The Globe-republican., 1900-06-07
IDAHO Is REPUBLICAN
SENATOR SHOUP THINKS 1T
WILL BE SO THIS YEAR.
Farmers and Miners Received Much
Better Prices Under Republican Admin
Observation-Disclosures of Protection to Wool
Big Bank Deposits.

tora1 vote for President this year, .
said United States Senator George L.
Shoup, of that state to-day
Instead of being counted. as in 1896,
in the Fusion column, hope that
shall find Idaho recorded in the cleo
tora1 college for the reelection of
President Mckinley
There is every reason continued
the senator, why Idaho should go
Republican. Our state has never
known such prosperity as 1T has ex-
perienced during the present admins
tration- The good times have been
felt both by the miners and farmers.
Protection to American industries has
given the American market to Amer
lean manufa cturers, with the result
that there has been an increased de-
mand for lead, zinc and copper, all of
which are products of Idaho Not only
has the demand been greater for these
minerals, but the prices have been
very much more satisfact ctory.
Lead forms a very interesting OBJ
ject lesson in Idaho. Under the Re
publican administration of President
Harrison the price paid for lead in
our state ranged from $4-20 to 81. 30
In the same month in 1898 lead sold
at $3.50. In 1894 it was down to
$500. and in 1895 it touched as low
$3.50. With such an experience
as that I cannot understand why it is
that our state went for Bryan in 1896
president Mckinley assumed Of
fee in March, 1897 Two months Ia
ter the price paid for lead in Idaho
was $3-121z. In 1898 it was $3. SO, last
year the value of lead had increased
to $40, and this year it has touched
$4-70, exceeding even the good prices
that were realized when the Mckinley
tariff was in effect under President
Harrison This comparison affords an
object lesson, and there should not be
a single mine owner or miner in the
state of Idaho recording his vote next
Novem ber for anybody except Presi-
dent Mckinley and the other Repub-
lican candidates.
''Stock growers in our state,'' con-
tinued Senator Shoup, "also realize
the benefit derived from protection
When American wool was protected
by the Mckinley tariff sheep in our
to $3.50 per head. Just as soon
as the Democrats began to tinker
with the tariff and prepare to
pass the Wilson bill, down went the
price of sheep until they were worth
only $1.41 each in 1895, and s1-27 in
1896, just one-half their value in
1898
LET us turn that picture to the
wall and have another look at the
protective tariff view. In 1897 sheep
in Idaho were worth AS cents
a head more than in 1896
In 1898 they were worth 90
cents a head more than in 1896.
In 1899 they were worth s1-3s more
than in 1896, and this year, according
to the department of agricu1ture's fig
ures, the average price of each sheep
in Idaho was $3.50 on January 1, as
compared with $1-27 in 1896. The in
crease in their value within that pc
riod has been 12O per cent, and they
are now worth more per head by 80
of January, 1898, before President
Cleveland assumed office.
There is another strong contrast
that I make about our sheep
values" said the senator 1T is this:
In 1892 there We're 527 900 sheep in
Idaho, and they were worth 81 ,265, 600
In 1896 there were over a million
sheep in Idaho, twice as many as in
1892, and their value was only $17 900
more.
Now, for one more comparison: In
1897 just before this administration
came into power, there We're ], 1916 900
sheep in Idaho, and their value was
$2,346, ,2S3- At the beginning of this
year there were just twice as many
sheep in the state and their value
had increased up to $7,445, 900, show
ing a gain of more than 200 per cent
in value, while the increase in guam
tity was only 100 per cent
Can you imagine that any stock
grower in any part of the country
would be indisereet enough to vote the
Democratic ticket with such facts as
those staring him in the face2 Take
the price of our wool-it sold at Is
cents per pound in Idaho in 1891 and
1892. In the Cleveland years it sold
anywhere from to 61s cents Under
this administration we have, of course,
got back to 13 cent wool again The
amount of money paid to farmers in
Idaho for their wool in 1895 was $41S,
$50, the amount they are getting this
year viii exceed 81 300, 900, an increase
of 400 per cent Every sheep in Idaho
from yearlings up, could be marketed
to-day at 1925 per head Wool is be-
ing sold at Is cents to 25 cents per
pound Cattle have advanced SO per
head. and horses are worth $500 to
$1,000 per head more than year ago.
I think Idaho will go Republican,