The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-10-26
THE ISSUE, OF PROSPERITY.


not going TO let Editor Ronald, OF
the Mitchell Republican forget about
them eggs. During the last campaign
he predicted 3-cent eggs to follow
the election of Wilson. Today the
fruit is selling for IS to Is cents the
dozen in New York and Boston and
commission men predict 81 eggs be-
fore the grass starts again"
Says the Sioux City journal in com
ment on the above:
"The only trouble with Ronald was
that he was too credulous. He took
Wilson'S word for it that he would
reduce the cost of living. Eggs are
principal item in the living of an
average family. A Presbyterian col
lege professor like Wilson having
made a promise, Ronald naturally
supposed he would adhere to it. So
he figured eggs would drop in price,
for how could Wilson reduce the cost
Of living if prices did not drop? Ron
AIDS statement was simply an error
OF Judgment. He remembered that
Wilson was a Presbyterian and col
lege professor, but forgot that he
was also democratic politician run
ming for office, and it was as dem
ocratic office seeker that he made
the promise about reducing the cost
of living"
1t would appear to be particularly
inopportune to bring up any refer
ence to chose eggs" while presi-
Dental campaign is under way.
The files of The Republican show
that the publication to which the
Kimball Graphic occurs was not a
prediction, but merely a reprint OF
prices that actually prevailed in the
last preceding Democratic admins
ration, that of Grover Cleveland.
They were taken from market reports
aud every farmer who was in bust
,ess at that time knows how painful
So al prices for his products be-
and that eggs at three cents
dozen were quite in line with
me market,
Sow ii is not difficult to remember
what happened after Wilson became
president, how business began to
languish with the result that for over
year all the great cities were af-
flicted with hundreds of thousands
of unemployed, factories were closed
w the hundreds and Coxey's army
as about to reorganize for march
on Washington. The Chicago Tribune
reminds it's readers of the first two
aars of the present administration,
ils the following paragraphs:
"fhe west remembers that in the
two years following March, 1913,
when the Democrats gained power,
there were only two months when
business failures throughout the
There were 1920 in 1914 The war
did not cause these merchants to
fail, for the war did not start until
August, 1914.
The west remembers that from
the month in which the Democratic
tariff went into effect for sixteen
months, at the end of which time the
war had finally created the present
prosperity, there was only one month
in which railroad earnings did no,
show a decrease.
"The west remembers that from
August, 1913. three months after the
Democracy gained control and year
before the war, until the spring of
1915 there We're only four months in
which bank clearings did not show
decrease. The west not only re-
members, but will act accordingly on
Nov. ~
The unmistakable, undeniable rec
ord is that the country was already
well into a slough of depression that
promised to be as deep and as long
as any in the history of the country
If the Kimball paper wishes expert
opinion on conditions that prevail
ed at that time in the Mitchell terri
tory, it can satisfy itself from state
ment made by well-known Mitchell
business man and Democrat, which
eventually found its way into the
Congr sional Record.
Now the record is that this pres
ent administration has proved as has
no other the desirability of the pro-
tective tariff policy for the American
people. For in the last four years we
have had striking contrast between
the two systems. In the first two
years, the country was plunged into
hard times, failure, unemployment
Then along came nc war and built
around the United 9 Ntes a wall of
protection incomparai y higher than
any ever reg ed By :; prN' ective tariff.
For no tarit law ever ampted to
ep out more than small part of
foreign products; whercas the war
absolutely shut. off all the imports
from half of Europe and The great
majority from. i.,e reat &c europe.
And. as thu. ,csult Of this extreme
application. OF tho Republican doc