Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-03-06
MOSES COMES To
LEAD THE PARTY
WITTY SPEECH DELIVERED BY
BOISE DEMOCRAT TO LARGE
RicHFlELD GATHERING.

& delegation Of upward Of 100 peO-
pie Democrats and Republicans, oc-
cupied a special train that pulled out
Of Shoshone Wednesday evening for
Richheld, where a Democratic meet
Ing was held, with Moses Alexander
the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor, billed as the chief attraction. The
meeting filed the basement Of
one Of the churches OF the
town and included ladies. It
was in all respects such an
assemblage Of intelligent. aDpreciative
people that a speaker likes TO address
and Alexander rose to the occasion
and entertained them with wit and
biting sarcasm directed AT the Opposi-
tion. He spoke in q conversational,
every lay sort Of way for more than
an hour propounding elf-answering
questions and time honored platitudes,
which he challenged anybody to deny
by an aintit? or understand? inter
jected every now and then or perhaps
more frequently than that. His talk
was on taxes and ran something like:
Down at Boise up on the dome OF
the capital. they have spy-glass
reaching all over the state. and when
they see anything in range they tax it
good and plenty Too many tax-eat-
ers under that dome, aintit?
Il pay $4,000 a year in taxes myself.
My wife, who is a good business wo-
man, tells me to let the State take the
property upon getting the promise, if
l can. # that much income from it,
yunderstand?
In twenty years the taxes of Idaho
have increased 400 per cent but the
growth in population has been only a
fourth as great. That is going some,
aintit?
''The new currency law, the great
est measure for the security of the
small business man the country has
ever known, has been accepted as a I
good thing by all of the 81 national .
banks of Idaho who have Joined the 4
system, and yet that measure got no
help in its passage through Congress
from Mr. Borah or Mr.. Brady, Mr. |
French or Mr.. Smith. These bank
and directors are mighty big
if our representatives and
themselves are not something
worse, aintit2
understand everything was going
to be ruined and eternally damned by
the revision of the tariff downward,
md yet even free wool brings a better
price today than it did under tariff
ak pretty nearly as high as domestic
WOOL fetched before this law was en-
lcted.
None of you is interested so much
n a party name as he is in getting
what you pay for at the right price.
\ Democratic robber is just as much
# a robber as a Republican robber
md / am against one as strong as the
,ther To lower taxes in Boise City
IS mayor 1 sided with the Republicans
n the council and some oe my own
,arty adherents read me out of the
iarty for it. but don't care. yunder-
tand, about that. III do it again if I
lave to.
IN paying my own way about the
State in this talk [ am making all over
am trying to save my own money as
yell as yours, yunderstand. I've been S,
t it for more than twenty years and 1 !
ever drew a cent in official salary in /.
Il the time" I,
Mark Bates. Democratic news
,aper publisher at Parma, another
Id timer in Idaho who wants to
un Tor Congress-; Fred Floed, :
orator general of the :
how and Harlan d. Heist. Democrat
/, Prosecuting Attorney of the coun-
Y also appeared as speakers for the
ceasion. but Alexander had used so
luch of the time between trains that =
hey couldn't say much. James r.
othwen presided at the meeting and !.
lade a few remarks in eulogy of
resident Wilson, whose anniversary =
5 President. he said. was being ceie-
rated by the meeting. =
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