The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-07-16
THE GREAT NATIONAL ISSUE
HANDLED in A MASTERY WAY


are sun under quarantine as agans
TINS country 1t Is expected by tn,
,iine this years crop IL ready for de-
z livery that they will all have met In.
rules and regulations demanded by this
government. IL is a wise man who car
predict what will happen to the potato
industry this year. II there should be
normal crop and the quarantine Is
raised against all foreign countries. Ida
hos potatoes will not be worth the
freight that we must pay to reach the
markets of the larger cities In the east.
The dairy industry promised to be a
great Industry In Idaho, but since the
tariff on butter has been reduced, the
price of butter fat has ranged from
~ to 30 per cent less than year ago
Losses on Grains and Seeds.
The pea industry that promised to be
a great Industry in this state is also
In a dangerous condition. In Fremont
county alone $4,000 was paid out for
peas last year This year the acreage
has been reduced so per cent, and the
price has been reduced fifty cents
hundred. 1t is safe to say that Idaho
VIII lose million dollars on peas this
year.
Clover and alfalfa seed Is worth from
20 to 30 per cent less than a year ago
Your oats are worth 10 or Is per cent
less; your barley Is worth from 20 to
rs per cent less than year ago. your
wheat Is worth less, and practically
| every product of the farm in Idaho to-
day has been seriously injured by the
free trade measure passed by the demo-
cratic party. and please make no mis-
take about this. for the farm products
were put upon the free list to make
them cheaper.
Without Protection Cattle and Sheep
Men Cannot Exist.
) The wool growers Of this country are
especially fortunate at this time. for
there Is scarcity of wool all over the
world. The London markets are high
er today than they have been for many
years, and this scarcity of wool may
help the sheep industry to live through
this democratic administration, unless
the Importation of meats should too
seriously affect the mutton end of the
business
In Idaho the average cost for feed
for sheep the year round Is 1924
head. In South America feed is fur
nished the entire year for 23c, and in
<NhS'idHd loI &c.
The price of labor in Idaho for han
ding live stock. including board is $50
per month. In Australia the average
price per month including board is
s2677.
In Russia we find the wages are from
ten to twenty cents day, and this
is not given in money, but is given in
food Just enough to sustain life. 1t is
said that Russia has ma SturaS for 9S0
000,0 head of sheep.
In England we find labor is paid SIG
90 month. This does not include
board, but house is furnished to
i've In In Holland. France, and prac
tically all the old countries. wages are
only little more than half of what
they are In England In China labor
Is so cheap that five or six cents
day In our money is a princely wage.
These are the conditions that the farm
ers of America must meet in our free
trade markets today. The farming and
live stock industry of America is at
the mercy of the whole world.
Idaho Farmers Handicapped In Trans.
portation.
II you will study the question of trans
portation you will find that here Is
where the danger lies-there is not a
farmer on earth, in any of the old coun-
tries, or in any of the new countries !
but who can lay his products down In
the great markets of America that
can be reached by water transporta-
ton such as our large cities upon the !
eastern and western coasts cheaper as
Tar as freight rates are concerned I
than the farmers of Idaho. There is
no exception to this rule. With cheap
er freight rates and with labor In
some instances many times less than
we must pay in Idaho upon the farm |
how can we hope for any develop
ment or any prosperity under the pres
ent democratic free trade measure
Underwood Bill Is Sectional
do not believe this country can /
exist without protection. and l am sure /
IL cannot prosper unless the American
people are given their own markts Now,
II you will study the present tariff bill /
you will find this to be true--that the /
democratic party has Disseminated In
favor of the southern farmers as against
the north and the west. They have
levied duty of one cent a pound on
rice. entirely southern product. Civ
ing them protection of 100 per cent. (
Tobacco. largely a southern product.
has also been given a high protective .
duty. The angora goat is Texas
product. for more than 75 per cent of
the goats of America are grown In one
congressional district in Texas. That
congressional district had member on
the ways and means committee of the
house that framed the tariff bill The
new law gives to the hair of the an
CORA goat an advalorem duty of 1876 per
cent Cotton bagging that Is used for
baling cotton In the south comes into
America free. but the grain bags used
on our western farms must pay a duty
to come into this country.
The bill is also sectional as far as
the states are concerned For instance.
we find New Jersey, the presidents
own state. with Connecticut and Rhode
Island, have an average of SIS per cent
Of their products protected while Ari-
IONA. Nevada and Idaho have but 81
per cent OF their products protected. II
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