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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-05-01
Irrigation at Mountain Home.

Healthy progress in the irrigation
affairs of Mountain Home is noted
by The Scimitar with great pleas
ure.
! But few years ago, ]. H. Garrett
came to that community as the pro-
moter and the active manager of it's
irrigation project. Mountain Home
particularly, and this section of Ida
no generally, has felt the force and
effect of his presence. He has made
1t possible, through his skill and en-
ergy, to establish many thrifty homes
and in multitudinous ways, south
western Idaho has known that Noun
tain Home was on the map and grow
ing.
The livestock interests ne has pro-
noted there, were in evidence at all
the state fairs Of the west last fall,
some specimens of his cattle being
taken as far east as Chicago, where
they received premiums and were
given prominent attention by the
stock journals of the east, all to the
credit of Gilmore county and of Ida
no.
This irrigation project has caused
land values to increase and 1t is
with pride that The Scimitar OBJ
serves favorable mention of Noun
tain Home horticultdralists, orchards
and nurseries, In the prominent hor-
ticultural journals of the Pacific
coast.
We hope the reorganization of the
company will give new impetus to it's
progress and development and the
retention, as an officer of the new
company, of its former aggressive
manager, will be observed with salts
faction.-Scimitar
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-05-01

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+ From now until the conven- +
+ ton we shall analyze the Re- i.
1. publicans who are seeking 1.
+ nominations, and tell what we +
i think of their fitness for posi- +
+ lions sought. II the press will +
i. conscientiously prosecute this +
!. plan throughout the state, we i.
l. shall have officials to be proud 1.
1. Of. Editors hold the key to the +
+ situation II they will. but use It 1.
!. for public good. 4
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
PALTRY REWARD

A ENCOURAGEMENT has been made
u by the Republican congressional
"A campaign committee that 1t VIII
give $3.50 for the best article, not more
than 1000 words in length, on the sub
ject: why the Republican party
should be successful next November.
The person who wins the prize will
{ serve his meager reward, for he
must display more than usual inge-
nuity. and what might be described as
literary fortitude in the face OF ad-
verse circumstances. 1t would be easy
to write an article on why the Re
publican party should not be success
full next November" BY the way, why
SHOULD the Republican party be sue
cessful next November? We cannot
think of single good reason. Com
petitors for the reward have our SYM
pathy. They will not realize how for
midable is their task until they settle
down to 1t. The Republican congress
sional committee has made a mig
gardly offer. 1t is asking too much
and offering too little. 1t should give
$1,000 for the best article not exceed
ing $50 words in length. Then it might
possibly get some campaign literature.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
YOUNG CRIMINALS

JUVENILE crime is becoming more
and more common in the United
u States and young criminals are
more and more cunning, daring, crafty
cruel and original. The oldest of the
four boys who held up a Great Northern
train in Montana was II The holdup
was planned with deliberation and car
ried out with mastery precision and
attention to detail. Along with the
the account of the shooting of
Los Angeles boy by comrade while
they were hunting in the hills. Those
concerned in this affair were too young
to he intrusted with firearms. and the
moral of the shocking incident, as well
as of the other is that youths of 13,
IA, Is or 16 are too irresponsible to be
out on the loose. They should be at
high school or college or apprenticed
in the good old-fashioned way to some
useful trade or occupation, under a kind
master who would not regard them as
morrow, and would take an interest
in them and try to educate them up
to the responsibilities of citizenship.
In this dollar marked age the respon-
sibilities of master to man and parent
to child are being lost sight of. If
there is to be a boss system and if
we are to continue to agree that one
man by divine right may rule five
thousand of his fellow men and own
forty billions of dollars. then we must
insist upon the billionaire's RESPON-
SIBILITY TO the people of the United
States of America, by whose favor and
patronage he is allowed to be billion.
aire, and to be immune from starva-
tion unless he manages to destroy his
stomach. The same ungodly and un-
American influence which caused two
million boys and girls to forfeit their
education and surrender their young
strength and their most hopeful days
to soulless, heartless Mammon is re-
sponsible for the shameful and shock
ing fact that four BOYS held up
train in Montana and has its bearing
on the fact that one BOY shot another
in California.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
VETERAN BRANDS TAFT'S
SPEECH AS WANTON INSULT

