The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-01-30
THURSDAY. JANUARY 50. 1905

On another page of this issue {
the Herald We publish a self-intel
view from the three grain companie
who have been operating in this ter
ritcry for the past several years an,
trust that all our readers will read i
over carefully and also keep it fo
future reference, as the Herald vii
have occasion to refer to it at differ.
ent times in the future. To reply to
the entire article in one issue would
require too much space and for this
reason We ask you to keep the orig
inal article. First, We wish TO state
in positive terms that no Lewiston
politicians, or anyone else, other
than those whose names appear at the
head of the Herald. as proprietors of
the same, have had anything to do
with the articles that have been pub
Iished in this paper on the grain
question since the middle of last
September. When we took up this
question We took it up on our own
responsibility, without the solicita-
ton of anyone, knowing full well
that in SO doing We would incur the
enmity of few at least, but We are /
not trying to run this paper for the
interest of any individual but for the
interest of the public in general
where it is published and when We
can no longer do this the paper will
either suspend publication or be
published by some other than the
present proprietors.
In the treatment of this grain ques-
ton the Herald has held to the be-
lief heretofore that there was opposi-
ton between the three companies. !,
who gave out the interview and that
they were not in a combine as has
been repeatedly suggested by the :
farmers and those who have had
dealings with these companies, but :
we are always open to conviction :.
and when in the wrong We are willing
to be corrected, and are now willing :
to confess that the farmers knew :.
more about this than We did.
As to politics entering into this =
question, there has been none. While 49,
he editor is democrat, We do not
intend to run a political paper and :.
se do not know, but presume, thai -
ne politicians to whom the companies
efer to in their interview are repub-
cans. Still if the grain companies
eek to make this political issue the =.
Lerald will meet the question square g.
and before the fight is over these
ime grain companies may be offer -
g up more fervent prayers than did -
e preacher who met the bear. -
heir article seeks to switch the
rue from the grain question to a
litical one in hopes that they NAV :,
able to get the farmer in Nez
rec and Idaho counties to drop the -,
st important question that has ,u
II been presented to him, but we
a. -. 'o' . high
fs u far a
ut this grain question in the past
q the companies have given him IT,
dit for knowing but he has not
h;n..,t u the re
article upon the farmers by in -. - !,
ating that they may be led - -
ely to vote against their own in ae.n'
SITS remains for the companies to .aoDe'
r up. inissio
the grain companies have been "
rain y i :, - - pay tentior
this to the farmer. If glazing .-.'e :
Herald vii, a.. D'Ae ~ Thereon
'e point out a few IF them7 Will - 'ne
Companies please explain whv man
rice of barley was raised from app''os
endent buv.r. e..S syn Tor for
October' Will they explain
hey are paying more for barley
na'' .ne oio about the 6rst of We ht
CT WlEU III was Cffofed fro~r 0c ILL.,