Payette County ID Archives News.....A Radical Change Needed January 27, 1905
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New Plymouth Outlook January 27, 1905
New Plymouth Outlook
New Plymouth, Idaho
Friday, January 27, 1905
 
A RADICAL CHANGE NEEDED
 
The Payette Fruit Packing Company paid the railroad company $22,265 for 
freight the past season, and the farmers received for raising the fruit less 
than one-fourth what the railroads got for hauling it to market.  If President 
Roosevelt is in sympathy with the fruit growers of the west he will not be 
slow in investigating the methods by which our fruit, farmers are the victims 
of such gross imposition and plunder.  As it is, the farmers have no redress.  
The power of direct legislation is denied them.  From a national congress 
composed largely of rich men whose interests are not in common with the hard-
working farmer, our people can expect little aid.  As helpless as an infant in 
its mother's arms are the fruit men in the Payette valley before the merciless 
corporations which are holding them up.  The commercial slavery of our farmers 
is real and not imaginary.  The result of the last election shows that our 
farmers have pinned their faith to President Roosevelt, and to him are they 
now looking to for relief.  Our president has aroused the bitter enmity of the 
railroad corporations by recommending that the interstate commerce commission 
be empowered by congress to make a rate for railroads, to stand until reviewed 
and revered by the courts.  This law if passed will demonstrate whether 
government control of private corporations will be an adequate cure for 
existing evils, or whether government ownership will have to be resorted to.  
Our people must have relief from some source, and that right speedily.

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