LOS ANGELES, June 1.--[Editor
Herald: The overworked Latin phrase
DE mortuis nil nisi bonum"-speak
nothing but good of the dead-seemS
to be absent from Secretary Tafts vo-
cabulary as evidenced in his eulogy CD
of Gen. Grant on Memorial day in New
York.
But in 1854 he resigned the army
because he had to. He had yielded to
the weakness for strong drink, and
rather than be court-martialed he left
the army are rather strong words to
use over the grave of the one man
who made it possible for Taft to be
a man in official position.
If these words were true they would
yet be cruel, for God is said to be
cruel only to be kind, and no man can
find kindness in the foregoing diatribe.
Even his party organs local and 9TH
erwise, failed to print that part of
this uncharitable story. But Taft is
an ADEPT in the faint praise that
Let the veterans of Southern California
know how this heartless man insulted
the mighty dead, and they will re-
member it next November. If 1t were
true. which 1t Is not, the facts of time
and place should have moved the hard
est heart to sense of pity and charity.
How must the children of Grant feel
in the face of such cruel and uncalled
for abuse? There is not a man in the
land who wore the blue but will fight
for the good name of Grant, and IL
they can be advised of this wanton
insult to the mighty dead will cast
votes against the man who so foully
wronged him. VETERAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
TAFT AND GRANT

AT UMEROUS letters have been re-
ceived by Los Angeles Herald
~ from Civil War veterans. q. A.
R. men, who served under General
Grant or knew him well, personally as
well as by reputation, calling attention
to the treatment of Grants memoir by
William H. Taft. A recent speech by
the probable Republican candidate for
president has aroused widespread in
dignation on account of the way In
which Taft referred to Gen. Grant.
Public men, when they are possible
presidential candidates, near presiden-
tial candidates or actual presidential
candidates. should beware of making
concerning dead heroes and states
men public utterances which the he
roes and statesmen, If alive, would
deny and in all probability would re-
sent.
There is merit in the old advice to
speak only good of the dead. We are
astonished that Taft's tongue should
have outrun his political discretion,
and. if we may judge by the tone and
temper of letters we have received,
should have forfeited the support of the
Grand Army and the Sons of Veterans.
General Grant is one of the nations
heroes. He was the military savior of
the country, as Lincoln was its political
savior. Without Lincoln there might
have been no Union today, and there
fore no presidency of the United States
for Taft or anyone else. Without
Grant, 1t is certain there would have
been no Union. His genius turned the
tide of battle, and after a series of dis
heartening defeats and reverses the
northern cause by the genius of the
Galena tanner was redeemed and glor-
flied in the most brilliant series of
military triumphs the world has ever
witnessed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
GREAT FINANCIER

n EFORE pooh pooling De Sagan's
II claim that financial genius runs
~ in his family, pause and consider.
A person who makes a fortune out of
his appearance and his wits is gener-
ally accredited with ability for money
making, and under certain conditions
this ability may be called genius. The
man who causes two blades of grass to
grow where only one grew is a patriot,
but the man who makes a million dol
lars grow in an impecunious wilderness
is a genius.
Therefore, when De Sagan says finan-
cial genius runs in his family, listen to
him respectfully. By his marital enter
prise, which is a master stroke in high
finance, he proves that some of the
financial genius which runs in his
family runs in him. If we are to regard
his wedding as a speculation, we cannot
deny that the returns from the venture
are exceptionally good, when measured
in dollars and cents. But when De
Sagan says he will illustrate the finan-
cial genius of his family by some prac-
tical demonstrations, there is ground
for uneasiness. In his demonstrations
he may use his brides money, which
represents a great deal of American
labor and American value. We hope
she will be sensible and will refuse to
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
AMERICAN CHURCH

