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

Ing two hundred million dollars worth
more of foreign goods this year than
last year and proving by it that this is
not prohibitive tariff but protective
tariff and under its protection nobody
is idle-but the senator.
CT am abiding the result of this tariff
and as long as the nation continues
prosperous and busy under it L will
1t to pieces until he presents to the
country a better tariff-
I'VE did not revise the tariff for the
the purpose of Increasing it.
IF the tariff should be reduced still fur
Their on the things of which the senator
Client revenue. That kind of tariff fail
| ed under Mr.: Cleveland and Mr.. Wilson.
Would 1t do better now?
ct is not necessary to revise the tariff
1 to relieve the country from any monopoly
in manI fla tr and the tari was not
porters a monopoly. 1t may not have oc-
Cured to the senator but the fact in our
usually held whatever monopoly they
were able to get by reason of our tariff
tu se '' We did not intend that importers
should ever again get a monopoly of any
try.
What Is Wrong With 1t?
THE wages of the working men of
America this year were more than 5000
ars OF It went into the savings Banks ao
this? we intended it to protect wage
can buy what we have to sell from the
farm and the farm prices testify that they
aas protected nov" What is wrong with
."rhe revenue of the government has
been Increasing every month since this
instead of deficiency in the treasury.
What is wrong with this? Nothing.
ufacturer is getting rich. He does not
know this but he has read a newspaper
report Of a big dividend made by the
Look at the price of rubberr
Well, look at the price Of rubber in
prices have also advanced because we
are consuming. the supply. The men who
States have done more work and received
more wages in the last ten months than
IN any year me 1lo isT for {sn sne
averaged about As million pounds. In the
first ten months under this law the inn
ports were IS million pounds.
Tell the Truth.
..Under the old law the imports were
smaller because the duty was too low on
the manufactured goods and the other
countries were furnishing with rubber
goods. Under the new law our own peo-
pie are at work and the imports of the
raw material which comes in free have
doubled E
ssSenator Brady of the Lawrence
journal put it correctly the other day
when he said. 'BristoN continues
making his statements about the rub
Der situation when a few words from
Speaker Cannon shattered everything
he said and proved him either a faIsi-
fer or densely ignorant. Why, why
does not Senator Brfstow tell the truth
or quit taIking?"
s'Nobody but patentee of some patent
ed article can keep monopoly of any
manufacturing in this country. Congress-
man Foss. of Massachuserts. who claims
r.. l@a fnaV 0d an Dom ~
cratic ticket. said he was one of the
largest manufacturers of New England
not candid enough to tell the country
that his factory was making patented
articles The clamor Of the importers is
without regard to its results on our work
ing people or the home market of our
Rees say it should be reduced to reve-
nue. basis only, and the deficiency should
'.Can anybody write an income tax law
so that the burden of the income tax will
not be shifted to the shoulders of the
IT can remember how quickly the whole
country rose to abolish the income tax
which was levied as war measure during
the War of the Rebellion. The moment
the war was over the people quit paying
e ec ana s and R was the frat law Fepeaed
us experience worth nothing on this
subject9 Why wenld they 5 tid nunsibng new
have a means of revenue which falls di-
rectly and lightly and which each one
pays in proportion to the amount he
How many other forms of taxation can
be thought of to break down the protec-
tive tariff system?
Makes the People Rich.
'.As long as the protective tariff sys-
tenn protects America and provides the
revenue and makes the country pros
porous and rich why should it be
broken down?
LII Al
why are the people Of England awaken
ing and demanding it? And why does
italy levy a tariff so as to develop her
Since this tariff law was passed 81 ma
tons have re-arranged their tariffs so that
they may do business with u.s.
with the Philippine people and Porto
Rico and Hawaii and Alaska and IS great
Absolute Ii free trade among themselves.
mo other nation has such power. We
are Independent at last In the sense that
Washington and Hamilton desired US to
why should we be at war with our own
carrying civilization to the remotest parts
of the earth. Why should we call a halt
to repeat dangerous experiment with
aour next step is to provide our own
merchant marine to carry our own com
merce and stop paying foreigners S4oO,oO0.-
900 year to do it.
His Respects to Bristow.
1T has been my privilege to be attacked
by the junior senator from kansas who
has gone up and down the state finding
fault because stood with the great Re-
publican majority and the president at
Washington Instead of following him and
a dozen other traitors to the party off into
the Democratic camp.
He has not hesitated to falsify the rec
ords and to misrepresent the facts; but
the Kansas people are, I believe, too in
telligent to allow such methods to in
fluence them.
IF he wants to stand as a Democrat
very well, but if he claims Republican
support he should merit it by unfolding
the Republican platform and the Re-
publican administration.
II consider it an honor to have such OPP
position and I should consider myself re-
creant to my trust as representative of
the Fifth district IL I followed the course
mapped out by the insurgent kickers of
this state.
No Newspaper Bossism.
81 have also had the MALIGNANT nrransi-