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Show TAH' GIVES i SOME VIEWS H' tSays He Is Encouraged H g. by Reports Coming H -- From Colorado. Hj 5 Washington, Nov. 2. A letter from H PrcsIdent TafL to Garford Kill of Den- 1 I'vcr. setting forth the issues of the H .campaign, was niado public Inst nlGlit. H "Encouraging reports have come to H 'me. In regard to. the political situation H 'in Colorado. From the beginning I H 'have felt cectain that the campaign! H vof-education which, the Republican! .party is conducting would bring The H people to a clear understanding of H their own interest in Republican sue-1 H cess this year. The men and wodipii I 'of Colorado need tho Republican party ! so much that it would seem' almost i H unnecessary to urgo them to retain H those economic policies that have Hl made their state great and prosper- H "I am sure that every man whoso H judgment is not controlled by his H 'prejudice now realizes that this is u Hl campaign between the Republican and H 'Democratic parties. It Is apparent j -that the third party movement has j 'not gained headway, as a national j force and that again the alternative Ms presented to the American people H 'clthbr to support the protective policy fl of the party in power or to turn over H the government to those who arc H committed to ropeat the experiment Hl which resulted in a commercial ex- Hj plosion when last it was tried H "Free sugar cannot be defended H from any angle. It is in conflict with H tho theory of a tariff for revenue only H ' and its effect would be to make al- H most certain tho monopolistic control H of a great ipdustrv It would dlmin- H Ish the revenue $53, 000.000 annually H and by reducing tho world production H J, 000,000 a - year would reduce tho H prices of sugar to the consumer H "It would protect the country from H European speculative markets, which can only bo insured by producing our sugar undor tho American flag "Tho American production of sugar, both cane and beet, has been made poslblc by the piesent tariff pollc bl tho Republiqau party Cane sugar pjoductlon dates back to long bofore the war, but the beet sugar Industry is of recent growth. In 1S97 when the Dingley tariff law was enacted, thoco were only six beet sugar factories In the United Slates. "Tho first congress passed on Jul 4. 1789, a gonoral tariff act, Included in which was a duty on sugar. From that time to this sugar has always paid a duty except during the operations of the McKlnley law, which placed raw sugar on the fico list and levied one-half cent per pound on refined sugar, but guarded the interests of the domestic producer bv giving n 2-ccnt, a pound bounty on all sugar produced in the United States. "If the United States should abolish abol-ish the duty on sugar it would stand alone among civilized nations as the only sugar producing country with sugar on the free list. The production produc-tion of beet sugar has, had a tendency tenden-cy to keep down the price of sugar to the' consumer. Free sugar would force the suspension of our beet sugar sug-ar factories, for they would not onlj be forced to compete with chcaf foreign for-eign factories but every country in the world "J cannot believe that the independent independ-ent voters of your state are willing to put the growers of Colorado Into competition com-petition with the peasants of Russia on these terms. ''Permit me to say a word also with another subject In which Colorado and other neighboring states are interested. interest-ed. Your great western country needs development. It must have men and capital and it must be abe to offer inducements to attract both Tho Republican Re-publican party does not believe in a conservation policy that would tlo up our natural resources and deny their use to tho legitimate homesteader, miner and capitalist. "We are holding the part of the domain do-main that has coal, phosphate and oil until congress shall make provision for its disposition by lease on profitable profit-able terms to pr'vate capital with the retention of sifllclcnt title in the government gov-ernment 'to control and prevent monopoly mo-nopoly in ownership and consequent exorbltat chaigo to the public for these commodities. Tho problem whlcir the Republican paity in solving solv-ing Is how to savo an(J how to utlr hzo, how on conserve and still develop, devel-op, for no 3auc person can contend that It (s for the common good that natuie'b blessings are only for unborn genoratlons. "There Is just foundation for the complaint' in tho west that tho laws have not boon administered with a liberal view to tho accomplishment of their purpose, but rather in a spirit which has put as many obstructions as possible In the way of conveying tho title from the government "This followed a crusade of muckraking muck-raking whloh reached a point where there seemed to be real hostility to the acquisition of property dv a man who had earned title to It under the land and mining laws of the United States by the performance of those conditions precedent that In t,he statute stat-ute were declared to be useful in tho development of the country. 'As a result of attacks that extended ex-tended to those who legitimately wore seeking a share in the public domain bj the cxeiclse of the stops required b law, thero was developed a timidity timid-ity and delay on the part of bureaus, divisions and employes of the Interior department In granting patents that had been earned. This is not tho fault of any Individual In the Interior department nor of the head, of It. but it Is the result o'f a very vicious period of muck-raking In which those who were likely to bo the object of slanderous attack proferrod the easier eas-ier course of making no decision and unjustly delaying tho granting of rights to persons "Secietary Fisher has struggled tp ovorcomo this and to hurry the decision de-cision of cases as rapidly as possible, but thpro still remains much to bo accomplished In this direction. Wo aro labpring aB hard as we can to overcome tho evil and injustice which these delays have entailed, and believe that with proper congressional appropriation appro-priation and continued effort on the part of tho secretary of the interior and his subordinates the ten'dency will disappear " TKl |