TT WILL not increase the popularity
of the Protestant Episcopal church
Il in the United States of America
to call it Anglican. The proposal to
name it "the American church" was
received with enthusiasm. The church
of Washington. English by descent,
and Hamilton, Scotch by descent, both
American and both Protestant Episco-
palians, is the AMERICAN church.
Many members of the old Scottish
Episcopal church, the church of Saint
COLUMBIA, Saint Andrew, Saint Kenti-
germ, Saint Leonard, Saint Bride, Saint
Magnus, Saint Marnock, Saint Giles,
Saint Roman. Saint Mungo, Saint NAL
colin, Saint Fillan. and of the world
famed school of the priests on Saint
Kilda's isle, have entered the American
Episcopal church. but did not dream
that by this action they were
VII, who is the head of the
Anglican church. or bending their necks
to Canterbury. The historical fact of
the first ordination of American minis
ters after the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, in order that the American
church might be endowed with apos-
tolic authority, is clean contrary to
the impression which American AN
glicans" are seeking to produce, and
there is trouble ahead. To change the
title of the pan-Episcopal conference
to pan-Anglican because it is held in
London is toadyism-nothing more, but
nothing less. The great success of
Presbyterian conferences has been
due to the fact that their promoters
carefully steered clear of the rock of
racial prejudices caused by historical
events. Although Presbyterianism was
probably originated in Scotland and
although the Church of Scotland is a
= Presbyterian church, as the Church
of England is AN Episcopal church
not THE Episcopal church-no attempt
has ever been made to call the Pres
byterian church in America the-what
would the word be?-"Scottican
church" The American church is the
American church. 1t is Episcopalian.
1t is not Anglican any more than the
that through what we believe to be
a great error of judgment the pan
Episcopal conference has been dis
guised as pan-Anglican, no doubt much
to the joy of his Grace the Arch
bishop, does not make the American
church a mere subordinate branch of
the Anglican, and if the heads of the
American church should insist that An
glicanism be substituted, even verbally,
for Episcopacy and Americanism in the
United States of America, by Gods
goodness and grace free and indepen-
dent of England in church and in state,
we believe there will be found enough
American Episcopalians to establish
and maintain in fact as well as in
name an American church.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
allow De Sagan to make Young Ma
poleon of himself Young Napoleons of
Finance always enact their role to the
bitter end, which is Waterloo.

There are twenty-nine counts in the
indictments of the Southern Pacific
Railroad company by the grand jury
for alleged rebating. The issuance of
bench warrants for persons indicted
gives grim emphasis to the fact that
every lawful means will be taken to
impress on the minds of all concerned
that the law is made in order that 1t
may be obeyed, not in order to provide
occupation for keen witted gentlemen
who may suggest to corporations the
reading "Thou mayest If thou art not
found out" instead of THOU SHALT
NOT"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02

the part of the judge, but as rule
is it not a fact that American law,
sometimes in the looseuess and uncer-
tainty of it's provisions and always In
the looseness of it's practice, by the
consideration of every trifling and
ridiculous technicality, no matter how
small, wo-ns rather for clearing the
criminal than for his punishment A
man breaks into AS house, where he
only finds $5, and into BIS, where he
succeeds in getting $500; he holds up c
and takes $3.50, and d and gets 5000.
Is there any difference in the criminal
intent? In each case he took all he
could find, and in each case held a
deadly weapon to menace human life,
and would have taken it If resisted.
Come have asserted that God said,
"Thou shalt not KILL" and therefore
the government has no right to execute
a murderer. That is strange reason
ing. Did not the same authority say,
"Whoso sheddeth mans blood by man
shall his blood be she'd" and also
gi es explicit directions for the death
penalty for crimes w. B. c.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02

ject, Patriotism" 1t seems to me
full of the blacklist omen for the flu
ture liberties of this country that we
have gone so far on the path of mill
tarism that a man, simply by the fact
that he has enlisted in our service, is
supposed to have relinqu.shed all his
individual rights and is punished as a
criminal, in spite of the fact that the
constitution solemnly guarantees to
every American citizen the right of
free speech and assemblage, which nee
essarily carries with it ne right of
attending such public meetings as may
suit his fancy. 1t represents to my
mind a most serious condition, and
trust that the incident will not be al
lowed to pass without emphatic pro-
test, at the least.
I cannot forbear the remark that the
local branch of the Socialist party re-
Gently suspended one of its most act
i've and respected members. Claude
Riddle, for taking leading part In the
organization of Emma Goldman's
meetings in this city
J. Il. C. FILLMORE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
is THERE A MYSTERY IN
THE DICK MILITIA LAW?

