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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-27
PLACE FOR DEMOCRATS.

In the news of the day, says the
Salt Lake Republican, we find this
sentiment-the utterance of man
who claims to be democrat OF prom
inence. and who certainly has been
influential in the past:
II would have but one line in the
next democratic platform, and that
would be equal justice to all men
and a candidate who will reflect that
motto"
There is only one candidate who
can express that motive, and that is
the candidate named by the republi-
can party.
There Is only one place for a demo-
crat who honestly believes in the
principles OF his party, and that is
in the republican party. where the
honesty and the courage and the
strength OF Theodore Roosevelt
makes the realization Of the square
deal possible.
No man can be named at the re-
publican national convention who
does not express the presidents poll
cies and stand for his principles in
politics and In business. Every demo-
crat can stand on the platform Of
equal rights for all, and he knows he
will not get that In the democratic
party. even II the democrats win.
Every honest man In the demo-
cratic party wants to see president
strong enough and honest enough to
resist the aggressions of the unworthy
rich. He wants to follow the flag Of
a president who is not afraid Of the
powerful corporations. He has the
chance II he follows Theodore Roose-
welt in person. or the candidate Of
Theodore Roosevelt's party. And he
has not the chance anywhere else:
The democrat Of prominence
knows that his own party cannot
make such platform as he suggests
He knows the late leaders of his par
ty couldn't stand together on 1t II
they did adopt i at Denver. And he
knows they would not realize It in
action II they made the platform and
won in the election.
There Ia only one place for sin
cere democrat. and that is in the re-
publican party.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-27
GOLD AND MERCHANDISE.

1t may certainly be said that the
great amount of gold imported dur
ing November and December, aggre-
eating about $1O7.000,O0O in excess
Of a driblet of gold exports, accord
ing to the governments figures, does
not at present represent loan to be
called back later, but has been paid
for in produce and merchandise.
It is evidently a strong position
which the country occupies in its COM
mercial relations with the outside
world-strong for a debtor nation;
and we may thus be able to hold
large command over the International
exchanges In relation to the move
ment Of gold. The fall Of prices and
decided check to consumption In the
home market will operate to reduce
imports decidedly, while exports will
Increase, at least in quantity, through
the necessity created of seeking larg-
er outside markets for the products
OF our factories
The $200,000,0OO worth Of net
gold imports during the last two years
will not necessarily have to be re-
turned, unless 1t be to our advantage.
1t is a pretty good tariff that enables
us to pay all our obligations and get
800. 100000 of gold besides.
K Well, there is trouble enough, and
the country will be grateful that some
business interests are to be left alone;
grateful that the tariff Is to be treat
ed as a business matter.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-27
A BOOST FOR HARRY DAY.

4 Where are the bands, the drums,
the flies?
Where are the flags and the bunt-
Ing?
Where are the street parades and
the mass meetings?
Where are the newspaper notices
and the editorials?
\ Where are the three cheers and the
tigers and the one cheer more?
\ Where Is the enthusiasm. where
the handshakes, the congratulations?
Where are all the indications Of
Joy that herald the candidacy OF a
really great and suitable democrat
for the governorship!
Oh, friends. where are all these
things, and again we ask-where?
Above all where is Harry L. Day
!. and where is his formidable candi-
dacy?-
With Ehoshone county "given over
to the democrats" and the voice Of
the democrats uplifted in the demand
for the goyernorship for the north,
the candidacy Of Mr.. Day has been
received with about the same amount
Of enthusiasm as the sermon at the
grave Of tinhorn sport.
While no pyrotechnical display has
been given at Mullan, it must be a
matter Of the deepest consolation to
Mr.. Day to see himself eulogized in
the Miner Of that town as fitted
/, with both brains and energy to make
the best governor the state of Idaho
so far has had"
n But even our old friend. the editor
Of the Mullan Miner. sees that there
Is limit to all things and realizing
that he has gone the limit for Mr..
Day; realizing In fact that the people
have had an overdose Of democracy
\ all around in the past. we are told
that there is not man in Idaho
that the Miner would rather see oc-
cupy the gubernatorial chair than
Barney O'Neil."
At this point democratic despair
seems to have settled on the editor
and he finishss up with : pathetic
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-27
TAFT SENTIMENT STRONG.

