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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08
Catching at q Straw.

The action of the National Brew
ers' Association in deciding to use
American instead of imported bar
ley in the manufacture of beer and
ale is being paraded before the
country as one of the good effects
of the Mckinley bill. This is a
palpable attempt to deceive. It
may be connected with the many
evil effects that idiotic measure is
destined to produce, but the date
of the action indicates an entire
independence of the bill.
When American breweries were
in the hands Of American citizens,
some imported barley was used in
the manufacture Of ale and beer,
because, as was claimed, better ar
ticles could be produced from inn
ported than domestic barley, and
the American brewer having a rep
utation to establish in the worlds
markets desired to give his custom
ers the best article possible. To do
this he imported barley, under the
impression, whether true or not,
that the imported was better for his
purpose than the native article. Of
late years, however, this practice
has been falling into disuse, and
the quantity Of barley imported
has not been sufficient to affect the
market price one way or another.
Moreover, the importations have
been largely for seed, for some years
now, and paid for and used by the
farmers.
But there is another phase of
this question which the Mckinley
ties overlook. Our leading brewer
les have fallen into the hands of
aliens, whose investments are enor-
NOUS. That these aliens have de-
cided to use American barley as an
act Of friendship to the American
farmer is proposition puerile in
its absurdity. Like all other pru-
dent business men, they will buy
their barley where they can buy the
cheapest, and they will so manipu-
late the markets that barley will be
cheapest in the United States. But
they will not stop at that. They
will import their laborers, thus
bringing the European "pauper
labor" so much dreaded by nrO-
tectionists, into direct competition
with the protected American wage
Garner at his own door. And to
conclude, when they have produced
out of cheap barley a cheap article
of ale and beer, with imported cheap
labor, they will sell their products
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

WE frequently meet with the as.
sertion in our protection exchanges
of late, that Europe is dependent
upon this country for light. This
is not true as to Russia, which
country is able to supply the whole
world with kerosene oil, if publish
ed descriptions of her oil fields are
reliable; and our unintelligent tar
if legislation may yet stimulate its
production to our disadvantage,
Just as our civil war stimulated the
production of cotton in India.
Who knows?
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

FARM products bring a better
price in Idaho than in any other
part of the country, and the crops
are always good. Moreover a ready
cash market is always at hand for
everything grown, and good land is
cheaper than the same quality Of
land can be gotten elsewhere. These
advantages make the Gem Of the
Mountains desirable place to look
for a home, and furnish every
needed assurance Of a prosperous
future for our matchless young state
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08
A Schoolboy's Composition.

"The United States possesses an
extensive domain, richer in natural
resources than any other part of
the globe. The United States gov
eminent is only 100 years old. The
United States has more tenant
farmers than any other civilized
country Sixty million people in
the United States pay interest to
five million. Seven-tenths of the
farms in the United States are
mortgaged. The United States gov
eminent is the best under the sun.
Seems to me if the United States
had bad government they wouldn't
have nothin' by this time"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

THE Sun says Boise City has
commenced to boom. Booming
should be its normal condition.
Baker City has been called the Den
yer of the Northwest; but the title
belongs of right to Boise City. In
her are met all the conditions re-
quired to build up great city. She
is the natural supply point of one
of the largest and richest mining
sections on the globe; and the val
leys contiguous to her and contrib
utory to her prosperity are the most
extensive in the State. If Boise
City has Jagged in her march to
greatness the fault has been in a
lack of enterprise on the part of
her citizens, and not owing to alb
sence Of natural advantages.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

THE bankruptcies in the United
States and Canada for the week end
ing October 9Th, as reported to r.
G. Dun & Co.'S Mercantile Agency
were 2O3 in United States, and %
in Canada. For the corresponding
week Of last year, the failures were
1873 in United States ana 81 for
Canada, or Is more failures this
year than last for this country, and
Is less for Canada. Where is the
Mckinley bill?
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08
AMONG The Elite.