Los ANGELES, May 29.-[Editor
Herald: 1t has been my rather CALLING
experience to be told more than once
lately that the rank and file of the old
parties-Reps. and Dems. alike-are
deliberately and systematically fooled
by their own press, fed spoonmeat,"
as one fellow put it. 1 believe he is
a Socialist. This is the more exasper-
ating since I am not so sure as 1 would
like to be that 1t is not true. Said
this candid friend: "They give you just
so much news as pleases them, and
tell it just how it pleases them; the
rest is a conspiracy of silence. They
never show you to the bottom of any
thing that matters, nor even notice it
at all if those who pull the strings tell
them not"
1 was indignant, and would have
secuted the idea, but he just shut me
up with a question 1 have been asked
before, namely: "How is it your papers
won't tell you anything about the Dick
militia law which was smuggled
through, to make every citizen a SOL
dier any time those in power please?
Half your people don't even know there
is such a law. When some day you
are called upon to shoulder gun
against your out-of-work neighbor in
a strike or bread riot, it will come with
a jolt of surprise"
Imagine my humiliation! I could
neither affirm nor deny; for 1t is too
true I never heard anything about
such a law from the regular press,
while this man says the Socialist press
has discussed it at length time and
again. I myself heard 1t referred to
once before by some Socialist or An
arshist.
Will not you, Mr.. Editor, or some
correspondent who knows. give us the
rights of the story?
Meaven forbid 1 should yet be sign
ing myself Democrat turned Socialist"
instead of as now.
"REPUBLICAN TURNED DEMO-
GRAFT"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN

TWO of the best and best known
lectures of William ]. Bryan are
n on 'The Prince of Peace" and
"Signs of the Times" The titles indi-
cate the subjects. Is it not a splendid
sign of the times that a grand, Chris
tian gentleman and not mere poll
tician" will be the probable successor
of the present worthy and splendid
gentleman who occupies the White
House? Americans should see to it
that the presidential purple is never
sullied, and the man who wears the
laurels of the nation-our statesman
laureate-should always be of the type
of Roosevelt and Bryan. Republicans
who profess they view with alarm
same old alarm-the prospect of a
change of government should consider
the CHARACTER of Bryan, and
therein find hearts ease and sleep
soundly o. nights. He will be a worthy
and honorable successor of Lincoln,
Mckinley and Roosevelt.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
SAME OLD STORY
A GAIN we are requested by cable to
u shed tears over the misfortunes of
"A the American bride of a con-

A-A the American pride OF COLI
tinental
Birkie. called a Lord.
Who struts and stares and a that,
and as Mr.. Burns proceeded to say.
who in spite of the fact that thousands
worship at his word is but ''cuif" for
all that. Cuff means hanged fool" in
fact one who is unusually hanged ana
exceptionally foolish. 1t illustrates con-
densed vituperation, in which the
Scotch excel.
Zeesheenyi, whose name we cannot
spell, and refuse to learn how, has
taken his American bride into darkest
gypsy land. where hungry, greasy,
swarthy, frowsy, hairy Hungarians
play rhapsodies on wild-shrieking fid-
dies and waltz around on their ears in
the buoyant czardas-the Hungarian
la-hula-from morn till dewy eve. AT
dewy eve they eat goulash until the air
is heavy, and then fiddle some more,
and do crazy stunts spelled with KS,
cs and rs.
Now, this is all very well once in
while in the third act of gypsy melo-
drama or at the New York Eden Musee,
but as a habit it rapidly pals upon one
used to the milder modes of life preva-
lent in the United States, where, though
we may not be entirely civilized, at any
rate we do not eat garlic with abandon
and where, excepting on rare occa-
sions. we dance with reserve and dis
cretiOn
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
QUOTES BIBLE AS
DIRECTING DEATH PENALTY

LOS ANGELES, May 27.-[Editor
Heraldl In regard to punishment for
crime by the courts, as representation
of law enforcement for the protection
of society, it seems to me there are two
extreme views in evidence, both of
which are absolutely wrong-one is the
spirit of revenge, leading to cruelty,
and the other a weak, wishywashy
sentimentality which holds the Grim
inal (when his depredations do not af-
feet us) to be simply an erring brother,
who should be very gently coddled
back into the primrose path of virtue.
/ am agreed with others that some
of the sentences for minor offenses
passed lately show lack of good
Judgment and sense Of proportion on
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02

