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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
The Grip.

Grip has been widely prevailing
in the United States Many years ago
when it was widely prevailing in Bos-
ton, we sent an officer to large
match factory, who found that not a
single person of all employed there
had been troubled by the grip, the
reason being that they were at work
on sulphur. We have several times
published articles on this subject,
showing that in sulphur mines every
body escaped the malaria which was
prevailing all about them, that in
California men engaged in bleaching
with birthstone fumes escaped cpl
denies
Casey Young, member of congress
from Memphis, Tennessee, assured
us many years ago at Washington
that when the yellow fever was rag
ing in that city he advised some
dozen or more gentlemen in his Office
to wear powdered sulphur in their
shoes, and. all who took his advice
escaped the fever
1t is well known that the old prac-
tice Of taking sulphur and molasses
in the spring would so penetrate the
body as to blacken the silver coins in
the pockets of the persons taking it.
We wish that some of our eminent
physicians would carefully investi-
gate the advisability of wearing pow
dered sulphur about the body in
times of epidemic diseases. Geo T.
Angel in Dumb Animals.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
Brewers for Reform.

Fully one-fifth of the existing sa-
looms in this state will be put out of
business if the reform plans of the
State Brewers association are car
ried out. Insisting that the agita-
ton against the liquor interests is
caused entirely by the permitting of
improperly conducted places to Sc
cure licenses, the association at an
important conference just ended, de-
cided that the remedy lies in it's
hands. Consequently it will, work
ing through the several bonding
companies, prevent the renewal of H.
censes to all corners whose owners
cannot show "clean bill of health"
Colonel John L. Schwartz, presi-
dent of the State Brewers associa-
ton, has been authorized to confer
with. the agents of the bonding COM
panies and get them to decline to
issue bonds to any places that have
not its endorsement. The association
will then make up list of every
place in the state that has been in
trouble, or against which charges of
permitting disorderly element TO
congregate, have been made, and the
bonding companies will refuse to
bond them. The cheaper class of So
called Raines law hotels in the cities
are to be especially acted against and
the advocates of the movement de-
clare they will in this way put out
of business the very places that
bring disgrace on the liquor business.
Of course, this will not please the
extremists. The me and Cod pro-
hibitionists and the personal liberty
for myself and none for the other
fellow" dive keepers will unite in
opposing anything so sane and bene-
fetal, but the handful of braying ex-
tremists should not be consulted or
considered in settling the question.
One is as great nuisance as the
other and it is unfortunate that they
have been listened to so long and
permitted by their senseless and an
moving din to stand in the way of
sesible solution of the liquor ques-
ton. Each is an element of weak
ness to the side it pretends to repre-
sent. The brewers are fortunate in
having at last recognized this fact
New York state exchange.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
RECEIVER FOR LIQUOR FUND.
State Ought to Pay Its Bust
ness Debts,

Asheville. N. c., Feb. 29.-Decid-
ing that his court would take juris-
diction and inquire into the merits
of the claims of many liquor houses
against the South Carolina dispen-
sary board and continuing until Sat-
urday next argument on the ques-
ton of appointing a receiver for the
100000 fund left by the late dis
pensary and now in the hands of
state committee or the state, Judge
Pritchard today rendered an opinion
which lays down broad principle of
Importance and widespread scope.
The opinion of the judge appears
to decide that when a state engages
in the whisky business or other bust
ness not necessary to perserve its
autonomy or sovereignty it valves its
rights under the eleventh amendment
to the constitution Of the United
States not to be sued without its con-
sent, and he further decides that it
would be unjust to permit the state
under any circumstances to avoid the
payments of debts contracted for
goods on which it has made profit.
Decision Is Broad
A decision so broad in enunciation
of principles seemed hardly to have
been expected by counsel in the case,
and 1t will carry to the supreme court
an issue which may serve to decide
once for all the rights of the state
under the amendment
Judge Pritchard in rendering his
decision said: While the state. of
South Carolina has seen ft to en-
gage in the purchase and sale of spir-
ituous liquors, it cannot be reason
ably contended that in doing so it is
performing the function usually ex-
ercised by a state necessary to pre-
serve its autonomy and maintain Ats
sovereignty.
The supreme court of the state
has decided that the act authorizing
the establishment of a dispensary
was constitutional. However, it can
hardly be>assumed that 1t was con-.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13

