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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-08

Capt. Gum, Of the Boise Senti-
mel, has certainly gone into the dog
business. A couple OF weeks ago
he entertained the readers OF his
mighty, highly moral and re-
lglous paper with an elaborate dis
seriat:on upon the particular kind
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-08

Monday last the Idaho legisla-
ture commenced its biennial task
OF law making, law breaking, clerk
getting and salary drawing for six
" days.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-08

1t may be possible to buy a
United States Senatorship with
money. but it is impossible to buy
either brains or honor with it.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-08

Published every Friday at ~noshone,
Lincoln County, Idaho, by The
Journal Printing Company.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02
Where R.spou slbllI.y Rests.

A correspondent recently defended
the tendency of certain elements in this
country to war against the ''constitut-
ed authorities" What does thatmean?
1t means, in fact, that the king advises
his subjects to war upon himself. No
citizen of the United States should for
get that the people are sovereign here,
and that the constituted authorities"
were so constituted by him and are
simply his agents and servants.
Who has put the reins of power into
the hands of this most INSCRIPTIONS
gang of political rascals that ever dis
graced Illinois? The people of Illinois
did it, and they must forever bear the
opprobrium which attaches to their act.
The people were warned by Republi-
can leoders as well as the Democratic
of the nature of the of the gubernator-
ial candidate and his following. It was
not the Republican party alone that
elected him, as the votes of the past
election testify; all the people share in
the inglorious results of that cam
paign.
Where does the responsibility rest
for the malfsasance, the bribery, the
corruption, the public plumber, that
today is shaking the nation to its very
foundations? Upon the individual
voter who fails to do his duty. Parti-
san politics, selfish interests, personal
ends sought for these have produced
degree of moral astigmatism that have
blinded the people TO the truth and led
them to elect to public place men who
seek their own welfare only while they
profess to serve the people.
Let US cease to talk about what the
government does or does not do, and
remember that we are the government.
If, for the moment, organized pluto
cracy, with its all corrupting hand, is
in power, it is so because we permit it
to be so. When American citizens,
quitting their prejudices, refusing to
be blinded by the dust thrown in their
eyes by designing politicians, march as
one man to the ballot box and elect
their best and noblest fellows to office,
the government-the Constituted aL-
thority"-will be of and for and by the
people in very truth.-Farmer Voice.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02

has not so far been decided. tits there
fore, necessary that precedent be
made. The court thinks that the crea-
ures created by the state should be
controlled by the state which created
them.
IF there is NO power IN the courts to
control them, as claimed by defendants
then the sooner the courts quit and
turn everything to the corporations the
better, as they seem to be getting
greater than their creator.
$40 me it looks as though the roads
had taken advantage of this opportun-
ity when shipments were greatest to
change the rates for their own advan-
tage,
81 think the state is greater than the
corporations, and has power to enforce
the orders promulgated by the board of
railroad commissioners. The injunc-
ton is granted"
After the decision was rendered Judge
Kellogg, on behalf OF the roads, asked
that the companies be given time to
arrange their freight schedules in &C
cordance with the decision of the court.
He asked for at least ten or fifteen
days.
The court answered that the only
rates recognized by the court were the
old schedules of rates by car lots, and
the only thing necessary was to notify
the officials to place the old schedules
in operation. He would place the time
to take effect AT Sunday at midnight,or,
rather, to be more specific, Monday
morning at o'clock,
Several other motions and amend
ments were submitted by Judge Kel-
logg, but all were oyerruled by the
pOurt
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02
WnrsaofConIN Iinnra.

1t is probable that the average rate
of wages paid to coal miners in Ohio
fairly represents the rate paid through
out the bituminous coal regions. 1t is
higher than the Pittsburg rate, but not
higher than other local rates. The
late official report of the mine inspector
of that state is record of fact as to
wages. About 90, 900 men were employ
ed last year in the Ohio coal mines.
OF this number, 1920 were 'picl1"
miners, $40 were employed in operat-
ing digging machines, and 4,356 were
machine followers, blasting and load
ing machine mined coal. OF 3,OOO,OOO
tons of coal mined in the state, about
three-fourths was dug out with picks.
The following was the rate of wages
per day for the Varisous classes of
miners:
For pick miners, per day .........s1,47
For machine followers, per day =. 100
For machine operators, per day. 3.45
But none of the miners had work
more than part of the time. These
wages were earned only when the men
were fully employed Last year the
'pick" miners were idle fully six
months, and the machine miners were
idle seven months. So the daily rate
of wages does not indicate the actual
amount of money that was earned.
The total amounts received by the
various classes of mines for the year
were as follows.
Yearly amount paid to pick min
ers, eaeh......... ...........s22L55
Yearly amount pnid to machine
followers, each. ....... 90. 24O.65
Yearly amount paid to machine
operators, each. ........ 455. 40
Deducting the machine operators,
who are less than one in forty Of the
miners of all classes, the average week.
wages of Ohio miners is s434. The
sum expended on the system of the
''pluck me" stores constituted the
means of support for each miner and
his family. No wonder they strike
Think of mau supporting himself
and wife and family on s434 a week
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02
SILVER AND WHEAT.
THE REASON WHY THEY ARE NOT
ToeERHER NOW.
we do Not Have 60 Contend With the
wheat ofsilver Using Countries This
Year and England is Not Buying our
silver to Exchange for Wheat.

