The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-01-07

will be charitable.
This bond business reminds me of
.h1 Missouri farmer. Ho wanted
more land, to raise moro corn, TO
feed more hogs, to buy more land, to
raise more corn, to feed more hogs,
ETC., etc.No end to it. This is what
you stand for, Brother Burroughs,
out | don't blame you. | will be
charitable. You are built that way;
am noc. Who is to blame? Is it
God Or is it a system that has
brought it about?
Now, we have about $500,000,000
n National Bank notes with but mu
licipal r. r. and like bonds behind
hem under the banking law of 1900
.incu that time the National banks
avs morl than doubled by 1872, and
49, b4nn5 with each .07 vaults,
.-.yl power OF $1.76. The
,ews not only stands Tor perpetual
- this, but adding to ii with more
.l.crest bearing bonds. am opposea
- this.
Your outbreak would have no eff
ecs here among people VINO know
,ou." Is it an outbreak, or exposure
4 cold facts? Now, Brother Bur
Jughs, that is pretty tough, but
ynrlsUian like you, can't hurt. toll
IHer OF Christ like me. y es, | know
llL l am poor; that / have little in
uence; but, ii | can just have
nJugn influence to defeat even a
mall bond issue, that will be glory
.lough for one day.
mo, Mr.. Schenck, we Gon't dare
,rint such truck" Truck, is 1t!
Iare not print it is what l said, anc
jou now admit it, and this letter con-
.4lned nothing but what was in the
eport of the Comptroller of the Cur
ency to Congress.
es, little influence. l am jus
Schenck." / do not even carry a
,4dge of large dimentions to Haunt
. the world that | belong to some
organization oil mystery that the
World knows not OF. simply stand
or what | am; wear small button
4pon which is shown the clasped
lands, showing that believe in the
universal brotherhood of man.
Further: The farmers that took
lold with me, and that l located with
)ut cost to them, had in two years
water enough for ordinary crops,
two years from the time the Depart
nent allowed us to go to work..
What OF the men you name? Are
,hey not boomers? Have they no.
lone all in their power to induce peo-
pie to come to Idaho and homestead
and under government bitches, we'll
moving there was not the means at
nand under the Act to do tho work?
Did not more than one of the peo-
pie you refer to in your tyrade of
ne, run wagons to locate "these poor
fellows" and take their cash?
AS poor as l am l did not do the
ike of this. But I presume you will
say that l did not have the influence
% catch them. l plead guilty.
Some twenty years ago when a
;ounty officer abscounded, and band
If farmers would not issue me the
stock in a ditch that l had helped
hem to build, because l would own
| controlling interest, and a few
minor losses put "Schenck" afoot,
md when all l could get out of a
100000 home was $500, (things
we're dead there on account of
Doom that had passed), still owed
Cho bank $1100 over my own name,
md it was good. l did not take the
advantage of the bankrupt law, as
come you refer to have done. paid
The debt.
Why did not these men of influ.
nee you refer to take hold years age
o help these people out? And when
'hev take hold to help "these poor
fellows" why do they help the other
fellow instead? If these men you re-
Ter to have the influence you pretend
hey have, why do they not try to re
lieve these poor fellows" of the task
ii staying upon the land until the
water is there? No move of this
Kind has been made. Why not make
agricultural land of this desert be-
lore requiring "these poor fellows"
Who know nothing but farming, and
who want land of their own, to go
here and nearly starve.
Burroughs, there is but one thing
that you and your wanton attack up
IN me can be compared with; it is an
lnimal. You are small in statue as
compared with most men, and this
animal small compared with ami
mails generally. 1t is small, blacA