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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
lCopyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.l


an who has had her statues accepted by
the United States government and placed
in the marble room OF the capitol at
Washington. Her life-sze marble figure
of President Lincoln is familiar to all
sight-seers In the capitol, while the heroic
bronze OF Admiral Farragut Is one of the
best works OF art In Washington. Statues
of many other great Americans have been
made by her)
The field of sculpture for women is
unlimited, but the workers are few,
for one must have a very decided
taIent--a genius for ito enter the
field at ALL
There must be no mistake about
this. Mediocrity will not do. Indus
try and application will not do. Per
severance will not do. The only rea-
sen for men or women trying to fol
lew sculpture as a profession is that
they are so irresistibly impelled
toward 1t and impressed with their
own ability that they cannot possibly
resist the impulse to model in clay.
Many girls have sought advice on
this subject asked how they could
know If they had marked ability or
talent. and also, desiring to be sculp-
tors, what method | would suggest
what teachers recommend? At these
questions | have sometimes lost my
temper and told them that they could
soon find out by shutting themselves
up with some clay and seeing what
they could evolve from the crude ma
terial. have told them that, like
love, this knowledge comes not by
appointment, but at some unexpected
corner 1t springs forth" A good way
the only way to test the matter
would be to take some common pot
ter's clay (it seems almost sacred to
me)-and If, alone and unaided. they
cannot instantly bring forth some
thing beautiful or artistic from it's
weird depths, where statutes lie i'm
prisoned, then let them come forth
from that room, leaving hope be-
hind" and let them then and there
forever abandon all idea of being
sculptors and following in the foot
steps of the divine Angelo"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
Let the Government Issue the Cur
 rency.

renCy.
 The suggestion made by the New York Herald, as given below, is in harmony with the suggestion made in The Commoner last week. What ever expansion of currency that may be necessary ought to be supplied by the government and not by bank issue resting upon the assets of the bank. Bank notes are redeemable in greenbacks, and during the war, when gold and silver were at pre- mium, bank notes were redeemaele by the banks in greenbacks. There is no doubt about a government note, besides being good, is legal tender. It is gratifying to find a New York paper like the Herald looking to the government instead of the banks for relief. Now if the Herald would advocate guarantee fund for the protection of deposi- tors, it would give its endorsement to a permanent form of relief from such panics as are due to the timid- ity of depositors. The Herald edi- torial above referred to is as follows:
 Tt is a condition, not theory, that confronts the country. It is now universally recognized that the cure for hoarding and contraction on the part of the public in crisis is liberal and immediate expansion. This is what the Bank of England does when in emergencies the bank act is temporarily suspended and credit notes are issued to supply all demands.
 Tn the present crisis here the exigencies of the situation'could be met by an issue of government legal tender notes to the amount of, say $200, ,000,00O to be redeemed in year or two, or perhaps convertible into government bonds within a stipulated period. The credit of the United States government is the highest on earth, and the notes thus issued to meet the emergency would be accepted as being good as gold
 Mere notice of such a measure might restore confidence and caus- ing release of hoarded funds render their actual issue unnecessary. ."- Bryan's Commoner.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
A Vote Getter.

The initiative and referendum is a vote getter. In Oregon in 1902 the people intalled the system by a vote of II to 1. There had been a four years campaign.
 The same year in Illinois with only a small amount of preliminary dis cussion an advisory vote by the people was to l.
 Last year in Montana the people adopted a constitutional amendment for the initiative and referendum by a 6 to vote.
 Two years before in Delaware an advisory vote was taken in which the people instructed the legislature to install direct vote system for public questions. The majority was 6 to 1.
 Last spring in Maine the legisla- ture submitted a constitutional amendment for the initiative and referendum and the vote was unani- nous.
 The last house in Pennsylvania passed bill to establish the initia- tive and referendum in cities and boroughs, and here, too, the vote was unanimous.
 There are but two examples of where the initiative and referendum has become party issue Ohio and Oklahoma. In both cases it was the Republican party which asked the voters to refrain from taking more power to themselves and 1t was de- feated. In Ohio it was two years ago and the party lost control in the the state senate, and almost lost the house. The Democratic increase in representation in the senate was 475 per cent-an unprecedented gain This year, 1907, in Oklahoma the Republicans opposed the initiative and referendum and of the 112 dele gates to the constitutional conyen- ton it elected only IA, half of whom saved themselves by pledging for the initiative and referendum.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

the American people are not purely impulsive and they wish to act upon adeouate information. And that IS precisely why the interests oppose the measures which provide com missions to get at the. facts.
 Democracy to be genuine must be intelligent-otherwise the substitute for democracy will be either anarchy or oligarchy. However great our development may be there will al- ways be use and need for men of expert knowledge. We will always heed the counsel of lawyers, of bankers, of railway men and or politicians of the right class. But, as a people, we certainly will not merely know that something IS wrong without knowing why It IS wrong or how to remedy it. We will have such a diffusion of knowl- edge-that is of information-that we will not have to depend for the initiation of reforms upon separate classes which may find it profitable to continue existing abuses. kan sas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
A Call for Popular Government by
 the People.

