Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30
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THE UNHAPPY REPUBLICANS

Not only did Providence desert the Republican party bv
bringing to the nation unprecedented CROP thus dis
concerning their intention and desire to bring Of dis
ess want and disaster upon the nation which might have
been charged to the fact that the Republican party was
not in power but the god of war seems in league
with the purposes to dsconcet the turkey buzzard
gade and have general European war which pro-
misses to double the prices that the country will
its double crop!
And, to make matters worse this nferna war arrived
just in the nick Of time to knock all the carefully prepared
arguments against the tariff law into cooked hat for
how the tariff be made live issue with no imDorts
coming into the country?
How can the farmers be scared into voting the Repub
ticket by the cry that Argentine and Australian beef
being shipped into this country to compete with American
cattle, OF that Chinese eggs being shipped in to dis
count the American hen that Australian butter is COM
ing over to put American butter into the frying pam when
there isn't anything being shipped into the country at all
How can they appeal to the American workngman pro
ec the American manufacturer from the products the
pauper labor OF Europe when all that pauper labor
engaged IN killing each other off and not dollars worth
OF the products OF their labor reaching shores9
Possibly the time will return when the tariff will be an
issue, but it sure isn't issue now, for there nothing
upon which to charge to collect tariff if we had one
as high as Humans gallows.
To make the Republican dilemma all the worse there
are the greatest prospects possible that the outcome of the
present disastrous situation will be to make America
producing nation OF manufactured products and ship
per OF goods to other countries instead of importer of
the goods OF other countries and thus that the entire phase
of the tariff question will be shifted so that like England
many years may desire to become free trade ma
ion as to business abroad.
The one and only issue the Republican party has ever
had since the issues growing out of the civil were
tied has been the tariff To it that party has pinned its
tath upon it it has hung it's every hope has been the
party present need in the time of trouble Wouldn't
1t be the irony of fate if world conditions should be so
changed that the American attitude upon the tariff ques
ton should be directly reversed from what it has always
BEEN Just as England had finally threequarters of cen
try to realize that what she needed was food and not
protection against the importation of few manufactured
articles from abroad and therefore, that what she needed
was the freest kind of free trade instead of high protect
i've barrier?
But whatever may be the ultimate outcome of the pres
ent unprecedented and unexpected situation ism It it Joke
TO listen to an odtme, rockribbed standpat Republican
trying to create interest discussion of the tariff in this
campaign?
And isn't it true that the tariff is political issue
at ALL but business issue that ought to be settled bv
business principles just the Progressive party proposes
to settle it, rather than by political trading with all its
npting influences?