Shortly. before he retired from
the KEYSTONE Judge Street copied
the election returns in tabulated
form from the Statesman, remark
ing at the time that he supposed
the table could be relied on. mas
much as the election had gone
republican. AS given in the States
man and copied in the KEYSTONE,
the returns gave Mr.. Willie, repub-
lican candidate for Lieut.. Governor.
235 majority over his democratic
opponent. Referring to this show
ing, in brief editorial, Judge
Street said: Governor Shoup
heads the list of majorities. Lieut..
Governor Wiley wins by a scratch. "
This language was not, nor was 1T
intended to be either unfriendly or
unkind. Nor would any respecta-
BILE gentleman of sense have re-
garded it as other than the gratified
chuckle of a partisan over the mar
row escape Of an opponent from
defeat. Such remarks are of every
day occurrence in election times,
and are of no Importance with COM
mon-place men. But it seems that
the KEYSTONE and Mr.. Street were
unwittingly dealing with one greater
than mere ordinary mortals. Nor
man B. Wiley, although he has
chosen to conceal his greatness in
the little country village of Grange
Vile for 10 these many years, is a
man of parts, as evidenced by the
letter here reproduced:
GRANGEvILLE, IDAHO, Oct. 80, 1890.
Lieut.. Gov. Wiley wins by scratch"
(See KEYSTONE of Oct. 25th).
The hell he does! Better brush ~
your arithmetic little.
Yours truly, N. B. WILEY,
Lieut.. Gov"
The quotation marks are our i'm
portant friend Willey's, and are
employed by that gentleman to i'm
press the fact upon the somewhat
obtuse mind Of the KEYSTONE that
he is actually governor of the state,
Notwithstanding the people voted
for Mr.. Shoup to fill that honorable
position. We thank "Gov. Wiley"
for the timely information conveyed
in his very polite and gentle
manly letter, and assure him that
we shall take pleasure in advertis-
ing his greatness whenever it will
do any good to the public. But We
take the liberty Of modestly sug-
costing to the Governor" 1--WE mean
it as suggestion only that there
may be some people in Idaho, of
delicate, nervous temperaments,
whose tenderfoot sensibilities may
revolt at too great emphasis OF
speech. The terms of address ap-
piled to these might be as effectual
if slightly modified until they be-
come accustomed to the ways of
the country. For instance, we once
lived where the word hell" en-
ployed in profane sense was re-
garded as vulgar. There the no.
ton prevailed that no true gentle
man would speak it, much less
write it, and select few called such
an act "blackguardism." Possibly
there is none of that class of people
in Idaho, and our suggestion as to
the propriety of employing en-
phatic terms in epistolary writings
is, as we said in the outset, SUBJ
mitted for what it isworth. But if
these people are numerous in the
state and you should win the dis
tinction of vulgarity and black
guardism which by implication of
your letter belongs to you, these
people might two years hence elect
a gentleman to succeed you, for
their votes count, you know. Good
by, Governor"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08
Our Miners Baked by Vicious
Legislation.

