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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
ADOPTING OUR VIEWS.

Occasionally country newspaper,
even one OF the sage brush press
variety, is fOrehanded in the matter of
discovering great economic principles.
Three years ago THE TRIBUNE par.
ticipated in a bit of discussion with
an eminent local prohibitionist. The
gentleman took the ground that the
vendor Of intoxicants is the culpabls
party while THE TRIBUNE maintained
that the vendee is the prime criminal.
Now comes Prof. John Graham Brooks
OF Boston lectuFing to the Ninstsanth
Century Club, saying: 1.-THE lesson
that must be impressed is that when
We buy thing we make that thing.
When you buy thing that is bad, yon
create 1t, not the man who manufact-
1res it. Just to the extent
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27

100000 tons OF beets running IA FER
cent, and from the same quantity run
ming II per cent, would be 5000 tons Of
sugar, which at 81 cents per pound
would amount to $4,000 and tine ad-
ditional expense Of manufacturing
would be very trifling. This is an in
dication of the advantage which our
farmers would have over foreigners.
We believe enough has been said to in
dictate the vast possibilities Of sugar
beet culture, and to encourage the
farmers of this section to earnestly in
vestigate and thoroughly experiment.
We believe this climate is peculiarly
adapted to raising the sugar best and
that mighty impulse will be given to
the industry in the next few years.
The United States can not always af-
ford to be dependent on foreign and
commercially unfriendiy nations for
one of the prime necessities Of life.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
THE JERFMTADS.

Tho Standard has been deeply
touched by the loud lamentations
which have issued from the throats Of
the silver Jeremiads oyer Senator Du.
bois' downfall. No grief equaling
theirs has been witnessed since the
Prophet jeremiah composed his songs
of lamentatiOn and his bowels were
troubled for Ephriam. But we say
unto these Jeremiads; Refrain thy
voice from weeping, and thine eyes from
tears. Be not like Rachel, weeping for
her children and refusing to be com.
fOrted. The vintage shall not always
fail, though the summer is past and
the harvest is not; yet, shall ys not al.
ways lament for the teats, for tho
pleasant fields and for the fruitful
vine. Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall
rule in judgment. Then lament
not, saying our bowels, our
bowels! We are panied at our
heart; and there is doleful rumbling
in our bowels, as of the east wind.
Hear ye not the voice crying afar of
0, my JeremiadS, beloved sons OF woe
and melancholy! be not cast down!
The light breaketh in the east and the
morning comSth. The time is near at
hand when from your lOins the sack
cloth shall be ripped and ye shall DO
made glad with the fairness of office;
and ye shall pull the teat and suck Joy
and abundance therefrom. There.
fore, 60 ye forth to meet the feast with
singing and dancing, with tarbets, with
joy, and with instruments of music.
Dubois is not lost, Btrayed OF stolen.
Yet a few days and he will come again
to dry your eyes and wipe your noses.
Pick up your lip, o, JeremiadS, and be
merry.-Oneida Standard.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27

after he would be a Democrat. One
result of the facile Senator's prOclama-
ton was a gentle wave of soothing Joy
which spread over the state from the
snow capped crests of Bear Lake to
the 49th parallel on the north W st
boundary. As the most accute and dis
interested observer had been unable
to tell what Dubois was during the
past two years, everybody was relieved
to know what he expected to be.
Some men occupy so much space in
public affairs that the whole social or
ganism continues In a state Of vio-
lent fermentation while those men are
In an unsettled or discomposed condi-
tioR. Thus it had been in Idaho dur
ing the political decomposition of SEN
atOr Dubois. With his Pocatello an
nouncment the internal commotion
subsidized and the commonwealth sank
into blIssful repose. But the acrobat
ic Senator spoke at Pocatello without
due deliberation, and without that pro-
phetic insight into his own intentions
which heretofore has enabled him to
predict with reasonable accuracy his
future revolutions for as much as ten
minutes before the event. The incom-
parable Fred had scarcely made his
debut at the National Capital In his
new rolO when 10 and behold he shook
Off his Democracy together with the
other Idaho debris which had accu
mulated upon his sacred person and reg
isterod himself second on the revised
Silver Republican directory. And over
his own illustrious signature wit
messed by ten other illustrations he
a6irmS a proprietary interest in Re-
publicanism and declares that his soul
is en- rapport with the ancient inStitu-
ton. As the original and fundamental
business of Republicanism was to
smash Democracy, 1t may be seen what
a tremendous whizz the nimble Sena-
tor has taken since his coat tails tapped
across the Idaho line. It is quite
enough to make one dizzy to watch
Senator Dubois political gyrations.
A buzz saw could barely mark talley
for him; yet, some Idaho folks are dis.
locating every joint in their bodies try
ing to keep pace with his whorl. We
await the next convOlution with bated
breath.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
THE JUNKET.

