The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-01-02
WHO'S KICKING.

E.
Roebuck-Siegel- Cooper argument
for anyone to attack the sugar bill
passed by the last Idaho legislature,
granting subsidy for all the sugar
made here in Idaho, ON the ground
that we could buy sugar a trifle
cheaper abroad than we can produce
it here at home 1t may be true,
right now when the industry is
starting here. Again, it may not
be so, for buyers from the
great mail order houses don't always
make the saving they think they
do, when they stop to figure in the
freight and the quality of the goods.
But even granting that the sugar
costs little more, it ought to be
better to build up good industry
here at home, that will give employ
ment to hundreds or thousands of
men, and market for many thous-
ands of dollars of farm product.
Some of the newspapers that roar
at the subsidy, are the loudest in
their protests when someone sends
away from their town to have print
ing done because it can be done
better, or cheaper, or both, than in
their shops, Watch and see if they
aren't making the loudest protests"
That is from the Standard, pub
lished at Grangeville, and is about
the only straight out advocacy of
correct Republican principle, touch.
ing the beet sugar bounty, which
has come out of North Idaho. AT
least, it is the only candid express
sion we have had the pleasure to
find in print. The editors up there
have been very unhappy during
the past few months. They feel
that inasmuch as some public Offices
and some public buildings have
been distributed among the sixteen
southern counties, the five northern
ones have been deeply wroneed. |
The great central depot of woe is
Lewiston and the high priest of the
i've congregations of lamenters is
the editor of the Democratic paper
there. His grief, at times, has
been very affecting, and he is so
loyal to 1t. He cherishes his misery
as the most sacred of his possess
sions. He wraps himself in great
shrouds of sorrow, and fills hyper
borean space with the music of
repinings. He casts a melancholy
eye upon us Mormons and lack
rabbits down here, and then emits
a wall that would borrow the souls
OF wheelborrow. It's just awful
the way that man takes on, and if
somebody don't cheer him up, he
Is liable to wilt and die. The
thing whice is eating the joy out of
his life is the richness, fertility, and
all.around magnifcence of the
Potlatch compared to the poverty
oarenness and general dilapidation
OF the southern part of the State
To us poor miserable creatures it
seems that the thing which burdens
the northman with grief ought to
NIL him with cheerful complaisance
but 1t don't, and, for a fact, his
pain Is very contagious for half the
editors in the five congregations Of
lamenters have taken to weepino
almost as copiously as the high
priest. 1t depresses us to contem.
plate great geographical areas of
sadness hence, we seize upon the
cheerful note of the Grangeville
Standard.
The establishment of a sugar
factory at Idaho Fails in Bingham
county does not directly benefit the
people of Occonook in Kootenai
county as much as the people of
Idaho Falls, but, commercially
speaking, 1t does benefit them more
than the establishment of Normal
school or court library at Lewiston,
because the sugar factory does.
through the taxes it pays, contrib.
ute something to the general sup-
port of the State. When peonle
become broad enough to regard the
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