Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-24

LEA DeAore MN IN Russia, Dut ne mas
never tried to enforce the prohibitory
law in Kansas.-Kansas City Star.
Edwin Markham begins his newest
poem, Thou art the wind and 1 the
Tyre" Oh. well, it's the poets privilege
to lie. Don't feel bad about 1t, Ed
New York Evening Mall.
Uncle Joe Cannon says he has no
Presidential bee in his bonnet In cor
roboration OF this assertion 1t may be
pointed out that he is dropping no
honeyed words on tho subject.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Gar may extract a grain OF
comfort from the reflection that this
trouble was bound TO come anyhow,
and II is better to have II come now
than at the end OF another year OF war.
Chicago Tribune.
A Baltimore city official has pro
tested against having his salary in
creased. Deputati tons OF officeholders
from other cities are on their way to
the Monumental City to have a look
at this Observation-Disclosures Herald.
which violently seized the homestead
of a brave old woman and RACED 1t TO
the ground while she was vainly seek
ing the protection Of the law is as old
as Naboth's yineyard.-Philadelph
Record
The atrocities committed upon Amer
lean women missionaries in China call
for prompt action on the part Of our
government. Regardless OF the ques-
ton whether these missionaries invite
trouble, they are American citizens.
and as such must be protected
Springfield Union.
Next year, when the South produces
100000 bales of cotton, as Is not
improbable, we wish our farmers to
get not less than 10 cents per pound.
The Cotton Association and Its off,
GERS should have next year in view
when suggesting prices for this years
crop.-Columbia Is. e. State.
Now let those 100000 women who
are going to ask the Senate to unseat
Reed Smoot select one Of their num-
3 Der who is able TO state legally suf-
ficient reason why he should be un-
seated and leave the presentation Of
the case to her. and then something
may be accomplished.-Milw
Sentinel
President Ripley of tho Santa Fs
Railroad system says that the meat
. packers combine makes the transpor-
tation rates on Its products. 1t has not
: been so many months since Commits
sioner Garfield officially reported that
. he was unable to find any evidence OF
r combination in the meat business
Q Pittsburg Times.
. King Alfonso tells the Spanish Cor
ties that the country needs a new navy.
Just why does not appear. Spain has
a no more colonial possessions TO cause
her trouble, and has work enough at
home In quieting popular discomfort
$ and promoting prosperity to keep her
a busy and to provide use for her spare
+ change.-Troy Times.
Simply because a lot of safe-blow.
{. ers successfully attacked the safe In q
II life insurance office in Mississippi last
Wednesday night 1t is not TO be taken
{. that Mississippi is retrograding. Mere
}. ly showing a return to the ancient
o methods of lootlng instead OF the po-
+ liter ways OF syndlcatlng.-Cin
l. Commercial Tribune.
contemporary has found that a
miracle has been performed. The. gro
> GERS of the United States have sold
100000 pounds OF pure Mocha end
!, Java coffee, though the customs sta
" tlstics show that there were only 1877,
600 pounds imported. 1t may be q
. miracle, but to the skeptical 1t looks
u lIks a fraud.-Milwaukee News.
y Mr.. Rockefeller, having received
something more than $150OO,0OO in the
shape of oil dividends during the cur.
rent year more than ever feels the
: danger OF riches and more than ever
- feels that his advice to the youth OF
/, the country to go to work and be con
tent with moderate incomes was just
the very thing.-Cinclnnati Commercial
>, Tribune
AS far as Federal supervision of in
). surance companies goes, that has Ger
tainly been knocked into pie for the
present. There has not been for years
anything that has tended to make the
people more sklttlsh Of Federal super
- vision than the disclosures going t.
:, show just what a little Federal super
. vision did to the big life companies IL
New York.-Dallas News.
,r This is one OF the grafter's CHIEF ar
" guments: II we don't get II somebody
Is else will. Turn us out and you will
n merely change one set Of thieves FOL
. another. This is the insolent reply
n these plunderers make when they are
p told to move on. They assume with
! supreme impudence that whoever
q holds public office will steal right and
m left, as they have been doing. They
put all men on n plane with them
"A selves.-Phlladelph Press. &
le Count Witte is doubtless free to, ad
D. NIT that several millions moujiks
le whose notion OF the blessings OF liberty
IS mainly unrestrained jew butcherina
and unlimited vodka form more both
ersome problem than the Portsmouth
1 mosquitoes.-Mllwauke Sentinel.
witness testified that Janitor II
the employ Of the Equitable Lifeg As
surance Association receives SALARY
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