Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-04-06
From The Magazine Press.
Excerpts OF Opinion from the Leading Writers of Today

| In a recent issue of "McClure's'
| there is a noted article from the pea
CT Charles Kibbe Turner on "Iht
Thing Above The Law" The rise
and rule of George B. Cox, and his
og erthrow by young Hunt and the
fighting idealists Of Cincinnati.
Down an evil back street, where
hideous women Whined and pluckeC
at men from their dark thresholds
and the uncertain shadows of drunken
boys rocked In and out of the patch
es CT yellow, light beneath the stray
CHING gas lamps, lay Dead Man s
Corner. A tall young ruffian named
Cox ran the saloon there i'm the late
10's. The back streets name was
Longworth--taken from an old and
wealthy Cincinnati family which own
cd great blocks of property in the
neighboring slums.
He was a handsome, silent domi-
Mamt devil, this saloonkeeper on the
corner where murders had taken
place-a big, powerful brute who had
hammered down his men, white and
black, ian the local prize ring. He
ruled with his menacing eyes, and
an OCCASIONAL hoarse monosyllable, tn
CONGREGATION OF male beasts that
grew aLcut his shop. He had nat
ural, primitive power to make men
afraid.
Such was the man who ran the
machine. Ed
Hunt was elected by a fair margin,
Mayor of Cincinnati, and with him
the whole elective government of the
city.
But, more than this, Cox is through
He is a broken man physically, flab
by, hoarse, with a suspicious hitch
and dragging one foot when he walks
BY curious treachery of fortune, on
the very day of the election when
he was beaten, state examiners were
going through the business of his
rust company and made demands
for ADJUSTMENTS, which brought
about his retirement and the sale of
It's control. The bank had come to
Q great factor in his life; for the
past few years he had transferred
mis- morning office there. And now
he lost at once his strongest grip ON
both the political and the business
lie of the city.
The Literary Digest Human Capt.
.aliization The value of human
life has been estimated in various
ways, but it has remained for the
writer of recent circular or bulletin
issued by the Rock Island railway
system to its employees, to use the
technical langage of finance for this
purpose.
In this circular man is regarded
rs being capitalized at the amount
hat would yield his annual salary In
We give passage as quot
ID in the Railway and Engineering
review Chicago, March 81. Says
he railroad to the worker:
You are working for a large cor
lcration. In the nature of things
t cannot know you very we'll person
lly, lut 1t knows you by the work
GU turn out, 1t sets a real value on |
our work, higher than you think. |
,our value in measure by the quality |
md quantity of results you produce
Somebody knows your actual worth
your honest endeavors an
las you in mind for better things. It's
business proposition. Each one of |
IS is capitalized. Suppose you earn
j eco year, At per cent that Is
he yearly interest on $4,000. In other
lords the company capitalizes you at
$4,000 and willingly pays interest on
hat sum for the use of your energie
nd faculties. 1t rests with you. Make
our $4,000 valuation climb to $780,
90, to 100000, to $500, 900. Choose
our food with care; treat decently
cur Icy en- which your mind de-
trts for its strength and sanity.
bove all, feed your mind; read, study,
bserve, Remember, too, that Like the
neine, you can't do your work un.
SIS you stay On the rails and keep
here the hess can find you.
No call-boy ever found an engine In
saloCn or dive"
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