The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-11

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sioner as anyone else; and that com
missioner receives heavy vote mean
nothing more than that real abilit,
and capacity for public service cut
no figure if sly financial interests Sc,
an opportunity to get in some quie
work to serve mercenary ends Will,
the thoughtless public is excited
about something else. But we ar,
glad the bridge will be made safe anc
will no longer be neglected upon 8
bubble as TO ownership.
When the World man intimates
that some special attack has beer
made upon McCune, while similar
or equally deplorable conditions have
been ignored when applying to the
opposite political faith, he falls into
mistake which seems scarcely pos
sible under his long residence here
and familiarity with local history.
We have ever been prone to kick when
things we're wrong without stopping
to learn If anybody had pulled that
particular string, and the Signal has
always been an untrammeled journal,
owing subservience to no while
on the other hand 1T Is well known
that the World and It's predecessor,
the Record, had inception and was
born out of the desire in certain
quarters for subservient organ, and
political contributions and backing
have kept the palladium on deck from
the start. There's one thing always
disgusts us-that is to see the sorry
and common spectacle of Jim Crow
sheets in neighboriDg localities whin-
ing and snarling, like dog over a
bone, about some little dab of county
printing that wouldn't run a respec-
table journal three months. When
we see little 2x4 headed rats jabber-
ing over something of that kind as
though it was the grease of the uni
verse and never a thought shining
from the muddy pages of the miser
able specimens they are pleased to
call papers, we always think that it
is no wonder few have to make
mighty effort to keep what should be
an elevated profession from falling
into utter contempt and disrepute.
1t is disgrace to any profession
that men; small minded and small
'ouled enough to cut their cloth 5y
such a measure, can find room to
i've in it. 1t takes bigger men and
broader, to make newspapers, than
hose whose estimate of anything is
BASED on some petty little consldera-
ION like that. Give the Signal the
eaders of the county for friends and
PATRONS Gas it has) and the 90 day
ecruits may continue receiving the
op of little, narrow officials whose
mall political prejudices are para
Mount to other considerations, but
Tho are eager to reap the benefits to
property interests served by the Sig
al. 1t has been no matter of spe-
lal dispondency on our part and we
ave not complained over the matter
nd have taken no concern about It.
what the World has charged or
asn't charged for work. The World
GEMS to be the only one fussino
oout something which the Signal |
IS no time to waste on, and what
larges have been made by the
'orld has not occupied our attention.
e suppose they are reasonable,
ut it is so well known what pill (
ring, sponging cuss we are that it is j
use denying that this great insti- {
ton has been fattening on deep. {
'rk graft for years and years, to the '
'clusion of all other papers, and If '
ust follow that pam over the sepa s
ton is nightmare that keeps us t
rake nights and is the cause for
e holes showing in the commissions c
s thin hide Though, that editor
'ckwood' admitted as much to Nc e
Inc is another error on the part of c
e commissioner, which seem TO t
me easy 10 that able and broad v