The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-01

half price, refund the money to any
one whom 1T does not cure.
revel in the dccayed cemetery of the
1906 campaign TO prove that cX-Gover-
nor John T. Morrison was not ht
citizen. to occupy the position of attor-
ney general. because in his legal prac-
tce he eonformed to his oath as a law
yer to help any citizen whom the au-
thorlties might be dcpriving of his
freedom and of his liberty. Likewise,
they covered good print paper with
Quantities OF ink, in attack of the state
treasurer-whom they have been pur-
suing unrelentingly for three years
because he maintained deposit for
some months in bank that furnished
hlm no bonded protection Yet the
| commonwealth IS treasury los not
cent. The errors, if the facts as stated
were correct, were just subjects Of at
tack from a moral standpoint, but how
do they compare in point of gravity
with some other public questions of
which the Statesman was fully aware'
Weighty Things Ignored,
Did these official shortcomings weigh
in the balances with the employment Of
! two polygamist school teachers In the
! schools of Preston, of which county
schools the governor-whom the States
man was supportlng-said were up to
| that high moral standard Of the other
schools of Idaho7 And the Statesman S
views on polygamy as an evil in Idaho
are well known to the voters, yet they
were as silent as the grave The States
man had not one word of objection to
offer to General McDougall who went
! to Malad and defended an ccclcSiasti
cal cmbezzler in suit wherein the
common schools of Idaho sought,
! through $40 ZOO worth of water and
/ land. 10 recover its portion of the prof
its abstractcd from a public corpora
! tlon in which these state assets were
and are situated.
Did the Statesman have any mention
to make of the state land board Icas-
! ing l5S.00O acres of state school fund
land TO four big Mormon sheep men of
! Fremont county. at ~ cents per acre,
SIX months before the rnlcs of the
/ board said they should be leased, when
those relying on their rights under the
! rules were eager to lease them at 10
cents per acre? This sly deal amounted
to only $50 per annum, or $50, $50
for The term of the lease, five years.
BY silence on these graver questions
arc these two leading daily papers; To-
Gated in the capital city of Idaho, busy
III the service of tho public good. or
busy in the protection of special unter
estsl
Another Apologist for Wrong.
Again, in its issue Of August % un.
der the heading, "Anothcr Campaign
! Lie, the Nampa Leader Herald in its
acceptance Of the professions Of s.
/ Belle Chamberlain aud her promiscuous
ownership Of Carey act lands. said this:
''lt appears that Miss Chamberlain
has not now and never had any Carey
act land except a single tract near
Gooding of 100 acres.
And within three days thereafter the
Salt Lake Tribune published an account
of her ownership and sale for S4260
within two years last past, Of forty
acres of Carey act land adjoining the
town of Twin Falls.
The editor of the Nampa Leader
Herald would not have published that
statement had he known these facts.
That The Tribune refers to this and
ror he commtted-by his faith in Miss
amberlain-which the subsequent
publication of the record squarely CON
! tradicts.
Yet he refers later on in his article
to those papers who "blast her good
name' as 'Scavenger Sheets"
Injurious to Idaho.
Over in the Snake river valley are
citizens whom | have known for many
years who tell me stories OF cmIgrapts
! leaving Idaho in utter disgust of the
Big Lost River project; Of the Blaine
J County Land Il Water company project,
and ITS mismanagement by reason Of
! the frailtles of the Idaho state land
! board. The Statesman of Boise and the
Capital News of Boise should crawl up
the mountain Of public necessity and
look outside the corporate limits Of
Boise City and see what name these
Inv, .f,. Ill,
They should then cast the weight Of
their great influence in the balances
for Idaho; for her development and re-
| sources; and against those men and
women who are trafhcklng, as public
servants, In these material assets, for
political considerations.
lt the Statesman or the Capital News
I or the other papers of Idaho had not
the knowledge, if the record was not
open to them, there would be partial ex-
cuse; but they know, and knowing fail
presumably because of political consid
eratlons.
Il Idaho S development is above and be
yOnd the success of any man, or woman,
or Of any political party in Idaho, and
It IS u sad commentary on our brand Of
citizenship TO allow homesteaders to
come here and be driven away owing to
lax Official conduct.
Should Act for the State.
in the compaign facing us, there
should be sufficient patriotic, American
votes in the state to act for Idaho; for
her range. her orchards, her forests, her
mines, her land and her water, her
schools and her homes, without regard
to the Republican or to the Democratic
parties, their candidates. committees or
their organizations.
This is crucial period for Idaho, and
the attention Of the migratory public
is rivcted on on us as no other state
bidding for emigration.
Capital is likewise watching our
method of operation, and measuring our
future possibilities by the manner Of
our doing things at present.
Both capital and the emigrant must
be satisfied. They cannot be assured of