The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16

must inevitably suffer; be forced
from the farm into more profitable
business, and Idaho, whose basic
wealth is her agricultural interests
her fruitgrowers and stockraisers,
must be one of the first to suffer"
The following castigation of the
Federal Government, making such
extreme demands on the home
steaders of the West, is thrust at
the East which will meet a hearty
response in Idaho, whose land en-
trymen the Senator is aiming to
protect:
1.-THE American Congress, with
tenacity that is hard to understand,
makes it as difficult as possible for
the settler and the homesteader to
acquire a home. We cling to the
harsh old rule that homesteader
must live five years upon his home
stead. In Canada, he lives only
three years and is permitted to bel
absent six months each year"
Although always protectionist,
Senator Borah has for a long time
disagreed with his party, or that
portion of it represented by the
machinery of the United States Sen
ate, Of which his colleague, Senator
Hebuhyn, is a distinguished type,
on the matter of the operation Of
the protective tariff schedules.
All Markets Should be Protected.
Dating from his return to the
Republican party from his brief al
lance with the Silver Republican
party movement, he has followed
the lines Of the policy of the So
called Iowa idea" In this letter
he emphasizes his views on this
subject by this suggestion: Free
trade for the producer and protec-
ton for THE manufacturer, an open
market for the farmer and pro-
tected market for the manufactures,
cannot be justified under any theory
on earth. 1t is, speaking with all
due respect to those who view 1t
otherwise, to my mind the narrow,
vicious, unconscionable selfishness OF
Eastern manufacturing interests gen
orally. exalted into a scheme of
legalized advantage for one class
over another. The American
market-place is in possession of
combinations which fix the price of
the necessities Of life, regardless of
the price at which they are pur-
chased from the producer"
Toward the close of his presenta-
ton of these views to his correspon-
dent, the Senator refers to sug-
gestion in the letter from his Idaho
inquirer to the effect that he (Bor-
ah) Cannot hope to succeed by op'
: posing the important measures OIL
our Administration" His terse re-
ply is: well, we will let that mat
ter rest for the present"
AS suggested briefly above, the
cold politics of the situation enters
into the equation. Should the force
of the National campaign finally
center on the Canadian reciprocity
subject either through the passage
or the defeat of the bill now before
Congress, there might be complex
, ties in the Idaho phase of the situa
ton as between President Taft ant
Senator Borah, in which the latter
because of other issues, would out
weigh in popularity the former. Ii
such contingency, 1t might be tina
. the result in the fall of 1912 would
be that Borah would secure a Legis
: lature to re-elect him, while thu
Presidential electoral vote of tn,
state would go to the Democracy
In other words, In this conflict, S,
far as Idaho is concerned, the Presi
dent is in infinitely more politica
danger than is Senator Borah.
Party in Delicate Position.
Probably, as elections have re
suited in the state for 10 years past
it may be fairly concluded, eve
with the increasing tendency a
loosening of party bonds, that tn
Republican party has an easy 1900
majority. The dominant party O
the state, however, is in no wise sc
cure in Idaho They are in ba