouse of Representatives be
elected next fall to reverse the order of
things? Why should the good times
that exist be endangered-as they al
ways are-by the reversal of an adj
ministration?
There is no reason why such thing
| should be done, yet there are men who
bear the tag of the Republican party
who are doing their best to bring about
such a conditian of affairs. Candi-
dates are UNFOLDING Democratic doc
trines and launching them under the
brand f'the Republican party, an act
that constitutes a species of party
| treachery.
If existing conditions are going to
weigh in the nominations and elections
the administration of President Taft
will be sustained without question; If
misrepresentation is to be credited
then the successful work of a presi-
Dental administration shall be for
| naught. You can judge for yourself
just which view is going to be taken
by the sober minded and fair thinking
majority of Americans -Leavenworth
Times.
AN UNPROTECTED INDUSTRY.
There are a million and a half rail-
road employees in the United States.
| There are as many more workmen in
the United States employed in making
| supplies required by the railroads, OF
three million men dependent for wages
| on the railroads. 1t is estimated that
4 on an average, every workman has
four in his family; that would make
| fifteen million persons dependent or
| the railroads of the United States for
| livelihood
The million and a half men who
work for the railroads are better paio
than any other class of workmen, and
the men who manufacture the supplies
required by railroads, are also wei
paid.
Still; there is no protection by Law
for these workmen. Men who raise
cotton and tobacco, and workmen ir
most other classes, are protected by
the tariff. But railroad workmen have
no protection. Every state legislature
makes a speciality of railroad legisla
ton, the tendency of which is to in
crease the cost of operating. The only
recourse of railroad managers is tt
increase rates, and compel the people
to pay the bill.
So many interests are affected b!
railroad operation that the last pani
was unquestionably caused by unfa
vorable railroad legislation. Did vol
ever hear of legislation intended t.
give railroads needed relief? Recon
railroad legislation is always Fostering
always intended to discourage rail
road betterment. And now it is claim
ed that railroad managers fear NOR
Fostering legislation in the future, ant
are cutting down estimates for better
ments that will result in dull bushes
during the coming fall and winter
Atchison Globe.