The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1912-04-25


! farmer is more prosperous than
farmer in Scotland. The New Yorl
, farmer is protected by our govern
ment tariff and a higher freight tar
if. and is that much more prosper
GUS than the Scottish one.
It costs a Nezperce farmer q
cents pei. 100 ID. 10 ship a car o
"MuEphys' from vollmer to kansas
City. We are more prosperous thar
New York farmers-because we pay
a higher freight tariff.
Liverpool sets the price Of wheal
for the world. therefore an Englisl
farmer pays practically no freight
Here we are as much more prosper.
Gus than the English farmer, As our
protective and freight tariffs are
higher man his.
Here at Neaperce we pay higher
wages than the laboring men get in
England Now if England would only
put high tariff on wheat and -four
Just see how it would help the wage
Gamers there.
In Massachusetts, veavers have
been on a strike; but not such .
strike as England has been expert
encing. because Massachusetts, men
are protected along with the rest Of
US by protective tariff
Here in the great Northwest We
farmers and other laborers are far
more prosperous than farmers and
weavers in New England. We pay
the freight on our farm products to
Boston, and also the freight tariff
from Boston here on our dry goods.
etc, again. Therefore we farmers
pay higher wages than farmers do
in the New England states.
It used to land guess It does yeti
cost less to ship car Of -four from
Kansas. via Baltimore. to Liverpool
and back to Baltimore than It cost
to ship from Kansas direct to Balti-
more. Working men are more pros
porous in Baltimore than in Liver
pool. They are protected BY higher
tariffs and freight rates.
A binder that a Nezperce farmer
pays $500 for sells to Denmark.
Norway or Sweden at SIS +. 0. b.
Chicago (or did 4 or 5 years ago.
and moving machines $l2 and hay
rakes S.. The protective tariff and
freight rates make binders high
here, and incidentally make our
farmers richer than the North Eu-
rope farmers. It also causes Us to
pay higher wages and it IS a fact
that We do pay higher wages.
Farm laborers get higher wages
in our Atlantic states than in free
trade England. Wages are higher
yet in the great prairie states. as the
freight rates are higher, and are
yet higher here in the Inland Empire
where We pay high freight both
ways.
Our nation as whole is prosper
'us. It IS blessed BY a high pro-
ective tariff. It is hard to find
more prosperous set Of people any
where than on Nezperce prairie, be-
:ause we are blessed with the tariff,
md about as high freight tariffs as
my other place.
This can all be proven IN dozens
f cases. hope I have helped
rove that protective tariff is q good
hing, and anyone who can prove II
God for US can also prove that high
reight rates are good for us. This +
good rule that viii always work
9th ways.
Russia has a higher protective tar
{ than We have, and We all know il
very progressive nation. It is
rogressing over Asia pretty fast.
1e all know there has been quite an
migration from Russia proper to
le Siberian part Of Russia. Besides
lie tariff protection, the emigrants
ave been protected by high freight
riffs and also by soldiers while in
IBERIA
Russia is up to where It is ruled
7 an autocrat. He rules for life
ID inherits his job and It Is great
stion.