Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-10-29
Gooding FavorS
Your Protection
PUTS ISSUE SQUARELY UP TO
PEOPLE. FREE TRADE
IS BIG ISSUE

Following are some of the ex-
tracts OF the speech of ex-governor
Frank X. Gooding of Idaho, republi-
can candidate for the United States
senate, delivered at Elk River a
week ago Monday. as taken from
the Elk River News. They are re-
printed here for the benefit of the
citizens of Clearwater county who
were unable to hear the address ut
first hand
This campaign is going to be
fought on the issues in the two plat
FORMS" asserted Mr.. Gooding. "You
Will either vote for Cox because you
want continuance of the Wilson
policies and are in favor of his
league OF nations, without reserva-
ton or amendments. and are in ia
vor of free trade policy, or you
will vote for Warren G. Harding
and the party that is going against
his league of nations and has al
ways stood for protection to Ameri-
can industries and American labor.
Eight years of weak, vacillat-
ing watchful, waiting policy at
Washington, with it's misrule. ex-
travagance, lack of enforcement of
the laws at all times subservient to
the disloyal element of this country.
has brought about a condition that
fills the future with doubt and un-
certainty, until the great question
before the American people today
Is 'Americanism' the saving of
America for Americans. Upon the re-
publican party rests a mighty re-
sponsibility. II we can save that
great party In the coming election
we will preserve those principles of
government that Washington fought
for, that Lincoln died for and our
boys so ably defended on the battle
fields of Europe.
'If / am elected to the United
States senate. I am going to make
fight for more rigid immigration
laws; for time I would stop all
immigration and Americanize those
who are fit to become American
citizens and deport those who are
unfit. There should be but one
language in this country and but
one flag. the stars and stripes for.
all. We have been in such a mad
rush to do things that we have CIV
en- but little consideration to our
citizenship. We have accepted people
from every country on earth regard
less of their fitness to become citi-
zens. until today 1913 different Ian
guages are spoken in America. We
have made much to-do about deport-
ing a few bolshevists, less than 400
in all. and while we were doing
that work we have permitted hun
dreds of thousands of foreigners to
land upon our shores. Better a
hundred times that we grow a little
slower but truer to American prin-
ciples. After all, what shall it pro-
fit the American people If we gain
all the wealth in the world, build
up the greatest institutions that civ
ilization has ever known, only in
the end to see them torn down and
destroyed by the mob
There never has been time in
the history of this government when
the deocratic party passed free
trade measure but that it has
brought ruin and disaster to the
country, and l am not making an
exception of the present measure.
known as the Underwood and Sim
mons bill passed by this administra-
tion.''
1.-The democratic party takes the
position that every thing the farmer
! has is raw material and that all raw
, material should be on the free list
The democratic party has given pro-
lection to the manufacturing indus
tries of America with the exception
of farming machinery and barbed
wire-these they have put on the
| free list and tell the farmers it has
been done to give them cheaper
machinery and barbed wire. This
: is an insult to the intelligence o,
: the American farmer for the in
, ventive genius on the American farm
: has given the world its improved
r farming machinery. We have never
= used any foreign made farm ma
chinery or barbed wire, and put
ting it in the free list has not bene
fitted the farmer.
, "The republican party believes
E that the fat steer. the wheat and tn,
oats and everything the farme
grows are just as much finished
products as the products of the mil
5 all require labor to produce ant
S all should be treated alike. As
9 see the future of America there /
e going to be great struggle betweel
: the producers and the consumers
F: there is already demand in tn
0 large cities for cheaper food pro
0 ducts, and unless the farmers o
0 the country send men to Washingtil
: who understand the Importance o
0 protection to the agricultural an
o livestock interests. there is grav
II danger that this country will be
h come free trade country as far a
e farm products and livestock are con
}. cerned.
l. "Icare not what occupation a ma
IS may follow--be he merchant, bank
lie er. or lewyer-if he lives in north
Is ern Idaho he is just as much intel
0. ested In the protection of agricu
E. ture and livestock as the farmer an
the livestock grower, for there
Id just as much prosperity in Idaho {
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