Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-04

all the neighboring interurban cities
and towns to hear the advocacy of the
principles of their party. Early in the
morning the arrival of large numbers
of people from the tributary COM
munities was to be observed and with
the arrival of each interurban car this
large attendance was greatly aug
mented.
WILSON HELPS FARMERS.
Mr.. McElroy said in part;
Emerson in his essay on Napoleon
said that society was divided into two
classes: Those who were in and those
who wanted to get in. Those who
were in were satisfied and wanted to
close the door OF opportunity while
those who were out wanted to open
wider the door In order that all might
get in. The most conspicuous ex-
ample of those who want to get In Of
our country are the farming and la
boring classes. The laborer wishes to
secure a living wage and reasonable
hours of labor. while the farmer
wishes to efficiently market his pro-
ducts, What has the Wilson admins
tration accomplished along these
lines? The men who enacted the Sher-
man antitrust law never dreamed
that they were legislating against CO.
operative effort by the producer or the
laboring man. But the law was SO con-
strued, and the Republican party re-
fused to furnish relief. The law was
violated from sheer necessity. In ord
err to save the orange and lemon in
dustry, the farmers of California or
ganized the California Fruit exchange
which now does a business of thirty
million dollars per annum. One farm
ers organization In Virginia handled
-operatively 1000 car loads of po-
tatoes in single yea. In Idaho, Ore
gon and Washington. the fruit grow
ers organized the North Pacific Fruit
exchange. 1t was all done to save an
important industry but it was all in
violation of the Sherman Anti trust
law. Nowhere in the world save the
United States, was 1t a crime to thus
organize. Through cooperation the
Denmark farmer had become the most
prosperous in the world and was mar
keting comparatively 20 per cent of his
product in the markets of the world.
The Wilson administration, at the in
stance of the farmers. enacted an anti
trust law exempting farmers from the
Sherman anti trust law and for the
first time, organizations of producers
and labor unions are lawful.
But the administration did not stop
there. 1t created trades commission
and today the fruit growers of Wash
ington, oregon and Idaho are market
ing their crop with the advice and as
sistance OF a committee of that COM
mission. We have all been aocustom-
ed to legislation for the railroads, the
banks and the big manufacturers. but
when before did the government reach
out and help the individual producer
of agricultural products.
But this is not all. The Wilson adj
ministration has framed and enacted Il
rural credit law which brings to this
country the cooperative principles
which have distinguished the rural
credit societies of Germany and
France. The borrowers organize into
a community of borrowers and appraise
the property and to a certain extent
stand good for each others loans, thus
securing a credit Of the highest class.
Strange to say, the Republicans ex-
pressly condemned the Democratic bill
in their national platform but when it
came to a vote, over 100 Republicans in
the house voted for the administration
measure"
Another feature of entertainment
for the day, not connected with the po-
litical function in progress, but new
er the less a factor in securing such
an attendance and contributing very
largely to the interest and entertain
Ihent of the many here today is the
carnival and festival OF days being
held by the Ladies' Aid of the Meth =