Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-02-24
If 5000 applications

state Of from 5000 to 10000 If 5000 applications
that file before the Commission disposed the
Of three day they will years Yet Interstate
Commerce Commission has assured that if Idaho prepar
press rates the cause can assign
ed for speedy hearing Opportunity knocks at door
IS the hour OF fate.
The battle will easily Reasonable rates to and
from Idaho and equitable taxation would the people Of
the State not less than two and half million dollars year If
me railroads can postpone action until the next legislature 1T
will them $500000O They afford use every means
at their command and they will hesitate
papers have been, will be subsidized Lobbyists will
bout BOISE Some OF them will be honest farmers aud business
who really believe that Commission would etard the
structon Of new lines Others will know better and viii be bet
ter paid The railroads will do they have always donethey
will mileage during the legislative
than they will build in ten Branches will be promised in
70 new territory and double tracks upon the nam lines Was
not the St Anthony branch afforded splendid service with
Pullman and all other trimmings, during the last Legisa-
ture and was not the service discontinued soon after
the legislature adjourned These and other devices will be used
Young legislators will discover that they Coming Men,
and have them thew do not oct i'm bad
with railroad interests Petitions circulated by railway agents
will come from rural communities without railroad Did
Hill have representative before the Oregon legislature two
charged with and loaded with threats? But
the Native Oregonan too wise They created Com
mission and today Oregon the of almost eversh rail
road activity.
Citizens and of Idaho! The bugle call has
sounded Join hands in this contest If you with this
battle royal give us your encouragement 1t will be pleasure
to representative and senator and them support
the Railroad Commission bill it will encourage them and spur
them on IN the great service Let not Idaho be the last of the
states to enlist in the great of the people Let
IN achievements
public
Men and love Idaho Legislators charged with
important duties let advance couageosy
Let neither political interests
the path of duty Let draw inspiring picture from
history The day the 9th of May 1906 The place was
under the dome of the Capitol at Washington railroad bill
under discussion Wisconsin arises and in
PRODUCES amendment that will make for effective regulation
the interest of the people AS he begins his masteru
nen after another of his colleagues his
senator pauses and says: III
MIR President pause in my say this cannot
his time indicate their have to say upon
his subject The public interested Unless important ques
ion rightly settled seats temporarily perman
nty vacated by those who have right occupy at this
imen II
1t seemed idle prophecy Did the reactionarv sena
have behind them the railroads of the country
ne fifteen billions of their capital and many billions more r.
II allied interests Was not La Toilette radical? Were
ms supporters derded as Pops Socialists Changers An
clSSg 30 reasoned those who deliberately and openly
PRESSED their contempt for the Senator Wisconsin
Five have not yet passed but every principle con
ended Tor by La Toilette has been rapidly being
nto federal law Let the Senate Chamber the 4th
March and listen to the roll call in that distinguished as
emily La Toilette will be in his ADLER and stronger than
before but the chairs that that
ay IN May filled by La Toilette was prophet III
very statesman prophet The politician was ever L
hort sighted -
Idaho calls aloud for among her law gvers =
lie need not be wealthy influential not be II
chooed the wileS of politics. He not eloonent nor
armed profound But he have that clear vision that
ONES only to him whose eye is single the service of his
pnntry THEN he Will
ley before them. Such one though sing handed and
one against world will rresistby advance linked arm in
rrn with Destiny. III
Sincerely yours. III
VICTOR o. JOHNSON II