The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-10-25

creates value except The fictitious value OF lumber which
doubles and trebe the people purchases timber claims vau
alton Of % per thousand feet Of timber thereon and less and
gets the land for nothing whereas honest lumber companies outside
Of the pay from So A per thousand for less valuable tim
Der in the forest and further removed from the awmis
and expensive transport The head OF this timber trust
Weyehauser with greed that billion dollars OF
wealth does begin atae is Of the oveabe nd
ydua for whom the timber and created by Congress
Not satisfied with the fraud Of said which obeyed to
the letter. should be all that the gredet criminal that went
nng could reasonably hope for this timber and stone act in the
enory hesh purpose has been obeyed Conspiracy
perjury every deemed necessary feed greed that the
law itself did up by oversight OF its authors
have been resoed and these crimes Federal court has held
cannot investigated because the criminals cannot be forced
produce the evidence Of the crimes one although made
ept himself by turning this evidence cannot be forced to pro-
duce Why Because it would the guilt OF others IS that
good law? When Judge Beatty proposed that the one who should
produce be exempt from prosecution ne was overrued Y
higher Federal Judge For what reason Simply to protect
all the conprators and their hired hencmento uphold the Grim
in and adefying lumber and enable continue its career
of monopoly conspiracy perjury and devastation Any criminal
may plead that give evidence Of crime would ncrmlnate hs
and thus escape the punishment that his due but when uch
plea is met with the promise of that anything that would
incrnate the making such plea would be excluded from
the ry and the evidence for that purpose examined by the court
and the LAWYERS for both sides and the further fact presented
that if all the evidence should go the jury this individual AFRAID
f discriminating himself would be exempt from prosecution under
linltatOn-When all this IS dktll lIO
cannot anv one with fifth all but gone smell something
rankly rotten? -.
knowing what this lumber monopoly has DONE IS dong ana w"
continue to do-to monopoize within law reeng with couP
ton and fraud and through conspiracy perjury and other crimes
outside Of the a-to acquire all the timber land OF the State Kill
the mining industry and leave mber-cad mountains deso
waste what is Congressman Frencs position as between tins deVaS
tang monopoly and forest reserves In the reserves the pros
hector can locate mineral claims He can use the timber OF inc
and the rules and regulations of protect the TIM
her When the old trees sold and down the young growth
rod and where necessary the land IS reeeded reserve
niles we must admit are unsatisfactory respects but there
is hope that they will be improved But they can never ~
iii the most vicious or incompetent management that could De
% anywhere near as detrimental to the interests OF the
State as ownership of all timber land which means all our
mineral land bv luberen though they were IN no way COLI
cted with trust or monopoly. To kill the mining INDUSTRY
means the killing of that what is destined to be the greatest
of the State"