The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-19
Points to His Attitude ON the
Trusts.
HAS STOOD BY GUNS.
Does His Utmost for the Whole
People.
Effect of High and Low Tariff
Discussed.

squarest jaw he ever presented was at
the Auditorium last night, when he lit
orally bit off the words
1.-THE trust and tariff questions are
entirely different. The tariff does not
make great combinations called trusts
THAT great character. our president,
William Howard Taft, is doing his best
for the people-the whole people. He
is turning his splendid mind toward
the questions of the day. determined
to solve them for the people.
Newspapers are doing their best TO
discredit the administration.
Regulars and insurgents. Why
what does it matter who makes the
rules of the house. or who is speaker
These are minor troubles and will pass
away like summer cloud.
kansas Republicans should put
their shoulders to the wheel and return
that entire band of splendid men who
represent the state in the house and
senate. The president counts upon
your support.
TRUSTS. We hear a great deal of talk
about them. They are one of the
Taft meets the issue Joined. He seeks
to have the Sherman antitrust law
amended so as to give the federal gov
ernment more power over corporations
who break the law. Prosecute them.
He'll prosecute them to an everlasting
finish. He wants it possible to mete
out the same punishment to rich men
who stifie trade and kill competition,
as is meted out to any petty larceny
thief He wants your aid in making
this possible.
sHe is meeting the railroad issue
like a man. Hs is carrying out the
policies of Theodore Roosevelt that
mighty man who did so much to turn
our faces toward right. He asks the
vote of every Republican.
''The present tariff is the best this
country has ever had"
When he came to the word 'best''
he paused second, fire flashed from
his blue eyes. His fighting jaw was
pushed a little further forward He
looked out over the gathering of only
a few hundred Republicans who had
gathered to hear him and then-well.
and then he said best Despite his
praise of the present tariff he said
nothing about the statesmen whose
names it bears-S. r. Pavne of New
York and Senator Nelson w. Aldrich
of Rhode Island.
His Defense of Taft.
Congressman McKinlay was there
to defend the administration of Pres
ident Taft. And he did. He declared
that the gentleman from the Buck
eye state was carrying out the
pledges of his party to the letters. But
the tariff-the tariff seemed to be the
fort to which he was devoting his best
efforts. He went into this question of
raising money from the very earliest
ent time.
THE protective system of the Re
publican party is the only system"
declared the orator, Take the tariffs
of the early days. As long as the ma
tion was under the protective system
money was plentiful, business was
good, the laboring people were en-
ployed and prosperity reigned su-
preme. In the late '30s and early '4Os
the low tariff party got into power.
And what was the result? Why ruin
swept the land One-fourth of the
people of this nation are low .tariff
advocates. Who are they? Why do
they stand for low duties? The ques-
tions are answered with ease. They
are the salaried people, who know
that If goods are allowed to enter
here with low duties, their money
will last longer and buy more. But
on the other hand three-fourths of
our people are for high protective
tariff. Who are they? And why their
position? They are the merchants,
laboring men, farmers and men in
like callings. who know that If the
tariff is made too low the country will
be ruined.
take the present tariff. 1t has
2,o24 schedules. Congress allowed
under the Dingley bill. A total of
S74 schedules were changed, of which
number 654 were lowered and the
remainder raised. Why my friends.
tariff business about revision. tell
you the Republican party pledged
itself to revise the tariff but ii did
not say it would cut it to pieces.
The WILSON German BILL
Look at the Cleveland administra-
ton with it's Wiison-Gorman tariff hill
No party would claim it. The president
refused to sign it. It was a low tarifT
hill and what resulted. Why 100000
men were thrown out of employment
because the mills and factories closed
down. They closed because of the tar
iff which allowed cheap foreign made
goods to flood the American market
Soup houses and bread lines were fea-
lures of the day. Bonds, over $500. .O00.-
COO worth of them. were issued by the
government to pay the running expen-
poverty, ruin. misery and destruction
which lowered over the land lifted The
people rallied to the standard of the
Republican party and elected William
Mckinley preside mt. A protective tarfff
was at once enacted-the ningIev oil.
And behold the result. Wealth. happf-
ness, good times. work for the Iaborfnr
man and a market for the merchant
and manufacturer.
Manufactures can not live unless
they md market for their goods. T'hs
merchants are the ones who buy some
times directly. sometimes Indirectly
from them. Tho people buy from the
merchants. If the people have not work
end money the market is ruined. The
protective arih keeps factories and mills
ranning and thus creates labor de-
'mand, good wages are paid II. this coun-
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