The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-10-19
Favor Organization
Recorder Believes in Farmers Organic
ing for Benefit of Themselves, Not
for Benefit of Paid HOwlers

deferred one year.
(5) w. T. Stafford (the self ap-
pointed Savior of the people, got his
fees and lot of free advertising, with
a promise of future trouble profitable
to him.
(6) The boosters and Real Estate
dealers of the country got a season of
unprecedent dullness with the result
that every investment in Southern
Idaho, large or small, was deprecated
and the owners embarrassed.
CD Hundreds of absentee contract
holders who would have moved in this
year hesitated and finally backed away.
| (8) Hundreds of absentee specula-
tors, holders of contracts, adopted the
wall of the local paid howlers and
refused to meet their payments to the
injury of the companies and the
crippling of their activities, without
benefit to any one except the
spectators, who probably do not need
the sympathy of even so wailful and
strenuous a sympathizer as the Herald.
Now the Herald accuses US of insult
ing the settlers of Southern Idaho
Well we prefer to jolt his vanity lit
tie rather than insult his intelligence
by joining every scheme afoat for the
aggrandizement of few agitators who
seek the profit at the expense of the
settler.
We would like the self righteous
Herald to answer some of tn efollowing
questions and then we will be through
because we cae use our space without
quarreling with the Herald
1. What is the cash value to the
settler of the controversy between him
and the Idaho Irrigation Company?
2. What is the cash value of this
controversy to Stafford?
8. Has the settler been ''persecuted"
as Stafford claims in his Boise States
man interview, or has Stafford merely
represented that he was prosecuted?
a. Is this so-called league" any
part of crafty scheme to create
political heroes for the next campaign?
IF so how much knocking" can
Lincoln County investments stand for
the sake of calamity politician or
two?
5. Who are the poor and needy who
have been "sued for water which was
not delivered" as Stafford claims in his
Boise Statesman interview?
6. Is this league" renewal of
the campaign of adverse publicity
which crippled Idaho last year?
7. What are the reasons for abuse
Of the Idaho Irrigation Company on
account of the 1911 delivery? Hasn't
every Carey Act right, every priority
holder, every water user of whatever
standing had all the water he could use
or waste for seven months past?
g. Was this league" spontaneous
or was it fathered by the faithful few
who need some more ammunition for
their individual war chests?
g. Is it conceivable that public of
acials can be inundated by such
threats. If not, then who is to be
terrified, the man with money to
invest in state development or the
settler?
We advise the Herald that honest
answers to these questions will prove
Ill we want to prove, and we believe
hat any attempt to evade or befog will
all of its purpose because we are
that the farmers who farm
Inow more about the facts than the
Herald does.
We advise our friends, also, that we
avor strong local organizations ,
managed by farmers and we oppose 8
my organization which promises {
lgitation for the benefit of professional t
lgitators. We reserve the right to {
udge the object of any organization by s
he personnel Of self appointed leaders. /