Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-26
JOHN M. HAINES THE BUSINESS MAN.

John NJ Hanes candidate for governor upon the Re-
publican standpat ticket has returned to Boise from
complete tour of the state during which he tried to make
speeches best he could with his limitations. Reports
of his meetings have been published with fattering
detail possible, but nowhere have single word
telling the people what he proposes to do he is elected
If he has any program mapped out with which he hopes
to accomplish any forward STEP he has failed to tell the
people about it. For all that he has sad told the peo
pie school boy could have done much He has read
little speech prepared for him by one prepared,
perhaps, by himself Any school boy could have done
that He has promised Cuisines" administration and
any school boy could do that also-could promise it,
But has he told us what he means by business adj
ministration? The people have right to know. Gov
Hawley claims he has given business administra
ton. Governor Brady claimed the thing, and it
the proudest and most oft repeated boast that Frank
Goodng made that he, too, gave business admins
tration.
But still the people not satisfied Their taxes have
gone up and up under these alleged business" admins
trations until the people, many of them, actually Dor
rowing with which to pay their taxes another yean
before giving up their property to cancel the obligation
Mr.. Hanes hasn't told what he means by "busi-
ness Fortunately for the taxpayers, however, they
have abundant opportunity to know what his understand
ing of good business deal is He informed many Of
them through his Idaho State Life Insurance company,
wherein he joined number OF professional promoters
in effort to lay hands 'lo of easy money!, the
insurance commissioners put it. lie succeeded IN getting
his share of $25O0O of it and amount which the nsur
commissioners of three states declared they could
estimate ascertain from the books they kept but
which they said must have been enormous
This transaction does not include all the known trans
actions of Mr. Haines which give insight into what he
considers good business but is enough to convince most
taxpayers that they don't want the kind OF business
applied to them top of what they have already had
The only argument his friends have been able to put
forward for him is that he is business man. Well,
who is there that ism business man William j. Bryan,
whom the Republicans quoting with favor nowadays,
declared what real business man is. He said:
'We say to you that you have madf too limited in it's
application the definition of business The who
is employed for wages much of business his
employer The attorney in country town is much a
business the lawyer in the great metropolis The
merchant at the crossroads is much business
the merchant of New York The farmer who goes forth
in the morning and tolls all day. begins in the spring and
tolls all summer, and by the application of brain and
muscle the natural of this country creates
wealth, is much a business the who goes
upon the board of trade and bets upon the price of grain
The miners who thousand feet into the earth climb
1000 feet upon the cliffs and bring forth from their hid
ing places the precious metals to be poured into the chan
nes of trade, much business the few nan
cal magnates who in back corner the money of
the world
But John M. Haines doesn't come in any of these
classes. He in certain class however but it is
class of business that would be the very least desired
by the people.
The people want business administration all right,
but they have right to know just what kind proposed
to tell them And the is very plain to those who
know him. It is because he does not know As matter Of
fact there very few men who know less about state
business than Mr. Hanes. He doesn't know today what
policies ought to be adopted He doesn't know whether
it would be good business policy poor business policy to
sell all the grazing lands of the state to two big
syncates all the timber lands to two others