The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-12-07

Trust High Prices.
"The American farmer Is the real
Monte Cristo. The world Is his"
says the Washington Post after stat
Ing that the value OF the direct earth
products for the present year will far
exceed S., 600, 600, ooo
The editor OF the Post, who cogi-
tates over the wealth OF the farmer
at the SWEETEST Washington club,
would find that the surplus OF the
average farmer after paying for
necessities, not luxuries, would not
pay for what the bookkeeper OF the
club has him charged with for one
week as simple luxuries.
IL Is safe to say that with the
trust high prices which the tariff
fosters on agricultural machinery,
on clothing, on furniture, on house.
hold utensils and about everything
else the farmer buys, and the high
taxes, which the railroad corpora
tions partly escape, but which the
farmer has TO pay, the average farm
er Just about makes both ends meet.
That conclusion Is forced upon one
by the figures Of the last census,
which state that In 1899 there were
53.353 farmers who after feeding
their live stock had nothing left to
sell, 1877, 493 farmers who had less
than $50 value of products after feed
ing their stock; 3o5, l46 had less than
500, I.247, 1876 less than $3.50, ! ,6o2,
375 less than 500 and 1878 $50 less
than 81, 200. Those may be called
the average farmers.
But when IL comes to the rich
farmers the figures jump the wrong
way, as far as the number OF Monte
Cristo farmers is concerned, for there
we're but 500, l42 farmers who had a
value OF product OF 81 900 and under
-, 500, and all the remaining farmers
IN the United States, 1875 In
number, had 81, 500 and over when
the stock had been fed. Those were
the Monte Cristos, but how few III
comparison to the whole number.
i There Is no doubt that the average
farmer would be making a fair profit
II the trusts could not charge hin
their. enormous profits on what he Il
compelled TO buy, and this the trusts
are fostered Ia doing by the tariff
which protects them and does mol
protect the farmer.
! Why, the steel trust alone makes
si40, 0o0, 0C0 a year. OF which sI00,
600, 600 Is extra profit that come
, through the tariff. The farmers, TIL
rich ones and the poor ones, all pa!
large share OF that enormous profit
The Standard oil, the sugar, tb,
! tobacco, the glass, the salt and hun
dreds of other trusts are similar YAM
I pires feeding on the $500, o00, 600, 90
made by the farmers with the sweat
! OF their brows. Ii has been estlmat
} ed that 40 per cent OF the PROFITS o
] the farmer goes to enrich the trusts
and yet many farmers vote the re
) publican ticket and stand pat Will
the trusts plumber them.
: III any average farmer finds he
not able to save much after payinI
. his bills, let him investigate the trus
, prices he Is paying and the taril
schedules that protect the trusts Il
charging those high prices. II he
republican, let him ask bis repre-
sentative In congress and tn
senators who represent his state VIII
they don't revise this tariff which !
allowing bin to be plnndered by cor
poratiuns. II their answers ar
truthful they would be compelled {
say that the trusts help the republI
can party, and therefsre the partl
protects the trusts and lets the tart
alone.-The Nebraska Independent.
According To he comptroller OF th
Treasury. ~ national banks were IS
tablished 10 Idaho since March II
1900. These banks represent cal
ital of So ,006. WheH compsre5 wit
the tignres for Oregon il shows tina
Idaho has not only more nations
banks by two. but beats RECON b
s75. 90 In capitalization OF the
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