There are those who pretend tha
mining does not pay. This class
of people have had little experience
and are poor observers, or else are
cranks, whom it would be "love's
labor lost" to try to convince. But
there are large numbers of men o.
nationality and experience who
know how to appreciate the value
of mines and the monetary impor.
lance of mining as business. They
know that mining conducted on
business principles will pay, and
pay better than any other business
whatever. Convince this class oil
men that you have good mines in a
given locality, and other things be.
ing equal, they will invest their
money in the development and op.
Grafton of such mines. Why then
does the mining industry continue
to lag in Idaho? The reasons as
we see them, are three fold. First,
the extravagant and frequently dis
honest methods pursued in early
days, by which investors in good
faith were ruthlessly swindled out
of their money. Second, the gen.
eral absence of adequate transpor-
tation facilities, and the consequent
expense attending the. placing Of
machinery and supplies. Third,
vicious legislation.
The first ofthese causes has about
worn itself out. In spite of the evil
practices in vogue in early times,
mining men have become fully cog
infant of the great extent and value
of our mines, and many have in
vested, some heavily, in them and
their returns where ordinary bust
ness prudence has controlled their
action, have, so far as we know, been
generally satisfactory, albeit some
mines of this class, known to be
among the best in the state, are
lying idle at this writing.
The second is becoming every
year less and less an objection, MS
railroads and good county roads
take the places of the expensive toll
roads and steep mountain trails of
20 years ago. Alturas, Boise, Lem
hi, Idaho, Kootenai and Owyhee
counties together contain hundreds
of mines of gold, silver, copper and
lead that return, so tar as they are
being worked, handsome incomes to
their owners. Were these mines all
being worked, the counties named
ed would be made to hum with
industry and enterprise, and we
think no man acquainted with the
doubts but that theywould
be worked were silver remonetized.
That Idaho has not then 800, 900
people to her credit on the census
.oll instead of less than 100000, |
must be set down to the act of de-
nonetizirg silver, piece of class
legislation utterly indeiensible.
Miners, therefore, and those who
depend, as do the farmers west of
he Missouri, for their prosperity |
,pon the prosperity of the miners,
should unite together in demanding
he unrestricted coinage Of silver,
md should accept no compromise,
is all compromises are shams and
They are designed only |
o pacify the miner while he is be-
ng still further robbed, or are the
york Of ignorant men, and i'll either
ase are vicious and should be re.
ected with scorn by the parties most
in honest silver legisla-
ion, namely the miner and his
armer neighbor.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

to our countrymen at che old
price, and ship the profits abroad,
and thus our breweries will be made
constant drain upon our country's
resources for this is what late
heavy investments of foreign capt.
tai in our manufactures mean, and
this was made practicable by our
monstrous tariff laws.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

STEPHEN J. FIELD, of the U. S.
Supreme Court, has been assigned
to the ninth circuit. The ninth
circuit is composed Of California,
Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Washing
ton and Montana. We wish Idaho
could have escaped the disgrace of
his infliction upon her as a Judge.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

THE Illinois airehip lunatics
promise to have a ship constructed
in two months that will make the
trip around the world in five days.
Should they succeed. travel might
be made nearly as cheap to poor
people as it is now to the rich, as
they could certainly afford to carry
a man for 800 a dav.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

The Boise City Sunday Sun was
q distinguished visitor to our ex-
change table last Monday. 1t con-
tanned Sc columns of news, editorial
and local matter of q high order,
and we'll deserves the patronage
which we doubt not the generous
people ofthe capital city WI accord
to so bright and meritorious a sheet.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

THE Gear of Russia is exasper.
ated over the interference of the
outside world in behalf of the per-
secuted Jews. Decent people have
long been exasperated over the
Cars treatment of the Jews and
his auhiects too.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08
JAY GOULD thinks there is mon,

JAY GOULD thinks there is mon, v
enough in circulation, and says II
Is not necessary to increase the VOL
nme of currency. Doubtless there
is enough money in circulation in
Mr.. Gould's pocket for his imme-
diate uses. But he knows little and
cares less about the condition Of
the 100000 toilers Of the country
who are doomed to pay interest
from year to year because there is
not money enough in circulation to
place the business Of the country
on a cash basis. The misfortune
Of the whole thing is, however, that
Mr.. Gould's statements are accepted
as authoritative by the powers that
be. Hence their power to harm.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

