Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-03-02
THE WORLDS WORK FOR FEBRU
ARX
Rev. John A. Peake

THE WORLDS WORK FOR FEBRL
AIRY
Contains some articles of great in
terest and timely Importance.
One under the caption every Fire
a Crime, reveals the noteworthy fac
that because We hold life cheap, de
structiye fires are frequent. Tit
writer says. Somebody stored dan
gerous quantities of inflammable o.
explosive gCods on his premises, OF
he Luilt frame structure next to 6
crowded sweatshop. He took chance
with human lives because it was
The police investigate every fire, anc
the responsible person pays the cost
OF putting out that fire, and damages
besides. Note the result: In Chicago
the American city of equal size, the
annual fire loss is So. 900, 900; in Der.
lin, $500, 900"
The Wisconsin legislature is con.
sidering a bill to make the person or
corporation that is responsible for a
preyentable fire, liable to criminal
prosecution.
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Another article of momentous inn
pert is from the facile pen of that
exceedingly interesting writer, Char.
les Francis Adams. 1t is the third
of series entitled Pensions Worse
and more Of them" If one half of
what this notably accurate writer
says Is true, our national legislators
are certainly on debauch of extray-
agance unparalleled in history.
Mr.. Adams says: To-day there
are upon that list tpension list more
than 100000 names. OF these it is
computed, some 10000 and upward
are dropped from natural causes each
year. The computation is. however
to degree deceptive. II even such
a proportion were maintained the ex
listing roll would practically disappear
during the life of the next generation.
We all know nothing of the sort
will take place, and that the last
name will hardly have been removed
from the roll when the twenty first
century is ushered in. On this head
the experience of the revolutionary
past is instructive.
Measures are pending before the
House of representatives, looking to
the increase of the present appropri-
alton for payment of pensions mere
ly because Of the age of the reeipi-
ent thereof, from $4,000, 900 a year
to $200,000,000, and more Progress
i've" measures are in agitation and
warmly advocated which, il they be
come law, would increase this a
mount to S250,000, 000-an average
sum OF 100000 to be each year gra-
tuitousy distributed in every con.
gressional district of the entire coun-
try
The measure Immediately pending
involves the additional gratuitous an
nual disbursement of approximately
STE, 900 in each of the congressional
districts of the more northern section
of the country" Every deserving
pensioner should be rewarded and
held in honor; every undeserving
pensioner should be exposed and
dropped from the rolls"
Mr.. Adams advocates the publish
ing OF the pension rolls as one meth
cd of publication.
In the same issue is very instruc-
tive article by E. Dana Durand, di-
rector of the census, ON Our i'm
migrants and the future"
The article which is quite lengthy
and well buttressed by statistics, EN-
phasizes the need of greater distrib-
ution--a paragraph or two will give
the essence.
The economic, social and political
due to heavy immigration
are greatly increased by the exceed |
ingly unequal geographic distribution
OF the immigrants. Foreign born are
largely concentrated in the cities
and most of them have settled in the
northern and western states. very
few going south"
Such e forts as have been made
to distribute immigration more wide
~ over the country have thus far had
little success. OF the total increase
Of 3,13O,000 in the foreign born popu.
latitn OF the entire country from
1900 to 1910 more than 100000 was
IN the North Atlantic states. 1t is
obviously highly desirable that more
vigorous measures for dispersion of
he incoming thousands should be