The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28
Tariff HIS THEME
Mr.. CaIderhead's Mastery Ex-
position of the Doctrine.
Attac Theories Advanced by
Senator BristOw.
PEOPLE PROSPEROUS.
Nation Is Enjoying the Fruits
of Protection.
Care Used by Com mmittee in Pre-
pairing the Schedules.
PEOPLE PROSPEROUS

Manhattan, Kan, July 28.-Congress-
man w. A. Calderhead has been MAX
ing a thorough canvass of the Fifth
district and has visited every county
and spoke In most of the towns. His
meetings have been attended by farm
ers as well as by townspeople and when
he spoke here the airdome was filed
to standing ROOM He has pointed out
in his addresses the benefit of the tar
if law and other legislation adopted
by congress on the interests of the
farmers of the district and has faced
he issues of the campaign Of the in
surgents squarely. He has never dodg-
ed nor tvaded hut has given a full ac-
count of his work as a congressman.
That he has been received so well in
every part of the district indicates that
the people are well satisfied with his
labors. AS one of the eleven veterans
of the civil war in congress he has been
influential in securing pensions for the
soldiers of the district and this has
v on him the hearty support of the vet
Grams The fact that he has been able
tc secure several public buildings for
his district as well as large appropria-
tions for Fort Riley and has so promi-
nent a place as member of the ways
and means committee of the house have
won for him the respect and support of
business men and farmers.
In his speech he made convincing
argument for the protective tariff and
his hearers learned great deal of help
full information regarding matters that
have been misrepresented to them. He
said:
Mr.. Calderhead's Speech.
TT is a matter of wonder that in
this primary campaign the important
issue should be the tariff That uues-
hos 6a fr1
campaigns, and the American people
have so often decided in favor of a
protective tariff, that 1t is amazing to
think that it should be issue at this
time, when the whole nation is enjoy
ing the benefit of a protective tariff
when the whole nation lis prospering
from one ocean to the other IN every
line of industry and in every occupa-
tion of man-when the prices of every
thing produced on the farm are good,
and the prices of everything made in
the manufactures are reasonable-when
there are six millions Of wage-earners
that work in the factories all buying
bread and meat every day. and six mil
lions of farms, with 40 millions of pop-
ulation, all buying clothes and innple-
ments and comforts and luxuries every
day, and two millions of full-grown
men employed unon the railroads trans
l'orting the produce of the farm to feed
the laborers in the factories, and trans
porting the products of the factories to
supply the demands Of the people upon
the farms.
The ideal condition of a nation is
when every body Is at work and getting
good returns and good pay for their
labor. When all this must be called to
d halt until Senator Bristow from Kan
sas can get the information upcn which
he will revise the tariff and write it so
that he will vote for it instead of
against it. The senator's constant as
sertion is that we did not revise the
tariff according to the difference be-
tween the cost of production in the Uni
ted states and the cost of production
outside of the United States because
he says he does not know what that
difference is. To some extent at least
this is a confession of ignorance which
is not creditable to the senator.
All the laborers in the world know
that the wages Of labor, and the CON
ditions OF labor, and the returns for
labor, are better in the United States
than anywhere else in the world. All
the world except him seems to know
that the cost of production is less in
other countries than it is in the TTni-
ted States on nearly all lines of hu-
man Industry. The chief element which
affects the cost of production is the
price or labor, and that is the return
which the individual laborer gets for ali
that he does. '--
Tariff a Business System.
q 1fea,-
into the cost of production. but for
America the wages of labor are the
most important thing. The AmerioaD
protective tariff system is a system Of
business for the protection of labor
ana the protect1on Of the home market
for the American farmer. 1t is not a
scheme Of taxation devised as a burden
to the people for the support of the
government 1t is a plan of business
proposed by -he greatest statesmen Of
country he
when the constitution was made
and we were beginning the government
which we now have. there was no
money in the treasury and no plan of
taxation to provide money. The con-
Stitution permitted direct taxation to
be apportioned to the states in propor-
ion to the population. but If taxes were
laid upon the people by a poll tax they
had no monye to pay it with: :
If it were laid upon the land thew
had no money and it was easy to aban-
don the land that was taxed and go 20
the wide open wild lands, and provide
their food and clothing there.
TT was at such time and under
such conditions that Alexander Hamil-
ton and Washington proposed to con-
gress that an excise tax should be
levied Ipon tobacco and liquors and
this form of internal revenue taxation
has continued practically to this time
and being direct tax upon thing
that is added to the price of it, each
consumes pays his share of it in pro-
portion to the quantity he uses. Ham
flton then proposed that we should levy
a tax upon all goods coming into this
country from foreign countries which
we could produce or make for our
selves The constitution forbade levy
ing an export tax upon anything ship
ned out of this country, so the taxes
were laid upon the things coming into
1t. and if they were added to the price
of the things each consumer paid ir
proportion to the quantity he pur-
chased, and in this way the burden ~
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