Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15


IL Idaho upon the farm, how we cal
Ut hope for any development or any pros
n perity under the present Democratic
free trade measure.
D. There Is no country on earth where
II conditions exist such as they are II
j. America. Here we have our great
q transcontinental railroads that are
ir manned by the most expensive labor IN
n the world Freight rates are high
n too high. however, In my opinion. All
r the products of Idaho must be shipped
hundreds Of miles over those eXpen-
p sive railroads. while in the old coun-
4 tries, and in most OF the new coun-
G tries. they have only short railroad
. haul. and then water transportation,
which together is nothing as compared
y with the freight rates that we must
r pay here in Idaho. In many instances
2 they lay their products down In our
great markets, such as New York, BOs-
ton. and other coast cities. for % per
cent Of the freight rates that we must
pay They not only have cheaper
freight rates. but the great freight
steamers today make better time than
freight trains, so they are able TO
reach our markets on the sea coast In
less time than the products of the
farm from the state If you have not
seen one of these large steamers.
please remember then that you can
! take twenty miles Of a solid freight /
train. and you can unload them and
put all their contents into one Of those |
great freight steamers, and It will |
steam right into the harbors Of the |
large cities Of America 1t is these /
large cities where the consuming /
Il l.rf
the farmers products in every part
of this country. You may turn this
question over and analyze it as you
please hut / want to say to you that
the Democratic party has placed "A
premium on the farming industry Of all
the world as against the American ]
farmer
7 want to make another statement.
and if you will study the present tariff !
bill you will know that it is true. The /
Democratic party in the Underwood '
and Simmons bill Disseminated in (
favor of the southern farmers against 1
the north and the west. They have Y
levied a duty of one cent a pound on
rice. entirely southern product, Civ n
ng them a protection of 100 per cent. D
Tobacco, largely a southern product,
las also been given a high protective h
luty. The angora goat, which is II
Texas product, for more than Is per r
,ent of the goats of America are ST
crown in one congressional district in p
Texas. and that congressional district r,
lad a member on the ways and means r.
committee of the house that framed n
he tariff bill, and they have given to 81
he hair of the angora goat an adva- cl
Drem duty of 16 per cent. Cotton cl
agging that is used for bailing cot d;
on in the south comes into America III
rec. but the grain bags used on our SO
Yestern farms must pay a duty to m
ONE into this country. u;
The bill is also sectional as far as or
ne states are concerned. For instance, Al
re find New Jersey, the presidents I
wn state with Connecticut and th
node Island, have an average of 50 pr
er cent of their products protected lis
lille Arizona, Nevada and Idaho have NO
ut p per cent of their products pro- no
,cted. If you will analyze the pres pr
1t tariff bill you must admit that 1t is
nfair, unjust and indefensible. ex
want to make another statement @,
nd ii cannot be denied which is, that wi
ie Democratic party has given pro- Ia
elton to all the great trusts ana co
onopolies in this country. They have tee
Nv made one or two exceptions. wi
hey have placed farm machinery and int
ire 10 Offset the loss that ne VIII Ga
is has been done to give the Iarlli Gel
cheaper machinery ana cheapel ito
ire to offset the iioss that ne VIII tn,
Get by his products being placed ms
'On the free lst. rms II aio'Hei ear
suit to the intelligence Of the -ur
wa
ed any foreign made farming ma tbs
indry or foreign made WIRE. me the
ventIve genius on the American or
rm has lead the whole world in i'm tina
owed farm machinery, and the tariff the
: never affected it for no farmer the
this country could, or would use me
piece of foreign made machinery. Z
farming machinery has been ad- mo
need 8 per cent since it was for
iced on the free list in the Under plo
,od and simmons bill. con
Wire was also put on the free list the
. the benefit of the farmer, and hoo
We been advised that wire has made Won
n advances of S1.OO a ton each ron,
zee it was put on the free list The can
.iff never affected the price of wire mer
the American farmer There are II n
few things in this country that the W
if has not affected. and two of them Am
, farm machinery and barb wire has
there have never been any com cent
itiou in them. They are American mos
ducts and we are supplying the tuni
ole world with farming mach thei
nv and barbed wire. But there is peol
a trust in America that has re- pub
we'd any benefit of the tariff in the has
It. but what the Democratic party hun
protecting. The great wooden trust self
cotton trust the steel trust the that
acco trust, and many others are the
Giving benefit from the Democrat Rep
party by tariff being pldceu up ton
their products. that they call a MI
In Tor revenue. There is no such cove
ag rs tariff for revenue. When lleer
tarin is laid upon imports that worl
be manufactured or grown in armi
country. that tariff becomes a way