The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-11-01
PRESIDENT TAFT and T
THE STATE Of IDAH0

President Taft has made great
and good president. The fruits of his |
labors for good are teeming upon
every hand Our country is pros |
porous; our people are happy and con-
tented, well clothed and we'll fed;
plenty of work for those who will, at
good wages. Our industries are firmly
established, and if not disturbed by
unjust measures or radical legislation,
we have no cause for fear. Why dis
turb prosperous, healthy conditions for
theories once tried and found to be
distressing to our people? Like causes
will produce the same effects. The
course contemplated by our Demo-
cratic friends should make the blood
chill with fear in the arteries of every
American citizen. Let us be calm and
wise in the hour of excitement, lest
we go woefully wrong, at a cost most
dearly purchased. Selfish ambition is
a criterion to be looked upon with sus-
picion 1t should not be allowed to
sweep the country as tornado. tear
ing down our well-built institutions
and laws, lie aving DISSOLUTION in its
wake, witch will surely meant stagna-
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American home. We should
think twice, yea thrice, at this
particular time before we cast
our ballot on November 5th.
We cannot go wrong by casting our
ballot for the Republican ticket. We
are proud of our country's greatness.
1t has reached its efficiency and power
by adopting the Republican principles:
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than President Taft.
Our own prosperous state has re-
ceived from his administration more
valuable, concrete things than from
any President that has ever graced
the presidential chair. Through him,
the State of Idaho received for her
educational intitutions one hundred
thousand acres of timber land, worth,
approximately, four million dollars.
This land, withdrawn during the adj
ministration of President Roosevelt,
was returned to the Idaho institutions
by his successor. Taft also released
one hundred townships along the
| Snake river valley, which had been
previously withdrawn, thus opening
the avenues for homesteaders.
Through his influence in signing
the reclamation bill that was intro
duced by our junior senator, w. E.
Borah, he loaned to the people of the
state twenty million dollars without
| interest. This, consider one of the
| greatest gifts Idaho has ever received.
| Last, but not least, as a result of
| the Presidents efforts, the State of
Idaho has entered into an agreement
to release all of its isolated. unsurvey-
ed sections in the forest reserves,
amounting to four hundred and fifty
thousand acres, and selecting in a
body the same amount, thus placing
it in position that the public institu-
tons will receive direct revenue, and
placing them in a financial condition
that they will be self-supporting. This
fact, alone. will mean at Leaf fifteen
million dollars to the public and ed
ucational institutions of this state.
| I believe the people of the state will
commend these things.
We are proud of the four great in
dustries within the borders of our
State-our mines, our timber, our
agriculture, and our stock Three OF
these were attacked, and onslaughts
upon them passed the Dem1cr-,tir
House of Representatives. Our Demo
cratic friends made plain their attitude
and their feeling toward this state. II
it had not be for our able representa-
tive in Congress. coupled by the
strength and good feeling of the Presi-
dent, toward our people and state
every citizen, directly or indirectly
would have felt the deadly blow ad-
ministered.
Throw down the bars of protection
of these mighty industries and what
have we to stand upon? If man OF
woman is not first willing to protect
himself or herself, how can he or she
consistently arceal to others for help
i Last winter in Congress, when the
sugar-cane industry was being as
sailed, how" quickly did our Demo
cratic friends in Louisiana and Miss
issippi turn protectionists? 1t depends
therefore, upon whose OK is being
gored. They have. tried to gore the OK
of the "Gem of the Mountains" Let
us wake up for fear it may be done.
Our state is indeed a prosperous
one and for the past few years she
has been making wonderful progress
Many new industries have been estab-
lished within her boundaries, and
many more are needed. To secure
them we must secure Eastern capital
for no other state in the Union is more
dependent upon eastern capital for its
development and progress than is our
own, by reason of the fact that our
great wealth consists in undeveloped
resources. No state has been more
largely the beneficiary of the protec-
tive tariff system than has Idaho, nor
is better capacitated.
i Our minerals have been protected
our timber has been protected, OUT
wool has been protected, and last, but
not least, our farm products have been
amply protected. l assume that but
few people realize that there is a
tariff on agricultural products, and il
is frequently argued that even though
there is ad uty on these products, tina,
it serves no purpose, as none of these
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