Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-30
Urges Rural Voters 10 Con.
tinue Their Support Of
Republican Party
Protection Declared Respon.
abIe for Prevailing Good
Markets

appeal to the farmers of Minnesota
and the northwest before leaving here
to remain true to their republican be-
liefs Of past campaigns. The political
arguments submitted for considera-
ton of rural voters were advanced
in q letter which the president sent
to Gov. A. o. Eberhart of Minnesota,
stating that while the republican par
ty had not made the sun to shine
for the crops to grow, it had been re.
sponsible for the prevailing good mar.
kets. He declared that the contest
was between the republican and dem
ocratic parties.
The letter says:
II am very glad to have encourag-
ing news of the political outlook in
Minnesota and wish to thank you for
the efforts you are making for re.
publican 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 q protective
tariff, and although at times, by appeal
to their prejudice, they may be divert.
ed from a clear perception Of their
interest, | am confident that In the
end their common sense will enable
them to see the fallacy of newly.
dressed nostrums which in the past
they have rejected. am sure they
must realize that this contest Is be-
tween the republican and democratic
parties.
Farmers Market Due TO G. o. p.
"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 and
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 nor the grass to grow, but
it is responsible for the enactment Of
laws which make II possible II the
crops are good, that there shall be an
American market for them, and that
they shall be sold at good prices to
those who nave the means to buy
them.
"There has never been a time In our
history when the farm products OF the
northwest would purchase as much as
they do today. Prosperity is just at
our door. The republican party bids
it welcome, with the promise that the
economic basis which has brought
about our wonderful development, CIV
ing steady employment at high wages
to our mechanics and artisans, shall
be maintained. The democratic plat
form promises a change in our tarin
system whose effect would be to halt
manufacturing enterprise, throw out
of employment thousands of wage
earners, and destroy the home market
now enjoyed by the American farm.
er. No reforming legislation could
ueutralize or mitigate the paralysis
which would follow.
ut Is not necessary to jog the men,
DRY Of the older farmers of your state
as to what happened when the dem.
ocratic party passed the Wilson tariff
bill. wheat went down to 40 cents q
bushel. corn to 81 cents, oats to IL
cents, potatoes to q cents. In forty
wears farm prices had never been so
low. Our farmers were struggling
under debt, mortgages were even be-
ing foreclosed and the depl0rable con-
dition that existed among those who
titled the soil will certainly never be
forgotten by the sufferers.
"The welfare OF the farmer Is vital
to the whole country. One of our
strongest hopes Of retaining prosper
itv is based on the business which his
crops are to afford. He Is vitality in.
terested in the restraining Of exces.
siye and unduly discriminative rail.
road rates, In the enforcement OF
scientific agriculture, In the extension
Of rural credits and increasing the
comforts Of country life, as by the
extension Of rural free delivery. Ne
nublican policies can not fail to com
mend themselves to the farmer OF the
Northwest. NJ
6. o. p. Policies Aid Farmers
ut is dificult to see how, with the
threat to business prosperity involved
in democratic success at the polis. ne
who lives by the soil can do other
wise than give his full and hearty sup
nort to the continuation Of the pro
tectiye system under which he has
~nrospered and enjoyed the blessings
81 4 government which safeguards
MIN in his lite, liberty and prosperity.
"The republican party is RESPONSE
hle for the organisation and growth
~ our splendid Department Of Agri'
culture. Republican Z administration
has greatly developed agricultural In
vestigation in the last fifteen years
nntil scientific inquiry Is being made
a all our states! and. territories and
IN the islands Of the sea under ouI
nar. to the end that we may produce
the necessities Of life for ourselves
and for those for whom we are re
~sponsible. !,
acre to produce 10 being increased al
over the land; new grains, grasses
frnits. fbers and Vegetables are being
smnorted from foreign countries into
Continental United States and Into
nur islands In order to diversity crops
and bring into prodlctiveness sections
81 our country that have heretofore
been barren. The weather, the AMI