The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-04
Year Ended June 80

The fact is, Idaho has. been taxed
thru the Oregon Short Line to make
up for losses sustained by other rail
roads in other parts of the country
Inequalities in rates and discrim-
nations due to misapplication Of the
long and short haul principle were
pointed out by the former governor
who said, in this connection, that the
rate on wool from Portland to Bos-
ton is $1.661k as compared with
$3,46 from Idaho points.
ri am satisfied, too" he said
that Idaho must make fight on
the Esch-C ummins law, which guar
antees to railroads specified return
on their capital invested, because the
principle Of guaranteeing an earn
ing for public utilities is wrong"
Discusses Farm Markets
Turning to problems of marketing,
the newly-seated Idaho senator de-
clared that farmers are selling their
products at rs to Co. per cent of war
prices, yet living has not been re-
duced more than 10 per cent. 1.-THE
biggest work OF agricultural inter-
ests," he insisted, ais the marketing
of their own farm products. Why,
the time has come when / cannot get
a meal in Washington restaurant
or in a dining car without tipping
the waiter more than the farmer gets
for the products eat. 1t may not be
practicable for farmers to sell direct
to the consumer, but they can at
least handle the jobbing of their own
products.
livestock Condition Serious
In no part of his interview was the
senator more aroused than when he
took up the livestock industry He
said:
IF the people have learned in this
crisis the Importance of the live
stock industry to Idaho, then we will
not have suffered in vain. For my
own part, do not believe Idaho
could live without the livestock in
dustry. 1t is the basis of our eco
nomic structure. Even our soil of
volcanic ash can be made and kept
fertile only by the production Of
alfalfa and such other crops as are
not profitable without the livestock
industry. Without these crops there
is no vegetable loan or humus in
the soil.
"The loss of livestock and cattle
during the last two years in this ma
ton Is staggering, quite as stagger-
ing as the monetary loss to the
stockmen. And it is the loss of the
animals, the reduction Of the herds
(which means reduced earning
power and fewer markets for hay
and grain) that is most serious. The
loss to the individual can and will be
adjusted in year or two. Not so
the loss to the herds.
Il am satisfied the special session
Will pass the emergency tariff bill,
which will place tariff of Is cents
on wool, ~ cents on meats, 40 cents /
on wheat, S cents on butter, etc. It
will protect practically all the farm
products. 1t will help to save the
day.
America has been made the
dumping ground for foreign produc-
ton, which is not strange when oneA
considers that our money is the most I
in the world and our
country the easiest in which to dis
pose of the surplus products of
foreign lands. Why, during January
and February, foreign wool was be-
Ing dumped here at the rate of mil
lion pounds day until, counting
This years clip, there is now two
years. normal supply in the land
and consumption of wool is less than
normal"
IndOrses HagenBarth
Senator Go0ding's fifth message to
IDAHO was a suggestion that the state
get solidly back of the appointment
II Frank j. Hagenbarth-of Utah
Ind Idaho-to the interstate com
nerce commission as representa-
i've of the great western interior.
The senator said It is not at all GER
ain that Hagenbarth will be named.
n spite of the fact that western
states are generally pulling for him.
because the south has a man and
ndiana-of the middle west-an-
,tfler for the same position. Idaho
statesman.
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