The Iola Weekly Index and the Elsmore Enterprise from Iola, Kansas • 4

THE CUBAN QUESTION Th: lola Weekly Index. Published by the INDEX PUBLISHING COMPANY, lout, Kansas. N. F. ACERS C.J.PETERSON Secretary T.

F. ZIEGLER Editor and Manager Intimately Mixed Up With the Tariff Tax on Sugar. vou can start with Piqua with two jigger and follow on up to Leavenworth with 206, how can you believe that there is any honest effort to close these places. Look at your owu city. Do you believe that they are closed here? Don't you know that" they are not closed? Investigate this and then vote according to the evidence.

ENORMOUS PEOFITS OF TEE TBU8T TERMS OP Strictly Cash SubfcrJption let On Year Advance. Public opintonhas beeu flouted, insulted and ignored until it can bear no The laws are only a reflex of public These laws have been insulently defied and the will of the people out raged. Opportunity and wealth are not to be destroyed. 'But criminal methods must cease. The masters of stolen millions must obey the law.

The have escaped punish' njent by hiring the ablest and most brilliant legal talent, but shameless cunning has digged its own grave. Lawbreaking has gone to the limit of endurance. The corporation must be made to obey the law. And there will be no change in public opinion until they do, so the corporation lawyer better advise their clients to obey the law rather than to hunt subterfuges for violations of the law. TO ISSUES.

Shaw made a speech in Dixie Land; Promised them that "pat" we'll stand, But pshaw! he's slippery aa an eel; Can't "stand pat" 'and a "square deal." Cannon made a speech in'Kalamazoo; Said Aldrich and Piatt were honest and true; They are.Jto the corporation we know, But not to the people; they have no show. Taft, made a speech in Baltimore, Same old speech he'd made before, With all the issues the speaker dealt; Said the only "live one" was Roosevelr. Hoch made a speech'in Wichita, Never mentioned enforcement of law. The Governor is iu a duce of a fix Evasion won'tjwin in Scott, he spoke in Humboldt City, It was amusing, hut not very witty, The ticket contains none but the test, Vote it straight, I'll do the rest. Thus they appeal to men who vote; Same old story they've learned by rote; They'll be defeated say what they may, When the votes are cast on election dav.

well known to most of the voters of Allen county, they ought to know the record and reputation of the men on that ticket. 2 nominations were largely dictated by corrupt bosses and is not entitled to any support from the decent element of the party, and represents a vicious system that should be repudiated by all good citizens. Corrupt bosses and corrupt candidates should be defeated whether they claim to be Republicans or Democrats. Don't let it be said of Allen county, as it was of Philadelphia. That it is "corrupt and contented.

And every self respecting Republican should be ready to resent the charge. We leave the case with you-Mr. Voter, firm in our belief that you will assert your better manhood and be a true citizen rather than a true partisan. False Testimony an Asset. The bell wether of the grain trust of Iowa, was before the inter Entered as second-claes matter August 17.

1906, at the postoffice at lola, Kansas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, FRIDAY, NOV; 2, 1906. Sl. The Old Soldier Must Go. What excuse dors Mr. Scott give to old soldiers for trying to 'force the only old soldier postmas The Farmer and the Judge, 'Scene Court Room.

Case Damage Suit, Mr. Fanner vs" Railroads. Mr. Fanner Judge, do you use a pass? Judge Yes. Fanner How much money do you save each year by reason of having a pass? Judge-About $350.

Farmer Well, 1 Jtc're, l.tre is $350, I have a case against the The Standaad Oil company was found guilty in the trial at Fiudlay, Ohio. The aggregate of fines under the law would have been about six million dollars, but the court only assessed a fine of 5,000. That was a pretty big discount for cash, $5,000, about one hours profits-for the Standard company. According to this rale the average man's maximum fine would be about 25 cents. Then talk about ter in Allen county out of office on a plea that his incumbency interfered with Mr.

Scott's political plans. You old soldiers what do you think of this move on the part of Mr. Sco't? This particular soldier, did not own a newspoper and state commerce committee at Des Moines last week and under oath stated that the Des Moines cereal company, of Des Moines, did not attempt to fi the price of wheat and other grains in the state of Iowa. Another witness was'called who stated' positively that he attended the weekly meetings of Des Moines cereal company and that they did fix the price and ordered the price lists sent out to the elevators throughout-the state. The presidaut of the cereal company then, when closely questioned by the commissioner, admitted that such was a fact and attempted to explain why he testified falsely, but was reprimanded by the commissioner and dismissed as a witness.

Falsehood seems to be as natural to a corporation manager as carrion is to a buzzard. It has long been said that the principal asset of a trust was falsehood. If you are caught lie out of it, seems" to be the motto. And they don.t hesitate to work their motto over time. The beef trust, the Standard Oil trust, the sugar trust, the railroad tniht, the grain Iru.sl and the coal trust have all been caught in their false testimony, but have you heard of any of them being made to suffer any penalty for swearing 11 was of no especial political use to Democratic Ticket.