Hon. ". J.McCoNNElL is reported
as favoring the opening up of the
Ceur d'Alenc Indian reservation to
settlement, with the exception of
l6O acres to each head Of a family
which he would distribute among
the Indians. We second the mo.
ton. Indian reservations were q
mistake in the beginning, and have
become obsolete, and the sooner
they are given over to the oblivion
Of the past the better. An Indian
vagabondizing over the land, with
no visible means of support" but
bow and arrows and breech
clout, is a sublime NUISANCE; but
an Indian supporting himself in
any of the industrial pursuits of
civilization, might be a good citizen.
That is to say, his defendants might
become such. The intellectual germ
in his race is good. and by patient
cultivation he could be brought up
10 dagree of civilization as cred
table at least as our own; but this
can only be done in our opinion,
by first teaching him to labor, and
then waiting philosophically the
process of heredity to change him
from the beast in human form that
he now is, to an enlightened gem
tleman. The great mistake in our
politicians and people, is in expect
ing to accomplish this in single
generation, whereas, it required 800
years to educate the English people,
whose intellectual greatness no one
will dispute, opt Of barbarity, and
even in the tine Of Charles the II
they were savages still Give the
Indians instructions and a home,
put no reservations.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08
NOTICE TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS.

The stocked mines of Colorado
paid for the year 1889, 331 per cent
on the capital invested. What other
business honestly conducted will
do aa Well2
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08
RRIED.

URDY-WEBB-In Ketchum, Tuesday,
November 4, 1890. by w. H. Brodhead,
Justice of the Peace, w. c. Purdy, OF
ketchum, and Miss Annie T. Webb OF
Nova Scotia.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-08

= MCKINLEY with his bill is beaten
left ont in the cold Alas, poor
Mckinley.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-15

difficulty in laying hands on the Official
summary of his or her antecedents. Some
years ago, when Caussidiere was made pre-
feet Of police, knowing that under mo-
narchical rule he had long been watched,
he inquired at the Office over which he pre-
sided for his own 'dossier," as it is called.
On reading it he exclaimed with astonish-
ment: 1T records not only my actions but
my secret thoughts"
Again, in the case of an application for
the arrest OF a British subject whose eccen-
trlclties in France had been construed into
insanity, and who in fact, says the chron-
1cler OF the incident, was mad, the police of
Paris refused a warrant for his apprehen-
sion; and on being pressed to issue one on
the ground that at the very moment in
question he was actually conducting him,
self before them as a mailman, they pro-
duced his dossier-composed by their own
agents-shOwing not only how much he
had drunk, but the places and houses at
which, on that very day, he had, previously
to appearing before them, swallowed seven
glasses of brandy. The liquor, they de-
clared, and not the mans brain, appeared
to be at fault, and the application for his
detention was refused.
Without going into particulars it may
be said that every detail in the life of
Partisan resident is subjected to the scru-
tiny Of a spy, and there is a system of reg
istration from which neither the president
of the republic nor the lowest fallen wom-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-15
Naming the Waits of London.

Mr. Tucker is poor guardian OF the city
of London. He recently raised trenen-
dous row because the clerk of the board had
named founding William Tucker Fins
bury. a subsequent inquiry showed that
most of London's waits have received the
names of distinguished men, and there is a
demand for reforma;, I in the system Of
labelling the little unforrunates.
The life of true man cannot De IRE OF
mere pleasure; 1t must be above all things
a life Of duty.
The one who viii De found in trial capa-
BILE OF great acts OF love Is ever the one who
Is always doing considerable small ones.
Industry is essentially social No man
can improve either himself or his neigh Dor
without neishborIy help: and TO better the
world is 60 set the world to work together.
The secret Of the so-caued lucky man 8
luck will. with some exceptions, of course.
be found in something he has thoughtfuIly.
calculatingly done, and not in tumble OF
accidents
Labor Is life. successful labor Is life and
glgdness; and successful labor with hugh
aims and just objects brings the fullest,
truest and ha2piest lie that can be lived
upon the earth.
No man can say whether he is rich or
poor by turning TO his ledger L is the
heart that makes the nnsn rich He Is rich
or poor according 10 what he Is, not accord
ing 10 what he has
a certain amount of opposition is a great
help TO a man. Kites rise against and not
with the wind. Even head wind is better
than none. No man ever worked his pass
age anywhere in dead .>aln--Mo2treaI
Sta-.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-15

