Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-01
WHAT DUBOIS HASN'T DOVE


delegate Dubois. 1t is all a resume
OF what Mr.. Dubois hasn't done. and
we will chip in right here and saw
that what all former delegates haven't
done would amount to heap. We
cannot expect Territorial Delegate
to do anything superhuman. That
Delegate Dubois has done we'll is
fact that cannot be successfully con-
tradicted, and his usefulness in the
capacity of Delegate is not ended.
He will labor for the people of Idaho
two years more in the same capacity.
The Inter-Idaho goes for Mr.. Dubois
for being slow in the performance of
his duty in regard to the Boise Basin
Bedrock Flume bill. That it has
heard nothing of Mr.. Dubois fighting
for favorable report on this bill.
The lnter-Idaho says this enterprise
Is the greatest that could be inaugur
ated for the benefit of Southern Ida
no, which is true, and it further states
that the bill was published week after
week last year, until all objections
were made, and it was modified to
suit the miners of the Basin and
Boise valley, which is also true. The
Inter-ldaho is little too hasty in
this matter. If Mr.. Dubois fails to
do his duty to his constituency in this
part of the Territory in this matter
when the proper time comes, then
criticisms will be in order. The peo.
pie OF this and Ada county, almost to
man, desire to see this bill pass,
and we have no fears that Mr.. Dubois
will oppose their wishes, to please the
Boise City Board of Trade, and the
very few others who are op-
posed to this and all other enterpris-
es on general principles, and on the
ground that they are constitutionally
feminist progress in any form. We
can point out opponents of the Bed
rock Flume who are opposed to rail-
roads and inventions, and are con-
tinually loaded with weighty argu-
ments to fire at you in any unguarded
moment to prove that they are posi-
tive detriment to the happiness of the
human family. That railroads starve
the farmers because they mot the
farmers, but the railroads) don't eat
hay, and that they destroy the occu-
patton of the teamsters, who do eat
hay, in certain sense; that is their
horses do, which amounts to the same
thing to the farmer. And invention
the greatest foe and curse of any
country! The destroyer of manual la
Dor, human happiness and the means
of muscular development, is scatter
ing misery and want broadcast
throughout the land! Is it any Won
der that where men can be found
who are built that way, that few
opponents of enterprise and progress
will bob up? We have no fears that
Delegate Dubois will be influenced
by few who are constitutionally op-
posed to advancement, and thereby
take a stand against the great mass
of enterprising people who are labor
ing to build up the country. From
what we know of Mr.. Dubois we can
not believe that he is built that way.
We are confident that at the ri ght
time he will do his utmost for the
passage of the bill. The Inter Idaho
goes for Dubois for not securing ap-
preparations for the irrigation of Ida
no deserts, opening Snake river to
navigation from the Columbia to
Salmon Falls; hasn't secured an ap'
propriation for a mint and the en-
largement of the U. S. Pententiary
Other Delegates before Dubois have
also failed in these matters. 1t is
very hard matter for Terrltorla
Delegate to get everything for US thai
we would wish, especially in the way
of appropriations. He is making ct
forts for governmental aid in the rec
lamation of desert lands by working
, for grants of lands to the Territory
= on condition of their reclamation b.
irrigation. If he doesn't succeed l
, will be no fault of his. Of course al
= appropriation of money would com
E in very handy; but private enterprls
t is already solving, pretty thoroughly
q the reclamation question. Hug
i canals are being constructed in a.
a most every sage brush section OF Ida
4 no. and those deserts will soon b
: made to blossom like big sunfiowd
S without any appropriation. We CIV
IS Mr.. Dubois credit for doing what b
r has already done and trying to az