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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

Transmission Selective sliding gear.
Real AXle-Drawn steel; transmission incor-
porated in same; single universal joint;
enclosed oil and dust proof.
Wheel Base-1O6 inches.
Wheels-Artillery type. 80 inches diameter;
large wheels and long base guarantee easy
riding over toughest roads or pavements.
Frame Pressed steel.
Body-Pressed steel made in three types;
five passenger touring Roadster; double
and single rumble seats
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
AN ERROR OF POLICY.
Eject of congregational Limita lions
on secret Service.

New NOfk tribune.
Some significant testimony bearing on
the merits OF the dispute last winter be-
tween President Roosevelt and the house
Of Representatives over the employment Of
the secret service has been given by H.. L..
Stimson, former United States district at
tOrney for this district, who has been en-
gagged i'm prosecuting the sugar weighing
fraud cases. Mr.. Stlmson says that the
government has been greatly hampered in
bringing TO justice the authors Of those
frauds because congress persisted in limit
ing the functions and activities of the fed
eral secret service. Trained detectives
were needed in these prosecutions, but the
secret service men who should have been
available were not allowed by congress to
be detailed for work outside the limited
province Of pursuing and suppressing
counterfeiting. The house Of representa-
tives mistakenly insisted last winter that
the scope of the activities of the govern
ment's only trained force should be so lin
tied, although President Roosevelt pointed
out that the secret service could do val
liable work in helping to expose land frauds
and crimes in general against the govern
ment, and had done such work with
marked success and to the great advantage
Of the public.
The Tribune criticised the house Of repre-
W 80 1Aipa az zip
pling the secret service, the more so that
no satisfactory reason was ever given for
limiting the work which it should do. Mr..
stimson shows how great a handicap was
thus put upon the government in combat
ing crime and fraud. He says:
There are many men in the secret serv-
ice with broad experience who would be OF
invaluable service TO us In the weighing
fraud Investigations. But we cannot use
them. Here is one Of the most important
cases the government has prosecuted IN
years. and we are hsmpered by the lack
OF Investigators. A lot OF special treasury
agents have been assigned to help, and they
are working hard and with some results
but Nc should have SONS % TIE tried inca
In the old service, men who have worked
on similar cases in the past and who know
how to get at things
Congress at its next session should take
note OF the situation which It created and
repair an Obvious blunder. The executive
department should be aided. not hindered
in its efforts to enforce the laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
PERSONAL NOTES.

Carrie Chapman Cart remarks that halt
the mon size knows arc Holsters and the
rest are shrimps. There is much room for
Improvement in Carries taste in the selee.
tion OF male acquaintance.
The peach-hssket hat has proved that e
subserves a useful purpose. a youns woman
In New York. thrown through the glass
wind shield of a tHxicab, was protected by
her voluminous headsear from betng cut
by the flying splinters.
1t Is strange that am American should be
the only woman member of the Royal Geo
graphical society of England. Mrs. French
Sheldon, formerly OF New orleans, occu-
pies this singular position. She Is not alone
the only female fellow" but the last.
oscar seeley. a civil war veteran, who
had authentic records to show that he was
the first to enlist In New York state when
the first call for volunteers was sent out,
died at Muskegon, Mich, from an old gum
shot wound received at the battle OF shiloh.
Long is the list of waits who have be-
come famous. VT includes Sir Henry Nj.
Stanley, Queen Catherine the Good, Alex
ander Hamilton. Rosa Bonheur, Edgar Al
len Poe, Rachel, Leonardo la Ninci, and
dates back as far az Moses. All these
were homeless children.
Mrs. Gertrude Barney, the pretty widow
and telephone operator the Montgomery
MOI authorities refused TO seat as city
collector when she was elected 10 that
office last November. because. as a woman.
she was ineligible, was married TO her man
ager in that campaign, e. H. Ham, county
republican chairman and state food in
speCtOr,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
One Ships Queer Cargo,

The steamer Berlin arrived in New
York last week with one OF the most
cosmopolitan cargoes ever landed in
that port. In addition to the average
run of everyday passengers an un-
usually large number of couples were
returning from bridal tours, and to
make things seem natural TO them
there was also on board a consignment
OF 10000 csnaries. In addition the
ship carried 5000 frogs. 200 snakes.
100 monkeys and a miscellaneous col
lection of other animals.
The personal belongings OF return
ing travellers are generally known to
contain among the cnrios collected on
trips abroad all kinds of queer things,
but nothing except the scanning of a
cargo list of any of the great ships
will give an idea of the many and
strange things which come in as an
interchange of commerce between the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
Influence of the Democratic Party.