an can escape. Each female of openly
bad repute passes her life as ''une file in
scrite," and is constantly under surveil-
lance. Under no circumstances may she
| look out Of the windows of her residence,
and she must not walk in tie gardens of
the Palais Royal, the Tuileries, the Lux
embourg or the Jardin du ROi. She must
always wear bonnet, dress in decent cos
tune and possess no clothes that are too
gaudy."
But despite all these repressive regula-
tons, the incessant scrutiny of unsupported
spies and the activity of the known agents
of the police, Paris still remains city of
reckless gayety, hideous crimes and gen
eral moral turpitude. Any one who thinks
this statement too sweeping may verify itss
truth by perusal of mon Musee Crimi-
mel, " a book recently published, of which
NJ. Mace, ex-chief of the Paris detective
bureau. is the author. Its pages reek with
the record of cold blooded brutality and
unaccountable bestialitY
What is the result of this disregard of
morality and Of life? La Roquette swarms
with prisoners, many waiting the atten-
tions of Papa Deibler, the headsnan of
Paris, and the famous morgue is never
huge dead house there were displayed dur
ing the year 1889 the corpses Of 900 men,
women and children who had met violent
ends To indicate the desperate extremes
to which the French criminal will go it is
only necessary to cite the world exc
Grated names of Pranzini and Prado, who
were professional slayers and despoilers
of dissolute women; of Troppman, who
killed a mother and her five children; Of
Balthasar, who assassinated his mistress
and suspended her nude corpse from n
hook on the wall forced into her breast,
making her look, as the official report
said, like veal prepared for DRESSING"
and of Eyraud. recently captured in Cuba,
whose deeds as a stranger are known
wherever a newspaper has penetrated.
So it would appear that despite num-
bers, elaborate system, constant espionage
and unremitted activity the enormous po-
lice army of Paris is hardly able to make
record as conservers of order that can
stand comparison with that of any large
constabulary body in England or of any
force in big American city.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-15

POLICEMEN IN SUMMER AND WINTER DRESS.
ance of such duties as fall TO the detectives
under command of Inspector Byrnes in
New York city.
The chef de service de la navigation pos
sesses authority over every boat plying on
the Seine, and has power to regulate what
it shall bring and in what manner it shall
discharge it's cargo.
The chef de service de la salubrite has
dominion over drains of every description
and all plumbing arrangements He also
directs the inspection Of the gas service.
The chef de service des halles ct marches
looks after the provisions of Paris.
Besides these divisions of duty and super
vision there is still another branch of in
spection called the fixed or reimbursement
system. The city is divided into twenty
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, and each reimbursement
into four quarters. That makes eighty
quarters, and in each there is police COM
misssry who has a red lantern over his Of
fee door.
The work of the uniformed guardians of
the peace and gensdarmes is similar to
that performed by the police of every civil
lied city, and includes the duties of pre-
serving order and conserving property.
But they form, as indicated above, only
small part of the great force that moves
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-15
Two Much For Two.

Being thirty miles the shortest line and
ass miles the best one, people insist on buy
ing tickets to Chicago via. the Santa he
route.
This has given our two night trains
Kansas City to Chicago, heavy business.
To further accommodate our friends, we
have just put on a new through express,
carrying day coaches, free chair cars, and
Pullman sleepers at night, leaving Kansas
City 10 a. m, and arriving in Chicago 7:25
a. m. Passengers on this new train have a
daylight ride across Missouri and Iowa.
Remember one thing, that it makes no
difference whether you get into Kansas
City morning or evening, you will find a
Santa Fe train on the track ready to take
you to Chicago or intermediate points in
quicker time than any competing line
e. 7. Nicholson, q. p. & T. A, Topeka,
Kan. J. J. Byrne, y. G. z. A, Chicago.
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