Ji- STATE For Governor W. A. HARRIS, of Leavenworth, county. For Lieutenant Governor HUGH P. FARRELLY, of Neosho county.

For Secretary of State HUGH C. AUIBORN, of Smith county. -For State Auditor WILLIAM BOWEN, of Atchsion countyr For Attorney General DAVID OVKRMYER, of Shawnee county. For Treasurer PATRICK GORMAN, of Bourbon county. -For Superintendent rublie-Iustmction A.

CARNEY, of Cloud count-. For Justice Supreme Court, six years' term DAVID M. DALE, of Sedgwick county. For Justice Supreme Court, six years' term A. M.

JACKSON, of Greenwood county. For Justice Supreme Court, four years' 'term V. S. GLASS, of Marshall count). For Justice Supreme Court, four years' term LAURENS IIAWN, Leavenworth count)-.

JSfit Railroad Commissioners S. JAMES HUMPHREY, of Geary county. HARVEY McMILLEN, 1 of Ottawa county. The Sugar Dutlea Intended a Snb-JT to the Grovrera Virtually a nlldy to the Trnat The Tarlfl Needs Revision to Protect the American Consumer. The sugar trust already has a soft snap, and if we annex Cuba It will plunder the people of more millions uulena the sacred tariff is revised.

The trust sells Its relined sugar on the basis of the cost of the raw sugar and the tariff duty and profit added. It buys most of the raw sugar from Cuba and on that pays the tariff duty, less a discount of 20 per cent, of which discount the trust gets at least one-half. The sugar from the PhHIpplnes imported into "the United States Is allowed a discount 011 the tariff duty of 25 percent, and of this the trust gets nearly all. The sugar imported from Hawaii comes In free of duty, so that any Hawaiian sugar the trust buys It pays no duty upon. Of course the prica of sugar in Cuba nud the Philippines is somewhat Increased by the discount on the tariff duty, or, as in the case of Ha- wail nud Porto Rico, by being admitted free of duty, there is a subsidy amounting to what the duty wquld be, to be divided between the sugar grower aud the sugar trust.

The price of sug.ir iu the Ucfltert States is fixed by the trust at Jn: little loss than foreign refined bugar can be Imported for after paying 1 05-100 cenlb per pound, which Is the tariff only on reliue.l sugar. The tariff on taw sugar ranges from O.j-100 of a cent a pound up to 1 So-100 cents a pouud, according to quality, though when it pure enough to be assessed ut the higher duty It is ranked as re-, fined sugar, aud the duty is 105-100 coats a poinitl. Ihis diii'ereuce in the tarilf duty between refined sugar and enough raw sugar to produce the same amount of reiinoil sugar is the "differential' in the duty in favor of the trust. But the important matter to. remember is that as long as any sugar is taxed by the tariff all the sugar that is imported tree of duty and the sugar that is imported at a discount on the tariff duty are paid for by the people at the same price as if It was refined i sugar upon which the full duty had been paid.

The domestic cane-, sugar grown in Louisiana and the beet sugar produced In several states are all sold at-the highest price, so that virtually the tariff duty Is a subsidy to the pro-ducers. If all the sugar that can be grown in Cuba should be admitted free of duty -aud yet the tariff was maintained, the price of sugar would still be as high to. the American consumer as if the gov eminent received the tariff tax on the- same, which In round numbers-amounts to' $50,000,000 a year. So there is an economic problem for, the people of the United States to fttle In considering the question of thon-nexatlon of Cuba entirely apart from the question of whether shall be free. If the revenue now produced by the tariff tax on sugar Is reduced or abolished, there will have to be some' thing else taxed to make up for tho loss of revenue from sugar.

Mr. Scott. If you want to be ap-'! railroad and I want to start on an pointed postmaster you must get in even footing with the railroad coin-line wrth a paper so you can whoop.1 pany. her up for Scott. Judge You are fined 100' and You who want por.toflices take will he placed in jail until the fine notice.

We'll not charge you any paid, for an attempt to bribe this tiling for the trip. court. Mr. Sheriff, take the briber Mr. Clerk, call the next Harris is Gaiming, Col.

V. Harris is Hearing the end of the last lap in this campaign and to any impartial voter it is evident frhat he is gaining ground rapidly. He spoke at Leaven worth, Atchison, Paola, Olathe and other points this week and at every place he wasTnthusiastical'y received, even where his stand for case. This Farmer 'is" just what would happen to you if you vtre I to attempt to use money to an j. equal value of transportation used bj' any pass carrying Judge on the bench today.

