Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-03-30

THE World 10 Day opens WIN
a series of comments on Home
Rule England's Great Crisis" One of
these by David Lloyd-George is very
significant; he says:
I'VE have no intention of Sinking
Home Rule. 1t is absolutely essential
for the efficiency of the Imperial
Parliament.
1T is not merely extending self
government to Ireland; Wales wants
self-government; Scotland wants self
government; England wants self-gov-
ernment.
I'VE are treading on each others
toes In parliame nt, and We are not
doing any work because the Imperial
Parliament is attending to trivial mat
tiers Which would be beneath the at
tention of county council. That Is
very bad business.
"fhe first thing will be to construct
our present Imperial machinery In
such a way as TO free the House OF
Commons from trivial, local and pro-
vincial details which can be attended
to so much better in the districts
concerned. This will leave Parlia-
ment untaxed for the purpose of at
tending to the immense Imperial ques-
tions that are awaiting consideration.
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On the same topic ex-congressman
w. Bourke Cochran says:
IF | were an Englishman, would
impose a federal system on Ireland
whether she asked for 1t or opposed
1t, not as an act of favor to her, but
as a measure of self defense for Eng
land For there Is one beneficent
result that must follow Irish self
government:
1.-THE Irish would have to assume
responsibility for their purely do
nestle affairs, prospecting when they
were well administered and suffering
when they were mismanaged. 1t
would have a good effect on Ireland
just as the assuming. of responsibility
has ON the individual. | cannot see
Why England has not realized this
long ago.
Under the caption Paying For
What We Do Not Get from the pen
of Henry Smith Williams, we have
trenchant article. The writer says:
Let me illustrate the all-pervadng
prevalence of wastefulness and its
far-reaching implications by few
comprehensive examples. Let us first
take the tangible case Of loaf OF
bread, for which, as we have seen,
the New York housewife pays, weight
for weight, twice as much as the
London housewife.
1.-The normal price of the loaf
would be determined by good many
factors, which we may briefly sum
Marie as comprised In normal or
legitimate cost of CD production,
(2) transportation, go manufacture
of wheat into flour and flour into
bread, (4) distribution, and (5l reas-
enable profits for farmer, railway,
miller, baker and merchant.
Abnormal or fictitious values
might creep in through Cd an iref-
ficient handling OF the commodities
at any stage; (2) needless compiled
tons ST any stage; or CD excessive
profits made at any b5age.
"A brief examination will make 1t
clear that whereas the value" OF
any commodity Is the ratio between
supply and demand, the word Sup
ply involves a multitude of factors,
and that mladjustments (inefficiency
or dishonesty or wastefulness) re-
garding any one of these must raise
the selling price to the ultimate Gus
toner whose demand" gives the
commodity commercial value.
This number also contains the sec
ond article by Charles Edward Rus
sell on 1.-THE Mysterious Octopus;
The Vital Binside" story of the
Lumber Trust-not trust according
to law, but the most predatory or,
ganization the Naional government
has ever been called to fight"
Mr. Pratt travelled far and gath
cred industriously (Soldiers scrip
meanwhile, his employers were busy
in another line of useful endeavor.
For years, they had at work body
of men known as timber cruisers"
whose business was to go through
the white pine regions and carefully
note where stood the best timber.
When these had covered every acre
of the forests, the landgrabbers
were ready for the next step.
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