ed to chill the enthusiasm of the av-
J erage business man. The proper
time to tax trees is when they are cut.
| When the owner is about to realize
on his crop The state may take such a
! share of the proceeds as it thinks
just. But while the new forest is
growing, restoring life to Barren hill
sides and protecting the sources of
the streams that are the arteries of
/ the commonwealth, it Is a ruinous poll
cy to force it's destruction by levy
ing fines on its existence.
The American Paper and Pulp as
ISOLATION, at its meeting on February
z, adopted resolutions in this sense.
1t declared that the public should
encourage the preservation of the
forests by the owners by sharing with
them the burden entailed thereby,
more particularly in the following
manner: az by reducing taxation
to minimum, so as to encourage
conservative cutting, (2) by applying
the taxes received from wild lands
to their protection from fire and to
reforestation of burned or already
denuded districts
The old-fashioned methods OF lum-
bering, under which a third of the
wood was wasted, have been replaced
by economical processes which en-
able almost everything to be utilized.
The national forest service offers it's
cooperation to all owners of wood
lands who wish to undertake scien-
tific replanting. The lumbermen
whose sources Of supply have been
exhausted, the railroads which are
beginning to suffer from shortage
of ties, and the wood-pulp men who
forsee time of famine for their mills
are anxious to restore their depleted
resources. The chief obstacle in the
way of general movement In this
direction is the barbarous taxing
system Of the states-Exchange
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
Absolute Prohibition.

A drastic prohibition bill for the
District of Columbia was introduced
in the house by Representative Sims
of Tennessee, who blames upon the
low saloons of Washington the re-
cent series of assaults or purse
snatching. Absolute prohibition of
the sale, barter or gift of any form
of intoxicating liquor is one feature
of the bill, while another is that
which requires that all druggists per-
mitted by the law to sell liquors by
prescription keep book showing
who has obtained liquor on such pre-
scriptions during each day.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13

templated at the time of the adop-
tion of the eleventh amendment that
sovereign state would ever engage
in the purchase and sale OF spritu GUS
liquors for profit. The state having
seen fit to engage in this business
and at the same time to deprive titi-
zens of the right to engage in such
business in competition with the
state, thereby placed itself in po-
sition where it could not with con-
sistency, avail itself of the immunity
conferred by the eleventh amend
ment in a suit like the one at bar,
in which it is sought to collect a debt
contracted by the individuals placed
in control of such business with i'm
piled debt.
Is a Common Trader.
Having deprived it's citizens of
the right to engage in this particular
line of business. reserving the right
to monopolize the business through
its agents appointed for that purpose
it would be manifestly unjust to per-
nit the state, under any circum-
stances whatsoever, to avoid the pay
ment of debts contracted by the pur-
chase of goods from the sale of which
it has derived enormous profits. -
Washington Star.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
Prohibition Wave.