Since Los Angeles county boasts an
Anti-F -Fakers' society we hope that
honorable and useful body will not con-
fine it's patriotic efforts to fighting
fraudulent spook mongers. If you think
spookists are the only takers in this
and other enlightened modern commun-
tiles then bless your innocent hearts!
Far be it from us by word or insinua-
tion to rub from them the green bloom.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02

Judge Waldo M. York, like many
other Americans who have right to
be heard respectfully by their fellow
citizens, says the need of the hour is
a general awakening to a true realiza-
ton of the duties of American citizens.
In our opinion, many worthy people
have or had almost forgotten there
were any active duties connected with
the privilege of citizenship. Without
active participation in politics. no
mans citizenship is complete.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
CAUSE AND EFFECT

A T A PUBLIC mass meeting last
n night a new movement for the
IA suppression of race track gam
bling, road houses and aqueduct sa-
looms was begun, and today the first
official session of the Antt-Saloon
league of California is being held Tenn
perance work is in a condition of
healthy activity in Los Angeles, and
is attracting attention and support not
only on account of its specific purpose,
but its wide moral scope. The re-
formers have found the saloon Is in
timately connected with other evil in
terests, such as race track gambling
and other forms of betting, 1t is be-
lieved that by the suppression of the
saloon industry many occupations and
callings which are distinctly immoral
in tendency if not in fact will be
checked or suppressed. All kinds of
social evils seem to flourish best when
we'll alcoholized. Therefore it is to the
advantage of a community which prides
itself on it's commercial progress to con-
slider we'll the causes which bring about
moral progress and cultivate them,
rather than the causes which bring
about vice and crime. Since the law
of cause and effect is thoroughly es-
tablished and demonstrable it will be
to the advantage of this and every
other American community to realize
that a reduction in the amount of evil
wrought under the sun will be most
readily brought about by a reduction
of the number and abatement of the
virulence of the causes which produce
evil effects. 1t will be more econom-
ical to fight one cause which pro-
duces many evils than to fight many
evils produced by one unfought and
tolerated cause.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02

tions of the Orient
and the Occident has
become q worldwide
issue. It has already
caused the bloodiest
war of modern his
tory, 1t may yet be
the cause of war.
the wrecking of en-
pires and the max
ing over of the maps
of the world.
The fetters of re-
ligion and age.long
custom which have
held Asia in leash
for centuries are be-
ing broken. T h e
Chinese are cutting
off their queues. The
Hindu no longer be-
lieves that his soul
is eternally damned
IL he crosses the
ocean. The Japanese
has adopted every
progressive method
lnnu,t, "a thu xxrorld
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02

One of the numerous Taft cartoons
shows the probable Republican candi-
date about to try on a hat entitled
Nomination first ballot" The picture
is labeled "Just a Fit" If by any
chance or Academia stampede for
Teddy for instance-the program as
arranged should not be carried out,
the label still holds good 1t indi-
Gates what Taft would throw.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
COMPARES SOCIALISTS ACT
WITH THAT OF SOLDIER

LOS ANGELES, May 30.-[Editor
Herald: In your issue of May 28 ap-
pears letter signed George w. Down.
ing on the question of the sentence
imposed on soldier for attending one
of Emma Goldman's meetings. With
that protest / entirely agree, for that
particular lecture. which / myself
heard, was mildness itself as COM
pared with what deeply revered writ
er. Tolstoy, has said on the same sub.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
a RETROSPECT

My boyhood lies far. far away
Down the dim road of yesterday,
Yet oft the heart within me cries
For Just one glimpse of those glad skies,
OF that lost time when hearts were gay.
What ioyous, care-free days were theyl
What merry games we used to playi
1 gaze back where-ah! how time files
My boyhood lies.
So now. my temples streaked with gray.
/ sit and dream OF lifetimes May,
AS memory OF old time deies
Though smiling cannot despise
Those master actions OF their day
My boyhood lies.
..-Florence Earle Coates in Smart Set
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02

Ministers and priests who fail to re-
turn marriage licenses to the county
recorder on time not only cause un-
necessary trouble or annoyance, but
are guilty of misdemeanor, punish
able by a fine not exceeding $50 or
Imprisonment in the county Jail for
a period not exceeding sixty days.