The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-14
THE STATE AND LABOR /!
All Good Things. Even Crops
Due to Republican Party.

lt Is little disappointing to End
SO well Informed a man as Senator
Beveridge attributing all the good
things of life 10 the republican party.
"raSe the period OF the Roosevelt
administration" he says, and then
tie proceeds TO assume that increased |
employment and Increased wages are
In some way due 10 the fact that Mr..
Roosevelt became president. Strange
that he should overlook the two
prime causes OF improved industrials
conditions and attribute the improve.
ments To causes that had nothing |
whatever TO do with better times. |
Prior to 1896 we had an era OF bad |
crops. For several years the crop
failure was so complete that the
farmers we're selling OF their live
stock, mortgaging their farms and
reducing their expenditures To a
minimum. This necessarily decreased
the consumption OF manufactured
products and lessened the demand
for labor. Since 1896 we have had an
extraordinary era OF good crops.
The earth has brought forth ahund-
antly, and the farmers, having some
thing to buy with, have become pur-
chasers of all sorts OF merchandise.
The republican speakers and writers,
, however, studiously ignore this cause
, of prosperity and aoastfully claim
, that the republican party has done 1t
all. Some have been impudent
enough to suggest that the republic
can party was In partnership with
the Almighty and that the Lord
smiled upon the earth and made IL
: fruitful i'm order to reward the people
= for putting their confidence in repub-
lean leaders.
1 But there Is another cause Ia
. which Senator Beveridge seems en-
!, tirely blind, namely--the increased
quantity OF money. For twenty-five
= years prior to 1896 the world had sui
feied from failing prices, and billions
of dollars had been drained into the
pockets OF the money changers and
holders of fixed investments. In 1896
:, the democrats insisted that an in
crease in the volume Of money was
= the paramount question aud pointed
:, to bimetalism as the only relief II
:, sight. The republican leaders de
MED the need for more money, al
!, though the republican platform hell
Af
:, bimetaIism and the republican cam
paign committee circulated literatur
which extolled the blessings OF ris
20 ing dollar and falling prices. Afte
=, 1896 new gold mines were discovered
40 and the increase in the production G
M gold has surpassed all previous rec
- ords. In 1896 tie republican speal
= ers were talking about the possibi
=, tiles Of flood OF silver, and yet, Il
day, the annual production OF vol
IN Is greater than the annual prodn'
40 tion of both gold and silver in lsg
i. The increase in the worlds supply
money has been felt the world ov'
-, and "the period of the Roosevelt a,
,or ministration" has been marked
,as improved conditions In Europe
IA well as in America. Did the repu
I'D ican party improve the condition
:. in Europe also? Is It's influence
Its benign that the prosperity of Il
rod world can be measured by the sala
- les paid to republican officials.
ors We have 10 circulation in til
,ed country more than fifty per cent 2
ne capita in excess OF the amount th
ae- we had in 1896, ard the natural |
his suit Of this increase is rise
prices. The purchasing power OF I
III dollar has fallen thirty per cent, a
.,ho the price Of property has correspor
So ingly increased, and yet Senator B'
&C. eridge gives the credit TO repuh
w, can administration that came II
I,,s power or the theory that II did n
~ matter whether we had much MOI
cor OF little, provided that 1t was
n of good
;,o OF course, the labnring man
e to sii"'ou ~ '''o '"i p'''pei
a., brought by better crops, lar
volume OF money and higher pri
but he has not shared as fully as
oo'N ought to have shared, and for
aise reason he is not singing praises
e the republican party. lie kn
.'ine That the trusts are extorting II
hen him more than he ought To pay
'io" that which hg has to buy and
eau these same trusts are bent upon
."e destruction OF the labor organizati
mas which have identified the Labor
ano man infinitely more than the rel
him, ii. r., hae avar t,isd m hs,
'o1"' him. The lab0ring men know
that they toiled In vain 20 Sc
IN as remedial legislation at the hands
am the last republican congress,
ar In these labor leaders we're SC ineel
e to at their failure that they went
resi- politics more actively than eveI
let fore in the hope OF defeating reps
must can leaders who prevented legisla
favorable To the laboring men.
'Lnef The republican party has beer
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