In the past two years, and espe-
cially in the year 1907, the country
has awakened to realize that we have
a Prohibition Wave" Not until
Georgia and Alabama had gone dry
and prohibition had become the main
issue in the tangled politics of Ken
lucky did the public in general per-
ceiye it. Now, at the beginning of
the year 1908, nearly one-half the
area of the United States is dry; and
more than one-third of our people are
living under prohibitory laws. The
movement has gone further and
faster in the South than anywhere
else; but it Is unfelt only in the
Rocky Mountain region and in the
Central States of the Atlantic coast.
Georgia is dry; Alabama has passed
a prohibitory law; Mississippi has
followed just as this article goes to
press In Tennessee one can buy
liquor in but three small districts
Kentucky has only four wholly wet"
counties; Florida only fringe along
the seacoasts; Texas is more than
half dry; Missouri and Arkansas,
community by community are falling
-i1to line; the manufacture and
sale" in all the northern half Of
louisiana; it is highly probable that
within two years one or both of the
Carolinas will vote for Statewide
prohibition. Starting from the sea-
board at Georgia, one can travel now
to the borders of Colorado or New
Mexico and cross in passage only one
narrow strip Of wet territory-the
delta counties of Mississippi. Even
these will be dry by next January.
The movement has only been a
little less strong in the North.
Maine, Kansas and North Dakota are
wholly dry; but they come in on ear
lier movements More recently, great
dI cdo vi lllIuOlo dAu 1Auioho ho'O
come under prohibitory law. Ohio,
which has already gone dry in many
spots through ward and township To-
cal option, seems ON the point of pass
ing county local-option law. Nearly
one-half the area of Chicago is under
ward prohibition laws. And even
here the movement for absolute
prohibition has had no effect, cities
and towns are showing more earn
est disposition to enforce the old and
half,forgotten laws for regulation of
the liquor traffic.
Why is it? What has been work
ing in our people to create this sud
den revolution of moral feeling and
political opinion? Is it the purpose
"of this series to answer that ques-
tion-in so far as it is possible to
oak With any authority on prob
lem which goes down, as this one
does to the paste principles of the
social structure and to the roots of
human nature.-Colliers
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
Encouraging Private Forestry.

A bill introduced by Senator Cobb,
chairman of the Forest, Fish and
Game committee of the New York
senate, blazes trail that the friends
of forest preservation throughout the
country will find it well to follow.
The Cobb bill provides that land de-
voted exclusively to wood, timber or
forest products shall be assessed at
rate not higher than the rate of
barren and unproductive lands in the
same tax district. Owners may have
their lands inspected by foresters de-
tailed by the Forest. Fish and Game
commissioner and secure advices as
to the best methods of growing
trees.
This measure recognizes the fact
that really effective system of for
est protection must enlist the good
will and the active cooperation of
private interests. In the west the gov
eminent has reserved over hundred
and fifty million acres in national
forests. That is great expanse-
larger than any empire of Europe eX-
cept Russia-but still it is little over
half the wooded area in the region
west of the Missouri river alone, and
hardly more than fifth of all the
woodlands of the United States, not
counting Alaska. East of the Mis-
souri, only the barest beginnings have
been made. The national govern
ment has done practically nothing,
and the states have reserved only
2,5S2,711 acres, of which seven
Fights are in New York and Penn
sylvania, and four-fifths of the re-
mainder in Wisconsin. The future
of our hardwood supply depends
upon the maintenance of the eastern
forests, and even if congress can in
duce Speaker Cannon to let 1t do
something in the Appalachians the
bulk of the work must be done by
private interests on commercial lines
In its early stages the work of for
est preservation was carried on in
spirit of hostility to these private in
terests They we're the enemy to be
fought, the vandals who were de-
stroying the public birthright in cyni-
cal disregard of the nations future.
But, after all, the destroyers Of the
forests-the lumbermen, the wood
pulp men, the makers of railroad ties
are human. They do not destroy
for the sake of destruction-so
of them would really like to repair
their own waste. Many are already
cooperating with the state and ma
tional forestry services, systemati
cally replanting their cut-over lands
and treating trees as crops, to be
grown as often as harvested. But
here the states interfere and penalize
forethought. BY taxing the growing
trees they make it hard and often
impossible for the owner to carry
the crop to maturity. Paying out
cash every year for taxes and taking
nothing in for thirty years Is calculat-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
Grace Suicide" as Viewed by a
Woman.