We have, as a nation, specialized too much our efforts at reform. Heretofore the whole body of the people has not taken the part in public affairs that it should. Not only that, but we have looked to the beneficiaries, or promoters, of wrong conditions to set things right.
 "Our administration of criminal law is bad," it has reasoned; icon quently we will persuade the law yers-who have made it bad to make it better" Politics is an intolerable mess" argue the busi- ness man and wage earner, "so we will have the politicians fix it up " "As we know nothing of finance" " urge many estimable citizens, of course the financiers are the proper ones to give us new currency laws. " Uncle Joe Cannon exclaims: The fellows that have profited by the tariff know all about it, so they must revise.it. !" Tt takes an expert traffic man to know anything about railway rates" plead the transpor- tation interests, "and it is prepos- terous for the people to legislate about the matter at all. l"
 Under a popular form of govern ment the tendency has been to se- cure laws for the people anywhere and everywhere except from the people. The result has been those abuses which have aroused the pub lie to its present determination to have real popular government.
 In order to accomplish this there must be full enlightenment upon all proper subjects of legislation, for
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.) ]

Don't stoop to pick up the kind words you drop.
 It's easier to be sensitive than it is to be sensible.
 After putting up bluff man is apt to stumble over it.
 Many mans early training has kept him from making good.
 Give small boy a pin and soon both will be on mischief bent.
 Gray matter is all right in it's place and so is the long green.
 You can't always judge mans worth by the size of his pay envelope.
 Love may make the world go round, but matrimony gives it a flat wheel motion.
 Even the man who carries chips on both shoulders doesn't necessa- rily walk upright.
 It's an easy matter to give advice, but it is difficult to get people to have faith enough in you to use it.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
Value of the Initiative and Referendum

The proposal to establish the initiative and referendum does not raise the race question, for it does not touch the question Who shall voter" That is a separate issue, and one that is settled in Arkansas.
 What the initiative and. referen- dunn does is to restore to the exist ing voters the power to rule. At present the machine" rules.
 When the voters actually rule, through the power to veto bills and legislate direct, the ignorant and careless voters will largely be power less, because part of them will stay away from the polls and others will fail to mark the referendum ballot. That this is the tendency is demon strated by the comparatively small vote for measures. 1t is consider ably smaller than the votes for can didates.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
Where Credit Belongs.

Great credit" remarks the Otta- wa Herald's financial editcr, is due the New York bankers who are sending money West to move the crops. Also to Mir. Cortelyou, who told the New York bankers to send the money West to move the crops. Also to the President, who told Mir. Cortelyou to tell the bankers to send the money West to move the crops. Also to the Western senators, who told the President to tell Mir. Cor telyou to tell the bankers that the West intended to have the money p. d. a. Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

large shippers and small instead of the discriminations that are usual and to be expected in private business.
 The importance of the distinction can be well Illustrated by the tariff. An importer who brings into the country million dollars worth of silk goods must pay exactly the same rate of duty as the importer who brings in only $1, 600 worth. Thus equality of treat ment indicates the public quality of the tariff. Suppose, on the other hand, that, after the manner of business, the tariff charged the large importers only 40 per cent, and made the little ones pay 60 per cent, is it not clear that the large importers could drive all the little ones out of business !? But that is precisely what the railroads have been doing with their rebates; and that is why the public is no longer willing to admit that railroading is private business.
 This is why the people demand that the railways themselves should recog- nize that they are only private agents doing a part of the public business; and that is why the public demands that the law henceforth shall proceed upon this new view of what railways are.
 Is it more wrong that large in- dividual shipper or large importer should have favors in freight rates or in tariff rates than that large or favored city have such favors as will enable it to kill competition of a smaller or less favored city, thus forcing the weaker to pay tribute to the stronger? It should not be forgotten that this tribute must be paid by every farmer and every man who buys goods that are shipped over the railroads, and that the sys- tenn as now in operation builds rich cities at the direct expense of the producers of the country, using the smaller cities and towns merely as go-betweens.
 When will the government take up this problem and protect the producers of the nation from this great wrong, as it has already done in protecting the small business man from the large by stopping the re- batting system on railroads
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

gives his own experience in collect ing material for his series on giants and dwarfs now running in the American Magazine:
 "The vitality of the actual giant, as contrasted with the legendary, may be aptly, if somewhat grue- somely, typifed by actual experience in the short space of time covered by my own study. Of all the living giants whom was able to list in the first two years of my work, only one is still living. So rapid is their de- cline that 1t has actually proved a special facilitation of the study of the subject. It has been the excep- tion after have fairly listed a giant that I have had to wait more more than three years for post-mortem. The show life of giant or giantess is seldom more than six or seven years"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
WHY SOME WORRY.

