Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-03-10

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ecuting end Of the school board.
The folliwng list Of students, mem-
bers Of the senior class, are barred
from the campus and the class room:
Joe Lynch. Fred Thompson, Edgar
Carruth. Fred Blachley, Clarence
Ross, Florence Dayton, Layere Weast
Great Childs. Laura Peterson, Mar
garet williams, Margaret Whitney.
REPUBLICANIsM AND PROGRESS.
Representative McKinlay Of Illi-
nois, chairman Of the Republican
Congressional Committee. who is to
speak in Abilene this month, has done
the people of this country real SER
vice in presenting in readable and
handy form the truth about the tariff
and prices. Mr.. McKinlay. very
appropriately calls this campaign
spike and it certainly drives home
considerable Democratic mis1ep-
resentation and lying about the sub
ject under consideration.
First presenting the tariff plank
of the last Republican National plat
form, Mr.. McKinlay in few words
shows that the pledge made in the
plank was fully kept, and that the
tariff was revised substantially and
in accordance with the promise made
at Chicago.
The question is then asked: Was
the tariff revised downward? And
this question the Representative from
Illinois answers in the affirmative
in several ways, showing that not
only were there three times as many
reductions of items as increases, but
that considering the consumption val
ne Of articles upon which changes
we're made the decreases were fully
twenty times the increases.
Mr.. lMcKinlay, however, does not
stop there in his argument, but mem
lions some half a hundred articles OF
necessary everyday use upon which
the tariff was reduced, and to clinch
his claim quotes President Taft and
various Congressman in substantial
ing his assertion that the tariff was
most materially and substantially re-
vised downward.
The next question which Mr.. Nc
Kinlay asks is; Was the tariff
changed wisely and successfully?
And this he answers by saying that
under the operation of the new tariff
law the revenues have increased by
over $4,000, 900, and while there
was much idleness and industrial
depression when the new law was
passed, now there is full employment
and unusual record breaking indus
trial activity in all parts Of the coun-
try.
The question of high prices is then
taken up, and while no attempt Is
made to give the real cause or all OF
the causes for the present high
prices, which Mr.. McKinlay shows
are not confined to the United States,
lint are In free trade Great Britain,
vet he does prove that these high
prices can in no way be attributed
to the new tariff law, but, on the con-
trary, If prices were governed by the
schedules then they should be reduc-
ed in most cases and not increased.
Among the interesting points pre-
sented by Mr.. McKinlay are the facts
that whereas there we're 100000
idle men when the tariff bill was
passed, there are really none at pres
emit except the sick and voluntary;
whereas the number of idle freight
cars when the tariff bill was passed
was 200, 900, now there are none;
whereas the Treasury deficit on Feb
ruary Fl, 1909, was over $4,000
900, on February 81, 1910, it was
only s2S 100000.
There we're fewer failures in 1909
than in the preceding year, consider
ing both number and total liabilities;
the value Of farms has Increased dur
ling the last ten years "A per cent,
while the value of farm products has
increased 100 per cent during the
last ten years; the bank elearings Of
1909 amount to fIs5,OOO,O OO,O 900,
a considerable excess over any pre-
vlous year.
| In his portion concerning high
prices Mr.. McKinlay shows that there
has been an increase in per capita
circulation OF money in is years
Of almost so per cent, and an increase
Of total circulation Of almost 100
per cent, while the increase Of the
worlds production Of gold in the
same period has been about 225 per
cent, all Of which he thinks must
have had their effect in producing