Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-11-18

though he may not see fit to exercise
that right, he said. Through these
principles we have built up the great
est nation on earth; a nation worth
116 billion dollars and at the half of
it was not told, at least not to the
tax collector.
The senator touched very briefly
upon questions which are now CON
fronting the nation He favored the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people; said every
body in the country did but the SEN
ators themselves; that until we can
have direct election we should have
direct nominations at the primaries.
Speaking about trusts he said that
they enabled some men to get without
earning what other men earn without
getting.
Referring to the tariff the speaker
stated that he believed i'm tax re-
vision downward which would result
in reducing the cost of living, and
claimed the tariff was not reduced in
the Papne-Aldrich bill. The people
could not tell by the bill whether the
the tariff had been revised up or down
only experts claim to be able to see
any change.
The only way the average man can
tell is by the bill that is presented on
the first of every month. He did not
seem to think that the tariff rate has
anything to do with the operations of
trusts, and cited instances where raw
material had apparently been lowered
in the Payne-Aldrich bill, the price of
the finished product had gone up, the
trusts having monopolized the market
and are independent of the tariff He
said sugar had been reduced so that
every time you ate ton of it you
save one dollar. He predicted the
failure of the new tariff bill in the
near future and the downfall of its
sponsors and said Taft should have
vetoed it; that Roosevelt would have
done so. He thought that Taft would
stand or fall with the new tariff rate
1t was immaterial to him, the SEN
ator said, from which party reform
came; that he would rather see pro
gressive republican than stand pat
democrat in the presidents chair. in
dicating that Roosevelt would be ac-
ceptable. Here he took occasion to
state that one of the representatives of
the state of Idaho in the senate was a
mossback, whose moss trailed as long
as the n. =. railway. The difference
| hot In hn nd. .l,,o
is that the trust votes for an interest
regardless of party, and the individual
for a party regardless of interest. For
! our next president progressive re-
publican like LaFollette or Cummings
was suggested, or a progressive demo
crat, whose name modesty forbid him
to mention, would do.
After talking for two hours which
passed much too fast for the interested
listeners, Gore wound up with an ap-
peal that we should all reconsecrate
ourselves to the principles on which
our nation has grown the greatest and
richest; that all men are created equal
and that all governments derive their
Just power from the consent of the
governed.
The next number will be the Glare
VonW Wales Company, which appears
here on December %. This company
is among the best musical organiza-
tions touring the west. The company
will appear at Lewiston and Spokane
and only after offering the most liber-
al inducements was Grangeville able
to book the organization. Like the
two previous numbers, the company is
far above the average seen in towns
like Grangeville but the Commercial
Club, in securing talent for the course
decided nothing was too good for the
people of Idaho County. Tickets will
be sold for 10 cents, no extra charge
for reservations.