There have been a number of re-
ports floating about in Sh0shone
county and the state of Idaho gener-
ally to the effect that so far as this
state is concerned the next president
of the United States is to be Governor
Hughes of New York.
The origin Of these reports is un-
known, but the only explanation that
has been offered SO far appears to
base them on an alleged matter Of
personality existing between Senator
w. b. Hepburn and President Roose-
welt, arising originally from the fam
ous fight made by the former on the
forest reserve question.
This, according to the reports, has
been of such weight with Senator
Hepburn as to prevent his endorse
ment of Secretary Taft Whether or
not these reports are true we have
been unable to determine at this
time.
One thing Is true, however, and
that is that the sentiment OF the peo-
pie OF Shoshone county and the state
of Idaho Is strong for Mr.. Taft-so
strong that the personal prejudices
OF either one man or another will not
be tolerated for an instant. AS the
personal representative of President
Roosevelt, Mr.. Taft has already
toured the state Of Idaho on behalf Of
the republican party and delivered
speeches at both Boise and Pocatello
as we'll as other points, and any man
who thinks that the people have for
gotten this is, in the words of the
poet. "off his eggs"
Nothing could be more certain than
that Secretary Taft will be the future
president Of the United States and the
people of Idaho will not take chances
with federal recognition in order to
pander to the prejudices Of any man.
As a matter OF fact II these reports
are true there will be but one out
come and that is that those who go to
the national convention from idaho
will go with instructions for Taft.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-27
A MINERS ASSOCIATION.

Writing In the Times, Wesley Ev-
erett suggests the formation Of a
mine owners organization. In q gen.
eral way the project IL good and
should meet with the support OF
those engaged in the industry, but II
the movement is contemplated SIM
ply as q means to put the broker out
Of business, as seems to be intimated,
Il would be unjust and unfair. A
great many engaged in practical
mining blame the brokers for every
trial and tribulation and The Miner
b not, asserting that some brokers
are not menace to the business, but
the general brokerage fraternity Is
doing great deal for the benefit Of
developing the mining business and
many houses have spent vast sums Of
money in advertising the Occur
d'Alene district.
The Miner believes in the Occur
dAlene district fran first to last,
and Is directly interested in the ad-
vancement Of the country. It is
heartily in sympathy with any plan
which may be Of general benefit and
stands ready to do It's share toward
furthering such enterprise In any
manner and to any extent within its
power.
II Mr.. Everett's plans should be
carried out greatest care would be
to exclude all but those legiti-
mately developing promising prop
critics, as one black sheep vouched
tor by the association through mem
bership, would be more disastrous
than hundred hold-up schemes
worked by fake promoters under
present eonditions.
It seems difficult to understand
how the brokerage end Of the busi.
ness could be carried on by such an
organization with fairness and JUS
ttce to both the promoter and In
weston. Who would decide into
what properties an investor who for
warded money should be put?
The proposal to bond mining engi-
neers seems entirely unnecessary and
unfair and 1t Is a matter of doubt
whether any professional man would
be- willing to work under conditions
which constantly left him and his
bondsmen open. to suit whether bona
fide or for blackmail. There are GER
tainly enough mining engineers en-
gagged In the district who have repu-
tations to sustain that will guaran-
tee any client efficient service with
out either bond or forfeit.
It would seem to The Miner that
an organization might be effected
comprising mining men and all 9TH !
ers indirectly interested In the Occur
d'Alenes for giving reliable informa-
ton and generally advertising the
wealth of this marvellous district for
the purpose of interesting foreign
capital in meritorious enterprises and
safeguarding such investors. The
lines should be broad and the objects
clear. Good men should be In
charge and the governing board
should merit and possess the utmost
confidence OF every member of the
association. Under no other circum-
Stances could the organization prove
effective or have general support.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-27

And poor Mr.. Day. happily the pro-
prietor Of his own newspaper, 10 left
to toot by himself. There can be but
little doubt that Mr.. Day will con-
tinue to toot until November. when,
with slow. funeral and melancholy
to0ts. the best political joke of the
last half century will be buried in an
unlamented grave.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-27

request to foot your horn for
Barney"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-18
A WAR on POVERTY.

