The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-30
IDAHO AND THE TARIFF.
(Boise statesman

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Democrats may apologize for the
league of nations and sidestep theil
administrations record, but they car
not get away from the tariff. Idaho
business men of both parties are COM
ing to take the position taken by M
f. Tarpey, of Fresno. Calf, a former
democratic national committeeman
when he announced for Harding re-
Gently and said:
have reached the time of life
when ] want to be a patriot rather
than partisan. The real pros
perity of this nation depends up
on a protective tariff. Particular
ly is this true in California, where
our raisins, figs, prunes, oranges,
lemons. almonds and rice must be
protected against cheap labor in
foreign countries and cheap
freight rates in foreign bottoms.
Not only does Idaho have problems
like CALIFORNIA;, but an alarming fact
is staring every Idaho business man
in the face: The continued prosperity
of Idaho perhaps the very existence
of Idaho. hangs upon a change to re-
publican policies.
Already, after a democratic eXecu-
tive has fumbled through two years of
Warless war; Idaho is beginning to
gasp for air. This is not calamity
! bowling, it is the bitter truth. The
cattle on her hills have dwindled in
number to a few paltry thousands. Her
sheep have been sacrificed on the al
tar of a wool situation that would
never have obtained had democrats
been able to cope with the problem of
postwar readjustment. Her hay is in
the stack. drug on the market Even
her fruit crop is being given away.
What has caused this condition?
Merely democratic methods when the
nation needed, instead. business meth
DDS. Democratic methods permitted
costs to rise to a point where the cat
tie industry in Idaho could not con-
tinue to live, and then nailed up the
coffin with increased railroad rates |
Democratic methods permitted wool |
purchased for a song under govern !
ment contracts by foreign nations to |
vie with American wool in the mar
kets of the world Democratic meth
DDS paralyzed the clothing industry
and spoiled the home market so that
there was no market anywhere for
American wool The sheepmen turn
ed to lambs, hoping to raise money /
with them to tide them over the
crisis But the democratic tariff per-
nitted an influx of frozen Australian
ambs, which ruined the lamb market,
md, incidentally, the sheepmen. They II
Gould not pay high prices for hay, and
10 sacrificed their flocks. or bought h
lay at prices which meant no profit $
o the hay farmers h
And the Idaho fruit men were pill
Dried upon the democratic sugar
'rices. No sugar for profitable can 6
ing. no profitable purchasers for r
ruit, it was very simple
Idaho can not live without the cat n
lie and sheep industries. They sup p
ort thousands of farmers who raise c
ay for winter use. These thousands @
f hay-raising farmers support hun n
reds of merchants with whom they h,
rade. These merchants and farmers h
nd sheepmen support a large local H.
heat industry. which would starve if ~
squired to depend upon a distant G,
larket and to compete in the middle
est and east with the wheat growers
the middle western prairies. Take q,
way the cattle and sheep, and there II
no market for hay With the
leepmen and cattlemen and hay
rmers broke" there is no business
r merchants. And let all these peo-
G begin to leave Idaho, and the
heat farmers are high and dry The
man is on the rocks, the re
nks\ must close. The result is stag is
.tion. dry rot a whitening of the wi
zee prosperous state of Idaho da
There is only one salvation, the cis
lvation that the leading democrat of mi
-lifornia saw. a protective tariff and inl
vote republican and
We Idaho" has become a plain state thi
mt of fact Gle