The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
PROTECTIVE TARIFF FURNISHES
THEM A PAYING HOME MARKET.
This Continued Prosperity Depends
Largely on the Success of the Repub-
licau Ticket-Piatform on Which
Roosevelt and Fairbanks Stand.

That the farmer has enjoyed great
prosperity during the last seven years
will not be denied. Prosperity to the
crops and a demand for his products at
good prices, and both have prevailed dur
ing the period named. The raising Of
abundant crops depends in measure
upon conditions over which lie has no
control, but largely upon his ability.
The sale of his crops and the price he
receives can in large measure also be
controlled by the farmer. This he can
do by stimulating the demand and in
creasing the consumption Of farm prod
ucts. The farmer may live and have
everything necessary to sustain life, but,
to enjoy prosperity in its fullest sense,
he must be able to sell at profitable prices
what he does not need for consumption.
How can he assist in maintaining this
condition? A foreign demand will not
suffice, as the demand for farm products
from foreign countries is limited, and
the prices obtained for exported farm
products DEPEND UrON THE DO
MESTlC or HOME DEMAND. With
factories idle, industries paralyzed, and
workmen unemployed, home consumption
Is curtailed and prices decline. How
can the farmer prevent this condition?
BY voting to maintain the protective
tariff principles Of the Republican party.
That the protective tariff is benefit to
the farmer, experience has proven, and
a continuation of the prosperity hereto
fore enjoyed under the principles of pro-
lection can best be attained by the united
support of Roosevelt and Fairbanks by
the Independent, liberty loving, level
headed farmer vote.
Protection Plank.
Following is the protection plank of
the Republican platform:
Protection which guards and develops
our Industries Is cardinal policy Of the
Republican party. The measure Of protec-
ton should always at least equal the diff.
ference In the cost Of production at home
and abroad. We insist upon the main.
tenance of the principle Of protection, and.
therefore, rates of duty should be read
changed that the PUBLIC INTEREST DE-
MANDS THEIR ALTERATION. but this
work cannot safely be committed to other
hands than those Of the Republican party.
L
TO INVITE DISASTER. whether, as in
1892, the Democratic party declares the
protective tariff unconstitutional or wheth-
er 1t demands tariff reform or tariff revi-
sion, its real object is ALWAYS THE
OF THE PROTECTIVE
THE PURPOSE rs THE SAME. A DEM.
OCRATlC TARIFF has ALWAYS BEEN
FOLLOWED BY BUSINESS ADVERSELY;
! Republican tariff by BUSINESS PROS
PERITY. TO a Republican Congress and
l Republican President this great question
rec trade country among the great nations
Englandl agitates return to protection,
he chief protective country should not
ALTER In maintaining 1t.
I'VE have extended widely our foreign
markets, and we believe In the adoption of
including commercial reciprocity
wherever reciprocal arrangements can be
Effected consistent with the principles of
protection AND WITHOUT INJURY TO |
AMERICAN AGRICULTURE, American
abor, or any American industry"
This is plain, truthful statement of |
acts, supported by experience and his
DRY, a declaration of principles in Ian
,uage not to be mistaken or misunder- |
TODD, and subject to but one interpreted
ion.
The Democratic party is hopelessly |
Iivided on the tariff question, admitted
Y so by its candidates and leaders. The |
republican party stands, as it always |
as, for the principles Of protection. No
lass receives greater benefit, no other
lass is more vitality interested in main
aiming the protective policy, than the
armer.