Most people regarded the great in
ternational congress on tuberculosis,
recently held in Washington, as OF
scientific or humanitarian interest
alone 1t had another aspect not so
often considered. 1t was an impor-
tant economic event. In the United
States 100000 persons die from tuber-
culosis every year. This represents
an enormous loss in earning power
to the nation.
The problem OF disability arising
from disease and accident is claiming
more and more attention. A few
years ago it would have received
scant notice from a department of
political economy. But in one of the
latest textbooks. Economics, by Near
ing and Watson of the university of
Pennsylvania. chapter is devoted to
the impairment of industrial efficiency
by accidents and bad sanitary condi-
tions. 1t is time that the situation
be definitely faced. One-third of the
male breadwinners of the country die
between the ages of 25 and SIS. Very
many families are brought to the pow
erty line by the loss or illness of
their head.
Every year more persons are killed
and injured in industrial accidents
in the United States than were killed
and injured in the Spanish American,
the Boer and the Russo-Japanese
wars. In Pennsylvania one miner is
killed for every $4,000 tons of coal
mined. approximately $4,000 per-
sons are killed and injured on the
railroads each year. Altogether the
number Of victims of modern civiliza-
ton in America is estimated at one
half million annually. 1t is evident
that here too, is vast Industrial loss
to the country that must break up
many families and reduce the produc-
tivity of society.
Such movements as that promoted
by the international conference on tu-
berculosis to stamp out disease are
important factors in reducing poverty.
Preventable deaths from illness and
from accident must be got rid of be-
fore sure foundation is laid for the
square DEAL
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-18
hibition can both prove their conten-

nlDltlOn can DOM prove LQelr COnten-
tions.
The old Chicago city hall is about
demolished and work at once will
commence on the new 100000 struc-
ture which Is to be one of the largest
and best equipped municipal building
in the country. The wrecking gang
will give way to the construction gang
and the passerby will cease to squint
at the flying rock dust and plaster.
and will look on wonderingly as the
great steel skeleton rears itself above
the street: 1000 tons of 1t, later to
be clothed with $4,000 tons of granite,
$4,000 tons of concrete and 6,000,000
bricks. One can imagine train of
more than $500 cars, eighteen miles
lone creeping slowly forward as this
mass of steel and stone is unloaded
and put in place. Two years will pass
before the train is all unloaded. Close
beside 1t and OCCUPYING the rest Of the
block is set the court house, lately
completed; and when the city hall is
finished and the twin structures, tow
ering thirteen stories above the street,
are locked together with bands of
steel and concrete, there are none
who doubt that they will present such
an appearance and will offer such ia
cilities for conducting the business
of local government as to Justify the
cost-over $S,000,000. Though a COM
plement of the county building, the
city hall will cover LOO more square
feet, will consume 1000 more tons of
steel and will include 100000 more
cubic feet. The great columns of the
colonnade, nine feet in diameter and
columns Of any colonnade in the
world. There will be fourteen ele-
vators, more than a mile of corridors
and nearly fifteen acres of floor space.
This, with the county building, means
the crowding Of nearly thirty acres
Of floor space in city block. Pneu-
matte tubes are to cobweb the build
ing.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-18
NOVEMBER
FEASTDAYS.
We think Of November as the month

We think of November as the month
Of Thanksgiving, though this is q
feast peculiar to our own country. at
least in its present form. We some
times grumble that 1t comes so near
Christmas, and say, we niggards of
frolic, that ut seems as II every other
day was a holiday" But November
really boasts no less than six other
holidays, some of which are observed
throughout Europe, some In England
or some other country, only.
First of them all comes Guy Faw.
kes' day, the fifth Of the month. with
its old song:
Oh. don't you remember
The Fifth Of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot!
On this day It was customary In
London until comparatively recent
times for the boys to dress up an
image Of the infamous conspirator.
holding in one hand dark lantern
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-18
WHO THREW THE BRICKi

