The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-30

mon enemy; let's unfurl the party
banner: let's sound the Republican bat
tIecry OF national honor, OF protection
Of progress and prosperity. Tne Du-
/ gle sounds the charge: the strains OF
martial music I'LL the air; let's storm
the enemy's ramparts-we'H WIN De-
| cause we're right.
Seventeen years have past since the
reputation of the Cleveland admins
| tration. For the first time since the
defeat of Mr.. Bryan and the election OF
| William Mckinley we have Demo-
| cratic national administration. Again
| the Republican policy of e prOtecftve
! tariff has been repealed-again Dem
ocratic tariff bill has been enacted into
| law Already throughout the length
and breadth of the land is heard the
muttering of discomfort. In the west
ern states thousands of men are out OF
| employment. All over the country
| manufactures have been forced to sus-
pend, or to reduce their payrolls. In
the city of Warren, Ohio, where there
are great factories for the manufac-
ture of incandescent electric light bulbs
hundreds of men have been thrown out
Of employment as a direct result OF
the new tariff law. The administration
of Grover Cleveland was disastrous to
the American farmer, and yet, the pres
ent administration, refusing to be guild
ed by the light of experience, has
placed farm products upon the free
list.
What is the result? Meat is inn
ported free of duty from Argentine in
competition with American cattle.
Wheat raised upon the cheap lands of
Canada is imported into the United
States to compete with wheat raised
upon the high priced farms Of Kansas.
And SO the value of every product rails
ed upon an American farm Is decreased
by this Democratic tariff. But our
Democratic friends say that the effect
of the law will be to reduce the cost of
living. This is not the truth. Not one
penny has been taken of the price of
articles the farmer must consume. The
meat which you today find upon your
table costs as much, or more than
it ever did before. The effect of the
Democratic tariff will be to reduce your
income, and, at the same time. make
you pay as much, or more. for that
which you consume. Put out the fires
in the furnace of this land; throw the
American laborer out OF employment,
and you will DECREASE the demand for.
and consequently the price Of every
product raised on the farm, and you
will reduce the value Of every acre of
Kansas land. I believe that just az
surely as I am standing here tonight
the Democratic tariff law will bring
disaster and suffering to the American
people. What is the remedy? The old.
old remedy-elect a Republican presi-
dent; elect a Republican congress, and
re-enact a Republican protective tariff
law"
"Kansas," Baxter McClain.
The toast of honor Kansas" always
awarded to a native son, this year fell
to the lot of Baxter McClain of lola.
McClain is both a lawyer and an ora
tor and his speech will rank high
among the % tributes to the state by
native born Kansans at the annual
dinner of the club.
McC1ain said in part:
Our rapid march of achievement has
by no means been uneventful or unin-
terrupted. We have halted many
times and sometimes have had to
countermarch. Like Israel of old, we
have been despoiled by the invader;
we have made our sacrifices in war;
we have been scourged by pestilence,
scared by drOuth and deluged by flood.
These chastenings by Providence and
affections from without have been Of
short duration and bountiful repara-
ton promptly followed; but from our
own misguidings we have retrieved
slowly. and sometimes not at all. In
toxicated by our material successes, We
have often overreached and had to re-
trench. We have become vainglorious
and arrogant at times, and in return
reaped a harvest of censure, distrust
and ridicule-
Acting in haste we have had to re-
pent at our leisure, and we have al
ways returned cleansed and clarified
in vision to faith in our Maker and the
traditions Of our fathers. We have
worshiped idols and followed false
gods of reform. We have been in cap
tivity, SO to speak: and even now are
forced to view many high places from
afar. But the Moses of our past de-
liverance is at hand. and our ark Of
the covenant in the glorious past has
not been taken away.
1.-The regenerated party of freedom
unity, prosperity and actual progress
calls the sons and daughters of Kansas
to it's service against its common foe,
with Harmony as the watchword;