Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-30
THE BACK TO THE FARM MOVEMENT.

UT FEW DAYS Ambassador Page having organized
manufacturing industry, organize farms
h food for serious reflection this statement In the earlier
days country agriculture principal fact about the
by industry With millions of practically free lands and the
there much incentive become land farmer,
pursuits far the background 1t the bgness of the
country that fixed higher scale
other Naturally would not work for small
when there land for his taking land that he could farm for
get doing than he could by working for
sufficient the demand
manufactures and the Lawmakers looked about
that would attention factories and to do
necessarily least counertRance the
the for the of the people With free land and
the markets of the world for this rather difficult undertaking.
wisdom unwdom whichever may consider it, we decided
necessary quaze the business of the country by yng
everything purchased factory allowing
enable him
the for induce the aboer factory
drawing the
accomplish this result emneny successful The
rush the cities began and it has stopped but instead steadily in
the other bought the
foreign manufactured goods he paid heavy tax to the government If he
kind goods manufactured this country he paid this tax
American manufacturer much the manufacturer fit
charge him. which price just far enough below the price charged by
maker the collected by the that the
profitable buy products rather the
Ggn stuff
This was clever contrvance by which the government great
manufacturer with best
foreign competitions by keeping the tariff high
its Naturally the American manufacturer given
his prices enough shut foreign competitors
high he could and still accomplish this result
doing hssoakg the him.
tried by making him believe that he being protected We put
imported country ensy protect farmer
this the had placed tariff wool the
grower this would have been right only the manufacturers
gohor fixed portion the protectn
the entire list The sody
back the way the farmer
strange that these conditions there
from the the c9 We undertook order and control the
letting their cangs The
better able qualified their affairs than
excepting Adrich Mark Hanna
driven the citizen from the land
thing find the and let the Ame
his salvation along the lines best suited him. There
only take the privileged their
special the equality before the his efforts to
his business Quit making his industry bear burden of taxation the
which another and favored class Everything he
fixed the supply demand for
price fixed little gathering of the
big he shall given thing Put him that
his product free trade market in
that kind of market Under the present for everything the farmer
no worth 20 For everything that he sells
will give me The everything that he
fixed for him and between the and the neither
mlsn ground exceeding fine" Tho Underwood tariff bill is
direction, starter All the farmer needs to
have the weight that he has been forced to taken off his back and
he given show in the for existence
there will be the call for Back to the land
question settle itself when farming made the beast Of bar
has equal show neither less with the bal
Of mankind.