The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-18
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the year 1920 only they asked for
upwards of six billion dollars and
they cut 1t down nearly two billions
in making their appropriations. He
referred to the fact that conducting
the state government and he county
government are equally expensive as
the national government that it cost
so much more money to do things
than it did before the war that all
materials used and most of the sal
aries and all of the wages are vastly
higher than they were before and
that we must expect that the cost OF
government will correspond with the
increased cost of operating any other
business during the same period Of
high prices. We need not expect
anything else than that this will be
reflected in our tax bills.
Defends State Administration
He referred to the attacks on Gov
ernor Davis as If he were personally
responsible for the increased taxes.
He stated that the Democratic ad-
ministration levied money for four
years, but with it they only paid
three years. expenses of conducting
the state government and turned it
over to their successors with one
years expense in arrears and unpaid.
He also referred to the unfortunate
fires that destroyed the big dorm
tory of the Lewiston school and the
soldiers home and the Alexander
administration collected $4,000 of
fire insurance from the loss of those
buildings and spent it conducting the
current expenses of the government
and did not rebuild.
He referred to the candidates for
the United States senate and said
that it was up to the people of Idaho
to decide which they wanted. The
membership of the senate at present
stands forty-nine Republicans to
forty-seven Democrats and the loss
of candidate or two would change
the majority so that if Harding is
elected even tho the house Of repre-
sentatives will have an assured ma
jority he can do but little with the
United States senate Democratic.
He said that some of the things
that Idaho people should consider
in deciding whom they would vote
for for United States senator are
these: The wheat crop of Canada
is being harvested and poured into
the big shipping noints like Minnea-
polls and st. Paul, Duluth and other
lake points and it is helping to drive
the price of wheat downward. Vast
quantities of wool, sheep and beef
are being poured into San Francisco,
New York and other places from
Australia and Argentine. Lead and
zinc are being shipped in in vast
quantities in competition with the
lead and zinc from Idaho. Idaho has
been furnishing one-third of the lead
used in the world and lead is now
on the free list along with mutton,
wool and beef. Beef raised on the
plains of Argentine, where the cattle
run wild and require little or no feed
and very little care can be shipped
to the United States and sold at a
profit when we with our standards
of living and feeding and raising
beef could not make expenses. II
the people of Idaho wish to see these
things on the free list they can help
to do it by electing John F. Nugent
to the United States senate. If they
want wall of protective tariff by
enacting tariff law to protect the
producers of the things named they
know they can do so by electing
Frank r. Gooding to the United
States senate.
He says that as he travels over the
state he hears people here and there
say that they do not like Frank
Gooding and when he asks them why
they often reply that he is blunt
man, that he says out loud just what
he thinks and they do not like that
way of doing SO we'll as to have a
man say the nice polished things SO
that you hardly know what he
means. Mr.. French said that If we
want a senator who will always
agree with us, man who will say
one thing to one man because it will
please him and another thing to an
other man because that would please
him that we can probably find that
kind of man to vote for. but it will
not be Frank Gooding; that he is
man that says wnat he thinks before
breakfast and the same thing after
breakfast and after dinner. He is
for the protection Of the Idaho stock
men of every kind, the Idaho labor
ers, the Idaho lead producers, the
Idaho lumberjacks and everybody
that creates and produces an honest
dollar or the things that 60 for an
honest dollar.
Mr.. French called attention to the
fact that in 1890 when Idaho became
q state the constitution provided for
three judges Of the supreme court.
Since that time the population Of the
state has increased 500 per cent and
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