Because silver has been falling in
bullion value of late and wheat rising
gold monometallists are jubilant and
think that they have an unacceptable
answer to the bimetallist contention
of correspondence between the gen
eral fall of wheat and silver prices
during the past twenty years, as indi7
Gated by the index numbers OF Scot
beer and other economists.
The truth is in nutshell One OF
the chief reasons for the decline in
market value of American wheat has
been the competition Of silver using
countries like India and Argentina.
While the wheat production of both for
years has been advancing with rapid
strides, and the exchange value OF sill
yer in London has been dropping con-
tinually, the silver value ofagricultur-
al labor and products in those coun-
tries has been stationary. In India
and Argentina an ounce of silver would
buy bushel of wheat in 1895, when an
ounce OF silver was worth, say so cents
exactly as it would in 1885, when it
was worth dollar in gold. g.
Here is where the British commercial
shrewdness came in to crush the Ameri-
can agricultural interest and make it
the toiling, payless slave of English
markets. AS soon as Great Britain sue
ceeded IN destroying the parity of
American silver with gold London be-
gan to buy our deprecated bullion and
exchange it for East Indian and South
American wheat Every cent that
American silver fell per ounce was a
cent saved on the purchasing price of
wheat. But the demand for our silver
for this purpose of exchange served to
keep it at higher value compared with
the price of wheat at Liverpool as long
as that demand lasted. Naturally,
when the crop failures occurred in In
dia, and the comparative shortage of
recent time In Argentina, the demand
fell off and silver became further de-
pressed, while necessary resort to the
wheat production of the United States
to make good the shortages and fail
ures of wheat elsewhere in the world,
enhanced the price of that commodity
compared with silver bullion.
1t is to the advantage Of the Ameri-
can farmer that cosmic crop conditions
are likely to preserve, perhaps to in
crease, that disparity for another year
to come. At the same time it is not
well that he, or the rest of us, should
allow himself to be confused or deluded
by specious arguments of the gold in
terest. When, in the course of natures
providence, normal conditions return,
and the competitive power of other
wheat producing countries is at work
again, we shall see the same old state
of things. England will bear our sill
yer and buy it to exchange for the
wheat of silver countries, and so re-
commence the operation of destroying
our farmers.
The illustration presented in the cur
rent and doubtless temporary rise of
wheat and fall of silver is one of the
strongest arguments for reconciliation
that well could be conceived. Wash
ingtou Times.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02

and working thousand feet under
ground to earn it
And who profits by these atrocious
robberies9 A few scamps who organ
ize a trust and put up the price of
coal, and plumber the poor devils, who
have to pay the exorbitant price de-
manded or see their families freeze to
death.
Is there any fate too bad for such
rascals?-The Representative.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02
A Matter Of Choice.

Discussing the conditions of the coal
miners, one of them said to reporter:
''We can starve to death as we'll With
out work as with il, and the dying is
easier"
This suggests the marrow Of the
whole industrial problem If all our
energies are taken up in getting the
barest kind of living-a living On q
level no higher than that of a beast
a living, meagre as it is, to be won only
by such toll and privation that there
is left to us no energy to put into the
development of the humane and artistic
elements of life, then life is not worth
living. And If these conditions are, as
we are told, inevitable and permanent,
then is suicide justi6able for the indi-
vidual and determination merciful for
the race.
give me liberty, or give me deathr
cried Patrick Henry, and all the nation
for 100 years has applauded. Let Us
make the sentiment more expansiveS
"Better and uninhabited wilderness
than nation of slaves. Labor World
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02
NOTES FROM THE NEW TIME.
Wage. in America and Foreign countr

Wages in America and Foreign Countries
In his article on wages" in the Chi
cago Records ''Summer School" Pro-
lessor Frederick w. Spiers quotes
from the National Bureua of Labor's
table to show the real cause of the
higher wages paid in the United States
than are paid in other countries. TAX
ing typical establishments in four diff
ferent countries producing bar iron
under conditions as near alike as pos
sible, the Labor Bureau found the av7
erage rate of wages and the cost of
production as shown below. The labor
cost is obtained by the number of tons
produced during that time, which gives
the wages cost per ton:
Averag L b o T t a
wage for cost of l cost of
astahlish tOn ~ ton N 4
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02
Referendnm on a Rererendum.


