The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
Give Bount1es to All.

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bounty was lighting against new
| industry" It may DO that the
Statesman is a. dull as it pretends
| to be, but We think good deal Of
j it's dullness is assumed for partisan
purposes. If q bounty on sugar is
necessary to make the business prof
table, we ought, before engaging to
nav it, to ascertain this fact from
statistics and not from the unsup-
ported assertion Of the manufactur-
ers whose personal interests might
induce them to misrepresent the
case for their personal benefit.
That fact established we should
next inform ourselves as to whether
we should receive more benefit as
people by taxing ourselves to estab-
lish and maintain the sugar manu-
factoring industry at home, than
by exchanging some Of our surplus
products for sugar abroad. Having
settled this point in the affirmative
we should next inquire whether the
payment of bounties is not taxing
one class of our citizens for the
benefit of another class, and if 30,
whether or not the constitution Of
our country was designed to foster
practices of that kind? And after
surveying the whole field as we have
indicated, if we find that it is better
for the whole of our people from
an industrial and financial point of
view to pay bountiee, and that their
payment does not inflict injury or
injustice upon any class of our
people, and is not an Infringement
upon our constitutional safeguards,
the bounties should be paid but
they should not stop at the sugar
factories, nor be limited to manu-
featuring industries. We can pro-
duce whatever we need, if only
sufficient bounties are guaranteed
to make its production profitable.
But there is no reason for stopping
when we have supplied the home
market. There is money in export
ing a surplus and the larger the
surplus the more money We should
realize by its sale, of course. And,
happily, there are lines in which
there is no possibility Of an over
supply; and it also happens, for
tunately for us, that these are in
the lines Of our greatest producing
capacity. We can supply the whole
world with bread and meat, and
have enough over for ourselves.
Idaho alone can be made to pro-
duce 100000, 900 bushels of wheat,
besides large excess of beef, NUT
ton and pork, over and above our
home needs. California can easily
produce an equal amount of corn. |
Washington can grow hops enough
to supply the whole Worlds de-
mands in that line; Oregon can
produce cattle in almost countless
numbers as she did away back in
the early fifties, and Utah, and in
deed, the whole Pacific coast can
be made to produce ten fold what
it does now, by the payment Of
bounties sufficient to warrant farm
ers in resorting to special lines Of
cultivation and production.
Whether the editor of the States
man has or not, we have been all
over the west and have seen and
know its great productive capacity,
and we know something about the
adaptability of sections to pro-
ducts; as Idaho, Eastern Oregon
and Eastern Washington to winter
wheat; Oregon to cattle; Southern
California to corn, and so on. But
to obtain the best results in these
branches of industry we believe the
payment of bounties would be nec-
essary. We believe, furthermore,
that their production is just as
necessary, and that those who toll
to produce them are as much en-
titled to profit on their labor as the
sugar maker. Why not2 And no
exorbitant bounty is needed either.
Give the wheat grower I of a cent a
pound on his wheat, and the annual
surplus of the country can easily
be raised to 1,00O,OOO,OOO. The
same is true of corn, and in a less
degree of oats, barley, peas, beans,
potatoes, prunes, peaches, pears,
apples and all of the other farm
and garden crops. Moreover, the
of sugar beets is entitled
certainly to as much consideration
as the manufacturer of sugar. He
performs the rudimentary part of
he whole work by producing that
which the sugar could not
oe produced, and yet the law as we
ind it leaves the beet grower en-
.irely at the mercy Of the manufac-
urer, as to the price he shall get
or his beets, while giving the man
trust entire control Of
he price of their sugar.
And then our cattle and horse
md sheep and hog and poultry
growers are entitled to bounties.
Their business of late years, at
east, is not half so profitable rs
hat of the sugar manufacturer
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