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Ill \C H ALet all the folks in Southern Idaho from Pocatello town to the pleasing Bailiwick of Boise stand and be sworn. All who own sheep stand up. All right I gentlemen, thank you. You're a splendid looking lot, and I take that out of several hundred men 1 almost suspect that ten per cent of you own more than the other ninety. Chorus of betcha from the ninety; the ten suspect presence of assessor.Now ail you gentlemen who don’t own sheep and perhaps never well own up. Come* now a mighty crush, rising five times the pow« r of the up stretch in - the 7th inning of the Sunday crowd at i the Chicago White Sox park.Which means for every sheep owner there are several hundred that don't I own them.Then w ho is entitl' d to the greater degree of protection that the Boise Statesman and several Weekly Biatts yawp for with so much vermicelli1 brained irminty.Who wears the clothe*-who owns the sheep. Some of us do both, so let the plentitude be spread as equally as possible. If it isn’t protection, it's privilege and the privilege to plunder ar.d that privilege belongs to the small end and the rest of us, the large end. are the suchera.But Oh. for labor; 99 jer cent of the work of handling sheep in Idaho us the business of Spaniard and l’ortugee, an alien, a foreigner.Our idea of a sheep owner is an amiable gentleman with some capacity for standing at a Hailey or a Boise bar but a far greater one for borrowing so much money from the banks that the industries that employ white labor have not got any of this protection necessary to even pike on. But the labor at th« manufacturing end. Shame, shame read the history of the Lawerence strike. E.ght dollars a week and long hours for a family and all the protec tion they needed for the boss.If a friend of mine in Vancouver cai smuggle me in a dandy little top benn (overcoat) that cost fifteen cold Cana dian bux and which couldn’t be dupli cateTl here for $-4.7. I suppose the $;«. dilTerence goes to the Basque boy (tht labor at this end) or to the family ir cold hopeless Lawerence. ltdoesllkkeh If it goes any place the boss gets it at both ends, that’s why he is boss. At this end he gets enough for six cylir der machines and luxuries like politics. At the other end he gets enough tc make little 12 year old girls work 1C hours a day in ill ventilated hells. Ir high protected Lawerence he make? other things besides cloth from Idahc wool. He turns out anarchists, consumptives and prostitutes, and he car arrange down there, so out here we cannot have woolen mills where they should be.Why not more protection f-.r the clothes wearers of Southern Idaho. Why can’t Mr. Idaho Sheepman let his neighbor have a little of it. Because he is really a hogman.As a matter of fact woo! tariff streets South Idaho not at all. Our sheep are the lambs that come from the freetrade Mis. to the North, are shipper! from Ketchum. Evergreen and Soda Springs from July to November and the price they go over the scales at, when they get to the Omaha and Chicago killers is dr termined by the relative prices of pork and beef which is in turn determined by corn and range.Eastern bellies not Eastern backs. Put the gold in sheepmen's sacks.Say you Boise Statesmen and you patent Inside Republican prints why not bellow for high protection for Idaho spuds and hay. God knows they need some doctor.To my mind, vulgar am! untutored, the most beautiful thin* in psychic study is the Idaho fanner who is afraid of Wilson because he doesn't want things changed and doesn't want his present prosperity disturbed. Let's look this brute with the Sears Roebuck men-tality over. He is shivering around in highly protected overalls and his kids are freezing in highly protected underwear. The only fat on him has gone tohis head. He ia getting $3.00 for hishay,cut by a $70 highly protected mower by a $60 iiired man. He is getting 30 cents for his unprotected spuds an can't ship them because a protectei railroad company don't have to giv himjany cars.and the Stateaman make hirn believe he is prosperous to the nt power. Shame on him to take awa the gasoline from Mr. Sheepmun’a mu chine.The pretent system of tariff for th Idaho farmer ia wrong. Somebody getprotection but before it g«U ti thIdaho farmer .U bounties are castrate*1-or the pure sublimation of th* esHence of idiocy and the rank raw ran of reason we commend the reason given by the Republican press f0Nationafbunch*. thi i'reH*'nt conditions continue tha crawfUhner g** ahlt;‘U(,; *ure- *»RTorrey Gund.
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Jerome Lincoln County Times
Jerome, Idaho, US
Thu, Oct 31, 1912
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