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WHY "CANN0NI8M" IS AN ISSUE.
, "Before our young men are grand
fathers, they will see corn Belling like
coffee ti sold today by the pound."
ald Ool. Lafe Young, owner of the
TiAa Mnlnea "Canltal" at the Raleigh.
"Corn 1 gelling for 10 cent a bushel
In soma parts of the West, and It
promises to go higher. 'Why this
High price?' Because the American
people are living too extravagantly
and have been for years. V'e don't
wear the same kind of clon.es we
aid ten years ago. A fit, suit of
clothes used to be good enough for
any of us, but today we are paying
$35 for our clothes. I remember a
State Senator of Iowa who went into
bis district with a $15 suit of
clothes on, and It precipitated an at
tack upon blm, charging extrava
gance. The farmer! are prosperous,
of course, and In my part of the coun
try they do not want any further
tinkering with the tariff and will not
ad long as they are getting $8.60 for
their stock."
"The Insurgent movement in the
West is not anything to be worried
about," added Colonei Young. "In
Kansas, it the man holding pollfcol
office don't 'lnsuree' every two years,
they will fall lor ra-etectlou. So fur
aw 'Cannonism' if concerned, that is
only a term that means little. With
the general prosperity existing every
where, It is difficult for political fac
tions to find an Issue, and 'Cannon
Ism' is made an Ibsus because there
la no other issue to be had." Wash
ington "Post," .
PITY THE POOB-PRINTER.
" None but the initiated Know me
accuracy required In a printing office.
Tha averace reader who detects a
misspelled word or letters upside
down feels that bis mission on earth
Is not accomplished until he has call
ed the attention of the editor to the
glaring defect Ha does not notice
the thousands and tens of thousands
of letters that are In plaoe, or the
multitude of words correctly spelled,
but his eagle eye Is glued on the one
that Is out of place. So It is with our
deeds. Man does a tuousaua (wu
deeds and no attention is paid to
tim huf If ha makes one mistake
tt la flashed all over the world. A
lifetime may "bt spent In building up
reputation that may be wrecked In
moment .. . The world Is a harsh
crlUo,. exacting "to. a fault Rocky
Mountain Herald. . A
FIGHT THIS INNUHfJaUrt'B.
' The time seems near when It will
be determined whether six Senators
and twenty-one Congressmen, headed
by La Follete and Dolllver, constitute
the entire Republican party or wheth
er they are simply a' fragment of the
party who have adopted Bryan's
FreeVTrade view, and no longer
espouse the underlying principles of
Republicanism.' We believe that all
efforts of the "Insurgents to arouse
dissatisfaction among the farmers otlB0' " 7" " T
the Middle Western States, who ar. ! "tl-C.nnonlsm , and lnt hour
living in an of unprecedented Hon' JMh L' LsT.
nroJerltr. will fall. There is But down upon the fount of dreams that
one thing to do, fight the Insurgents
as you do Bryan, and stand by Presi
dent Taft, who has been grossly mis-
. Jk v. Itiain Ql r aawaA
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have turned against the President,
and assumed to be greater than their
party, ' Their samea are forgotten
Bowr-Chardon (O.) "Republican.?
LET 'Elf OOME.
It la reported that Governor Stubbs
Is to call a special session of tbe leg
islature to. fix up the bank guaranty
fizzle, to resurrect the public ntllitlos
commission corpse and Introduce a
raw -(angled "recall" by which state
officers can be bounced whenever
notif h kickers get together. By all
-.eaus let ms bar tt R would only
about 120.000 to tha taxea aad
S:at's a trifle like that Besides
r .-r-jody kaows the state ii auffer
; It more laws and mora officers
i l avel around at public expense
1 oot hot air Into the papers. A
A session at this time would
h eoongk hilarity- to make a
! ,n'r em like one of Parker's
a. s la full blt and Ue gpv
r -,::d bare t: time of bit
I t 'tt rorofc . I
COMFORT OF THB COMFORTLESS.
' The Topeka Capital and the Em
poria Gazette and other of them "In-
surgers" can get more consolation
out of, what to any one else, would
be a humiliating defeat alt around,
than any set of politicians that ever
entered the arena, -
After they have been kicked and
cuffed and pounded,, and disfigured
by President Taft and "rulid out of
the party" by Cannon and Aldrlcb,
and when ail of their efforts to
"browbeat" the President Into the
belief that tbey would cut some ice
in the next presidential campaign,
has signally failed, and. they see
themselves being left out In the cold,
they now vehemently assert, that
the Republican party as represented
by Taft, Cannon and Aldrlch ara do
ing just wbat they wanted them to do
anyway, and they never were sis
much opposed to the present Repub
lican administration as was general
ly reported.