Of late have read various articles
in regard to race suicide. In these,
woman is charged with having lost
the God-given desire to become a
wife and mother. Various reasons
are assigned for this, but have not
seen what I believe to be the greatest
cause of this loss. Is it not because
our nation has refused to protect
the home that the American woman
refuses to become wife and mother?
She has wept, prayed and petitioned
( our state and national governments
to throw around the homes of this
country some protection from the
greatest curse this world has ever
known. But instead of granting her
request this land of the free and
home of the brave has gone into
partnership with the home destroyer
so the only reply weeping, petition
ing womanhood receives is: Go make
homes, be patient, bear children, and
each year we will only lay about 1 co.
600 of them in drunkards graves,
and we cannot tell how many of them
we will place in alms-houses, county
tails, penitentiaries, and insane asy-
lums.
It is not because woman loves a
poodle dog more than a baby that
she chooses the dog, but if she pays
the tax and puts a collar on her dog
she is protected by the law from the
dog-slayer. But tell me, if you can,
how mother can protect her boy?
She went down to the gates of death
to give him birth She counts this
= as naught for the joy that man
: child is born. She watches over him,
sleeping and waking. warns him of
the dangers of the intoxicating cup,
but it availeth not Ere the blush
of youth has left his cheek she sees
him offered a sacrifice on the altar of
his nations greed What wonder
that woman buys ranch, goes into
sheep raising instead of raising boys?
Wool growers are protected, and if
Ahe wolves should abound our gov
eminent would pay so much per head
for their destruction. But the de-
stroyer of our sons is protected by
law; his business is legalized. When
the voters of the country make the
raising of children a safe business,
then will our daughters become wives
and the joyful mothers of children,
..'and the streets of the city shall be
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
Sale of jamestown Site and Buildings

Richmond, Va, March 3.-The
senate today passed bill authoriz-
ing the sale of the jamestown expo
sition, site and buildings to the fed
eral government for the establish
ment of a military and naval train
ing station. The bill was presented
by Senator Sale.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
Homeseekers Coming.

There is every indication that the
colonist rates this spring and fall
will bring more people to this country
than any previous year. The rail-
roads state that their information
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
Discussing the Liquor Question

full of boys and girls playing in the
streets thereof. Elizabeth A. Ivey,
in Michigan Christian Advocate.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1908-03-21
Deatist Locates Here.

Dr. II. A. Ferguson. of Blackfoot.
has decided to locate permanently in
American Falls. He is partner at
Blaekfoot, of DIR. II. c. Dippel. we'll
and favorably known here. DIR. Fer
gu#on made his frat visit here about six
weeks ago and was very favorably i'm
pressed with American Falls and her
future. About three weeks ago he was
here again. Tuesday he came for the
third time and announced that American
Falls looked good to him. and that he
would locate here permanently.
His office will be in the rear of the
building to be erected for the Owl Drug
company by Mrs. j. X. Chapman, which
Is to completed by May /.
He has been resident of Blackfoot
for number Of years and stands high
both personally and professionally
American Falls Is fortunate In securing
one 10 competent worthy in every way.
He will have his Offices at the Rem.
ington until other quarters can be Sc.
cured. He expects b be here two OF
three weeks before returning to Black.
foot to close up his business there.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1908-03-21
CANAL WORK
WELL UNDER WAY.
W. R. Hartwen Takes Con-
tract Near Browns S Camp.
Company Camp Working About Fsrty
Teams--Ground Works Easily and
Good Progress Reported
From All Camps.

About forty teams are employed at
the company camp about seven miles
from here, and good work is being
done. The estimates on this work last
fall, after the first mile or two is passed,
was that from quarter to a half q
mile per day would be completed. If
this schedule is maintained the lower
end of the main canal should be COM
pleted within two months, allowing q
wide latitude for delays. Dirt is now
being moved rapidly.
w. r. Hartwell has taken a contract
between that of the company and C.
w. Brown, and moved his teams out
Wednesday to begin work. Between
Brown and the company camp there is
4 stretch of about three miles, with few
difficulties to contend with. Between
Brown and Livingston there ia about q
mile, the last quarter of which contains
some rock. Livingston's contract be-
gins at point about two miles west of
Aberdeen, to which the canal is COM
pleted.
7. r. Jones has large force at work
on the low line, and will complete it in
time for the irrigation season, begin
ming about May Is.
Parties who have visited the camps
report greater activity and more being
accomplished than at any time last
year The grounp is in fine condition to
work and is more economically handled
than it will be when the moisture is
pnre
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1908-03-21