We do not think that the railroad
people designed to bribe or unduly in
fuence the legislature when the free
excursion to Salt Lake City was ar
ranged. The railroad men simply
wanted to place themselves on friendly
and sociable terms with the statesmen
of Idaho. 1t was evident that some of
the statesmen had imbibed false no.
tiOns respecting railroads and railroad
affairs in general and the officials Of
the Oregon Short Line wanted to purge
them, so to speak. No doubt this
social function, known as the legisla-
tive junket, will result in great good.
Railroad officials are elegant entertain
ers and POpOCrats are delightful enter.
tainees, We believe now that so far
as the Idaho legislature is concerned,
it is quite safe and agreeable to observe
that corporations are not wholly and
essentially bad, and that at this time
any anti-railroad legislation would be
extremely unwise. We rather suspect
that the vOracity of the Hon. Corpora
ton Destroying JONES has been ap-
peascd in great measure and that in
future his vials of wrath will contain
gentle sedatives instead of violent
irritants.. We believe also that the
jnnket will have tendency to incline
the PopOcratic ear to the gentle voice
OF hard commonsese and lead him to
regard inlammatory attacks upon cap
ital, even of the corporate variety, as
more suitable to the field of political
campaign than the halls of legislation.
Nevertheless it is apprehended that
the people at large will not take cor
daily to the junket. Already suspi.
ciOus whisperings are abroad and the
impression is taking root that the Popo-
Gratis have been enticed from the paths
of rectitude by the Establishments Of
the Octopus. Some super suspicious
individuals pretend to detect traces of
the venom of the money. power in the
cadaVer of the railroad bill. Others 20
so far as to aver that the oligarchy of
pelf has corrupted the fountains of
legislation, and that the trail Of the
Red Dragon has defaced the fair pro.
portions Of the body polite. These, of
course, are mere vaporings-the dis
torted pigments Of diseased brains. The
simple facts in the case are that the
Popocrats have learned q little sense
in the past six weeks and determined
to celebrate the astonishing acquisition
with a Jolly iunket at railroad and pub
lie expense.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
LAST APPEAL,

The legislative session is rapidly ap-
preaching its end and it is cOnsoling
to reflect that as yet nothing seriouly
harmful has been done. However,
there is always danger during the last
agonizing thToss. 1t is hoped, there
fore, that a few cool heads will be on
the watch towers. There is perhaps
nothing before the legislature now so
pregnant of mischief as the bill to rO-
wise, amend and destroy the district
irrigation law. It is the ferVent wish
of every disinterested friend of irriga-
ton that the law now upon the statutes
shall not be seriously tempered with.
At the utmost, nothing should be done
to alter the general plan of that law.
Possibly few minor details could be
changed to advantage, particularly
along the line of looping off a few
supernumeraries A board of trustees
or directors consisting of three or five
members and secretary are all the
officers necessary to the proper con.
duct of an irrigation district. There
should be no more. Those officers
should receive such compensation as
the people of the district may elect to
pay them. AS there should not be any
thing of political nature connected
with the subject of irrigation, this ap.
peal to the legislature not to NEEDLE
with the existing law is made with con-
fidence that it will be needed. The or
ganization of districts should be as
simple and inexpensive as possible and
the control after organization should
be vested in local officers. A state
board of control can add nothing to
the efficiency Of an irrigation district,
but it Will make the work of organiza.
ton more complicated and expensive.
Besides it viii impose upon people not
even remotely concerned the cost of
maintaining q useless bureau whose
whole business will be of the red tape
variety. The officers of the proposed
state bureau being appointed by the
chief executive are liable to mischiev.
Gus political influences. They will re-
ceive appointment for political services
and be removed for "active partisan
ship. Let us all hope and pray that
the cool heads which ought to sit on the
watch towers win put their foot upon
the neck of the State Board of Control
and the Valise of Irrigation.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27