Again, after the state of Kansas
bad spent a lot of time and money
to enact a guaranty deposit law, ap
propriated another $25,000 to en
force Its Intricate machinery,- an
other $10,000 In defending it in the
'courts; another $10,000 in trying to
prevent the National banks and other
banks from organizing a, bank De
posit Insurance Company, and when
tbey Jbad made a miserable failure
of the whole of it, and tho deposit
guaranty law was "knocked galley
west," by the courts, and all the
state money appropriated lost in their
futile efforts, now comes the Capital
and says:
It Is well to remember that what
ever this company (the Bank Deposit
Insurance Company) comes to, It 1b
the outgrowth of the bank guaranty
agitation and Is to be credited to that
movement." '
It Is remarkable wbat comfort
there Is for tbe comfortless if you
only look at it right. , :'
HOPE FOR THE RUSTLER.
Says a wise exchange: There is
every reason to believe that the com
ing year will be the most glorious
commercial year we have seen for
a hundred years. That It is pretty
big prophecy, but It Is written, and
we shall stand by it. There has
never bn a time so far as It 1
recorded when there were more fav-
orable Indications nud ffwer unfav
orable on as. So tha' if we do not
have the blgaeat year iu o1 1 national
history It will I Hi. owu fault and
not the fault oC natire But that
does not uieau tlm. filul ililcken Is
going to fly into the mouth of the
fellow who sits down and watts. It
means that there will be fried chick'
en only tor the fellow who hustles
around and gets the chicken and
then fries ft. It Indicates that the
rewards will go as they have always
gone, to the man who knows a little
in advance that it is going to be a
good year and who takes advantage
of his knowledge.
KANSAS BLEEDS AFRESH.
From the New York Sun: Breath
less with expectation, 'we open the
Hon. Blanco Bill's Emporia organ,
and this is what atop she plays: '
"There is no questioning the fact
that this new year downed upon, a
nation that is rioting In extrava
gance." ' ;"':, ''
Full of this Spartan moid, what
pain is ours as all the prodigal pipes
begin to screech from this same In
strument: .
' "Joseph L. Bristow.
'.. "The only real Havana cigar on
the market Mild and sweet. You
have never smoked a real cigar un
til you bave tried one of these. Only
10 cents. Every puff a dream. Now
on sale." ,
Mild and sweet the Hon, Joseph
L. Bristow, spectacled, bland, of an
Inquiring Innocent sociologist aspect,
. 1 v. kM In hla
dedicates him to fame and Itself to
Kansas. Are not we too dreaming?
Is it by 10-cent cigars, however mild
sweet and Brlstovlan, that the Sun-
flower spendthrifts are to be wo
.hack to the straight way of their
fathers T The stern and rock-bound
Kansans of heroic elder Kansas, the
men of the .Bible and Sharp's rifles,
did they waste their substance upon
and pollute their Hps with the herb
loathed of the Hon. George Ttask and
little Robert ReedT
Aad the mild and sweet Bristow
terrible as an army with banners
against tht Danville despoi, Bristow
tha champion of the people, the new
hope of Chautauqua, tha brother in
arms of Larollatta, la Bristow with
an -hla heroics to to UR m smoker
Must Kansas puff the ade awayt
Besides, aa lasurgoat cigar la but
too common In this world of sin aad
Cannoa, tha Man. of 81a. -
No avideaos bas yet eome to the
surface Indicating that Mr. Baltlnger
ought to remain la Ue cabinet
Tha Sav. Mr. Stacker was also a
aewspaperman but ba was the kind
that runa a votiag eoolrt and really
not much was exported of aim. 1
CALICO, STOCKINGS, APRON i US-
LIN AND THE NEW TARIFF.
Premeditated misrepresentation
seems to be the plan of campaign of
tha antf-Taft candidates for con
gress in Kansas. ' Senator Young Is
a candidate for tha Republican nom
ination to congress In the Sixth dis
trict. His appeal for Republican
votes Is based on the ' charge that
President Taft and a Republican con
gress has handed the people a gold
brick; the earn Issue upon which
Tom McNeal, Judge Rees and other
antl-Taft candidates are running.
