American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-07-30
BRADY'S
RECORD

iiNoho VI iudhO at tuc primaries 10
be held September LIST, Senator Brady
comes before the voters with a record
OF actual service as his platform. It
is, therefore, not necessary for him
to make his appeal on promises. He
car instead lay before the people OF
the state a record of performance.
The voters can her choose whether
they wish to indorse this record or
select In his place some one who will
merely take up the work where he has
left off after two years of hard and
able experience. Senator Brady has
had but a short time to show what he
could do, having been elected in jan
uary. 1913, to fill the unexpired term
of the late Senator Weldon b. Hey
burn. He took the oath of office on
February s. 1913, only twenty-six days
before the change In the national ad-
ministration, but he is willing to let
the voters decide whether he has been
progressively active in their interests
and responsive to their demands.
1t is his intention to ask the people
Of Idaho not only to analyze his rec
ord as a senator, but also to look back
into his service as governor of the
state. He is proud of his record in
both offices and believes hat his pub
lie career will bear the closest scruti-
ny.
OF foremost interest in the present
campaign, of course, is his record in
the United States senate. In the year
and a half of his service in congress
many momentous questions. have been
up for solution-questions which af-
fected not only the welfare of the peo-
pie of the state of Idaho, but the peo-
pie of the entire country as well. He
has never attempted to dodge any re-
sponsibility on any vote and will in
the ear future publish a statement
showing just how he voted on all inn
portant questions.
On the tariff. the currency, the i'm
migration question, the trust bills and
the liquor measures his position has
been bold and unhinching. In every
case he stated from the floor of the
senate just how he stood, and how the
people of Idaho would have him vote,
and when the vote was taken he was
there to be counted on the side that
thought and conscientious
study told him was right.
Fought for Farmer and Miner.
The tariff bill was the first bill to
before congress, after his cleo
ton to the senate, vitality affecting the
welfare of the state of Idaho. This
bill as approved by the administration,
especially aimed at practical
" every industry in the state of Idaho.
While those who for years have op-
posed protection have declared that
he tariff was the mother of trusts"
fery strangely, in framing this bill
he hardest blow was aimed at the
armers who have never been accused
If combining and who could not form
monopoly even If they were so in
This bill instead of striking at the
voolen trust, which is engaged only
n the manufacturing end of the wool
m business and has its mills princi-
'ally in the eastern states, left a duty
IN manufactured woolens and emov-
ID all of the duty from raw wool, of
which the state of Idaho produces an
enormous mount. In other words.
WOODEN trust was favored and the
voolgrowers was left without any pro- !
ection whatever. {
SO it was with all the products of l
he farm. This law carried with it the !
implication that the American farm '
n was principally to blame for the !
increased cost of living against which :
here had been such universal COM I
liant, and 1t is interesting to note at !
his day that, although the farmer is l
eceiving less for his products. the |
ultimate consumer" of whom so Il
much vas said in the tariff discus c
ions, has not been able to detect any
ppreciable lowering in the cost of
c
Senator Brady stood for continued .
rejection for the farmer, as a means
{ making farm life possible, contend
lg that 1t was not fair to turn over =
ur markets to the Canadian farmer :.
no pays lower wages to his labor :
nd contributes nothing to American
istitutions. In protesting against the :
pparent elimination against the :
'rmer by the Underwood tariff bill, :
hich is now a law. Senator Brady =
a speech delivered In the senate :
a September 5, 1913. said: =
III you near to be fair with the :,
and the people of the west. you "
iould give them the same considera- !,
On that you give to the manufacturer =