The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-10-08

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Idaho: With cheaper freight rates
and cheaper labor, what opportunity
is there for the farmers and livestock
growers of Idaho to compete with
foreigners in our own markets. Give
the farmers and livestock growers
labor and freight rates as cheap as
they are in foreign countries and they
will not ask for any protection.
Foreign Wool Breaks Market.
But no American citizen would
ask to have labor as, cheap as it is in
some Of those foreign countries. In
South Africa a man works a whole
month for S., and boards himself;
in South America not more than one
third the price is paid for labor as
in this country, while in Australia
the cost of labor is about one-half
of what we have. to pay here.
Today we find that the Australian.
wool grower can ship his wool from
Portland, San Francisco, or Seattle,
or any other coast point, to the east
ern markets, over our own railroads
and by our own doors, for $1.s6, while
they tax US $3.50 hundred to haul
our wool over the same rails to the
Boston markets. I have never been
able to understand the policy of
government that permits foreigners
to ship their product over our own
roads for less than half the freight
rates its own citizens is forced to
pay. Nevertheless it is true, This,
to my mind is nothing less than
crime. If am elected to the United
States senate, am going to fight this
policy to the last ditch.
Problems Face West.
This government has never
dealt fairly with the west-while
hundreds of millions have been
given for the improvement of,
rivers and harbors and the build
ing OF levees to keep the water off
the lands in the south, not a single
dollar has been given to help re-
claim the desert lands of the west.
1t. il time the west organized to
make . fight and demand proper
recognition. If elected I am 60
ing to do what I can to organize
the western senator's SO as to put
up a united front, and with Sena-
ator Harding pledged to give his
assistance to reclamation of our
arid lands, believe there is
chance to succeed.
II am for the reclamation of our
lands because / want to see the boys
who answered their country's call
given a preference right in making
this bigger and better country by
building homes on our public lands.
| am for the reclamation of our lands |
arid swamp and cut-over, because |
| want to give the young men whom
we have educated in our schools andI
our. agricultural colleges an oppor-
unity to secure homes here on Amer
can soil. Hundreds of thousands of
hem are leaving this country to find
homes in foreign countries. These
young men are the best we have
they are the flower of the country,
and it is the duty Of this government
10 give them an opportunity to remain
citizens of this great country. am
for the reclamation of our arid lands
here in Idaho because / know we are
losing a million dollars a day doom
waters that are wasting into the ocean.
If all the surplus waters of this state
we're reservoired including the peak
years. when the flood is high, asl
should be done, we have room in the
Snake river valley alone for two
million people. and those would mean
The building of more towns and big
ger towns, and more railroads. Idaho