Young's organ, tbe Beloit Times, re
cently printed this editorial: . ,
'One doesn't have to go very far
to get a practical Illustration of Pres
ident Tart's Idea of 'revision down
ward' In tariff. Since the new tariff
law went Into effect, the most need
staples In the local dry goods stores
right here in Beloit have raised from
15 to 35 per cent In value. The
simple reason Is that the merchant
has to pay a similar increase on. the
wholesale market. For Instance,
calicoes sell a cent, and a balf mora
a yard than six months ago. Stock
ings that a merchant- paid $2.10 a
dozen for, are now $2.60 a dozen..
Apron muslin in " the past three
months bad been raised from five
and a half cents to eight cent);. Pres
ident Taft declared In his recent
u t,n. tv Dawna.AlflrlMl hill
BJjevvues uiai t.u - . .
effected revision downward on tbe(
whole, although It was necessary to
raise some commodities, ' while
others were lowered. It is ob-
served further that the mill goods
from Senator Aldrich's part of the
country got tbe full benefit or tne .
raise."
This Is but another example of mis
representation, premeditated or oth-
rwlse. of the effect of tbe present
tariff law. The articles represented place in the corn pen; lea jna snip
as having been Increased in duty by ped again to Kansas City; slaughtered
the exlsltlng law are calicos, stock
ings, apron muslin and other com
mon cotton ware, concluding wnn
the statement that "the simple rea
son is that the merchant has to pay
a similar Increase on the wholesale
market."
If he Days that, which be probably
does, it is not because of the tariff.
The simple truth Is that no one of
the articles, except the stocking,
has been Increased In the rate or
amount' of duty in the existing law
over the Dlngley law. All of these
articles, except the stockings, are
valued at less' than 7 cents per square
yard abroad" and are subject to the
specific rates of the new tariff law,
which are precisely identical with the
specific rates of tlw Dlngley law. Con
sequently, if there has been an in
crease In price It is not due to the
tariff law. ..
The stockings are those classed in
the law as valued at $1 or less per
dozen pairs, The Dlngley rate was
50 cents per dozen pairs and 15 per
cent, and the present rate is 70 cents
per dozen and 15 ier cent, the act
ual difference being 20 cents per
dozen pairs. If the merchant repre
sents, that his price has been in
creased from $2.10 to $2.60 a dozen
by reason of tbe 20 cents per dozen
Increase In duty, he ought to getaui
of business for he is not competent to
make a trade.
Antl-Taft candldatea for congress
should quit exposing their; Ignorance
or talking Dempcratle eoctrine n
they expect to receive wepuoucan
votes. '
CANNON ON REGULARITY.
The doctrine of party regularity
was expounded today by Bpeaker Can-
non. was a characteristic delivery.
Tha Speaker bal made a brief can on
Prasllent Taft, remaining only a few
minutes about a matter In which he
said the Presllent waa Interested. On
his way out he struck the newspaper
brigade. Asking a match, oi wnicn
he la always minus, he lit the stump
of a cigar that had become .extin
guished, stuck It Upright tn the east
corner of bis mouth and then stanea
to saunter away. Questions of dlf
ferent sorts were fired at him and
then some one asked about the in
surgents. "Uncle Joe" hesitated.
"Ah-ah-ah." he began, and hia left
band went up Into tha air. He
fleeted a minute, stopped as if be
wnnld not sar anything, raised his
left hand once more, sawed the air
with It in familiar style and delivered
himself accordingly:
- "My test of regularity tn politics,
church, finance or family la co-operation,
harmony. I am a great believer
la caucus the wicked caucus. Get
tore ther and fight out differences
there, and It yon ara licked come
hack aaaia and tight again. We
can't all bare our way la this world.
We do aot have our way, no matter
how big or high wo may be. The
manly man gives and takes, fights ar
yields as he thinks best for his eauee.
I haven't much patience with these
men who ara wiser than all tha other
fellows put together, whose views are
unchangeable. I always feel that a
map of that sort has no business In
aa organization. If he can't fight It
out la party or church ranks, and
yield If he la beaten thea be bad bet
tar go over to the enemy, or, better
till, go out and form an organiza
tion of his owa. But all this Is caest
autty, boy; tho worst sort of cbest-
nuts. But I want It understood that
I did not mention this subject to tbe
President or he to me, I am not try
ing to run bis business.'' ' ' '
Tbe. Illinois legislature Is now In
session, having been called by Gov.
Deneeo to enact a direct primary law
and to put other legislation on tbe
law books of tbe state. Tbe reports
from that state are that . Speaker
Cannon, Representative McKlnley and
several others are using their Influ
ence with senators and members of
the lower bouse to kill a measure of
that kind. Tbe speaker Is represented
as such a believer In caucuses, con
ferences and organization that be
does not consider the direct primary
the best method of public expression
As a result be is running Into serious
opposition from newspapers in bis
state heretofore friendly to blm.
