Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-03-07
LErrEn rRom MIsxOUHI
NFw cAxBRIA, Feb. ~, 1884.

Will give you one more Squip. =
nave been bobbing around considera- 4
DIV this winter and studying the pc Y
culiarities Of this country and people,
and find it is useless for me to growl,
for there is too much to growl at. |
have seen enough of Missouri to do
me hundred years, and were it not ]
for my people living here, / would not I
hesitate to express the hope that !
might never see the State again. The
people here are abject enough to be
truthfully called slaves, and they serve
three unworthy masters. The trinity
of power that yields the lash and rod
are, first, the church, second, the Dem
ocratic party; third, the railroads;
No man here dare breathe word |
against either Of these gorged mon
STEERS. No newspaper dare whimper
syllable against them for fear OF
being politically or socially ostracised,
or, it may be, loose their pass. ! have
been splitting fire at them, speaking
nv mind, until | am looked upon as
horrible fellow. | tell them | would
not live, here if they would give me
the governorship. In fact, | think
that position would disgrace any good
citizen of Idaho, since Crittenden
Ileagued with cut threats for little
notoriety.
3 The Frank James business devel-
b ops some queer phases OF human
. nature. | find men of all grades and
callings honoring him. Men who
openly profess christianity; men OF
Q learning; lawyers, merchants, doctors,
6 every kind of men in fact, willing to
/: excuse his horrible bloody crimes and
! make a hero of him. This may seem
:, strange, but It's nevertheless true
a No one denies his guilt-they al
lie know and admit that he has kllleo
10 MANY men whom he had no right te
y kill, but they think he has been pun
- ished enough. "Would some powe
~ the Gift would give u.s." 1t Frau
James gets clear of the charge
against him in other states, l woui'
not be at all surprised to hear OF hlr
us being the Democratic candidate 10
- Governor of Missouri, and he will gre
there too.
5r- 7 have seen considerable of raj
as roads this winter, and from my obse'
is walton. have concluded they are nc
TO- an unmixed blessing. / have see
FIVE wrecks and one of them, whlc
y happened last Saturday morning, tw
'eo mics from this place, was fearful
LIST. look upon. The men who opera
out these roads seem to have an anlmosl
mo for the rest of the human race, al
10 are the most despicable set OF grea
'ho villains mine ewes have yet beheld.
'rly would warn people intending to tray
not east, against getting on what is CALI
the .Wabash System" 1t IS nc
), generally supposed that MIR. Gould
letting these roads run down tor
purpose of depreciation, that he m
buy them in cheap and further sw
his gigantic possessions. The lnset
'ai- ritv of travel on the Wabash has t
the winter become matter OF CONNIE
hit and, were it not for the fact that
anne erv newspaper along the line is 81
T. sidized with pass, things might
~ ~ brought to light that would cause
lhlie travelling public to go a long v
d as around before putting foot IN
the of these Wabash cars. But nobf
on wants to travel through Missouri a
:. how. The darkness of the md
do !, ages hangs over this land, and h
Teral estlv believe the people would d
g for back into barbarism if they W
rned completely let alone by the rest
III . the world. Religion, that relle
:, barbarism, has dwarfed them u
e tne they seem incapable Of progr
miles Some of them are ready to try
was experiment Of walking on the W
tons. now. Yet all sorts OF crime
car rampant; murderers go unpunnls'
laws are violated, and the often
e OF winked at. | have heard OF live
six cases of child beating, winch
they had happened in Idaho W
20 Of have been punished with lynch
-, but here they put the brutes und
'i.ioi few hundred dollars bonds and t
Can the last of it. Here's dead DO
Weed ing in the depot in this town
ciates killed in the wreck, and with all