The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-10-25
TANNAHILL ON MACHINERY.

cles used by farmers for tilling the
soil, and showed that they are made
in America and sold abroad for less
than they are sold for in the United
States, and because of this condition
he would revise the whole tariff SEIZED
ule. This was done twenty years
ago with such disastrous results that
farmers could buy but little at any
price during the stagnation that fol-
lowed. When we asked a prominent
Democrat and a member of Governor
Hawley's official family how they
would prevent return of the same
disastrous conditions, he said the
panic of '93 was caused by Wall st.
operators squeezing the currency of
the country, and that 1--WE will just
put lot of them in Jail and keep
business going right along as it
should"
That is matter that is not cap
liable of demonstration. 1t is easy
to make such charges and such pro-
misses, but the American people have
been fooled bv such stuff before and
only part of them will be fooled by
it again. 1t is easy to say 1--WE will
throw lot of these fellows in Jail"
but that is not the kind of logic peo-
pie want at any time unless they can
be shown that somebody who is
guilty. of an offense is to be the
somebody. 1t would be more in keep
ing with consistency for Governor
Hawley's official family the past three
months to have been throwing Of
tenders in Jail who have been beating
the life out of the inmates at the
state institution at St. Anthony The
evidence of offenses is before them
in documentary form and in the form
of living, breathing sufferers of ten
der years whose young lives have
been ruined by cruel treatment, and
vet they are not throwing the Of
Tenders in jail nor do we think
they intend to. More than that they
permitted the brute who did the one
Job of beating, to be released from
Jail by his fellow-offenders and put
back on the job again, and for any
thing the board knows he may be
beating children yet.
But to get back again to the mat
ter of farm implements and the rea-
sons for selling them abroad for less
money than they do in America,
there is reason for it that is wor-
thy of consideration, and it has been
offered and considered multitude
of times and always depended by
practical business heads who actually
combat the conditions tha- make up
a complex business life.
A factory may operate and sell it's
product ct a handsome profit. It
may find markets where it could
place much of its goods if it could
meet a lower price, or if it could
establish price that the people of
that country could pay, and in the
course. of time build up good trade.
On the prospect of carrying out such
a plan factory may enlarge and in
crease their output and at the same
time reduce the cost of the compile
ted pillow, mower or whs tever the i'm
plement may be. Suppose it to be
machines, and that under the
existing conditions, they find they
must either shut down for the month
Of January of each year or they must
sell goods to some market like we
have described where they make lit
e or no profit. Would 1t be better
20 lay off all of their operatives for
he month or would it be better to
20 on with the work and give the en-
)loyes the steady ply and be deve-
oDine the market for their goods in
he old country where 1t may deve-
op into profitable field later on?
f this condition confronts the fac
DRY in a modified form every year
t would be considered in keeping
with American enterprise and the
easeless energy of Americans to
Ieep the work going, keep the sales
nen in the field, keep the materials
moving and keep that much money
lowing to Aemerica instead of leav-
ng it in the Old World. 1t is I'M
ust to the American farmer in a
way. and yet It makes business for
he farmer Indirectly by giving en-