The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02
President Taft Addresses a
Letter to Colorado Voters
Calling Attention to the Pres
emit Political Situation.
DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN
Is the Issue to Be Decided Next
Tuesday.
The Third Party Movement
Has Gained No HeadWay.

Washington, Nov. AT the White
House a letter from President Taft to
Crawford Hill, of Denver, dealing with
issues of the campaign. has been made
public. It follows:
Encouraging reports have come to
me in regard to the political situation
in Colorado. From the beginning 1
have felt certain that the campaign of
education which the Republican party
is conducting would bring the people
to a clear understanding of their own
interest in Republican success this
year.
Il am sure that every man whose
judgment is not controlled by his pre-
JUDGE now realizes that this is cam
paign between the Republican and
Democratic parties. 1t is apparent that
the third party movement has not gain
ed Roadway as a national force, and
that again the alternative is presented
to the American people either to sup
port the protective policy of the party
in power or to turn over the govern
ulent to those who are committed to
repeat the experiment. which resulted
in a commercial explosion when last
1T was tried.
Those who live in a rarified atnos-
phere have a wider range of vision
than those whose are in the lowlands.
But the people of Colorado do not need
their vantage of altitude to see that De-
mocratic victory means the striking
down of great industry which has been
built up in the state. It does not require
a profound knowledge of the principles
of political economy, but only common
sense, to understand that the placing
of sugar on the free list would spell
ruin for those of our fellow citizens
who are engaged in the cultivation of
the sugar beet
1.-THE Democratic party is committed
to free sugar, and if it is successful
at the polls, we may expect as one of
its first legislative acts the passage of
a bill to admit sugar duty free at our
port of entry. The governing tariff
body of the Democratic party, the
Democratic members of the ways and
means committee, by unanimous vote,
reported the bill to place sugar on he
free list, and this Dill was passed by a
Democratic house. The Republican
party stands TO- adequate OBJECTION
for the beet sugar industr Of this
country. Such protection is the shield
of the American consumer against an
increased price for a household nee
cessity.
Free sugar cannot be defended from
from any angle. 1t is in confiich with
the theory of tariff for revenue only
and its effect would be to take almost
certain the monopolistic control of a
great industry. 1t would diminish the
revenue of the government $50, 900 900
annually and by reducing the worlds
production by nearly one million tons
a year, raise the price of sugar to the
consumer.
Growth of Sugar Industry.
1.-The American production of sugar,
both cane and beet, has been made
possible by the protective tariff policy
of the Republican party. Cane sugar
production dates back to long before
the war. In 1897 when the Dingley
tariff law was enacted, there were
only six beet sugar factories in the
United States. Now there are IL.
Permit me to say a word also with
regard to another subject in which
Colorado and neighboring states are
interested. Your great western coun-
try needs development. 1t must have
men and capital, and it must be able
to offer inducements to attract both.
The Republican party does not believe
in a conservative policy which would
tie up our national resources and de-
ny their use to the legitimate home
steader, miner and capitalist.
I'VE are holding the part of the do
main that has coal, phosphate and oil
until congress shall make provision for
its disposition by lease on profitable
terms to private capital with the re-
tention of sufficient title in the govern
ment to control and prevent monop-
oily in ownership and consequent ex-
orbitant charge to the public for these
commodities. No sane person can
contend that it is for the common
good that natures blessings are only
for unborn generations.
There is just foundation for the
complaint in the west that the laws
have not been administered with a lib
era1 view to the accomplishment of
their purpose, but rather in a spirit
which has put as many distractions
as possible in the way of earning title
from the government. This condition
followed a crusade of undertaking
which reached a point where there
seemed to be real hostility to the ac-
QUESTION of public property by a man
who had earned title to it under the
land and r"ining laws of the United
States.
"As a result of attacks which ex-
tended to those who were 1egitimately
seelzing a share In the public domain
by law there was developed a timidity
and delaY on the nart of bureaus Ii