The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-25
CITIES DEPRESSION UNDER
FORMER DEMOCRATIC RULE
Closing of Factories in Other States
Cuts on the Market of the North.
west and Brings Low Prices to the
Farmers He Declares.

o'ueA oS1oA VI =. dl VoteES were do.
vanced in q letter which the presi-
Of Minnesota. stating that while the
republican party had not made the
sun to sh- q or the crops to grow.
It had been responsible for the per-
vailing good markets. The letter says:
II am very glad - have encourag-
ing news Of the political outlook in
Minnesota and wish to thank you for
the efforts you IRE making for repub-
lican success. The people Of your
state are vitality interested in the
maintenance Of our present economic
system. Their welfare is dependent
upon the continuance Of a protective
tariff and although at times by appeal
to their prejudice. they may be di-
verted from a clear perception of
their interest, am confident that in
the end their common sense will en-
able them to see the fallacy of newly
dressed nostrums which in the past
they have rejected. am sure they
tween the republican and democratic
parties.
.'The men and women Of the north
west country have a special interest
in republican success this year. They
are sharing In the general prosperity
Of the nation and the continuance Of
growth Of this prosperity are In a
large degree dependent upon repub-
lican success next month. The re-
publican party Is not responsible for
good crops. It does not make the
sun to shine or the grass to grow. but
1t is responsible for the enactment
of laws which make 1t possible. II
the crops are good. that there shall
be an American market for them and
that they shall be sold at good pricel
to thoee who h e the means to buy
thsfa. There has never been 4. Tina
ucts Of the northwest would purchase
as much as they do today.
Prospcrit yat Our Door.
prosperity is Just at our door. The
republican party bids it welcome, with
which has brought shout our won
derful industrial development, giving
steady employment at high wages. to
our mechanics and artisans, shall be
maintained. The democratic platform
promises a change in our tariff sys-
tenn whose effect would be to halt
manufacturing enterprises. throw out
Of employment thousands of wage
earners and destroy the home mar
kets now enjoyed by the American
farmer. No reforming legislation
could neutralize or mitigate the par
alysis which would follow.
1T is not nehessary to jog the men,
ory Of the older farmers Of your state
as to what happened when the demo-
cratic party passed the Wilson tariff
bill. Wheat went down to 50 cents
a bushel. corn to 81 cents. oats to 1s
cents. potatoes to 81 cents. In forty
gears farm prices had never been so
low. Our farmers were struggling
under debt. mortgages were even be-
ing foreclosed and the deplorable con-
dition that existed among those who
titled the soil will certainly never be
forgotten by the sufferers.
1.-THE welfare Of the farmer is vital
to the whole country. One Of our
strongest hopes Of retaining prosper
ity is based on the business which
his crops are to afford. He is vitality
interested in the restraining Of excess
sive and unduly discriminauve rail-
road rates. in the enforcement Of pure
food laws. in the protection Of scien-
tific agriculture. in the ertension Of
rural credits and increasing the COM
forts Of country life. as by the ex-
tension of rural free delivery. Re-
publican POu(lC0 CduAOS " VIII.
mend themselves to the farmer Of
the northwest. It Is difficult to see
how, with the threat to business pros
perity involved in democratic success
at the polls he who lives by the soil
can do otherwise than give his full
and hearty support to the continua-
ton Of the protective system under
which he has prospered and enjoyed
the blessings Of a government which
safeguards him in his life. liberty and
prosperity.
1.-THE republican party is responsible
for the organization and growth of
our splendid department Of agricul-
ture. Republican administrations
have greatly developed agricultural
investigation in the last fifteen years.
until scientific inquiry is being made
in all our states and territories and
flag. to the end that we may produce
the necessities Of life for ourselves
and for those for whom we are re-
sponsible. The power Of the man and
the acre to produce is being increased
all over the land: new grains. grasses,
fruits. fibers and vegetables are being
imported from foreign countries into
continental United States and into
our islands in order to diversity crops
and bring into productiveness sections
Of our country that have heretofore
been barren. The weather. the AMI
mails. the plants. the forests. the soils,
our roads our foods. our insect
friends and enemies are being studied
from the farmers :tandpoint by over
1000 scientists in the department Of
agriculture which has grown in help
fulness every day since 1898.
Confidence in Voters.
"I feel confident that the voters Of
Minnesota will appreciate the shall
lowness Of the attacks upon our in.
stitutions. and will not be swayed by
the promise Of underlined benefits
which are to follow underlined chang
es. It does not require the eye Of
witch to see that closed factories in
Massachusetts, and Ohio mean a dim
inished demand for the farm prod
ucts Of the northwest. We can not
strike down the industries Of one Sec
ton without bringing disaster to all
the people. It II not q progressive