Yours is a bribe. What do you suppose the Judge considers the railroad's pass? It is a bribe just the same as yours, but I did you ever hear of a Judge fining I a railroad company or committing i'1 justice a ted out by the courts. Nkw York Republicans are strenuously denying that they are "holding up" the corporations for campaign contributions. You remember, two years ago, even Roosevelt denied that the corporations were- contributing to his campaign fund, but the sworn testimony of Republicans "in the insurance investigation proved that the charges were true. We believe they are telling a falsehood now, just as they did in 1904.

This steel trust has just distributed 38 million dollars of profits for the -quarter ending September 30. --152 millions of profits per year is 100 percent on the money actually invested in this trust. Do you think they need a tariff to protect them from pauper labor or any other kind of paupers from any old country. Notes on Scott's Meeting. It was advertised that Congressman Scott would close his campaign at the Grand theater Wednesday night, btit judging from the number of people present and the coldness displayed some body must have beat him to it, and closed it, 1 law enforcement was at variance falsely? The ordinary witness, should he swear falsely, would be punished, but not the captains of finance, the defenders of national honor nor the corporation strikers.

Iu the mad chase after dollars there is no penalty for falsehood nor reward for truth. The business honor of American manhood is at a very low ebb, but there will be a terrible awakening some of these days. Truth and, justice will prevail. with the established customs of the to jail the representative of a rail-neighborhood, he was applauded road company for bribing the court C. A.

COOPER, of Rice county. For Insurance-Commissioner J. W. MURPHY, of Russell county. For State Printer WILLIAM P.

FEDER, of Barton county. For Congaessman, Second District MASON S. PETERS. for his houest and straight forward talk. Compare his utterauces with the dodging methods practiced by Governor Hoch at Wichita and in other "wet" localities and then ask yourself which man you would sooner trust.

Don't be a coward, assert jrour indenpendence and vote for Col. Harris. with a pass? No you never did. Yet the conditions are just as they are described in this case. Mr.

Farmer and Mr. Business Man can' you see any evil in the pass? Don't you think you ought to start on an equal footing with the railroads iu any litigation you may have with them? Do you think you have an equal show under the present conditions? No you haven't, not as long as Judges carry passes. GET OUT THE LAGGARDS. 3 1 I COUNTY. For Representativi C.

D. WEBSTER, df Humboldt. For Sheriff JOHN BOEKEN, of Salem. For Register of Deeds RALPH COZINE, of Carlyle. For Probate Judge JOHN I.

PRESTON, of La Harpe. For County Treasurer R. D. RT'SSELL, of Bayard. For County Clerk JOHN W.

TEFFT, of Gas. For County Attorney C. J. PETERSON, of lola. For Clerk of District Court WILLIAM H.

ACHTER, of Humboldt. For Superintendent Public Instruction JOSIE McCORMACK, of Moran. -For County Surveyor SETH D. BARTLETT, of lola. For Coroner DR.

F. L. B. LEAVELL. of Gas.

For Commissioner, 3d District PAUL KLEIN, of lola. Jor Commissioner, ist District GEORGE REYNOLDS, of Salem. i. 1 JOHN BOEKEN. John Boeken, the Democratic candidate for sheriff of Allen county, was born near Melbourne, Australia iu 1863.

The family came to the United States in 1869 and settled in Illinois, and in 1879 came to Kansas and settled in Salem township, where they have since resided. The Boekens are numbered among nhe progressive' and prosperous farmers of Allen county. John Boeken ownes a fine farm in Salem township, where he resides. Mr. Boeken has never ask-' ed for any political recognition before, always being content to work in the ranks.

John Boeken is a property owner and a tax payer in Allen county and has been for years and men who have property interests are safer men, ordinarily, than men with no property interests. You will make no mistake when you cast your vote for John Boeken for sheriff. nepnbllcan Apathy the Democratic Opportunity. The Republican managers of the congressional elections are whistling ta keep up the courage of themselves and their followers; but, like the boy passing through the graveyard at dusk, they are really "scared to death." They don't know what Is going to happen, for so many Republican voters are breaking away from their political moorings that all the Information that comes to headquarters Is replete with forebodings of defeat. The old Republican machine workers are not enthusiastic in the cause, for they do not see much benefit from success, except those who are holding down federal offices, and they, of course, are enthusiastically putting In their time at politics Instead of attending to business.

The late conference at the WhJ Hons of the Republican leaders gloomy, although It was given out that victory was certain. But tbe Republican brethren should cheer up. The tariff protected trusts are putting money Into the close congressional districts to save the stand pat congressional 1 candidates, and matters may not be as desperate as the new amateur man-v agers are scared into believing they are. Democrats everywhere, should take advantage of the Republican apathy and by personally urging all Democrats ta vote victory is assured. There are 1 always enough stay at home voters to change the result In close districts, and the whole Democratic problem Is to get these laggard voters to the polls.