AhIluCACC VI hlC OCInOCldklC 1dIJJ'
Mr.. Bryan at a banquet in Column
bus, o.. declares that neve in the
history of the world had a political
party exercised a greater influence in
national affairs than the democratic
party during the past twelve years.
BY what process of reasoning Mr..
Bryan arrives at this conclusion is
even more mysterious than his "mys-
years mentioned the party has not
been in a position to place upon the
statute books of the nation a single
law or put into operation a single pre-
1896 1t has gone down to h~umiliating
defeat as regularly as election time
came around. From a strong and COM
pact minority able to exercise a salu-
tary check upon the majority it has
d~eteriorated until even this function
is lost to 1t, as is made only too plain
in the present session of congress. In
the house organization the party d.
vided, and in the senate, when some
republicans objected to certain sched-
ules Of the tariff bill. the proffer of
assistance from the democrats to
change them a of no service be-
cause the democrats were hopelessly
divided.
Looking to the future. Mr.. Bryan
himself has been kept busy declar-
ing that many of the men who have
been elected as democrats are not en-
titled to wear the party label and his
opponents just as vociferously pro-
| claim that Mr.. Bryan is not a demo-
crat. II there Is n rule by which a
genuine democrat can be distinguished
it is yet to find acceptance. The fac
lions rather than the party are organ-
izing and lining up for the control of
the next democratic national conven-
ton, with every indication hat the
contest will be a bitter one between
hopelessly divided elements.
How democracy in an impotent mi
nority and rem by internal d~issension
can have been the vital force in the
affairs of the nation during the past
twelve years no one but Mr.. Bryan
can see.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
SOME MISTAKES OF MIR. BRYAN
Rules of Action of Party representa-
lives CO~naidereh.

I'VE SOhSiutEeus
Charleston News and Courier (dem.),
In his letter to the Florida legislature.
Mr.. Bryan exposes his want of accurate
understanding Of democratic principles.
Mr.. Bryan is quite mistaken when he de-
clares that there are two schools of
thought in regsrd to the duty OF an Of
fetal; the aristocratic theory is that the
people elect representatives to think for
them; the democratic theory is, on the
contrary, that the people think for them
selves and elect representatives to give
legal expression 10 their thoughts and to
voice their sentiments" There are no such
two schools" Such a division is physically
impossible in this republic.
A candidate and the people are parties
to a contract. The candidate expresses his
views and pledges himself to a course Of
action. He is bound by implication to sup
port the demands OF his party platform,
unless he put the people on notice before
election that he is out OF sympathy with It.
in whole or in part. II he be a party candi-
date, he promises thereby to submit to party
authority, which, in congress, is the eau
Gus. $50"
Mr.. BTyan's theory is that a public Off
cial should be the peoples puppet, that
$500 - ~ Af a AAAAAotAA
as a free agent, and that he reserves to
himself only the function Of registering
what he conceives to be the peoples will.
Until the initiative and referendum ex-
pedient shall become a feature of our gov
ernmentsl system, Mr.. Bryan's theory lie
Impractical and contradictory. That this
eXpedient has not been adopted implies that
the people delegate to their representative
fun freedom Of action as to all questions
arising during his term of office. except
those In regard TO which he has voluntarily
defined and limited his course before cleo
ton. The anxiety Of officials lest they be
defeated for reelection probably Induces
them to suppress their convictions more
than they should In the hope Of conclliating
the electorate. The fact that the people
should bear In mind Is that a representa-
tive who would be dishonest with himself
In order TO propitiate them. would be none
too good to sell himself to a third party.
Moreover. Mr.. Bryan betrays an habit
ual and fatal bent towards demaEogy when
he speaks Of the aristocratic theory He
knows that this country has no 'aristo-
Gratis If he mean that the rich constitute
a caste he should speak OF them as 1.-THE
rich and not attempt TO turn against them
a prejudice which is cherished in old coun-
tries towards a class OF hereditary mobiles.
Granting, for the sake of the argument
only. that the rich In America constitute a
separate class, and one out Of sympathy with
the democrats, the truth remains that
the rich are in no sense ''aristocrats.' but
rather a more common and vulgar crew than
are the plain farmers, lawyers. doctors and
shop-keepers. Captain Kidd" was a great
pirate and amassed wealth. but he was no,
an sristocrat' no more is the trust magnate
who robs the people BY using false weights
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
A Lesson from Galveston.