Nebraska has passed law which en-.
ables the voters of each city to adopt
the referendum and initiative if they
choose A special election will shortly
be held in Omaha on the question of
the adoption of the plan, and other
cities may also hold similar elections.
The law provides that two-thirds of
the voters shall approve of the plan
for the initiative and referendum before
shall become operative, and it is for
this purpose that the special election
will be held. Should the referendum
be adopted the city will be governed
thus: Ordinances may be proposed by
petition by Is per cent of the voters,
and 20 per cent of the voters may COM
pei the city council and mayor to sub
NIT proposed ordinances to a popular
vote. Ordinances passed by the coun-
Gil, of its own initiative, are not to go
into effect for thirty days, and in the
meantime, should per cent of the vot-
ers ask the submission of the ordinance
so passed, to the people, the same must
be submitted and receive the approval
of majority of the voters to go into
effect. Exceptions are made in the
case of ordinances making provision
for the public peace and health or maxi
ing appropriations Tor current expen-
ditures.
Every man who gels on the wrong
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02

If any man believes that the Dingley
tariff bill is not the handiwork Of the
combined trusts of America, let him
study the schedules of that measure in
connection with list of the trusts that
are now hourishing despite the Sherman
antitrust law. Every trustmentioned
in the list below secures an increase
from the Dingley law, the increases
running from 10 to IS per cent. From
the sugar trust to the writing paper
trust, all the combined hordes of cor
porate greed have secured what they
asked for,and because they are enabled
to declare larger dividends by reason
of increased price without increased
cost, every protection paper in the land
is declaring that prosperity has come
to all the people. Look at the array
of trusts:
Oilcloth trust. Marble trust.
Sandstone trust Match trust.
Carpet trust. Paper bag trust
Clothes wringer trust Plate glass trust.
Dental tools trust. Pocket cutlery trust
Lager beer trust. Pulp trust.
Lead pencil trust. Rubber gossamer
Patent leather trust. trust.
Watch case trust. Rubber trust
White lead trust. Safe trust.
Barbed wire trust. Sanitary ware trust.
Boiler trust Sand paper trust.
Boot and shoe trust. Sash, door and blind
Borax trust. trust.
Broom trust. School furniture
Brush trust. trust.
Button trust Shot and lead trust.
Casket trust. Shelters trust.
Celluloid trust. Soap trust.
Coal trust. Soda trust.
Cotton trust. Water machinery
Duck trust trust.
Cotton thread trust. Trunk trust
Electric supplies trust. Type trust
Writing paper trust.
The Wilson bill gave the sugar trust
a 1913 differeatial The Dingley bill
gives it 1873. The glass trust gets an
increase of 80 per cent. The meat trust
gets from 20 to As per cent on beef, 2S
per cent on preserved meats, and from
10 to 81 per cent on lard. From the top
to the bottom every trust has received
remuneration for the help it gave in
once more boosting the tariff takers
into power. Every laDorer and far
mer should preserve this list Of trusts
and study it in the light shed upon it
by the schedules of the Dingley bill
World Herald,
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02

There was pretty good illustration
Of the way the new tariff bill hits the
North Dakota people, at the meeting
of the directors Of the fair association
Wednesday evening. The question of
erecting an agricultural building was
under discussion, in the course of
which it was brought out that it would
cost about 5000 more to erect the build
ng now than had il been done before
the Republican tariff became a law
$3.50 to 5000 on every farm house in
North Dakota to pass into the pockets
of the lumber trust is pretty heavy
tax for this young state to dig up
Manden independent
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02

glance at the table shows that in
this particular instance the American
workingman, while earning nearly
twice as much as his English brother,
worked so efficiently that his product
cost in labor only 10 per cent more than
the foreign iron. Again we note that
the American manufacturer, paying
three tunes as much as his French com.
petitor for days labor, produced iron
at labor cost less than per cent
greater than the French manufacturers.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02

Every man who gets on the wrong
side Of a public question feels that he
is being lied about by the newspapers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-13
TEMPLE CUP ABOLISHED.
No More Exhibition Games by
League Clubs.

