The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-12-28
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two years. 1t is easy to see that 1t is
one of the fondest wishes OF his heart.
We are glad to see, however, that he
would rather be right than senator.
The fearless course he has pursued
has added to the affection OF his
friends and has compelled the adj
miration Of his opponents. With a
known majority of progressives in the
Iowa legislative body, Mr.. Young has
neither bent the knee nor offered COM
promise. 1t was great temptation,
but Mr.. Young has chosen the bet
ter course, that of showing the pro-
gressives, good naturally, just where
they were mistaken, and just where
their cry of tariff reform was leading
the farmers of Iowa.
For years every regular republl-,,
can has tried to point out that the first
blow of the tariff reformers would be
directed against the farmers. But we
were laughed at and derided as
friends of the privileged classes
Tariff reform in the west meant re-
duction on manufactured articles, but
tariff reform in the east and in the
south and on the Pacific coast meant
a reduction on food stuffs. 1t meant,
and it has meant all the time, the
opening of our markets to the cheaper
produce of the farms of Canada and
the vast ranges of the Argentine.
In the middle west the problem OF
"the high cost of living" about which
such great TODD was made, had to
do with the price of socks and gloves
and shoes and flannels, in the east
and the south and the far west the
problem was one of beef and pork
and eggs and butter. 1t was wise
woman who said that the nearest way
to a mans heart was through his
stomach. The eastern politician
adopted this motto and won an easy
victory. The elections throughout the
east were carried largely on the prom
Use of cheaper food stuffs and this
promise will be made effective unless
there remain in the United States
senate enough old time, reliable
friends of all-around protection, the
protection that gives and takes, the
protection that cares for every part
of the country, to prevent the con-
summation of the fasteners desire.
The real estate boomer, the "back
to the farm agitator, the "bless you,
boys" orator, have painted altogether
too rosy a picture of farm life. Ac'
cording to the eastern view the farm
er's chiefest task is in counting his
profits. The farm wife is seen with
smiling face and folded hands, listen
ing to the sweet strains of the planola
while her daughter visits over the
phone and the little ones wait for the
rural carrier who brings them costly
gifts from mail order houses. The
farmer is seen lolling at ease in his
automobile, the kline are seen trans
forming the grass that costs nothlnS
into the beef that costs much, tn
hens are laying eggs of gold and ever
the pigs are seen in sort OF mahoe
any setting.
Is it a wonder that the man VIII
works day by day in grlmy factor!
who delyes in the darkness OF tn
earth, who bends long over his tas
in dreary tenement, whose whole eXl!
tence is bounded by hard brick wall:
is envious of all this reputed Wealt
and affluence? Is it to be Wondere
that he demands division OF I'll
lows of life? That he is ready t
knock down tariff walls and get chea
food stuffs from whence he can
the expense of these lazy, plutocratl
farmers is the natural result OF a
this loud and ignorant talk.
The workingman of the east doe
not stop to consider the risks that tn
farmer must run, the fact that L
must be capitalist as well as
laborer, that lean years follow the Ii
years all too certainly, that a sing
storm of hail or wind, flood,
drouths, an early frost and the VOL
of year is worse than undone. d
does not follow the farmer after II
plow, mile upon mile, slowly traver
ing the burrows, he does not know tn;
in the season from the rising up
the going down of the sun does n
begin to measure hours OF farm labo
he does not know that the farm'
must act as midwife and nurse al
physician to we'll nigh every amin
upon his place. He does not kno
that for every successful farmer the
are many who are unsuccessful
who have but barely made a llvln
All this being true, we must not bian
the eastern workingman II he SCI
but one side of the problem and tn