The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-10-08
FRANK GO0DINC
HITS BOURBON
LEAGUE TARIFF
In Constructive Address,
Candidate. for Senate
Assails Democratic Pol
icies; Pleads for Idaho.
Continued from Page ~
What's Wrong With Wool?

What's Wrong With Wool7
Il have been asked q great
many times what ID the matter
with the wool market. Let me
tell You. Wool 10 on the free list.
There - . surplus of wool in the
world brought about by the lack
OF transportation during the war,
and IN many countries such as
, Germany, Austria, Italy and 9TH
ers, there 10 an under consump-
ton due to the unsettled condi-
lions that exist Their money is
worth but little, 90 it il not
strange that there il an effort to
dump the surplus wool on the
markets of America.
1T has been the custom in the past
in this country for the wool merchants
in Boston and the other eastern mar
kets, to buy the wool or take It on
consignment-this year they have re-
fused to either buy It or take it on
consignment owing to the unsettled
condition confronting the industry.
IT takes practically whole year from
the time the merchant buys the wool.
until It is manufactured into cloth.
and with the future full of uncertainty.
no stayed out of the market. The
only thing that saved the wool in
dustry from being broken down was
the National Wool Warehouse and
Storage company that was brought
into existence few years ago by the
sheep men of the west. That organi-
cation has taken care of quite a large
portion OF the western wool, but on
much OF i they have only paid the
freight. So great vital necessity
such as wool is without a market to-
Day and can't be sold at any price,
No one can tell what the future of
the WOOL market is to be. One-third
Of ali Ssnccst years wool remains in
the eastern n..Ti'.,sts lnsold; practic-
ally none of this years Clip has found
= market. Wooden mills have Ssen
forced to shut down from lack of
orders. With wool on the free list,
however, there can be but one end,
in my judgment, and that is the prac-
teal destruction of the sheep indus
try OF the west. For it will take
the world many years under pres
ent conditions to consume the surplus
product that has been brought about
during the war.
Industry in Danger.
y
"The livestock industry is in serious
danger Of being demoralized At this
time and if you break down and de.
stroy the livestock industry. with II
you will break down and destroy the
agricultural industry for the one is
dependent upon the other. Livestock
IS natures remedy for keeping up the
fertility of the soil. If YOU break
down and destroy it in a few wears
this country will be dependent upon
foreign countries to sustain life.
While all the farmers and livestock
growers of America are vitality inter-
ested in q protective tariff, no state
IN the union is so seriously affected
BY free trade as Idaho for we are
thousands of miles away from the
great markets of the east and all our
farm and range products must be
shipped over. long lines of railroad
manned by the most expensive labor
IN the world. Freight rates are of
necessity high. With the high price
OF labor in Idaho, unless we receive
protection the people of this state
might Just as well say goodbye" to
the livestock industry. With the last
increase in freight rates, 500 a car
mas been added on cattle and sheep
from Idaho to Chicago; wool that
on an average from Idaho eomm mon
points is now paying $3.50 a hundred
under the increased rate, and the
freight rates on everything else in
Idaho have been increased in propor-
ton. Idaho is essentially a livestock
for our soil has very little
fertility until it is brought up to
high state of productiveness through
the use of alfalfa or clover. In order
70 keep our lands in a high state of |
fertility at least one-third of all our
irrigated lands should be in alfalfa or
clover at all times 1t is essential
with these high freight rates that we
have livestock in Idaho to consume
that hay for very little of it can be
baled and shipped to the eastern mar
kets. At the present time Idaho is
guaranteed against by all western
states and we only have a limited
market for baled hay in the east. In
ny Judgment most serious condition
sonfronts the people of Idaho today
md nothing will save the prosperity Il
u the whole state but protection to II
he agricultural and livestock indus
ries.
Prosperity in Balance.
Il care not what occupation a man
nay follow--be he merchant, banker,
y lawyer-if he lives in southern
IDAHO he is just as much interested
n the protection of agriculture and
livestock as the farmer and the live
took grower. for there is Just as
much prosperity in Idaho as the
armer and livestock grower give it
very year.
III you will study the situation you
will agree with me that the Idaho
armer has no chance to compete with
he foreigner in our own markets, for
I the present time-one- third of all
ne population of America lives in the
reat cities that can be reached by
vater transportation from foreign
ountries. In the cities of New York
nd Boston alone there are more peo-
le to be fed than in the state of Cali
,rnia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
IOnfana Nevada IJfah aud Uyuo,,,