The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-28
Why We'll Vote
For Republicans
Can Live Within Ourselves

tho rest of the world were blotted out.
Less people on far less territory did
prosper and produce a civilization III
the presence of even the relics OIL
which we stand dumb with amaze
nent. America can prosper thoug
We lose every dollar of interest and
nrincipal loaned to foreign natiohs.
The only thing we cannot do ana
-nrosner is TO leave the American
market exposed to the Underwood
| tariff law. with it's average OF only
| 616 per cent In customs duties-the
lowest rates ever collected in our
| country and the lowest rate OF any
country on earth-and thus drop 10
! the common level of the world.
We Wish to Help Others
We are all glad the rest OF the
world exists. We are anxious TO heip
the world. but most of us. and not a
few Democrats, have been shouting
America first. If we were to an
nounce a partisan Republican slogan
for this and future campaigns IL
should be Safeguard the American
PAYROLL" Give every American pro-
Queer, whether his products be labor
or some resultant of labor, an advant-
age in the American market
Wool
Our opponents will tell the farmers
that il does not matter to them
whether their supplies be produced at
home or imported, that whoever per
forms the labor must eat, and that
America is the granary of the world.
The farmers will be told that protec-
ton does not help them because no
one seeks to import farm produce TO
their prejudice. Let US see about this.
During the first fiscal year of the I'm
derwood tariff law 1876, 000, 900 of
farm products. such as northern
farmers produce. were imported in
excess of the aggregate importations
of like articles during the entire ad-
m%inistration Of President Taft. Most
If this enormous sum came in free
of duty.
Ex-Governor Ferguson, OF Texas, re-
emily stated he had his entire this
year's clip of wool. perhaps 10000
pounds, and could not sell it at any
price. A month before shearing it
was worth 60 cents. 1t will sell now
for about 20 cents. The price of wool,
like the price OF everything. may have
been too high but that does not justify
hrowing our markets open to the
world. II we are to do that why not
begin by throwing the labor market
open to Orientals?
But waving as relatively unim-
portant, the question of protective
duties on farm products, let us take
a broader view. During the pros
porous fiscal year of 1892, while Nc
Kinley tariff law was in force, the
American people. as shown by our
Of statistics, consumed 5.94
bushels of wheat per capita, almost
6 bushels. During the first fiscal
year following the enactment of the
Wilson-Gorman tariff law they con-
sumed only 4.62 bushels per capita
a drop of % per cent-and the price
of wheat went with it to so cents a
bushel. The Dingley tariff law was
enacted during the first year Of Presi-
dent McKinley's administration; it
was designed to, and did, restore to
American producers an advantage in
their W markets and the per capita
of wheat rose immedi-
ately. and continued to rise until Il
reached its peak Of more than 7 BUSH
els per capita in 1906. What had been
to tramps while foreigners en-
loyed the advantages that the Demo-
party had given them, went in
% the garbage can as soon as Ameri-
cans had their legitimate rights re-
Imports Higher
Some people may have been told
hat Republicans propose to erect a
chinese wall so as to exclude imports
that we must expect to buy from
abroad, If we intend to sell abroad.
well might they tell the farmer
nat II he expects to export produce
rom his farm to town he must i'm
'ort from town to farm as many dol
airs worth of supplies as he sells in
What is the matter with