The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-02-07

to depreciate 10 value to such an ex-
tent that 1t was no longer profitable |
TO run the silver mines and they were |
closed down. Capital and those en-
gagged In the mining industry turned
their attentionton the production OF
gold. New countries were opened
up, new mines discovered, and the
production of the yellow metal has
been so great that our per capita cir
culation has increased one-third. AS
the per capita circulation has increas-
ed In this country, so has the money
supply increased in other countries.
The prosperity is not confined to
this country, but is universal, where
there exists even modicum OF pres
ent day civilization. The increase In
the supply of money has created
greater demand for the products OF
labor. This is not only true OF the
| United States, but Is true OF every
civilized country on the globe. We
not only have had good crops In ad-
dition to the large production of gold,
but have raised more than enough for
home consumption, and as result
have been.looking to foreign markets
to dispose OF our surplus. ""Tama
jim" of the agricultural department,
says the farmers Of this country have
shipped to foreign markets the pro.
ducts of their farms to the value OF
1916, OO0, 900. He Is also authority, ac-
cording to the prosperity wagon,
for the statement that we have ship
ped In cotton, above our home con-
sumption, the neat little sum OF four
hundred million. This is truly a
most remarkable and satisfactory re-
port.
~
How many stop to think what this
means to the farmers Of this country!
Under the benifcent ~ high protec'
lion the farmer, when he wants q
pillow, he pays tribute to the pillow
trust. When he wants harvester be
pays a tribute to the harvester trust.
. II he needs a thresher, he pays trib
ute to the thresher trust. He MAJ
wish to store a portion of this 1916,
/ 600, 900 OF his surplus products, for
time at least, and needs new gran
aries He then pays tribute to th'
lumber trust If he needs nails, b.
, pays a tribute to the nail trust. w
! naturally conclude he pays tribnt
: to these trusts for the reason that i
i Is demonstrated that any and all o
! these trusts are selling the same ar
) ticles in most of the European coun
4 tries twenty-five to fifty per cen
o cheaper than they are sold to tn
. farmer In this country. This Is don
too, after freight Is paid to the sea
9 board and transportation charges ar
9 paid across the ocean. High protec
+ tion has made this possible. Th
a home manufacturer is enabled t
!. charge the farmer large profit o
his necessities to the extent of tn
tariff upon the same articles.
~
Il The farmer is not only being rct
Il bed on his farm implements, but o
n his other necessities. II he feels tina
l. he can afford sugar for his coffee, b
q pays a tribute to the sugar trust; b
If having already paid good profit
!, the coffee trust. He not only pays
IA good profit to these various trust
n which control the price of everythin
n he uses, but In most of the states /
,e pays fair trust price TO the organ7;
!, tion of retail grocers When the farm
Is er exported his $4,000, COO worth
,e surplus products, and the cotto
10 grower exported his 100000, on
Is worth Of his surplus cotton, they ba
ID to enter into competition with I'll
h world. The farmer sold his wheat
Is competition with India, Russia ar
"a South America. High protection d
II not benefit him when he came to Sc
nj his wheat. The cotton grower so
r his cotton In competition viii
4. Egypt, the South Sea Islands al
+. other cotton growing countries. '
rs do net see how protection benehtt'
hin, In tho cnla Of hic curpltlS cOtt0