The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-10-18

he attacked the present tariff, and
the best reason he could give fol
revising 1t was that the Eastman Ko.
dak company had by reasons of the
high tariff, paid dividend of 45
percent in 1911, and therefore he
was for revision of the whole tar
iff schedule, wool, lead, beet sugar
and all. He stated that the Harves.
ter Trust had paid a dividend of z
percent last year, (the senate investi.
cation showed 1t to be 4 percent
and that was reason enough for him
70 want to destroy that industry OIL
at least knock the profits out of it
He didn't discuss the plight of the
/ iaborers who make kodaks and har.
vestors and tell what would happen
to them when the factories shut
down. He was simply against the
capitalists who have done better than
he has, and that is why the voters
are asked to send him to the U. S,
Senate by electing Democratic legis-
lators..
His discussion of the tariff re-
minded the writer Of Democratic
speech at the Court House in Black
foot in the campaign of 1892 by
James w. Eden from Kentucky. Mr..
Eden made his assault upon the tar
Tiff through the tin plate industry.
and Mccormick mowers, and condem
ened the whole tariff schedule BY it.
He then showed that the tin plate
industry consisted of dinky plant
in st. Louis which he said had per-
sonally investigated, and he raised
great laugh when he described how
it was operated chiefly by boys. He
drew the unthinking minds away
from serious matter into a laugh
that led them simply into prejudice
He prejudiced the farmers in the
audience by saying that Mccormick
mowers were selling in Canada for
$40 while we were paying $50 here
and Illinois farmers paid $50 in the
shade of the factory.
The writer remembers that he paid
men two dollars a day to pitch hay
that year, but the next year when
the Democrats were in power he had
plenty of applications from good men
who wanted to pitch hay for dollar
a day, and the dollar was not OBJ
tainable nor was there sale for hay
because the sheep industry was par
alyzed. The writer wanted to buy
a mower at $50 but not having the
money had to give note for $65,
and paid interest on the note until
1898, period of five years. The
memory of things like this constitute
some of the reasons why the editor
of this paper is Republican and is
against the Democratic tariff pro-
gram. The condition was general
throughout the country, and people
in the cities and manufacturing CEN
tiers suffered most.
Mr.. Moore reviewed the tax table
which we have on page of this is
sue, and said that if the tax system
does not suit us we can blame the
Republican legislature that met in
special session and revised the lev-
enue laws, but he fOrgotsto acknow
ledge that it was all in conformity
With what Governor Hawley dictated,
and that he boosted after the special
session adjourned, that it was just
what he had outlined and that while
they had opposed him up to the very
last, yet he had brought them around
and it was a great victory for him.
That the taxes for 1912 would all
adjust themselves back down to
where they belonged. We are ac-
20 dinghy -rinting the whole of the
able he reviewed, and also printing
| comparison of 25 cases taken from
he tax list showing that the revision
If the taxes has been upward by |
caps and bounds.
If the legislature had been obstin
lte and refused to enact the expert
mental legislation the governor ask
ID for, he would have blamed them
or keeping his hands tied for the
purpose of playing politics, but they
'ielded at last and put it all up to
lin, and now we have substantial
aise.
Mr.. Moore wants to take BoraE'
lace in the senate, and the only |
ault he found with that gentleman
ecord of six years in Washington
vas that he is ION to the ropes too
veil, and tEat his Three ear-Home-
tead bill ooes not afford relief to
eople who i've in his part of the
tate, the timber belt. He said it
5 not possibla for homesteaders up
here to clea, off 20 acres and get
/ under guilty Atom in three years,
nd that they only sell out to the
lmber companies anyhow, and that
'orah's bill is flrce SO far as they
re concerned. That the homestead
rs up there take the land expecting
, sell out for ten or twenty thou
and dollars and Borahs bill did not
clip their cause at all.
His words fell upon cold audien-
e, for even the sincere Democrats
ou1d NOT ondOrsa hic l,,oic