1t has been found that the wheelman
compose a very considerable and re.
spectacle element of taxpayers in each
community, and city authorities have
readily acceded to the justice of the de-
mand that when they are denied the
privilege of the sidewalk they should
have exclusive right to some part OF
the street They pay fair proportion
of the cost of maintaining roads and
constructing sidewalks, and as they
compose so large portion of every
municipal community, they are entitled
to fair recognition. However, in vii
lagos and the less densely populated
districts of towns aud cities, even these
restrictions are not imposed, every re-
quirement of comfort and safety being
secured by limitation and regula-
ton ordinances. In the infancy
of most towns, the bicycle has
been obliged to contend with
more or less well.founded prejudice.
This prejudice has often been awakened
by the recklessness and arrogance Of
wheelmen who were pulled up with
contemplation or their rare dexterity
and the proprietorship of a swift and
glittering machine. But pride goeth
before fall and these crudities of
pioneer bicycle days have passed away,
The wheelman is no longer overcome
with sense of superiority. He real
ICES that people who walk have rights
which they are we'll able to protect and
which lis profitable to respect. There
fore, the wheelmen cheerfully submit to
such limitations and regulations as
safety and comfort of the community
at large require. Indeed, so sensible
are wheelmen to reasonable restrictions
that they have become thoroughly or
ganized for the purpose of enforcing
such ordinances as apply to bicycles
There is no good reason for outlaWing
bicycles. In regulating them the prin.
ciples of common sense and Justice
should control. In villages the acct.
dents resulting from them, excluding
such as effect only the riders, are ex,
tremely few and rarely indeed serious
even when there are no, or very lax
regulations. BY excluding wheelmer
from the business thoroughfares, and
providing necessary safeguards against
such accidents as may occur, there is nc
reason why bicycles should occasion
! either harm or apprehension. The
Mayor and Common Council of Cald
we'll should carefully attend the prayer
and grant the reasonable petitions Of
the Caldwell Bicycle Club.
CYCI Il
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
MAKE IT THOROUGH AND EFF,
FECTlvE.

The legislative investigating commit
tee is reported to have discovered ir.
regularities in the accounts of Ex. Gov
error Mcconnell and Ex.SeCretary
Garrett. 1t is said that Mcconnell was
allowed several hundreds of dollars for
clerk hire when he had no clerk EN-
ployed and that Garrett collected be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 in fees which he
failed to account for. If the commit.
tee has made the reported discoveries,
THE TRIBUNE hopes that the ex. officers
will be promptly proceeded against &C.
cording TO law. We have no sympathy
whatever for thisviug public officers,
especially If they be Republicans. Let
the legislative investigation be most
searching and exhaustive, and IL pecu-
lations or frauds of any description
are found, let the culprits DO made
to suffer the extreme penalty. In
common justice, however, con-
domination of these officers should be
withheld until the report Of tie inves,
tlgatlng committee has been judicially
passed upon. There are persons as.
sisting in the investigation whose un.
supported statements can not be i'm.
plicit0ly relied ION and even were this
not true, the fact remains that one pur.
pose Of the investigation is political,
therefore, there are reasonable grounds
to suspect exaggerations II not actual
Misrepresentation. Now that this in
vestigation has been undertaken, and
very properly so, and report charging
retired officers with crime has been
made, the public will insist that the
criminals be brought to justice or the
investigating committee acknowledge
themselves most damnable vilitiers. A
point has been reached where Messrs.
Mcconnell and Garrett must be legally
convicted and punished or publicly
exonerated. The people demand :his
and more particularly does the Repub-
lican party demand it.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27

