Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-09-30
POLICIES THAT MAKE
AMERICAN FARMERS RICH
What Republican Administrations
Have Done to Build Up
Our Agriculture.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCIENCE

Expense Which the Bryan Platform
Calls unnecessary and Waste
full" Consists in Large Part of
Money Used in Research at
Home and Abroad For the Farm
er's Benefit-Taft in Favor of
This Policy and Will Maintain 1t
in Its Present Efficiency.
1t is not alone in building up home
markets for the American farmer and
keeping those markets for him when
built up that Republican Congresses
and administrations have aided the
farmer to become prosperous and in
dependent. The increased expendi-
lures of the National Government,
which, according to the Bryan plat
form, are unnecessary and waste
full" consist in large part of expenses
incurred by the Department of Agri-
culture in scientific research at home
and abroad for the farmers benefit.
Strenuous efforts have been and
are being made to encourage the
home production of articles we have
been importing from foreign coun-
tries. During the last eleven years
that is the period since the Democra-
cy went out of power at Washington
there has been an increase in the
production of sugar from baets which
makes the product of 1907, amount
ing to 100000 tons, over thirteen
times larger than that of 1896, and
its value fifteen times larger. Eleven
years ago we produced only one
fourth Of the rice consumed in the
United States, but thanks to the fos-
tering work of the National Govern
ment under Republican administra-
ton, the rice growers now produce
more than sufficient for home con-
sumption, and markets are being
sought abroad for the surplus.
Research by the Bureau of Soils
has demonstrated that we can pro-
duce at home the fine tobaceos for
which we have been paying over S20,-
100000 to foreign countries. Nearly
fifty millions CT bushels of wheat are
being grown in regions of the United
States heretofore regarded as unpro-
ductive, result in part of the work
of explorers sent out by the Govern
ment, who have searched for and pro-
cured in foreign countries grains and
plants suitable for our various soils.
A thorough system of inspection is
maintained to prevent the introduce
ton from abroad of diseased animals,
and the diseases of domestic animals
are being studied with view to their
complete eradication. Diseases OF
fruits, vines and vegetables are
closely followed up with remedies in
tended to prevent or cure, and the
civilized world has had occasion to
admire tho NTH u,I, oh
agents of the Department of Agricul-
ture have sought out and found in
nocuous insects whose nature 1t is to
prey upon and destroy other insects
that were a pest to American orch
ards, vineyards and grainfields. These
efforts have been successful in de-
gree that amounts to a vast saving
for the cultivator, and also for con-
sumers generally;
The Meat Inspection law and the
Pure Food and Drugs law have been
of inestimable benefit, not only to the
farmer but to the community at large,
and even if standing alone they should
command the gratitude of the whole
country for the party which is re-
sponsible for framing them. These
laws, carefully enforced, have COM
PEELED a number of fakes and frauds
to get out of business and many 9TH
ers to mend their ways and give what
they had pretended to give before.
To the farmers and farms of the
United States is due the fact that the
balance of trade, instead of being
against us is in our favor, and to the
Republican party and its policies be-
longs the credit of aiding the farmer
by every means within reach of
twentieth century science to gain the
advantageous position which he occu-
pies. With Taft as President and
Republican Cabinet and Congress
those policies will be maintained with
the same thoroughness and efficiency
as in the past, and every new problem
as it arises will be met and solved
with the same persistence and sue
cess. As the Bryan platform has al
ready denounced the increased ex-
penses of Government as "unnecces-
sary and wasteful," there would be
very strong reason for believing that
with Bryan at the head of affairs the
work of the Department of Agricul-
tura would be narrowed and restrict
ed to degree that would seriously
weaken its usefulness and injure the
interests of the farmer. All signs at
present point, however, to an over
whelming victory for Taft and Sher-
man, in which the farmer will be
hand in hand with the business man
and the wage worker in vindicating
the sound judgment of the American
people and their contempt for the Chi
canery, deceit and imposture which
are the stock in trade of Organism.