Everybody seems to be making rec concentrations to President Roosevelt for restoring business to it's normal condition. The President will pass them up to Congress. where the finan- ciers will thresh them over, and, final ly, the country will be saved. In the meantime, what's the use of worrying? Globe Demscrat.
 It may be true there's no use for worrying. Worry seldom accom- plishes much. But if the Globe Democrat should come in contact with some of the thousands of labor ing men who have been thrown out work, many of whom will, with their wives and children, soon be facing winter without sufficient food and clothing as result of the finan.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
THE PHILOSOPHY OF REBAT-
 ING.

Seth Low, president of the Colum- bia University and formerly mayor of New York. has written philo- sophical article for Outlook on Rail- roads and Rebating." In reproduc- ing a portion of this, The Star desires to call attention again to the common practice of all railroads of giving favored cities great advan- tages over their neighbors in freight rates.
 MT. Lows arguments follow:
 Experience has made it clear that the railways, upon whom everybody is dependent, by practicing relating make it possible for the favored ship per to drive all competitors out of the market. Hence the belief is becoming general. outside perhaps of railway investment circles, that railways are not to be looked upon as conducting a private business; they are rather to be thought of as private agents conduct. ing part of the business of the state In other words, what the public wants in railway management is the public quality, as distinguished from the busi. ness quality. That is to say, it wants equality of treatment for all alike,
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
New York Press.

New fork Press.
 A good excuse won't go any bet ter than poor one.
 The way to be interesting to peo- pie is to be interested in what they are doing.
 A woman enjoys a funeral more than she does wedding because she can have better cry.
 If you ask a girl whether she likes oatmeal for breakfast she can think you are sentimental.
 A mans a terrible brute not to like weak coffee just because his wife tried to make it for him the way his mother used to.
 A man has a very bad disposition to want his children to economize along with him.
 It excites a girl to think of the time man kissed her and him of the time he didn't.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY
(Atchlson Globe.


 After person passes 40 he is not satisfied, but reconciled.
 Sooner or later, about all the powder mills blow up. Are you watching your mill?
 The church will not hold all who want to see wedding, but you bet there are seats to spare at every funeral.
 Foodstuffs are so high the only thing the taster is permitted to work on at the groceries is the cran- berry barrel.
 There never was a man or woman who did not occasionally manufac- ture groan to excite the sympathy of their friends.
 How slow some people are to learn; Some men at 40 have never heard that it is not only impolite to eat with knife, but that a fork is better in every way.
 Whenever the telephone rines when there IS young lady in the family, she decides before she an- swers 1t that she will accept and just what she will wear.
 A man may have 10 earn the liy- ing, go down town in the rain, wear ugly clothes, etc, but at least he escapes this: He is never asked to be chaperon. Y
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
 THE SALOON WOULD SAVE ITSELF.

There is no stronger proof that the United States is nearing national prohibition of the sale of liquor as beverage than the efforts that are being made by the best posted of those interested to get in line with all laws governing the traffic, in- stead of, as in the past, disregard |jng or defying them.
 The New York Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association, as an example, recently adopted the following as a part of its creed: .
 We believe that our business should be so regulated by1egisla.ion that those few dealers who by a persistent violation of the law con- trive to bring upon our business odium and criticism may be denied the privilege of further continuing in the business.
 We believe that the dealer who violates the law is the greatest men, ace to the welfare of our business and the most serious obstacle to it's establishment on a plane merited by the general character of the great majority of those engaged therein. We believe that the burden is upon those engaged in the industry so to purge it of its attendant evils that it will no longer be subject to the attacks and criticism of those who are seeking to uplift it's moral tone.
 As it is said that at the present time more than 33 million of the inhabitants of this country live under prohibition laws, it is pretty clear that the liquor business is threatened seriously by extinction.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
NOT A SUBJECT FOR LEviTY

The leading papers of Arkansas, and some outside of the state, are quoting the article by Hal L. Nor wood, first published in The Star, regarding the loaning of the surplus state funds to the farmers direct instead of depositing the money in the banks to be reloaned at regular interest rates. In this connection it is worthy of note that the Gazette is the only paper that assumes to cast ridicule upon the idea.
 The Star does not pretend to know that MT. Norwood's idea is absolutely practical, and it is not prob able that it will be carried out, but this is not a good time for any news paper or man to undertake to create amusement at any honest suggestion made with a thought of helping the man who produces, be he laborer or farmer. When the big stock gam blers and financial institutions of the East can bring about a panic by holding from circulation the money of the country. preventing farmers from getting a fair price or any price at all for their cotton, corn, wheat and other products, and cause thousands of men to be thrown out of work simply from lack of currency with which to pay them, most any kind of honest suggestion is worthy of decent consideration.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
LO0 CABIN PHILOSOPHY
fFrank l.. Stanton.)