that we make ourselves realize that we
make the things which we buy we shall
do as much as we conceivably may to
help the world to a sounder and clearer
morality. When THE TRIBUNE ad-
vanced exactly the same doctrine two
or three years ago, our controversial
friend, the prohibiCionist, was not a
little aghast and fastened to spread the
insinuation that all the degenerates
were not out side of the newspaper
business. But now we have celebrat-
ed BoStOnesO to back our theory and are
recOmpeuced and happy. This reminds
as of something else of a similar tenor.
When George L. Shoup was Governor
and a candidate for Senator, the
writer insistsd that it was bad bust
ness and maintained that a man who
was elected governor ought to remain
governor until the expiration of his
term Of Office. That was upwards of
six years ago. At that time we were
assailed with much bitterness, especi-
ally by the Republican press, and
charged with being the hireling of other
candidates. But we adhered to our
doctrine and were gratiied year ago
to find that the people of Utah had in
corporated a provision in their state
constitution making the governor in
eligible to election for any other Office
during his term of Office as governor.
And now many Of the great New York
daily newspapers are taking the
ground that we did six years ago and
using percisely the same arguments.
Some day the rule will become general
that men elected to an office shall be
disqualified for any other office during
the time for which they were elected
in the first place, and it will be wise
and just rule. And the time will also
come when people more thoroughly I'M
derstand that he who buys thing, in
effect, makes it and is wholly respon-
sible for any evil which may result
from the purchase. 1t should be I'M
derstOOd that the purchasers of bad
thing are the original tempters and al
together the hardest to resist. He who
offers money for vicious thing en-
coruages vice and seduces men from
virtue. He is by far the greatest Grim
inal because money is the most potent
thing in this world.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27

or Steunenberg or anV one financially
interested in the Record. 1t is the bust.
ness of every concern and individual to
make as much money as possible In a
legitimate way. If the people elect
men to office who are willing to disre.
gard the public interests in a desire to
promote the welfare of newspapers,
that is q matter to be settled between
the people and those Obliging officials.
THE TRIBUNE has not even ventured
to say that the Record is receiving
more than it conscientiously desires to
have. We simply contend that the
Commissioners can not lay any credit
able claim to economical inclinationS
while paying S147 for that which they
might have received for $50.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
4 DAY WITH THE PRESIDENT

Ex-President Harrison has written
of A Day With the President at His
Desk" for the March Ladies' Home
Journal. The article is said to be sin
gularly interesting in the detail with
which II descrihes the Wearisome rou-
tine of the President It is said that
General Harrison, in this article, has
delivered himself with great directness
and VigOr, relative to the annoyances
that are visited upon = Chief EXecu.
tive by persistent office. seekers, and he
suggested a unique plan, by which the
Presidents burdens in that direction
may be greatly lightened, and he be en-
abied to devote more attention to more
important matters. A feature of
the article that will have a timely
interest to those ambitious to serve the
country under the incoming admins
teation, describes very fully how the
PRESIDENT makes appointments to Office.
IA Day With the President at His
Desk" is unique in being the first time
that the daily life of the President has
been described by one who has filled the
exalted office. Articles upon the social
and domestic life of the President BY
General Harrison will follow In sue
cessiVe Issues Of the Journal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
COMMEMORATE SILENCE.

Our esteemed neighbor has ceased try
ing to defend the County Commissioners
for letting the public printing to the
highest bidder. For this action, or
rather inactiOn, it is deserving of much
commentator. Under no circum
stance should newspaper engage in
the defense of palpably indefensible
proposition. No one ever accused the
record of completely in the action of
the board, and it was only an unforu.
nate incident that the Record happened
to be Governor Steunenberg's personal
organ. Therefore, when the commits
sloners were justly criticised for doing
perfectly reprehensible thing, the
Record, If it felt under obligations to
withhold its eeOsure, should have main.
tanned a discreet if not disinterested
silence. It's attempt to shield the com
missioners under the cloak of precedent
Which had not aroused criticism was
conspicuously unhappy. In the first
place, the present board was expressly
commissioned to overturn established
precedent wherever found for the very
sufficient reason that its predecessors
were accounted eKtravagant if not dis.
honest. In the next place. in the only
other case in the history of this county
when competing bids were submitted
by publishers, the contract was award.
ed to the lowest bidder. THE TRIBUNE
desires to be distinctly understood al
no fault whatever with Govern.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
STILL PERFORMING,

