The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-10-13

mont exists it is the duty of the people
on tA.r behalf to build as high as is
necessary Il wall of protection between
thcmsolve. ard their Compatriots of the
uut side world. That Is what has made
lis happy and prosperous That is why
you have today five hundred million
dollars of a surplus and Il balance to
your account TIA" American people-not
the treasury of the United States-but
you, In your counting houses and your
fields of labor and in your homes, are
worth $500. 100000 more today than you
were twelve months ago-you-the Am
erIcHn people, in this hall and out of it.
When It merchant wants to know wheth-
or or not he had prospered he strikes
Il balance ana makes Il balance sheet,
and If it shows that he has paid out
moro than he has taken in. he knows
that the hour of his bankruptcy is at
hand. But if it shows that he has ta-
ken in more than he has paid out, he ia
richer to the extent of the difference
between the two sides of his ledger.
And it is the same with a nation. When
SAY nation, | do not mean the politi-
cal government of n nation, l mean the
people. The people of this country sold
S3oo,ooo,o0O worth more than they
| bought last year. and during the nine
years of Republican rule since Mckinley
| vas elected in 1896 and inaugurated in
| 1897. the American people have added
% their balance more than 81 800, 900, 900
that is they are forty-seven hundred
millions of dollars richer today than
| they We're when he came into power
not money in the treasury of the United
states, l repeat, but money in the cof-
| fers of the individuals who have sold
| heir surplus abroad. They have edu-
| Gated their families and made and main
| aimed their homes and they have their
| balances in the bank. But beyond and
| lbore all that, out of the surplus result
| ing from their toll and energy and en-
! tcrprse they have sold to the outside
| world, during those nine years of Re-
| publican rule, more than $4,000, 900, 900.
| And 1t came in through you. it came in
| through the same channels 1t goes out
| You take your surplus goods, your sur
| plus vegetables, or your surplus wool
| " your surplus grain, you take 1t to the
| local dealers, who supplies the local
| market and he sends the surplus on to
| he next man, and so on, until 1t finds
| tSelf upon the shores, at the wharves,
| and is put upon the great fleets and car
'ed aboard and sold to the world, and
| he money comes back the same way;
| I goes in at the port of entry to the
nan who sent it out, and he pays it or
| as already paid ii back, and back, and
| back, until 1t is in your pockets, and in
| most instances you are paid in advance
| or it-you are paid by the first man
| 'ou deliver it to. That Is the business
| ~piullloi VI iil6 country. Anu WHyE
| tariff on Wool.
| Well, just an instance of that: Last
ear we produced 25,OOo,000 pounds of
| WOOL in the state of Idaho, Off of the
| JACKS of over 4,000,00 of sheep. That
WOOL sold in the market from Ia to 81
| ents per pound. Why? Because there
duty of IL cents a pound on it, that
| shuts out foreign wool. The Democratic
| larty repealed the duty on wool and
| placed 1t on the free list. And what
| vas wool worth on election day 1896?
| It was worth six cents per pound. That
s to say, that is all you could get for
| It. The railroad companies would not
| receive 1t for shipment unless you pre-
| paid the freight, because that was all II
| VAS worth on the wool market. Why?
| Because we were competing with the
| wool of Australia and the Argentines
| nd with every other country and dur
| ng that blessed year Il came near
| Using another name for it) of free trade
| lLaughter) we imported into this coun-
| ry S00,000,000 pounds of foreign wool,
| hat ought to have been raised on the
| Jacks of the sheep in this country; that
| ought to have been sheared by American
| abor, cleansed and washed and carded
| md woven by American labor and Amer
| can machinery, in American buildings
and mills Instead of that it was grown
| on the backs of sheep in foreign lands,
l anu SUedFeu ny the cheap laDOT
| 3ign countries and sent in here not only
| o take the place of the wool that you
| might have produced, but to destroy the
| market for the hay that is cut upon
| these farms-hundreds OF thousands of
| tons of hay that finds it's market only
| wnen the cattle and sheep and stock
business generally is prosperous You
| struck at every man who works upon
| the farm. You struck at every man
| who works in the shops of the country,
| because you paralyzed prosperity. You
nut the railroads out of business and
| sent them to the hands of receivers,
| when you voted the Democratic party
| over the land-not idle because they
| were vicious, but idle because there was
| nothing at which they could labor, to
| earn living for their families. Where
vas the suffering greatest? In the
| ousehold, where the womanhood, know
| ng but little of what is going on out
| side, waiting. waiting, waiting for the
| read of the household to come home
| With the earnings of his industry; and he
| did not come. He came home only to
| say the mills are closed; there is shut
| down here; we are out of employment"
| We'll, when are you going TO get back
into your employment?" II don't know
when We get free coinage of silver at
| the ratio of sixteen to one without the
| consent of any other nation in the
| world" God bless their ignorance They
were sincere and honest, but they were
| mistaken, and men have to pay for their
| mistakes in this life
Back to the Party.
In this state in these days in 1896,
when l stood up in little building that
is now laundry down here to warn the
| people-not because of my superior wis
| dom, but because l knew that l was
| right, from the teachings of a lifetime
| and the best observation that l could
| give to the centuries that were behind
| me-when l stood up there to implore
| the people of Idaho not to follow after
| this false god, not to make this mis-
| take, they rang the firebell in the midst
! of my speech in order to break IL up
and l saw the audience go out of the
| door, and l said to them, 60 and pro-
| tect your homes, and 1 will wait here
| for you until you come back" And they
| went out and soon learned that IL was
| 4 false alarm, rung for the purpose of