The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-30
PLEA FOR farmer
AND FRU|TCROWER
Especial to the Silver state.)

about time that someone arose to
champion the interests of the farmer
and the fruitgrower9
In times past we have seen states
men, and editors too, for that matter,
deeply concerned for the protection of
the mechanic and the artisan; but has
the farmer ever got what was coming
to him? And by farmer let us under
stand here everyone who makes his
living by tilling the soil, whether he
cultivates beans or wheat or apples or
corn, or presses the juice of the ap-
pie or grape for use as beverage.
For that matter every farmer, in the
restricted sense, should be a fruit
grower as well, and even more should
he be fruit consumer; for has not the
great and benefcent DR.. Wiley said:
Eat oranges; eat them every day'
Which being interpreted into the ver
nacular means really, eat fruit. You
can't always get oranges and while
the value of oranges and lemons can
not be denied, it is also conducive to
health to eat apples, pears, peaches,
prunes, apricots--in short such fruit as
the market affords. The more that
people eat of fruit the better it will
be for the nation. It will save doc
tors bills, prolong life, and make you
cheerful, though married. DR.. Wiley
says so, and no one knows better than
he.
The growth of the fruit interests
may be fairly said to be one of the
marvels of the age. Once it was rare
to see any fruit trees growing on a
farm, except perhaps wild ones. Now
it IS a poor farmer that fails to grow
some fruit. Look at our apple crop.
The valley of the Shenandoah supplied
the table of Queen Victoria with ap-
PIES The products of our orchards not
only feed the millions of people under
the Stars and Stripes, but they sup
ply, in part at least, the markets of
the world and every year they are
growing in demand abroad Look at
the pears, and peaches, and cranes,
and raisins, and English walnuts, 9TH
er fruit products, taking first place
wherever they are shown. See the
pineapples, guaves and grape fruit
from Florida; California s oranges and
lemons crowding the foreign product
to the wall; the south of Texas, with
the aid of tariff on Bermuda onions,
growing those fearless vegetables and
the Peerless eLader of the Democracy
reaping a fortune, according to cur
rent reports. from their culture. New
York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington,
Arizona-think of Arizona looming up
as a fruit state, why almost every
state now is leader in some form of
horticultural production.
What will congress do for the farm
er and the fruitgrower? 1t tried last
year to give him a farmers free list
socalled, and then by a strange freak
of reasoning it started to put his own
products on the list, and if it had been
successful there one can't say where
it would have ended. Whatever free
traders may believe, the tariff on or
anges has resulted in driving the for
eign orange from the American mar
ket, and with protection the lemon
growers are now supplying one-half of
the home market and they will be able
to suppl ythe other half if they are al
lowed reasonable protection. In both
cases, prices have declined as the in
dustry has grown. Florida, Louisiana,
Texas, Arizona California and other
states now grow oranges California
grows lemons, and it has the peculiar
climate and soil to permit it to grow
more. If the supply be limited by dis
couraging citrus culture in this coun-
try, can even an amateur political
economist reason that the tariff should
be lowereds Why, ask the growers,
should an industry be encouraged to
the extent that it can supply one-half
of the demand, only to be cast out en-
tirely just as it had demonstrated its
right to livef Should the active com
petition of American growers be with
drawn, could it be expected that the
interests which thereby would gain a
monopoly of the market would make
the price lower than it was when com
petition existeds
Honestly now, has the farmer been
treated fairly by congresss
Does it pay to trample on the inter
ests of the agrarian classesf
Why has the farmer been attracted
by greenbackism, by populism, by
socialism, by bimetallism, by progress
siveismf
If you reduce the tariff on things
the farmer produces, then be consist
ent, if you believe in free trade, and
reduce it on the things he has to buy.
But, some of the statesmen from the
south say, if there must be a tariff,
and we need the revenue to pay the
nations bills, why not put it on some
of the things WE raises
That's just what the farmers say.
In the name of fairness give the
farmers chance, for after all, ism I
it the farmer who draws his wealth
from the soil, who creates wealth, and
makes the whole country richer instead
of poorer by his labori Give him a
show.
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