The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-07-13
REASONS FOR RECIPROCITY.

The Recorder takes the liberty to quote, from a personal letter, the
following paragraph from Senator Borah:
4 am exceedingly glad you have taken up this question of reciproe-
iy. It is wrong, all wrong 1t Will put the West back twenty years.
If it is adopted, then there will begin a fight to maintain without fr-
ther revision the manufacturing schedules. The contest this country
edules The contest in this country now is to put the a materials
upon the free list retain the duties upon the manufactured goods,
and thus take another step in this country against the producing class
In the estimation of the Recorder, Senator Borah and all the Idaho
NJ 81 ta aa $3.50 IN tha .tato. 20 oa o1sa has uide ac
quaintancee. are better students of public affairs. They have the
great advantage of seeing also thepeope and the aims of the East 1t
is not impossible for even these to misread the signs--but they have
not done 81
There are a number of points in which the West is vitality interest
ed n this reciprocity bill Here are a fey Of them:
To do that much toward a tariff revision would sesm to be an evil
denee of good faith. and would stane perhaps for years in lieu of a gen
eal revsion-whhh it is not
To get eastern manufactured goods into Canada duty free, while get
ting a materials free, getting cheaper living for the factory opera
uves' n maintaining a prohlpitVe -arnf On similar ufact goods
in this country, thus using the national favor to perpetuate high and
precisely the result sought by the clever boosters for recprocty.
If Canada, instead of being a enormous producer of ray materials,
were a great manufacturing center, do you suppose those down-easters
would give a pleasant look to a reciprocity bill that let their manufac-
lures IN on a reduced duty or free? Such a hypothetical question is alb
surd-of course theey wouldn't But if they could work their rabbits
foot on their country cousins in the West, by some clever word juggling
like that the white mar handed the Indian in the trkey-and-buzzard cpl
sode, it would be more millions in their collective Golfers than all the
Steal trust cashiers could count
1t may be granted that the opposition to this bill here in the West
is selfish We do not wish to see another section exploit the laws t
w. V~a na~hon ayrv i lUT no o0ara aeal uonnd ha ' rattomai ond nd
just To tinker at it by piecemeal, o wanton1y sandbag one section
for the benefit of another, to start out to do a long series of individ-
ul .injustices that are theoretically supposed to end in ultimate justice
is a wrong theory of governmental functions. The West may havee to
take it--but some day the West will carve the worthless stufffng out
of a lot of poltal mountebanks who just now have the biggest vote in
Congress. Not in revenge, but in justice.
The weather here in Idaho has been warm enough, according to the
testimony of those who have passed through it. But no n has had a
sunstroke, no crops have beef burned up, nj n has lost a dollar. In
the EAST, people have died literally by hundreds, because of the heat. 1t
is as true Is ever, that this is sunny Southern Idaho--but the IL
doesn't go on a rampage here as he does other places.
Idaho promises o have the most bountful fruit crop IN all her his
tory this season. All the old orchard districts will break the record for
production, and a lot of ley sections wilsend fruit to market. The
Twin Falls section is estimated to be good for As or morec cars of fruit
where only a few years go there was not a wild crab apple There
is a good market or it all, at prices that pay.
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