Party Regularity. The for party regularity, now being urged with such labored zeal Govenor Hoch, Chester I. Long, Charles F. Scott and other Republican orators, is the last resource of men who know that their party deserves defeat and has no other hope of success save that the Republicans who have been hoodwinked and fed on broken promises so long shall forget the record of the past, ignore the situation as it exists to-day and blindly follow the dictates of yellow, dog partnership. The Republican party iu Kansas, as it is constituted to-day, has no claim upon the loyalty of any true Republican, and the so called Republican tickets that have been nomiuated in this campaign are not entitled to the support of any Republican on the ground of party loyalty.

The state ticket was nominated -by a no'oriously controlled railroad gang. A more shameful spectacle was never presented to thepeople of Kansas than the last Republican state convention. It was an insult to the intelligence and self respect of any true Kansan to claim that this ticket represents the honest Republicanism of the and ask him to support it on such grounds. The Republican candidate for congress in this district, Charles F. Scott, certainly can't expect the vote of all the Republicans of the district on the plea of party loyalty, for he has been disloyal to quite an element of the Republican party.

He has not only violated a tenet of bin party, but a statute as well, in his disloyalty. We refer to Mr. Scott's treatment of the old soldiers in recommendations for appointments. Mr. Scott is a loyal Republican because it pays Mr.

Scott to be a loyal Republican, The county Republican ticket is before Scott got there. 209 people out to hear Mr, Scott close the campaign. They invited the local candidates to seats on the stage, but as there were none to speak of present, they didn't respond. About two dozen chairs had been provided for the special friends, on the stage, but as" there were no body to occupy them they were removed, They didn't look well empty. The chairman has our sympathy He looked lonesome, in fact acknowledged that he was lonesome.

Mr. Scott was' quite 'careless in quoting figures. Secy. F. Coburu estimates thev Kansas wheat crop at 90,000,000 bushels, but Mr.

Scott puts it at 182,000,000 bushels, in his speech. He didn't deal with anything less than millions and billions. Said that there was no trusts under Democratic administra-' tton. Attributed the hard times in 1893 and 1894 to the Wilson bill. When in fact the Wilson bill did not go into effect until August 1894, after sixteen months of the worst part of the panic was over.

The panic was at its worst in 1893 or nearly, a year before the Wilson bill was passed. You have heard of political frosts havn't you! "Well that was it. The band made good music, but even that didn't fetch 'em. Has Scott a private telephone connected with Heaven? Or how did he get his information that God was with the Republican party. They Know Where He Stands.

A German Democratic paper published in Leavenworth has come tut in a two column article in support of Hoch. This paper says that it is afraid Col. Harris, if elected, would enforce the prohibitory law and that Gov. Hoch has treated Leavenworth fair and did not mix with local affairs. And they have every reason to believe that if he is re-elected he will not divert from the same course.

You know how the Governor treated Leavenworth don 't you? Two hundred and six government liquor licenses in force in Leavenworth according to the revenue collector. That doesn't look much like the Jigger interests were afraid of Hoch. The brtweries have had their agents out througa Kansas within the last two weeks lining up the. Jigger vote Hoch. These agents were in lola and that vote in Allen county will be cast for The Republican managers are now boasting that they have the church vote and the jigger vote lined up for Hoch and that he is sure to win.

We know that the jigger" vote is going to be cast for him, but are not inclined to believe that the church vote will be cast for him. You can usually judge a man's future from the past. Now honest you law enforcement voters, do you believe Gov. Hoch has really tried to enforce the law? When The Registsr vouches for the whole republican ticket. The Register says that it believes every 1 mm on the ticket will perform the duties of the office to which he as-piies, faithfully and efficiently.

Does the Reginter believe this? The Register vouched for the present city officials also. The Register is nothing if not prolific of promises, We don' believe the Register believes any such stuff. And we are slow to believe that a majority of the voters of Allen county will iollow any such advice, Republican Politics In Delaware. If you don't believe that some good may come even out of Nazareth, remember that Gas Addlcks and the negroes of Delaware have just put an end to the political career of the-noto-rlous Senator Allee. Some years ago President Roosevelt, In plain violation df the civil service law, expelled from office an efficient and worthy postmistress "because she was personally eft fenslve to Senator Allee." Will he now turn Addlcks and the negroes out of Why Not Obey the Law, Judge Holt, of the New York circuit court, a few days ago passed sentence upon the New York Central Railroad company for its criminal rebate relations with the sugar trust, and one of the railroad lawyers remarked that in the present state of public opinion it was practically useless to attempt to defend any corporation charged with law breaking.

Did it ever occur to this attorney that the present state of public opinion was brought about by the corporations, in that they have for years defied the laws. tbe Republican party because they have become offensive to Allee? It It sad when even Addlcks and the ne groes rebuke nnd overthrow the prtsF dent's political favorites,.