Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-10-14

! can laborer, the American farmer
and the American manufacturer with
our present laws and fiscal policy
! o. even with the formidable sub
marine which is supposed to tie con
cealed under the underlined, unlimit-
ed and unknown powers of the fed
eral trade commission.
READJUsT THE TARIFF.
1--WE ought to set about to read
Just our tariff laws and without de
lay. We ought to prepare to mobilize
our resources and our people in
dustrially. We ought to have tariff
law which would at least collect
revenue from those gigantic indus
trial combinations such as the sugar
trust, which enjoys our market free;
law and policy which would
evoke confidence, diversity our In
dustries and develop the varied
talents of our people. If we expect
war shall we not be prepared to
feed and clothe and equip our pso-
pie from within. Germany could not
have kept her soldiers In the field
six months, shut off as she was from
the outside world, had she not long
ago adopted a policy which gave her
home market to her producers and
developed and diversified the genius
of her people in every line of labor,
production and manufacture, until
she stood industrially equipped for
all corners. Do not overlook IN
studying the preparedness OF Ger
many. the words of Bismarck and
the fiscal policy which fcllow7d in
1878. Germany's industrial prerared-
ness was more remarkable than her
military preparedness. And even II
we do not expect war but only
peace, shall we fail to protect our
workmen and our people as a Who'e
against the conditions which shall
surely confront them when the lonf,
hard pull, which is to follow after
the war is over, has begun.
THE PLAIN AMERICAN.
"And finally, my friends, let us
call I'D for service some CT the old
time pride in our country, some O.
the old time American spirit TO
which our esteemed president made
fine reference in his address to the
old soldiers few days ago. We
hear much these days about the
the German-Amer
can, and so on and so forth. l some
times wonder what has become IN
these eventful days of just the plain
simple untitled American. Does any
one feel any interest in him? lis
there not some concern, some discus
sion, some modest and well guarde'
commentator, some discreet euiogy'
for the many who know no motne'
country, no fatherland, but only
and alone a simple, unmixed devot-
ion to our own country, and undlvld-
ed fealty to our own flag, and TO-
which he feels under no constra1nt
to apologize.
at seems to me We ought TO-
arouse some of the old time Amerl-
can spirit, not with bluster or Of
Tense. but with courage, to the end
that we may not only be a great and
powerful people industrially, but also
that we may come to have in truth
and in fact a national purpose, a
national mind, a national ideal. Wei
do not want nation composed OF
groups. communities swayed by radi-
cal and foreign feelings. We want
one people always behind and Loyal
to one flag. Let US not care so much
whence our immisrsnts come ps
the spirit and purpose with which
they come. This war must some
time end. Then the era of resenera-
ton and rehabilitation will come.
The long, patient climb will be be-
fore us and we as people cannot
escape it's burdens and our govern
nent will feel the strain. In this
work of rehabilitation in which we
are to have so large a part, how
it is, how indispensable
hat we stand united, a de'ermin-
ID and hopeful people.
"IP this republic shall be able to
lold on it's way, our people at home
,ound together in mutual conf dence,
yur institutions riveted toeetber and
,raced by a common faith, who shall
,e able to estimate its tremendous
influence for good, its incalculable
noral force, not alone here upon the
western continent, but among all ma
ions and peoples. If Europe Shall