The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-11-25

II DelleVe secretary ddk6'S acLlOD
has saved the financial world from a
disastrous panic. No one who has
been in touch with business enter
priSes during the past few months
can have failed to realize the strin-
gency Of the money Market"
This coming from Russell Sage
in the midst of apparent prospect
ty shows clearly the inadequacy of
the gold standard to conduct the
volume of business in this country
under normal conditions. Watch
closely the remedy the republican
party proposes, which will be in
the form of a bill introduced in
congress on the first day Of the
session. The administration lost
no time in coming to the rescue of
the New York bankers, who ran
their financial barque so close to
the dangerous reefs in their mad
rush to own stock in every trust
organized within the last six
months. The republican party
now proposes to turn the financial
affairs of the nation over to these
same banks. Keep your eyes
open and let your intelligence die.
tate to you the right or wrong of
this measure.
PEOPLE all over the county have
been watching with more or less
interest the appearance of the Le-
onids or shooting stars, for the
past week. Astronomers are at
sea- as to the exact time they are
to appear in the heavens and SO it
has become simply matter Of
conjecture. According to the sci
entists the Leonids are fragments
of planet many times. larger than
ours, which went to pieces about
I26 A. D., and since that time
have been wandering around
through space, giving nightly per-
formances for the benefit of sister
worlds. They have played en-
gagements to the world before, the
last time in 1886, and are just now
careening around in the suns or
bit, disturbed by pulls from Jupiter
Saturn and the earth. This
makes their coming so uncertain.
1t is probable that they have gone
off to one of these other planets
and will call upon us after the
Kentucky election is settled.
RYAN heard "incidently" last
August that the interior depart
ment contemplated the creation of
new forest reserve beginning at a
point where the Clark's Fork river
empties into Pend d'Oreille lake,
thence south to the Occur d'Alene
river; thence east to point in
Montana; thence north to the
Clark's Fork river, thence follow
ing that river to the place of be-
ginning, yet did anyone hear of
him opposing the scheme7 Were
any petitions circulated by him or
any of the federal Office holders in
the county protesting against the
creation Of this new reserve? If
any protest was ever made The
SILVER BLADE did very wrong in
accusing Mr.. Ryan of having a per-
sonal object in its creation.
"THE map l did outline for
Commissioner Herman, says Will
liam Ryan, sis now in possession
of Superintendent of Forest Re-
serve Glendenning." Query:
Did Mr., Glendenning receive an
inspiration from this map when he
said he could put all of kootenai
county on tire Priest River reserve
if he desired, for he had the adj
ministration behind hilna
If Mrs. Mildred Dewey is as
homely as the engraving published
by the Spokane evening chronicle
of last Tuesday represents her to
be, the admiral is deserving of
more praise for his daring bravery
than the American people have
ever yet bestowed upon him.