Outside of the appointive commits
sion which has jurisdiction over the
city of Washington, the commission
which governs Galveston is commonly
regarded as the original type of the
commission plan of city government in
this country of which the other COM
mission plans have been limitations or
adaptations. The commission plan of
city government has been advocated
wherever IL has been adopted chiefly
by the so-called reform elements and
too often hailed as a utopian scheme
equivalent to a perpetual guaranty of
high standard and efficient administra-
ton Of municipal affairs.
The city election Just held in Gal
weston, however, discloses the fact
that the reformers are no more GER
tain to control under a commission
form of government than under any
other form. In the Galveston election
the whole board of city commissioners
aspired to reelection, but the mayor,
who was the head and front of the re-
form program, was defeated by q
candidate of the ~reactionaries running
on an Independent ticket. 1t Is even
limited that the outgoing mayor-com-
missioner stood as a strict construc-
ZIONIST, while his successful competitor
rallied the liberal vote made up largely
of the classes who prefer a more free
and easy management of the city. Gal
veston's mayor-elect, by the way, Is
also a lawyer, ~contradicting the i'm.
preston that popular prejudice against
lawyers is an insuperable bar to a law
yer landing in a mayoralty chair.
The Galveston election does not con
denim the commission plan of city
government, but it does reinforce
what The Bee has several times sale
with reference to 1t, that the success
OF failure of municipal government de
Ponds entirely upon the character o.
the men put into municipal office ire
spective whether they are called
commissioners" or merely mayors
and "councilmen." If there is rea
call for reformers they can be elected
just easily under one plan as undel
another, and II the reform element 4
in the minority the adoption of thu
commission plan OF government will
not by itself cure all the evils or pu
the reformers in the saddle.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

nations, this consignment simply being
an illustration. The fact is too COM
mon 20 attract attention among the
regular visitors to the wharves or the
customs officials and except in the case
Of a large importation like the n ar
irving last week never known to the
public.
The complexity and scope of a tariff
bill is also brought forcibly to mind
by such importstions, for nearly all the
articles mentioned in this cargo are
dutiable at rates provided for in the
pending bill as we'll as in its predeces-
sors, 30 II you think you are wise
enough to frame such q measure, just
take a look at the qualifications of the
field you must cover.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
WHERE MILLIONS 1RE WASTED
Bad Roads Impose Heavy Tax on
Products Of the soUI.
Kansas CITY Time

The cost of bad roads IN America, ac-
cording to a recent statement from the
Agricultural department was $4,000 last
year. as compared TO the cost of transport
ing the same tonnage Of crops in France.
These figures apply merely to the hauling
Of the principal crops.
This IL only an estimate OF the partial
loss to the farmers, because it embodies
only a part of the products hauied over
the public highways. The average haul
in this country is % miles. II costs 26
cents a mile for wagon transportation. In
France the cost is Is cents a mile, or only
one-half the cost In the United States.
The tremendous drain of bad roads on
the resources of the agricultural districts
is startling. 1t falls with more weight, of
course, upon the strictly agricultural states,
such as Kansas and Missouri. No other In
dustry could stand this persistent drain
upon its profits 1t Is endured by the
farmers, however, because this country has
never had any other kind OF roads.
Tine mere fact hat the American farm
ers have become accustomed to bad roads
does not change the facts. Neither does
It excuse the policy OF neglecting to save
the millions now wasted by bad roads.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
Swapping Political Ties.