When Senator Dubois left Idaho he
was in temper and is reported to have
expressed himselfhas At Pocatello,
where his farewell Grafton eliminated
and his valedictory was pronounced, he
is charged with having said that there.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27

Preaching service at the usual hour
on the coming Lords Day morning at
Ghe Christian church, by the pastor,
j. Charles Bowling.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-27
GOOD ENGLISH HADs

Mamma, if had hat before had
this one it's all right to say that's the
hat had had, isn't itP"
Certainly, Johnny"
And If that hat once had hole in it
ana l had 1t mended I could say it had
had a hole in it, couldn't I?"
Eyes"
Then, it'd be good English to say
tnat the hat had had had had hole
in it, wouldn't itP"
Johnny you make my head ache
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

| Ample protection for wool" The wool
growers of the country. he continued,
are indignant over this treatment OF
their interests and warn the Republic
cans that they must change the pro-
posed rates or they will lose the support
of this numerous element in ensuing
campaigns.
He asserted that the Mckinley law
had not afforded the necessary protec-
ton to the wool growers and quoted
statistics to prove the assertion H.
charged that it was full of loop-holes
permitting fraud and evasions and was
especially emphatic in his h.nunciation
Of the ad valorem duties proposed on
third-cass woods.
Mantle was followed by Butler VINO
spoke on the income tax. Butler had
no sooner started than he was involved
in a lively colloquy with Cullom, H.
The North Carolina senator referred at
the outset to recent supreme court de-
cisions on the income tax and on the
antitrust law. He added an expia as
sion of surprise at the indecent haste
with which the pooling bill was being
urged before Congress. immediately
dittT lHc uetlSlou Oh lle supreme court
on the antitrust law.
This aroused Cullom, chairman of the
interstate commerce commission now
considering the pooling bill, to a spirited
reply The senator from North Caro-
lima was making statements about
which he knew nothing, said Cullom
Inc pooling III had been before Con-
gress for months before the supreme
court decision and it sought to
strengthen the Interstate law. He re-
scented the statement of indecent
haste" and said such a characterization
was misrepresentation of facts.
Chiffon, Texas, another member of
the Interstate commerce committee.
here took a hand in the controversy
joining issues with Cullom. Chiffon
said he had been on the committee for
two years and he had never known of
the pooling bill being pressed until
after the supreme court decision
against railway pooling. He differed
in toto he said. from the chairman of
the committee that the pooling bill
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05
IN THE SENATE.
Mantle Speaks on Wool and Butler for an
Increased Tax.

Washington, June 4.-The Senate had
period of speech making. today. and
as result little progress was maue
on the tarnl bill. The advance coy
cred about two pages Of seven para
graphs. and brought the Senate up to
the wood schedule, the first item OF
watch was considered but not COM
pleted
Mantle, Mont, spoke fer two hours
on the wool schedule. urging increased
rates for the wcol grower and Butler.
y. c., made a plea in behalf Of an in
come tax.
Mantle spoke at length, in favor of
protection t. the wool growers
The great majority of wool growers Of
the country, he said. are protectionists
ana Republicans; most Of them are be
levers in The free coinage of gold and
silver Independently by this country,
but the question of protection and free
coinage having been divided in the last
campaign the wool growers accepting
the pledge contained in the Republican
National platform in favor of "ample
protection fer woGI' ard believing pr5-
tection to be the paramount issue. cast
their votes IN the doubtful state for
President Mckinley and elected him.
The tariff bin as it PASSED the House
and as row amended by the Senate, he
said, utterly fails to inset the expecta-
tons of the wool growers and is re-
garded by them largely as repudia
ton of the Republican pledge of