Mr. Bryan simply cannot under
stand how it happened. He says so
in what we may call the weeks
mind" editorial in his own paper. The
skies were bright, the conditions au-
spicious; the straw votes everywhere
foreshadowed Democratic success
oh, Mr. Bryan.-and the Republicans
were so scared that they put their
candidate on the stump. That candi-
dates election is to Mr. Bryan the
mystery of 1905" and he wants to
have it elucidated:
But let no man in New York, Rich
mond, Va, Atlanta, Ca, Charleston.
s. c., ST. Paul. Mimi. or anywhere
else, imagine for minute that Will
liam Jennings Bryan of Nebraska is
knocked out. or discouraged. Not he
His faith in the shining principles of
the Denver platform and in their ulti-
mate triumph is mistaken; his heart
pulses with lofty hope The presi-
dency. if he had got it, would have
been "a mere incident" What is a
lost battle more or less to one who
has enlisted for the war? He is going
to march on and to fight on. 81 in
vite the cooperation of those who ap-
prove" he says, and l shall not be
deferred by the criticism of those who
disapprove." A resolute, defiant Mr.
Bryan. The Democratic party must
continue its fight or dissolve" he
says. Let the conservatives put that
notice in their pipes and smoke it!
To those of them who really
thought Mr.. Bryan capable of know
ing when he has had enough his
Commoner editorial will be facer.
He makes it fairly plain that he will
regard the nomination of any Grover
Cleveland Democrat four years hence
as falling away from the true faith,
and will put forth all his influence
still potent in large regions of the
west and southwest-to punish that
apostasy. A cheerful prospect this
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-18
THE SHOOTING OF HENEY.


The work and quality of Francis j.
Heney have made him a national as
set. The sympathy of all the people
in this time Of critical danger to him
is heightened by the knowledge that
the country could ill afford to lose
such a man.
The attempted assassination Of the
San Francisco graft prosecutor is an
other demonstration that the danger
to public servants in America lies not
in conspiracies, but in the prompting
Of individuals, diseased minds or in
private vengeance. Since the murder
of Lincoln it has been the crank or
the single criminal who has killed
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-18

or attempted to kill men in promi-
nent public station. And even the
Lincoln assassination was effected by
no widespread conspiracy.
However little of consolation there
may be in this fact the men whose
duties expose them to injury, 1t is a
commentary Of hopeful significance
to American civilization. Revolution
airy organizations, or even lesser COM
binations for evil, have not yet found
nourishment in the political institu-
lions of the United States. There is
little probability that they ever will.
An almost universal horror Of under
handed plotting is as vigorous a fact
or in the American temperament as
any We display.
One feels that the strong will of
a man like Francis Heney will make
good on his declaration that he is go
ing to live. A different ending to the
assault upon him would be national
pity. But, however the ending of this
life, the fight for honest government
and for the square deal, locally in
San Francisco and throughout the
United States, will not be turned from
its purpose nor halted in its progress.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-18

