The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-08
Taxes delinquent yesterday.


J. H. MCGEE and John West,
of Custer, are Challis visitors.
Sampson and Schley both re-
tire this year. 1t is to be hoped
that the discreditable old scandal
will retire with them.
The question that the country
must seriously ask itself nova
days, is whether ''hazing" is or
is not, as dangerous as football.
The cable reports that Lii
Hung Chang has the grip. Pos
sibly it is the one he lost some
months ago but we imagine not.
Not the least crime to be laid
at the doors of the trusts is the
admitted fact that they sell their
goods abroad cheaper than they
Go at home.
1t isn't only in the Philippines
that vessels are continually run
ming on unchartered reefs. The
ship subsidy bill struck one right
here at home.
The President warned Con-
gress to be economical and in re-
ply it is considering the most ex-
travagant river and harbor bill
ever projected. Now let's see
whether Mckinley will have the
nerve to call down its promoters.
1t has been proved beyond
doubt that mosquitoes carry the
germs of yellow fever from one
person to another. 1t has not
yet been proved, however, that
they are the only. or were the
principal means of infection. 1t
is hard to prove a negative.
Sixty odd millions for rivers
and harbors Whew But not
a cent to reclaim the arid lands
of the West The committee
evidently must have come to be-
lieve some of those prosperity
stories that are being circulated
SO freely.
The United States has resum
ed diplomatic relations with Tur-
key by naming a successor tc
Minister Strauss, but, it refuses
to admit that the missionary
claim has been settled. Well, If
may, for the settlement has been
through a discreditable bargain
and sale agreement to which il
has consented but to which it is
thoroughly ashamed.
1t is a little queer that Grover
and Mr.. Harrison agree in regard
to the constitutional relations oi
the colonies" to the United
States. And it further seems
most likely that at least five Out
of the nine justices of the Sup
RENE court agree with them,
Now, suppose the Supreme court
declares that there can be nc
taaiff barriers between the Unit
ed States and the Philippines
what then !? What will the Re
publicans do Consent to fire,
/ trade or ssScuttle" out of the
islands ?
The Idaho Midland, which was
to go through with such a rusl
in the event of the reelection O
Mckinley, has already gon'
through. To use a common ex
preston. it has fallen through.
| 1t s'fell fiat" If the election hat
anything to do with it, and it
promoters said the result of tn
election would have all to d.
with it, the reelection of McKin
ley has had the opposite effec
from that so hopefully anticipat
ed. We never did believe muc
in the result of elections affect
ing railroad building. but leadin
and supposedly responsible re
sponsible and truthful republi
cans, the kind that peer into th
future and see things that are il
visible to the common herd, con
fidentialy proclaimed to con
tiding public that the election {
Bryan would mean the collaps
of the Midland. Mckinley wa
elected and it collapsed immed
, ately thereafter, but the author
ative announcement thereof wa
only recently made. 1t woul
seem that these prophetic reput
licans must now accept the logic
al result of their own reasoning
and admit that if elections affeC
railroad building, the re-electio
of Mckinley killed the Midland
If they refuse to do that the
must admit that as prophets the
have fallen as fat as has th
Midland. But if Bryan had bee
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