The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-04-07
MEANS RETURN OF IOWA TO
THE G.. o. p.

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power in the state and nation because
of dissatisfaction with the tariff
measures of the Democratic party is
foreseen by Senator Charles G.. Saun-
ders, of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
From all parts of the United
States" said Senator Saunders, 81
learn of renewed Republican strength.
l believe that there is a general ten
dency among the voters of the state
and nation favoring a get together OF
the Republican ranks and a return to
Republican prosperity and protection.
Il am sure that this is true in the
western part of the state. ! hear no
Bull Moose talk whatever. Nearly all
of those in my part of the state who
voted for Roosevelt in the 1912 cleo.
ton are in line with the Republican
party at this time. The importation
of foreign eggs and butter is being
pretty generally discussed among the
farmers, but the importation of Ar
gentine corn and beef seems to have
had a more profound effect. Farmers
are comemncing to realize that their
eggs and butter must be sold at sew
eral cents less than heretofore because
the possibility of foreign importa-
tions of eggs and butter hangs like a
club over the market.
"A prominent and lifelong Demo
cratic farmer, residing a few miles
south of Council Bluffs, said recently
that he was in a great deal of doubt
as to what he would do politically,
but that it looked to him as though
he would be compelled to vote the Re-
publican ticket to secure for the farm
er what is justly coming to him.
Another prosperous farmer, with
whom ! am very well acquainted, and
who voted the Bull Moose ticket last
fall, said that he was very seriously
disturbed over the importation of Ar
gentine beef and the purchase of ff-
teen acres of ground in Brooklyn, N.
T., to be used as the site for a cold
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Argentine trade. He added that so
far as he was concerned he should
spend the rest of his days, politically,
within the lines of the good old Re-
publican party.
"Within the last three weeks a
very prominent cold storage man told
me that the actual amount of butter
and eggs imported is not so serious
q problem as is the fact that the posi-
bilities of importation are hanging
over the market. Every pound of but
ter fat and every dozen eggs that go
into cold storage must be put up on a
basis that would be several cents be-
low what the price should otherwise
be.
speaking for myself, / feel that
the question of increased taxes in the
state of Iowa is of small moment as
compared with the fact that butter, |
eggs, corn and beef produced on the
farms of Iowa are being, and will be,
sold at q uniformly lower schedule of !
prices because of the manipulation of
affairs by the Democratic tariff build
err.
"a friend OF mnie who recently re-
turned from California, told me that
out there, where the Bull Moose par
ty q year ago euchred the Republican
party out of existence, a number of
special elections had recently been
held. Under a state law there a voter
must take an oath when voting in a
special election, declaring his politi-
cal utilization. The results are show
ing ni~ne-tenths of the voters in the
Republican party as the present time.
Gin my tour OF Europe last year /
was simply astonished to note the
contrast between the conditions on
the farms there and here. A Euro
pean farmer with an automobile
would be considered a fit subject for
. lunatic asylum. When I told the
farmers in England that nine-tenths
OF the farmers of Iowa had telep-
homes, and that a large per cent of
them rode in automobiles, they refused
to believe me-. The farmers of Iowa
and the nation, the people who
brought about the present political
conditions, have been the most favor
ed class of people in the world, at the
hands of the executive government.
Every move that has been made in
years has been done in the interest
Of the farmer. Now Mr.. Farmer is
complaining of the conditions which
he has brought onto himself. '-Des
Moines ia. Capital.