Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-11-18
SENATOR HEPBURN.
All Efforts to iniure the Senator S
Standing will prove a Failure.

OF interest TO ludnoNhS, anu Will +
be found in his place in the Senate
when congress conycnes, more
determined than ever to wage his
fight for the best interests of his
state.
For the past six months most
persistent effort has been made to
break down the prestige OF Senator
Hepburn. The onslaughts have
been as terrific as they have been
persistent. The mediums OF attack
have been the Boise Statesman,
the Spokane Spokesman-Review,
and the Portland Oregonian. The
real assailant remained under
cover, The motives for the war on
Hepburn will develop in due time,
and when it does It will be found
that it has to do with political in
trigue and the cupidity Of big cor
porations.
Senator Hepburn, in opposing
the creation Of forest reserves in
Northern Idaho, represents the
wishes of his constituents. No one
wishes to live alongside Of forest
reserve, the boundary line Of which
marks the end Of civilization and
development and bars all expan-
sion. Sentiment is so pronounced
upon that subject in Northern Koo-
tenai county that if Senator Hey
burn and Senator Dubois would
come up here and canvass the
country, Senator Hepburn would
get every man and woman in this
territory to sign a petition to
restore the Priest River Reserve
and the proposed Kootenai Reserve
to the public domain, and Senator
Dubois could not get single sign
atu- e to his proposition fayoring
the reserves.
In this matter OF forest reserves
Senator Hepburn represents the
interests and wishes OF his consti
tuents beyond all question or ar
gument.
Senator Dubois is now engaged
in a hcrculean effort to get back
] into the Republican party His
object is commendable, but it is t'
be regretted that he could not hav,
come out in a more Straightforward,
manner, rather than trucking Il
the administration, and in mis-
leading the President as to sent
u iment in Idaho on this subject
Had Senator Dubois with the grea
% prestige Ct his Office aided Senate
{ Hey burn in his opposition to tn
E. extension OF forest reserves il
Il Northern Idaho, it is altogeihe
Il likely that this great injury to on
Il state might have been prevcisc,
( Repeal the Communication claus
IS and the Timber and Stone Act
E. necessary, but give North Idah
towns and settlements a chance {
grow and expand All honor
Senator Hepburn for making Il
ID fight for the pcoplel
Is In connection with this fore
m reserve subject, there appeared
H. the press dispatches a few da,
err ago a statement that application
or had been fled with the Interil
of Department for the purchase
e.. 1900, OO0acres of forest reserve Ian
VS. probably timber) and it has be'
re- frequently announced that t
of government was "formulatil
Mt rules whereby the timber cou
or be sold. Who will be the pit
,er chasers of this timber? Who W
Of have the money but the corpora
ON interests? Win a poor man
nd able to buy any of it?
he The forest reserve policy is t
tor most effective scheme ever G,
ceived to prevent the common /
pie from enjoying their herit,
and to turn that heritage over
the capitalization the incepti
eft Of the scheme, when the leu la
ALI steal was perpetrated, down to
present time when it is propo
to reserve" the balance OF
timber lands from the common p
pie for corporate greed, to be 7
Ear. celled out to the capitalists as S,
% their convenience.
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