The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28

south and they were asking that the
tariff should be retained.
They are making all the cotton
muslin and calicoes- and ducking in
common use among our people. The
tariff enables them to do the work and
the prices to US at the store have not
been raised
1.-The whole south is interested in
the maintenance of the cotton sched-
ule. Within the time of the operation
of the Dingley law cotton manufac-
turing has developed in the south at
a rate that has enormously increased
her wealth. Fifteen years ago cotton
was worth cents a pound, and the
condition of the population that pro-
duced it, with respect to living and
general welfare, was deplorable In
the fifteen years the factories have
been built until enough people have
the competition of producing the few
staple crops, until cotton has reached
nearly three times cents a pound.
Formerly, before the time of the
manufactures. the cotton crop sold for
800 millions of dollars Last year IT
sold for 500 millions of dollars The
income of the cotton producer for
identically the same work of raising
it, and the same number of bales, has
been doubled, and the development
of the other industries and the open
Ing of farms around the mills where
they have been built. has given the
south an additional income of more
than a thousand millions of dollars,
instead of three hundred millions for
identically the same farm products
Getting the Mills to Work
When the DingleJ law was enact
ed there were about two million spin
dies running in the south. and at the
time we revised the tariff there were
ten million spindles and more people
were at work getting wages than had
n ~ fn n
there have been established more than
100 million dollars worth of cotton oil
mills. whole lot of furniture fac
tories. whole lot of saw mills, a
whole lot of steel mills. new railroads
nave been built-and all these have
had their influence In the regeneration
of that rich land
The building of the cotton mills
there has done most toward this.
These cotton mills work on all the
common cotton goods. Many have not
yet the trained, skilled labor which
works on the finer and more expensive
cotton goods. But they make the things
We wear daily, and you cannot reduce
the rates of the cotton schedule without
striking at them.
why should we strike them? Are
they making an unjust profit? That
will be the only good reason. Bring in
the proof that they ought to be struck
down.
LII Lie IlCdtAll LIE COllOn Hills OF
the United States, under the operation
of the tariff law. have been going
right on with their work producing
American goods for the American peo-
pie and employees in the mills have
been buying American flour and meat
from the American farmer. We did
not raise the rates in the cotton sched-
uIe.
About Schedule X.
Another schedule which Mr.. Rees
s he wants to go to congress to re-
wise is schedule K He speaks of it as
the forty-year-old schedule
1T has been under fire a good many
times. 1t was prepared in 1861 by
Justin s. Morrill,, of Vermont, who was
the author of the Morrill, act He was
the man who gave the states their
agricultural colleges and who believed
in the men who work at the foundation
of the national life. both on the farm
and in the factory. He served six
terms in congress before he was elected
to the senate in 1866. and he served in
the senate until the time OF his death
in 1898, a period of more than forty