The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-05-05
FROM A KEEN WRITER
TOM TIBBLES KEEP AN ALERT EYE ON AFFAIRS
Of PUBLIC INTEREST

Nothing acts more like like tonic than get hold Of
the Omaha Investigator Tbbes paper and read
his sharp shrewd and photographic comment
timely topics Here lot culed for the benefit of
readers:
The respect that one great republican has for another
indicated in the remark Of William Allen White about
Speaker Cannon He said Cannon was vile stupid,
arrogant old mOSSback.
An amendment to the antitrust act means that the
be held sacred until the end of sevenyear
law suit and the supreme court that abolished the
eleventh amendment constitution declares that they
unreasonable
The capture of the Erie railroad by Hartman has
caused great fall in real along that line far up
the from New York Men doing business in the city
and having fine residences along the line selling out.
They say that they afford to pay fares that insure
dividends on road capitalized for S14S 900 mile They
had expected the road go into receivers hands and
that lot of the would have been squeezed out Of
the stock Now that Hartman has got it. they throw up
their hands and quit.
The Wall street financial papers are publishing as a
newly discovered thing the fact that when commodity
prices go down. bonds and stocks advance what has been
the since there were bonds and stocks Securities
that bear fixed of interest of necessity become
valuable when commodities fall Securities simply
money futures "a contract to deliver at certain time
specified number of dollars If those dollars will pur
chase more commodities which must he if commodity
prices fall they will of course become more valuable
Washington writer says that La Toilette IS the most
powerful the body aside from Adch and 1t IS the
result of moral courage In the business is done by
unanimous consent and La Toilette has had the courage to
stand up alone and hold the pass when the forty thieves
wanted to march through with their booty No other
senator has ever dared do it The thieves had to
promise with him and that how he forced the passage OF
the employers liability BILL helped the president to save
coal and petroleum deposits OF the state OF Oklahoma
and has done many other things along the same line La
Toilette seems to have traded the apOweul Adrlch ring
for the support of the people
There greater fraud upon the people than
the bill introduced by the republicans concerning the pub
cation of campaign expenses 1t confined exclusively
to committees which conduct elections in than one
state Such bill vii; do the republican party no good
1t would be far better condition 1t passed no bill at
all The congressional committee and the committee ap-
pointed by the national convention the only ones that
it touches All the immense corruption fund OF the party
could easily be expended through the state committees
which operate in state only The fraud IS so tansar
ent that the dOlt in the country instantly detect
it. But it in perfect harmony with the sort OF legislation
that A1rch and Cannon have been giving to the people
The plutoCratc papers IN the Democratic party that
are fighting BRYAN unconsciOusy accredtng him with
greater genius than has heen aScrbed to any other man
the United States all its history They say that ne
an absolute dictator of the party and governs the party
against will the latter being the statement OF Secretary
Taft BRYAN has money purchase delegates all the
bosses of the party both east and west are against HIM
All the great dailes fighting him. yet so tanscendant
his genius that in spite of all that, he is dictator The
Investigator does believe that Bryan genius OF that
sort His enemies 1atter him. He is simply the great
leader of his party because the common people think that
he is honest and has advocated for years principals
and policies which they believe and therefore they go
out to the primaries whenever they have the opportunity
and vote to send delegates Denver instructed to vote
for him