Westerners are swapping party ties on
the question Of the tariff, partly because
they resent its burdens and injustices, but
more because they are Jealous OF New Eng
land wealth and OF the capital of New
York and the middle states, which appear
toJthem to be using Senator Aldrich as an
amanuensis to write our tariff dictation.
The revolt Is really that of the radical
west and south against the conservative
east. 1t was no causal thing that western
senator's pointed out and denounced the
dominance Of New England senators in the
nance committee Of the senate, and in
other powerful committees of hat body.
There spoke a sectional distrust and dislike
which may be prophetic of a sweeping
readjustment of parties before many years
have passed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
No Opposition Party.
IndienaDolIs News. +,

The democratic party has of late years
been through many trials and tribulations.
But nothing has done 30 much to weaken
1t as this revelation Of its lnefficiency.
Tariff reformers who belong to no party,
but whose only purpose is to get rid of
protection, will not find 1t easy to work
with the democratic party in the future,
1t will be impossible to feel that even the
best platform means anything, impossible
TO have much faith in the professions of
the men who seem to Rave marched
straight into the Aldrich camp. Verify, we
need an opposition party. But where are
we to get It?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
LET OUT A wHoOP.

st. Louis Republic.
II you're feeling dull and blue,
Cheer up!
There is JOY in life for you,
Cheer up!
Do not sit and mourn and NOPE,
Don't go looking for a rope.
Cheer up!
Do not let your spirits droop,
Cheer up!
swing your hat, let out a whoop,
Cheer up!
Do not get disconsolate,
You will win the smiles Of Fate,
II YOU only work and walt,
Cheer up!
e.
DO not go around depressed,
Cheer up!
Live your life, enjoy it's zest.
Cheer up!
WHY be gloomy? why repine?
Stop your broodinR. cease 10 whine,
Cheer up!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
Annlxine Business Methods.

The report of the commission to
investigate departmental methods. has
brought prominently to light some
wasteful practices in the purchase of
supplies. The system in vogue was
the gradual growth of the years since
the was founded. Each
department has always purchased for
itself and the result has inevitably
been, II no extravaganza, at least lack
of economy in purchases. President
Taft proposes to remedy this II posi-
BILE by the establishment of a single
purchasing department, such as Is
maintained by all large private cor
porations, which shall do the buying
and contracting for staple articles for
all the departments.
The inauguration or this plan, which
means such a revolution OF methods,
will necessitate legislation, but with
out IL the efficiency of the principle
can be tried out by means of coop
GRAFTON between the various depart
ments in the purchase Of the class OF
supplies used in common by them
Probably no reform in purely admin
istrative methods to compare with this
in magnitude or Importance has been
discussed, and II a practical trial shall
prove it to be effective 1t will mean
the saving of many thousands of the
taxpayers money. II is in such things
as this Mr.. Taft is demonstrating whai
he means by a business administers
| ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Latest reports indicate, as careful
observers expected. that the estimate
OF Armenian victims of the Turkish
uprising had been exaggerated. Ten
thousand is now said to be the num-
Der. The deliberate murder Of this
large number is beyond the compre-
hension of peoples of other lands and
emphasizes the necessity of the powers
holding the Turk to a more strict &c
countability for his doings.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
Roosevelt and His Raids.
Eagle

There is a conviction in some minds that
ex-President Roosevelt may not rave fired
a gun since his arrival In Africa. He
probably has, but the very readable ac-
counts OF his raids on wild animals lack
in the opinion of a correspondent, that
"verisimilitude Of detail which tends to dis
establish credulity in reticulsted intellectu-
atty" When our correspondents mean
ing shall have wrought its way to sim
rlicity, Mr.. Roosevelt will be en- route
for home.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

President Roosevelt has taken a rest
from his hunting and commenced
work on his typewriter. This will af-
ford the taxidermists an opportunity
to catch up.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
Tactics OF a Model Bryanite.
Kansas City Journa

Oklahoma viii feel deeply Inundated. OF
course, II Governor Haskell should be founC
guilty OF fraud by a jury OF his fellow citi,
Gems, But. after all. conviction would not
be very much worse than exhausting the
legal technicalities in an effort to escsp,
trial on the merits Of the case.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