Evening Star, Washington.
, MEATS AND THE TARIFF.
In an Interview the other day
Senator Bristow said: "Recently at
Goodland, Kan., 400 miles north
west of Kansas City, I asked a retail
meat dealer where be got his meats.
He said it came,, dressed, from Kan
sas City packers. Now let me ex
plain the history of that meat he
was selling. It was. raised out in
western Kansas. Later it was ship
ped from the 'grass country to cen
tral or eastern Kansas, to be fed and
finished on corn, Then the finished
animals were shipped to KanBas City,
bought, butchered, dressed and the
carcasses shipped back to my friend
at Goodland to be retailed. Or, It
may be that the animal was raised
out in tne range country; smppea
to Kansas City as a feeder, bought
there by a farmer who had the corn
and wanted to finish a bunch of cat
tle on it; shipped back to that man's
and the meat once more shipped
westward to the place of sale. That
makes four trip's by rail, two eastward
and two westward, two commissions
to be paid on transactions at the
Kansas City stock yards; a profit to
go in for each transaction. To the
original cost must be added all that
freight. It all must be added in mak
ing up the price tbe retail butcher
charges. The packers monopolize the
business, the huge amount of trans
portation that is Involved, and the
result is the extravagant prices we
are now paying. It Is not true that
the raiser of the meat, by reason of
the fact that he Is getting a higher
price for live stock, Is responsible
fer the extreme prices to the con
sumer." ' -
This is probably intended for po-
miral Knnaiimntlnn. or tt araues little
familiarity with the meat, business
'an the nart of Mr. Bristow. A few
years ago all western Kansas, western
Nebraska, western Oklahoma and
western Texas as well as practically
the entire northwest was free cattle
range. It cost nothing for pasture,
cattle were bred and marketed prof
itably at a low price and there was
an abundance of meat. Now in all
the middle west there is ,no free
range, cattle are raised and pastured
on land worth $8 to $50 an acre.
One of two thing Happen. either
the supply falls off or the price goes
up, and when the free range was
lessened tbe supply did tall oft until
nrices for beef increased. That is
the great reason for the increase tn
the price of meats.
The modern utilisation of the car
cass of the beef la the reason why
th local butcher cannot buy first
tflaM cattto tnd mye, them at home
as waa done in the early days. The
packing house uses every part of tbe
carcase down to the blood for some
profitable output. The local butcher
wastes a considerable part of tbe car
cass and must get out of what he
sells enough to make up the cost,
his profit and to offset the waste.
He could not sell choice cuts as cheap
now with all the freight charges if
he were to handle high grade cattle
at home.
The politician who for the purpose
ot making votes charges everything
to the tariff ought to consider that
there are some things to be charged
to supply and demand.
: TBE GOOD MISSOURI WAY.
Two negro "brutes who committed
a vile assault on a woman la Kansas
City, Mo., will be hanged next month.
Had they been a mile west in Kan-
saa. tbey would be taken to Lansing
aad ted on cake and pla and tha war
den woald occasionally issue bulle-
Ua telling bow tbey were enjoying
all the eomforta ot homo. What
Kansas needs la a gallows (or mur-
darera aad assaulters, and a whip
ping post for wlfe-beatera. child-
boaters and horee-beatera, Wa are
aware that this U out ot Una with
the) mollycoddle aew criminology"
but common decency demanda soma
punishments that fit the Crimea. The
Missouri way is tha sensible way to
deal with brutes that have wilfully
forfeited all claims to civilisation.
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A QUART OP MILK.
A wemaa went to the next door
neighbor's this morning, to return
some prunes aha had borrowed, aad
she ' sat down a few minute aad
talked about the hardens ef life, and
I Our Seai-Anal
I TTh "trrrr '
races way.
But Quality is
just the same
AFTER ALL its the price'
you pay for the garment
you get that COUNTS.
We know that very often an
alluring price leads men astray
but after trying the experi
ments on their backs, they re
alize that quality is' more im-
portant than price.
In reading these
Exceptionally Low Prices
remember that these
Suits and Overcoats
are from the famous lines of the
STEIN BLOCH & CO.,
AND r .
SCHLOSS BRQS. & CO.
The Gale Is Nov On
You've never bought as fine for as little.
We have space here to' mention but a few of the many
splendid Special Bargains in Men's Wear,
f 26 and $27 Men's Suits glfl.03
S20 Men's Suits C13.93.
