The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-28


reform is still our purpose he said
Though we oppose the theory that tar
lift laws may be passed having for their
object the granting or dlscrl lI lIs--1
and unfair government aid to private
ventures, We wage no extermlnatlng
war against American interests
Has a Familiar Sound.
This has a familiar sound TO-DAY,
save that, insead of tariff REFORM :.
the Democratic slogan is taIiIl
for revenue only According to the
baltimore platform, the tariff is not
merely to De reformed. but the principle
Of protecting the American Industry IS
to he eXcised root and branch- OIl liz 10 !
platform, Governor Wilson STANDS 10
term, the proof from n 81 4ho+ oT bn
writings and Utterances is that ne
wa elected on the issue OF 'tarlH re-
form 1t is also a fact of history tnat
Immediately upon his election capiIdl
and industry took alarm, enterprise pc
came paralyzed and business us
.?The somewhat puerile argument has
been advanced that these deplorapie
conditions could not have been due TO
in,nending tariff reforms because they
arose nearly two years before the en-
actment of the Wilson tariff bill. II
should be unnecessary to say that When
there are signs of a cyclone the ra-
tional man does not wait for the storm
TO hit his house before getting INTO
the cyclone cellar. The wilson OH
was in sight above the horizon on the
morning after the November election OF
1892 and capital and industry began
their start for the cellar just as
fear, they will take to shelter again.
should the Baltimore platform of a
tariff for revenue only be approNeu
by the American people November D.
Mr.. Cleveland was undoubtedly sin
lot l1a al 9
and Extraordinary business situation
as he called it in his special message
of August s. 1898. was due to the Sher-
man silver purchase act but the tact
remains that, after the act had been
repealed November 1, 1898, the business
situation became more and more alarm
ing and American energy and enter
prise were PROSTATE throughout Mr..
CIevelands term, being vivifled again
with the election of Mckinley and the
consequent assurance that the tariff
reform experiment would soon give
way to protection
Effect of Tariff Reform.
THE effect of the tariff reform OIL
] S94-97 which as I have indicated. was
actually felt from 1892 to 1897 is appar-
ent in the statistics of wages paid in
manufacturing industries in the decade
of 1S90-1900 as compared with the pre-
ceding and subsequent periods. In 1S9O
thousand millions over 1SS0-from
S947. 973. 795 to 81, 1871, 22S,321 whereas in :
1900 when the country was recovering .
from the blight of four years of De-
mocracy. showed an increase to 81
COS, 361 000-that is, about Sill, 100000
over 1890, in the subsequent decade of
protection wages in manufacturing in
dustries increased to 81, Az, 03S, 900. The
experience of the farmers is equally
Their losses on the value
of farm animals alone during the
Cleveland tariff reform regime
to about $500, 00O. 900.
''In this connection it may be noted
that our Democratic friends prefer to
discover cause for amusement IA the
alleged claim by Republicans Of cred
It for this years abundant crops. The
credit that Republicans claim. with
he experience of SO years to sustain
hem is the Republican policy of
protection for American industry
maintains the best market in the world
the home market-for the farmer to
sell his crops in, while foreign mar
1ets have been invaded and gained for
both farmer and manufacturer to a
legree never even distantly approach