The proposition for a free bridge
between Omaha and Council Bluffs
starts out on the theory that Douglas
county is to pay three-fourths of the
cost and Pottawattamie county one
fourth. That is where the hitch, If
any, is likely to be.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Mayor Jim wants to keep his APP
pointive list under the hat as long as
possible. The ''ingrates" who are on
the black list know it without waiting
TO be told.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

1t has been found necessary to dis
charge another grand jury investigat-
ing Governor Haskell and the alleged
land frauds. For a man so anxious to
meet the issue the governor is decld-
edly lax In keeping appointments.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

The State Board of Assessment is
again discovering that all the Ne
braska railroads are paying taxes on
assessments far in Excess of the valua-
tions put on them by their tax agents.
Strange!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Since we have been disillusioned by
being told that the DESTROYED signal
corps balloon can be replaced for
81, 600. we do not see how the airship
can ever supplant the automobile. II
the automobile is TO be put on watch
It will have to be by some locomotlon
device that is more expensive.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

japan has given another indication
that 1t is awake and keeping abreast
of the times. without making any
fuss about what II was doing II is now
announced that a Jap army officer has
invented a safe and easily managed
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

at the custom house. But Mr.. Bryan, re-
solved to instigate popular malice agains;
the wealthy. deliberately appropriates a
term which has nothing to do with wealth,
and applies 1t because 1t is effective for
his purpose. 1t is in little ways of this
kind that Mr.. Bryan has exposed his dema-
gogic predictions ever since he has been
In public life. He can't conceal them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Thomas L. Hisgen, the late candi-
date for president. has proclaimed the
fact that the Independence league is
dead. The infant mortality rate is al
ways high and this child never was
strong except in lung power.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
. Success, as B~urstings Go,

Lieutenant Ware, who made the flight
in the army balloon at Fort Omaha, de-
clared that, aside from the bursting of
the gas bag, the flight was an entire sue
cess" Inasmuch as the bag burst just as
the balloon reached the ground 1t would
seem to the layman that the bursting also
might be classed as a great success, as
burstinRs 20.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
Big Opening for Nerve Tonic.

During the German navy maneuvers
which are to be held before long in the
Baltic sea the most powerful fleet ever
assembled under one flag will, 1t is re-
ported. be visible. Anyone who has a good
nerve tonic ought to be able to do a big
business In England while the maneuvers
are in progress.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

The government at Washington is
going into the ice making business.
From the chunks handed out there, in
the past. officeseekers are inclined to
the opinion the supply has always
been ample.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

For some reason or other the dem
ocratic organs are not wildly excited
over the refusal OF the supreme court
to seat the S~hallenberger judicial APP
pointees. Apparently this is a case of
hshing in the political pOnd from
which the democrats hoped for little
and expected less.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Lincoln may rave to have a special
election TO straighten out the kinks in
an issue of high school bonds recently
voted on which the election officers
failed to make proper canvass and
certihcation OF the returns. A law
recurring civil service examination for
election oficers will be the hex thing
in order.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

lawyer. That makes his error Of
judgment all the more in%excusable. A
lawyer ought to know the difficulty Of
borrowing money from a lawyer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
Room at the Top.

The United States honors the return Of
the wrights by presenting to them the
freedom OF the air, and they can go as far
as they like.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Automobile men paid StO9, 900 in
taxes into the New Jersey treasury
since the first of the year. When it
comes to being thrifty New Jersey
takes the lead.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
UNFOLDING written Law.

New York Sun.
To the twelve men Of the jury in the
Hams case are due the admiration and the
gratitude of every citizen who desires that
the written law and not the unwritten law
shall continue to be the law OF this land.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Even the policemen in Lincoln must
get on the water wagon. That town
is certainly going to be dry.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

The records of our county court
show that lots of defeated candidates
have started contest cases, but that
of them ever won out.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Europe complains that the Wright
Brothers are failures socially. They
are something of highfliers for all
that.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait says half
the men she knows are Holsters and
the other half are shrimps. Mr.. Gait
evidently has been misbranded.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17

The average daily fire loss in the
United States is 100000. This great
country has money to burn.