and in the other bundle of matches,
and to go about the streets begging
money. In the evenings they had q
great bonfire, and the image was
burned with much merriment, while
the boys drank to the death of all
conspirators and paid for their liquor
from the proceeds Of their days beg
ging. Fireworks and bonflres were
everywhere and an American might
have thought himself In the midst
of Fourth Of July that had gone
astray.
The eleventh of the month is the
time when, as the old ballad says: =.
Martinmass blaws chill and cauld.
At this date, in the olden times, the
country folk began to lay in their
winter meats and many are the refer
ences to the custom, in the old stories.
Martinmas beef was famous. It was
dried in the chimney, like bacon, and
served for cutting throughout the win
ter. and we'll into the spring. Those
were the days OF wholesale hospi-
tally and Of wholesale provisioning;
about twenty-four beeves were kill
ed in week and man who had
bought shilling's worth of beef, or
an ounce of tea, would have conceal
ed 1t from his neighbors like mur-
der"
On the continent the Feast of Saint
Martin is day of debauch. The new
wines are ready to taste, and the
saints day is celebrated with carous-
ing. The usual dinner Is q roasted
goose, In memory Of the story that
Saint Martin, being elected to q bish-
opric. hid himself in order to evade
the honor, but was discovered by
goose, which led the way to his re-
treat. The gay doings at the feast are
referred to the ancient Athenian fes-
tival Of Bachus, held upon the 18th,
18th and 18th of the month Anthester-
ion, which corresponded to our No
vember.
The 18th Of November, the date Of
the accession Of Elizabeth, was OBJ
served in England, even within the
last century. This was Protestant
holida'' and the bonfires lighted on
all the hills were used to burn EN-
gies of the pope and Of satan. Later.
after the deposition Of the Stuarts.
the figure of the Pretender was added
by the Loyalists, and the trio were
annually burnt with songs and re-
joicing.
Saint Clements day, the 2srd Of
November, came next. The saint was
the patron Of blacksmiths. Accord
tngly on the evening Of his day, the
blacksmith apprentices would meet.
and, dressing one Of their number in
a great-coat, long wig Of oakum.
and long white beard, they would
place him in a large wooden chair
covered with bunting, and decorated.
with four transparencies, represents
Ing the "Blacksmith's Arms" Before
the saint was wooden anvil, and in
his hands hammer and a pair NJ
tongs. The other boys carried BAN
ners torches, tbattle-axes, and spears.1
and. with "Old Glenn" as they IRE
verently called their patron saint. car
ried on the shoulders of six men. and
preceded by 9 drum ana hfe, they per
ambulated the town. stopping at ey-
cry public house, and not forgetting
TO call upon the master blacksmiths.
A supper Terminated the proceedings,
lof course. In those days there was
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-18

no cheer" without meat and drink
especially the latter, and the gener-
al idea of good time seems to have
been one that the w. G. T. u. would
not at all approve Of.
Two days after the visit Of Clement,
the Vulcan of saint-lore, comes the
day sacred to Catherine, the fayorer
Of learned men, and the patroness of
spinsters. Her holiday Is observed"
says La Motto, mot in popish coun-
tries only, but in many other places;
young women meeting on the twenty
fifth of November, and making merry
together, which they call Cathern-
ing" The reason given for the cele-
bration Is that the girls may get good
husbands, and the women better by
the death or desertion of their pres
ent ones, or at least an alienation
In their manners"
The feast of Saint Andrew, on the
thirtieth Of the month, is the time for
the youths to think of their sweet
hearts.
To Andrew all the lovers and the
lustie wooers come,
Bleeving through his ayde, and cer-
tain ceremonies done,
while as to him they presents bring,
and conjure all the night,
To have good luck, and to obtain their
chief and sweete delight.
On Saint Andrews day II was that
the Scots marched in procession
through the streets of London, with
their favorite national dish, q singed
sheeps head, borne before them. And
on this day in some parts of England
1t was customary to have a yearly
squirrel hunt, when the lower class
OF people assembling together 'in-
formed lawless rabble, and, provided
with guns, poles, clubs and other such
weapons spent the greatest part Of
the day In parading through the
woods with loud shoutings. Under the
pretense Of demolishing the SQUIRRELS
they destroyed great numbers Of
hares, pheasants, partridges and IN
snort, Whatever came in their way,
breaking down the hedges ana doing
mucn other mischief, and in the even
ing oetaking themselves to the ale
houses; nnished their career, as isus-
uai Win such sort Of gentry"
Altogether the month seems to have
oeen sacred to eating and drinking
from the earliest times. Probably all
OF them are reminiscent Of the harvest
festivals, the rejoicing over the gar
nered grain, and the new wine. As for
the bonfires that mark the FIRST Of the
month, they are belated Baal fires,
the hres that were lighted, long ago
at the solstices and at the eauinoxes.
Ineir original signfhcation forgotten
ana the children Of men delighting
~ the leaping flame they were adopt
ed by every feast that could squeeze
Limiting our festivals for the month
10 one, we have concentrated in It the
Old gladness Of the harvest. with the
higher and more spiritual element Of
thanks to the Giver Of the Grain.
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opens up for our friends the enemy.
Although it serves them exactly right,
every feeling heart must be bit sor-
ry for them. They we're great party
once.
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CALTFORNIl.

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