Philadelphia, Nov. 12.-The magnates
Of the National Baseball League at
their meeting today voted unanimously
to abolish the Temple cup series of post
season games. The resolution adopted
prohibits the playing of exhibition
games at any time between national
league clubs. Mr.. Freedman of New
York offered the only opposition to the
adjustment of the Temple cup series,
explaining that he felt his team would
finish close to the top next season and
that he wanted the Temple Cup series
to be continued. He voted, however
with the others for the resolution and
stated afterwards that he would set
aside a sum of $1,000 to be divided
among his men should they finish at
the top in 1898.
A committee was appointed to confer
with Mr.. Temple of Pittsburg, the
donor of the cup, to ascertain his de-
sires as to the disposition of the
trophy.
The notifications submitted by the
minor leagues to the rules relating to
the drafting of players were adopted.
The amended rule provides that no
player in the Eastern or Atlantic
leagues shall be drafted by the major
league until ne has been with the mi
nor leagues two years, and that not
more than two players can be drafted
from the minors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-13
Proposed Sale of the Central Pacific
Receiving Attention.
LAYING OFF TRAIN CREWS
EIGHT DISPENSED WITH ON THE
CENTRAL PACIFIC.
Short Line Will Pay the County
Taxes Under Protest and Bring
Suit-Chicago & Northwestern Re-
funds Indebtedness-The Latest
by Wire-Local Notes.

Washington, Nov. 12.-Hon. William
J. Coombs of New York, who acted in
an advisory capacity to the govern
ment in connection with the sale of the
Union Pacific railroad, is in the city
for the purpose of comforting with the
attorney general respecting the affairs
of the Central Pacific. The conference
is to take place tomorrow. Mr.. Coombs
says he is not aware of what steps
the administration will take to protect
the government interests in the road.
The full amount Of the government S
interest in the road approXinates $45,-
900 000 and Mr.. Coombs believes that
the road would sell at it's full CONNER
cial value
He mentioned the Denver & Rio
Grande, the reorganized Union Pacific,
the Central Pacific third mortgage
bcndholders and stockholders and the
Southern Pacific Railroad company as
corporations and interests which might
bid on the road We're it offered for sale
at public auction.
Mr.. William Solomon, who, it is said
& Co. of New York, had an interview
with Attorney General McKenna today,
presumably for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the governments intention re-
speeding the Central Pacific. Mr.. Solo
mon returned to New York as soon as
the conference was over, and Mr.. Nc
Kenna declined to say anything regard
ing it for publication.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-13

ton of indigestion, nervousness, consti-
patton and general weakness, and en-
dure the consequent loss of health with
out considering how easily the cause of
all this illness might be remedied.
Needful nerve and tissue nOurishment
is at the bottom of all permanent build
ing up of the health.
Paine's celery compound looks out for
the insidious weakening of the nervous
system through malnutrition. 1t gives
a healthy tone to the stomach, increases
the blood supply, quiets and eqalizes
the irritated nerve action and promptly
feeds the tissues when the bodily vigor
is at its lowest ebb, and should not be
further taxed.
The only cure, therefore, for rheu-
matism. neuralgia or general debility
that is lasting in it's good effects must
rest on a radical cleansing of the blood
and a building up of the nervous It's
sues. All this is best done by Paine's
celery compound, because this remark
able remedy begins at the beginning.
wherever there is disease, and estab
fishes the health firmly and beyond any
fear of falling back.
The Worn-out person who cannot
sleep should take Paine's celery COM
pound 1t is folly to imagine that every
hour taken from sleep is san hour
gained. Nothing undermines health
and energy like loss of sleep.
The nervous system suffers as much
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-13

The Rev. James Boyd Brady, pastor
of the Peoples Temple, in Boston, pre-
sides over the destinies of the largest
Methodist church in the country.
Big, candid, Scotch-Irishman that he
is, DR.. Brady has built up the temple
and numerically, and today
he is the pastor of a flock of l, 700
DR.. Brady devotes himself with I'M
tagging courage to anything he under
takes. The chief characteristic of his
ministry has been progress, in number,
financial condition and moral and spir
itual growth. He is a man of plain, but
vigorous words. So much has been said
and written about DR.. Brady-his work,
his progressive methods, his eloquence
and his power as a, minister, that the
following letter from him will be con-
vincing and helpful to many persons
besides the large number who are every
Sunday Influenced for good by his pow
erful preaching. He writes:
Boston, Sept. 81, 1897.
Paine's celery compound, if widely
and wisely used, would relieve nervous
ness, soothe restlessness, reduce sick
ness, strengthen the body, invigorate
the mind, and add years of happiness
to life. JAMES BOYD BRADY,
Pastor Peoples Temple.
The man or woman who does not take
time to get we'll will sooner or later
have to take time to be i'll.
Many live under the needless inflic-