The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-10-06

sorption of the competing companies,
labor conditions, cost of production,
selling prices at home and abroad,
and transportation, are being thor
oughly delved into, and 1t Is under
stood that one of the amazing feat
ures of the investigation is that af-
fecting the enormous profits of the
.orecarrying roads in the mining coun-
try, and the advantages given the
steel trust over competing independ-
ents. The committee will meet here
late in October, and will conduct
hearings for a period of about 80
days.
The decision of President Taft up
holding and sustaining Doctor Wiley,
the pure food expert, in the investi-
CATION of his Official acts, has produc-
ed feeling of universal satisfaction,
and, Notwithstanding the declaration
OF Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson
that DR.. Wiley is the apple Of dis
cord" in the agricultural department,
yet the real accomplishment for the
public good by the eccentric Wiley,
has made him, the object of great
deal of sympathy throughout the
country among many people who
| have the mistaken idea that someone
or other is endeavoring to injure DR..
Wiley, while as a matter of fact most
of the difficulties may be attributed
to the manner In which he blunders
through things, and usually accom-
plishes his ends in a manner peculiar
ly his own, oftentimes nearly upset
ting large portions of the govern
ment, producing distress to everyone
else but the unusual Wiley, who
never seems to care what happens so
long as he gets someone" on a
charge of evading the pure food laws.
An elaborate report upon manu-
features in Kentucky has been issued
by the census department, and al
though the value of the products is
given at $223,704, 900, there is not
a line to the moonshine whiskey,
which, according to the writer's fic-
tion, has been one of the great indus
tries of Kentucky for centuries. =
Another great senator-Bailey >of
Texas-is to retire, to devote himself
to the practice of law. Likely 1t was
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, who
set the style in this direction, having
decided that all the. worlds had been
conquered in the American House
of Lords, and that, therefore, being
a father of large family, the proper
thing to, do was to find new set OF
clients who paid more literally than
Uncle Sam, and in return exacted less
ransom as the price Of holding the
job. And SO Bailey, before he gets too
old, has decided to return to lucra-
tive practic, Of law in order that his
good, sized, family may enjoy most
of the comforts and Injuries Of life.
The declaration of William Jen-
nings Bryan that harmony is not
wanted in the Democratic party, must
prove discomfitting to- men like
Speaker Clark, who succeeded more
than anyone else in carrying out q
program in the majority of the
house during the last session through
pleadings in caucuses for harmony
MIR. Bryan can see nothing but dan
ger in the program of harmony, while
men like Clark, who are interested In
electing a Democrat for the presi.
dency, can't see how they are going
to do without harmony"
Eighty-two thousand people have
paid out good money to Uncle Sam
for the exclusive right to use q
chosen name or mark on their pro-
ducts offered the public. And this
bureau of government-the trade.
mark division of the United States
patent office-makes it. possible daily
for certain names to be worth mil.
lions to their owners, and others SC
worthless that even the Bard of Avon
must chuckle in his grave.