Don't climb up de chimbly wen Trouble come in de do; dar may be wood huff lef' fer him ter buiP a fire under you.
 l don't disagree wid de Good Book dat Solomon wuz de wises' man. Yit, wen you come ter study bout it, he wuz nightly married
 Tribulation is sometimes good fer de soul: but you sho' feel wuss than half-soled 'fo' he git thoo' wid you
 Elf some CT desc baPheaded sinners ever slips inter heaven dey'll she need crowns ter wear. Dat II be bout all dey'll have ter make a good showin'.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

James J. Corbett talks very pret- tily in an interview in an Eastern paper as to why he gave up fighting He says the prize ring makes a man give up some of his finer sensi- bilities," and as he did not desire to do that, The left it." Lots of peo- pie will continue to believe, how ever, that Bob Fitz and Jim Jeff had some influence.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
All Serene.

The trust president pushed the button and the general counsel stood before him.
 Have the books been burned ?''
 "They have"
 Has the mortgage been erased, the bonds stolen and the safe burned?
 Tt has been done"
 Then announce to the govern ment we have nothing to conceal. "-- Life
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

cial tie-up, it would see why some people worry and also the need of some rapid thinking and action.
 And while the country is being saved" it is to be hoped that it will be saved from condition whereby few "financiers" can create a panic at a time when there is no excuse for anything but prosperity.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

The Merchants Refrigerating Company of Kansas City has given a fine example of the kind of finan- ciering that has brought on the financial furry. This institution issued negotiable receipts for $5O0.- 900 worth of eggs when it actually had in storage but $20,000 worth. That's one way of watering stock. :"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
Secretary CorteIyou proposes to

Secretary Cortelyou proposes to assist in putting an end to the finan- cial stringeney by issuing 50 million dollars of Panama bonds and, if necessary, 100 million dollars in cer- tlficates of indebtedness. This may have a tendency to cure the attack of "cold feet among the Eastern financiers, but the fact, as President Roosevelt states it, that "crops are good and business conditions are sound" will have more influence on the country at large.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

It is very pleasant to have the amount to be expended on the rail road hospital in Mena increased after each delay, but even at the risk of losing a chance for a St00.000 hospi- tai year hence. there will be im- mense satisfaction if the S63,000 building be started within the next few weeks.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

It is worthy of note that Okla homa is the only state that has ever been brought into the Union under an almost absolute guarantee that it's voice would be raised against the party which madeit. It's boundaries were fixed by the Republican party, for the joinder Oklahoma and the Indian Territory was first suggested in a Republican senate committee room. A Republican Congress passed the enabling act, a Republican Presi- dent issued the proclamation ad- hitting it to statehood and Demo- cratic governor will administer it's affairs. Partisan politics does not cut so great figure in affairs of the nation as it once did. It is good.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

There is good deal of contention over the fact that the words "In God We Trust" were not stamped on the new gold coins, the President contending that it was next to sacrilege to use those fine words in such manner. It is safe, however, to say that most of the country will welcome the new coins just now regardless of any little ethical point of this kind.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
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The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21

Wall Street is evidently trying to restore confidence" in its game. Reports are now being circulated to the effect that an inexperienced youth has made 3 million dollars on the street" in few days of speculation.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
Waiting for Giants to Die

According to Dr. Woods Hutchin- son in the November American Magazine scientists don't have to wait long for giants to die. He
The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-21
--------------------- AN aljNSEl-FiSH" LOT l

The New York banks loudly praised the wisdom of Secretary of the Treas ury Cortelyou when he deposited government funds in the metropolitan institutions, but now that the secretary has asked for some of that money so It may be sent South to move the cotton crop these same New York banks have set up terrible howl Gazette.
 The greatest thing the country has to fear is that these same metro politan institutions will be behind the financiers who will have most to say in making the financial changes that will probably be forced because of the present unjustified conditions.
 They cannot be blamed either. It is but natural for lawyers to make laws for lawyers, finaneiers laws for financiers and but.we have hardly come to this-farmers for farmers