The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-10-19

thing except the maintenance OF law
and order. Without that no government
can exist long. But while the govern
ment exists II Is the duty of the people
on their behalf to build as high as Is
necessary wall of protection between
themselves and their compatriots or the
outside world. That Is what has made
us happy and prosperous. That Is why
you have today five hundred million
dollars of a surplus and balance to-
your accountable 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, 10000 more today than you
we're twelve months ago-you-the Am
erican people, in this hall and out Of it.
When merchant wants to know wheth-
err or not he had prospered he strikes
q balance and makes a balance sheet,
and If 1t shows that he has PAID out
more than he has taken in, he knows
that the hour of his bankruptcy is at
hand But if it shows that he has Ia
ken in more than he has paid out, he Is
richer TO the extent of the difference
between the two sides of his ledger
And it is the same with nation. When
I say a nation, do not mean the polltl-
cal government of a nation, l mean the
people. The people Of this country sold
$500, 100000 worth more than they
bought last year, and during the nine
years of Republican rule, since Mckinley
was elected in 1895 and inaugurated In
1897, the American people have ADDED
to their balance more than $4,7O0,O00,00O
that is, they are forty-seven hundred
millions of dollars richer today than
~ ,r,l,nx In
not money in the treasury of the United
States repeat, but money in the cof-
fers of the individuals who have sold
their surplus abroad. They have edu-
Gated their families and made and main
tanned their homes and they have their
balances in the bank. But beyond ana
above all that, out Of the surplus result
ing from rheir toll and energy and en-
terprise they have sold to the outside
world, during those nine years OF Re
publican rule, more than $4,000, 100000
And it came In through you, it came in
through, the same channels it goes out
You take your surplus goods, your sur
plus vegetables, or your surplus wool
Or your surplus grain, you take 1t to the
local dealers, who supplies the local
market and he sends the surplus on to
the next man, and so on, until 1t finds
itself upon the shores, at the WharVes,
and is put upon the great fleets and car
ried aboard and sold to the world, and
The money comes back the same way;
it goes in at the port of entry to the
man who sent it out, and he pays 1t or
mas already paid it back, and back and
back, until it is in your pockets, and in
most instances you are paid in advance
Tor it-you are paid by the first man
you deliver it to. That is the business
condition of the country. And why?
Tariff on Wool.
Well, just an instance of that Last
year we produced 100000 pounds of
wool in the state of Idaho, off of the
backs of over 100000 of sheep. That
wool sold in the market from IA to 81
cents per pound. Why? Because there
s a duty of II cents pound on It, that
shuts out foreign wool. The Democratic
party repealed the duty on wool and
placed it 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 it for shipment unless you pre-
paid the freight because that was all 1t
was worth on the wool market. Why?
Because we were competing with the
wool of Australia and the Argentines
md with every other country, and dur
ing that blessed year Il came near
using another name for it, of free trade
(Laughter) we imported into this coun-
try S00,000,000 pounds of foreign wool,
that ought to have been raised on the
backs of the sheep in this country; that
ought to have been sheared by American
abor Cleansed and washed and carded
and woven by American labor and Amer
lGan machinery, in American buildings
and mills. Instead of that it was grown
on the backs of sheep in foreign lands
and sheared by the cheap labor of for
eign countries and sent in here not only
to 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
put the railroads out of business and
sent them to the hands of receivers,
when you voted the Democratic party
into power in 1898. You sent idle men
over the land-not idle because they
were vicious, but idle because there was
nothing at which they could labor to
earn a living for their families. Where
was the suffering greatest? In the
household, where the womanhood know
ing but little of what is going on out
side. waiting, waiting waiting for the
head of the household to come home
with the earnings of his industry; and he
lid not come. He came home only to
say 1.-The mills are closed; there is shut
DOWN here; we are out of employment"
Well, when are you going to get back
INTO your employment" II don't know
when we get free coinage Of silver at
he ratio of sixteen to one without the
consent of any other nation in the
world God bless their ignorance. They
we're 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 | stood up in a little building that
S now laundry down here to warn the
because Of my superior wis
ION, but because ! knew that I was
light, from the teachings of lifetime
ma the best observation that I could
1--WE to the centuries that were behind
ne-When l stood up there to implore
ne people of Idaho not to follow after
MS raise god, not to make this mis-