115 Men's Suits go.es.
Clothing
the various reasons why a rest in tbe
grave is desirable.
"Just think," she cried, "of paying
seven cents a Quart for milk!" It's
downright robbery!" ;
The womao-to whom she was talk
ing has spent most of her life on a
farm, having moved to town, with
her husband, within the past year,
"Milk at seven cents a Quart," said
she, firmly but respectfully, "is en
tirely too cheap. It should be twen
ty-five cents a quart It milk came
down like rain, and a farmer could
pump it out ot hla cistern and sell tt
for seven cents a quart, there might
be a reasonable profit; but, under
the preent conditions, a quart of
milk represents no end of hard work.
and discomfort, and expense. There
is no Job under the sun more dis
agreeable than that of milking a cow,
unless it be the Job ot milking sev
eral cows. Tbe farmer nas to get
out of his downy couch before, day
break, on a cold, beastly morning,
and go down to tbe aromatic cow
stable and do the milking by. the
struggling moonbeam's misty light,
and the lantbora dimly burning. It
Is a slow, arduous, unpleasant Job;
and tha cow, being nervous ana
touchy In cold weather, la always
to him a short-leg Jolt and
"" 01 ""'""
weather it Is worse, for then the cow
is pestered with flies, and she swats
him with her tall, and kicks him with
her trilbya, and reaches- around and
prods him with her horns, and some
times lies down and rolls on blm.
Even If ba escapes personal Injury,
the bucket la pretty sure to be upset
Just when tt Is about full, and he bas
to sell a good many galluna before
he evena up the loss tha occasioned.
A maa earns mora thaa seven cents
a quart Just In tha milking ot hi
cows, and In order to get a quart of
milk, he has to feed cow about thir
ty cents' worto of breakfast food. A
cow la all appetite. Bos eats all day
and chews her cud all night and her
thoughts never wander from the biU
of tar. Every once la a while she
dies, and one dead cow knocks the
profits from aa train load of milk.
The farmer'a wife he a worse time
with the milk than does the farmer.
She kas to strain It and sift It and
carry It to bit cellar, and carry It
back again, aad alt up w;tb It at
nights; asd raa it through a wringer,!
aad measara It and Bars aad ana-
lyse it and Tus wita n asm str
Cfcrns Sala
own
$10 Men's Overcoats 3.93.
$16 Meu's Overcoats $0.05.
$20 Men's Overcoats $12.95.
$25Men's Overcoats $15.05.
Depar ment
heart is broken, and she Is old before
her time. -..Seven cents a quart f
Why, Mrs. Doodlehlmer, that's giving;
milk away!" W. M. In Herbert'a
Magazine.
WHY HE TRADES AT HOME.
A Kansas physician writes to a Chi
cago mall-order house and tells why
he prefers to trade with home mer
chants: "Sears, Roebuck A Co., Chicago, 111.:
Tour letter of recent date, asking
why I had not traded with you tor a
long time, le received, and as you ask
me to tell you frankly why, I will ,
give you a few reasons. First, I am
In business in this community with
Its varied industries for my support-
I cannot ask the merchanta bf ,
this town for their support it I do
not give them mine.
"Second, in looking over my books
I fail to find either Mr. Sears', Mr.
Roebuck's or any other of your com
pany's members' names, which re
minds me that neither of these gen
tlemen have ever given me a penny's .
worth ot patronage. Why Is thlsT Am
I too fsr away, or have neither of
them needed a physician or are they
afraid of the mail-order plan when
it comes to the practice of medicine?
I can certainly give you good satis
faction by mail as your house can
and will appreciate either of them
when In need of medical service.
"Third, in looking over tha aul
scrlptlon lists for Improving our
streets and highways, I hsve failed
to find the name of either member
of yonr firm dow.n for one penny to .
assist In the work.
"Also. I have been nnable to find
yonr name on any of tha charity lists
whors help haa been rendered to our
poor. Ia other words yoa ara aot
down as a contributor to our Helping
Hand Society. In fact. In all the
movements tor the betterment of our
community, when our eommaalty has
needed tb anlted effort of bar pub
lic spirited ciUsena, I bar failed to
find yonr nam among tb contribut
ing merchants.
"Tour same la not on our city tax
hooka nor do I find where yoa have
paid a city license to do a mercantile
business la competition with our
home merchants. These are a few
answers tb your questions and I traet
yon wUl see the Justice la them."
For sale cheap, nose Comb Roods
Island Rod cockerels. & J. Volk-
n, WooJMn Kaa. . tw!t
atAJi&Js 111
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