The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

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for Stanley to start the dredger.
He will have full charge of the
boat this season.
st. Petersburg reports that a
Russian officer has built an air
ship after Prof. Langley's pat
tern. and it flies Prof. Lang
ley says he does not think it
probable.
The Board of Ordnance report
ed against the cannon used on
the Iowa and Missouri, yet the
guns were accepted. What ought
to be done with the naval officers
who disregarded the protest
All over the country there is a
protest against the management
of the public schools. Spelling,
arithmetic, geography, history,
and all elementary studies seem
to be neglected and pretence
takes the place of real acquire
ment.
If the reader will listen atten-
lively he will shortly hear rever-
berations of the campaign-re-
publican statesmen going about
the country telling the people
that this has been an economical
session of Congress because it
only spent $500, 100000!
Judge Parker seems to be lead
ing now as the democratic candi-
date; but a month before the
Chicago republican convention
of 1860, it seemed certain that
Seward would be nominated.
Folk of Missouri seems to appeal
to the public somewhat as Lin
coin did.
A plan has been perfected in
Denmark for delivering frozen
milk, fresh and sweet, at a great
distance, London and Paris. 1t
can be sold in those cities for 6
cents per quart. 1t is filtered,
tested, Pasteurized, then frozen,
and simply insulated with straw
when packed for transportation.
In his Ranch Life (pp. 9 and
10 Theodore Roosevelt wrote
that the cowboys were 'brutally
dissipated'' but ''they are much
better fellows and pleasanter
companions than small farmers
or agricultural laborers; nor are
the mechanics and workmen of a
great city to be mentioned in the
same breath"
| Joseph w. Folk, the terror of
boodlers in Missouri, is in some
danger of being sprung upon the
democratic convention as a can
didate for president. He says he
won't have it, but that only adds
to his attractiveness. Several
men have said the same, who
were thereafter obliged to run
and be elected.
In a speech made by Theodore
Roosevelt at the Wool Exchange
in New York City in October,
1896, he said "Mr. Bryan and his
adherents have appealed to the
basest set in the land, the farm
ers." The man who so vicious
} ly traduced the character of the
best type of American citizenship
J now asks their votes
Secretary Taft is going about
the country telling the people
that on no account should the
Filipinos be encouraged to ex
pect independence. He says We
must cease talking about it. HI
announces that the doctrine o+
self government is ''an impos
sible dogma" and a rhetorical
phrase, and the less said abou
, it the better. The English hav,
always talked the same way
| about Ireland.
Senator Lodge defiantly sait
, just before Congress adjourned
I'VE will not revise the tarit
now; we are going straight aheaC
, and when we get ready we viii
, do whatever we see fit TO d.
about these things" In othe
words, 1--WE will do whatever We
please and when we please anc
thus we serve notice upon th,
people of the United States.
This seems to be the accent o
, the boss.
J No workingman should eve
J again object to government b,
t injunction after reading the fol
t lowing from Theodore Roose
: welt, American IDEALS" (Vol
} III, p. 18) Men who object t,
what they style government By
} injunction are. as regards tn,
essential principles of govern