The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-07-16

of foreign made machinery All farm
ing machinery made by the harvester
trust. with the exception of the mower
and binder has been advanced per
cent since 1t was placed on the free
list in the Underwood & Simmons bill,
and there has been no reduction made
in any farming machinery made by
any firm In America since this free
trade measure has been enacted into
law.
Offensive Trusts Still Protected.
Wire was also put on the free list
for the benefit OF the farmer, and /
have been advised that wire has made
two advances of 81 a ton each since 1t
was put on the free list. The tariff
never affected the price of wire to the
American farmer. There few things
In this country that the tariff has not
affected and two of them are farming
machinery and barb wire, for there has
never been any competition In them.
They are American products and we
are supplying the whole world with
farming machinery and barb wire. But
there Is not a trust In America that
has received any benefit of the tariff
in the past. but what the democratic
party Is protecting.
last campaign that they would not in
jure any legitimate Industry. They
posed as the friend of the farmers they
preyed upon the prejudice of the masses
in the great cities; they talked trusts
and monopoies. and the robber tariff
until they were black in the face. and
yet If you can find trust on the Amer
lean soil that the democratic party is
not protecting, you will do better than
| have been able to do
abor Can Only Obtain High Wages by
Protection.
Speaking on the third division of pro-
lection and free trade-I can understand
how there might have been those at
the beginning of this republic who be-
lieved in a free trade policy. but | am
unable to understand the man who can
defend that principle of government aft
er this country has lived under protec-
tive tariff laws for SO many years.
can understand the south when they
had slave labor, which degraded and
cheapened every other class of labor in
that country. demanding free trade.
can understand how the south viii not
be seriously affected by the free
trade measure just passed by the demo-
states is not more than from 25 to SO
per cent of what it is in Idaho. But
am unable to understand the man in
this state who is willing to see the
products of Idaho placed upon the free
list, or the tariff reduced so low that
it will not give the producers of Idaho
the honest difference between the cost
of production in this and foreign coun-
tries.
| can understand the man who be-
lieves there should be both the classes
and the masses voting for free trade.
but l cannot understand the man who
believing i'm the dignity of labor wants
to see a fairness melted out to all
lines of industry and to all the states
in the Union, supporting the democrat
ic party today.
l am unable to understand the man
who is working for wages upon the
farms, in the hills, or In the mines, vot-
ing to place the products that he helps
to produce on the free list, and then
expecting to maintain high standard
of wages. This can never be done if
the farmers of this country are forced
to compete with cheaper labor, cheaper
freight rates, better roads, and an in
terest charge that is less than half of
what our farmers must pay. If the
farmers are forced to compete with such
conditions there can be but one result
cheaper wages. cheaper freight rates. Il
cheaper interest-or he must go out of
business. II
Again. let me say that this tariff
question Is the laboring mans question,
for everything we do on this earth
represents labor There is no raw ma
terial. save the trees in the forest the
stone in the quarry, the soil before it
is touched by the pillow. and the water
as 1t runs in the rivers. These are
the raw materials that God Almighty
gave the people. There is just as much
dignity in the work of the farmer as
that of any man. If the farmers Of
this country rest under the insult that
their labor only produces raw material.
then l want to say that l am mistaken
in the American farmer. / have titled
the soil since boyhood. and l accept the
democratic definition of the products
of the farm as raw material" as an
insult to my lifes work. and to my ac-
complishments in this world
To my mind We need protection more
in America today than ever before, II |
we are to keep our people employed. for
Nations like individuals have their birth,
their youth and their manhood. This
country is just passing from youth to
manhood. 1t has not yet reached its
greatness as a nation, yet it cannot be
hoped or expected that its development
In the future will be as rapid as It has !
been in the past
No Need for Progressive Party
| am at loss to understand why the
progressives of idaho should feel that
II Is necessary to have a progressive
ticket in this state With such a man
as Senator Borah leading the repubn-
can party of the nation. whose earn
estness and ability as a leader is rec
ognized to that extent that he is look
ed upon with favor as our nominee for
president in 1916. it seems to me of all
the states in the Union. Idaho is the
last In which there should be a progress
sive party. nor do l see any reason for
, division of the republican party in