Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-06-01
Brief and Breezy

Congress is mercilessly kicking Mr.
Taft's commerce court around.
Justice Hughes should at least comb
his whiskers and otherwise prepare
for an emergency call.
When congress fails to revise the
tariff downward the next thing to do
is to revise the congress upward.
If Congress is perplexed over the
Nautical problems presented by the
Panama Canal, let it turn the whole
thing over to Senator William Alden
Smith.
1t has been sent to the Senate
Laundry so often that the toga Of
Senator is too threadbare and but
t~onless to conform with the prophetic
WithB ritian and Germany plotting
peace over the back fence the lingo
is in a bad way.
Some men don't seem to want a
reputation for paying their debts.
You have just as much right to
your own religious and political be-
lief and the other fellow has just as
much right to his.
Duluth is to have a penal farm
where it's drunkards and other weak
citizens will be assisted to reform.
1uluth's work in this field will bear
careful study.
Recently we had a Mothers day,
out thank goodness the nights still
belong to father,
A sucker is born every minute, but
it takes a natural born fisherman to
bait the hook.
Don't live in the past but live in
he future-but not SO far in the flu
cure to overlook the present.
The average man thinks he wants
a thing pretty badly until he has
% square off and look for it.
Whereat the Sergeant-at-arms drag
ID several members of the House
rom a baseball game. Serves EN-
right for holding a session in the
baseball season.
Government meat inspection may
be a joke and Doc Wiley may be
right as to all the neglect and crime
lie charges, but the price of steak
S ne joke.
Secretary Knox of the state de.
pertinent having visited the Panama
canal POLITICALLY m it the"lsth'
nian golden gate" Doubtless the
secretary of treasury, after glanclne
yer the items of cost for which he
mas paid out money, will agree that
The name is appropriate.
When speaking of the candidates a
gainst Mr.. Taft Secretary Knox does
not feel that he must use the Ian
guage of diplomacy.
Now We know why Mr.. Bryan dis
approves of Mr.. Harmon. He thinks
the latter tried to flirt with some OF
: his choicest delegates, vintage 1908
Since the air is already over
3 crowded with messages SEN by am
ateur wireless operators, the plan OF
teaching wireless in the public schools
seems hardly necessary.
At present the campaign weapon
with the most barbs on it seems to
be the hitherto unpublished letter.
Even the political boss gets off
lightly in comparison with some OF
the umpires.
Latest reports of the recent di'
rect primary election in Tibert re,
veal a close contest and a possible
division of honors. The Tibetan Re.
dictionaries have succeeded In burn
ing several hundred Chinese Progress
sives, but the Chinese have tied the
score by setting fire to the mona
terry in which the grand Lama him
self had taken refuge.
London and Berlin are soon to be
almost as close neighbors as New
. York and Chicago. The newest train
and boat schedules will bring them
!; within nineteen hours of each other bJ
, the Hook of Holland route.
We cannot explain the silence oil
George Perkins and Gift Pinchot OF
any other theory than that they are
t toobusy writing checks.
In addition to having President Tai
!, Cincinnati is now famous for Hank
O'Day.