The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-02-21

Uncle Sam, that if you will do so
and so" we will be all right This
has been going on for at least gen
Grafton with the result that it has
been proved that Uncle Sam is a poor
physician. His patients are salivated,
their joints creak, and they look as
though any more medicine might kill
them. A few months ago the admin
istration pointed out that the only
way the country could recover from
its financial hicoughs was through
measures to finance the railroads.
More than seven hundred millions of
dollars has been paid to the railroads
in connection with the period of public
control, and this small sugar-coated
pill has apparently had no effect on
the patient.
The farmers have captured enough
of congress to actually hold an effect
i've balance of power, and to enable
them to write laws just about as they
wish. One day they have marketing
measures, the next day they regulate
the packers, the federal reserve board
and the federal highways. Uncle Sam
as physician gives them everything
they AK for. But it all seems of no
avail.
For good many years large
group of strong minded men have
preached the doctrine that constant
Legislative interference would eventu-
ally kill any of Uncle Sans patients.
The farmers and the railroads seem
to be striking evidence of the proof
of this belief. Even senator's are re-
commencing to the sick industries of
the country that they try the eco
nomic law instead of the Legislative
palliative. They point out, that fixed
rates and definitely prescribed me-
thods, of conducting the railroads
+, amounts to nothing less than price
fixing" even though it is termed gov
eminent control They also indi
cate that 'price-fxing" with regard
to farm products during the war wa:
the real beginning of the agriculture
upset, because it produced an artificial
boom in land values and fictitious val
ues in the ownership of farm lands
The new necessities could not be me
through the simple process of farm
ing the land. During the boom thu
land spectators farmed each other
but when e-fxing ceased and thu
foreign demand for grains and pro
ducts fell off the bottom dropped GU
of the whole situation, and all tn
= tinkering that congress could do ha
9 not stopped the leaks.
The cotton growers of the soutl
have been hard hit, and have rushe'
$ to Washington for relief. They toe
: have been disappointed.
: Cuba had boom in sugar, an
"a when its bubble broke the island wa
bankrupt. Cuba rushed on to Wash
: |ington and met with considerable er
= enlargement in borrowing itself OF
: of debt" But Cuba isn't through
,f and the American Sugar Reinin
company, which has manipulated sugs
g. weights and measures for gre;
is many years, appears to be anon
~ those hit, inasmuch as it discontinue
e. paying dividends.
Big leather interests report loss
of millions of dollars during the pa
" year. The fertilizer companies al
X fighting for dear life.
= Somebody in analysing industri
~ conditions has wisely commented tn
there is no shortage in misfortune
But it is safe prophesy to say tn
those who recover first will be Z
DIS industries and concerns that have t
Or privilege of figuring out their o'
ice methods for beating back, and III t
dis processes of which they encounter
TO least amount of contact with the