F. Moench and H. G. Hawley both
of American Falls, have formed busi-
ness partnership to engaged in survey
ing, irrigation and all kinds of engineer
ing work. The members of this firm
are young men but have had consider
able experience in their profession.
Mr.. Moench is a graduate of the
Agricultural College of Logan, Utah,
and has been employed as assistant city
engineer of Logan, assistant engineer
for the Southern Pacific in Nevada,
and by the kemmerer Coal Co. in Wyo-
ming, and the American Falls canal as
instrumentman. Mr.. Hawley is grad
uate of the civil engineering depart
ment of the University Of Minnesota
and has been employed as assistant
county engineer of Auoka Co. Minn..
ON the location of the Twin City and
Lake Superior railway in Minnesota,
and Wisconsin, the Arkansas Valley
Traction Co. location at Pueblo, Colo.
as assistant engineer by the La Prele
Ditch and Reservoir Co. Of Douglas.
Wyoming.
They will be installed in an Office
soon and are now prepared to do all
kinds of work promptly.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1908-03-21

The foregoing, received from the gen
ersi Office of the American Falls Canal
4 Power company at Salt Lake, Thurs
day. bears its own evidence that work
is to be crowded AS fast as possible.
Las, fall when work ceased il was esti-
mated that the company would be able
10 complete the construction, with the
exception of contracts already let. with
its own equipment. Frost remaining in
the ground throughout February. how
ever. prevented their beginning work
AS early AS expected, and is Was on the
assumption that the company equip.
ment would complete the work that the
estimate of water on July first was
made last week. III they succeed il
contracting considerable portion of it,
however, water may be ready much
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1908-03-21

LARRY ORCHARD. confessed slsy-
l i er Of ex Governor Steunenbcrg. was
sentenced to be hanged by Judge Wood
at Caldwell. Wednesday. accompanied
by q recommendation for committeeman
of sentence to life imprisonment. In
passing sentence the Judge delivered
a remarkable address. part Of which
is taken from the Boise Statesman as
follows
while the court has no discretion in
the matter of imposing sentence. an ex-
animation of the law and authorities
disclose the fact that the court is con-
fronted with grave duty and RESPONSE
bility which must be met at this time,
ard which cannot be avoided. even If
there should be any disposition upon
the part of the court to avoid the same.
"An examination of the Law upon the
subject disclcscs the fact that there is
hardly any question involving the oper-
alton of the criminal Law more
thoroughly settled than that an obliga-
ton exists upon the part of the state
to at least reduce the punishment to be
inflicted wherever an sceompliee has
been admitted as witness for the pros
ecution and is thereafter convicted.
after having been made a witness for
the state. and received. as snch by the
court. and after having made a full and
complete confession that such accom-
plice has an equitable claim to Judicial
Recommendation to the mercy of the
pardouing power which may commute
the penalty to life Imprisonment or to
such lesser punishment as may to the
psrdoning power be deemed most likely
to subserve the ends Of justice. -
''The rule upon which the equitable
right to the recommendation for partial
or complete immunity depends is based
upon the assumption that the accomplce
thus used as witness has acted in good
faith and testified fairly and fully to
the whole truth so far as it relates to
the entire transaction. involving both
himself and his aceomplices or code
PENDANTS.
During the two trials to which |
have referred the testimony of the de-
fendant covered long series Of trans
actions. involving personal relations be-
tween himself and many others. In
the first trial he was subjected to the
most critical discrimination by very
able counsel for at least six days, and
! do not now recall that at any point he
contradicted himself in any material
matter. but on the other hand, disclosed
his connection with the commission of
many other crimes that were probably
not known to the attorneys for the
state, at least not brought out by them
on direct examination of the witness.