Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-05


irresponsible promoters valuable con-
tracts to reclaim our lands under Ca
rey act projects, and they aided and
abetted these spectators with a re-
markable degree Of impartiality to get
money alike from the honest settler
through the sale Of worthless or near
ly worthless water rights, and from
the honest capitalist through the sale
to him OF worthless, or nearly worth
less, bonds;
They have allowed money derived
from the sale Of Idaho irrigation bonds
to be squandered on worthless prof.
ects in another state and they have
refused and neglected to punish those
guilty of the fraud;
They have replaced the saEebrush
with the empty barns and vacant houses
of the helpless settler. aided into bank
ruptcy by the states official neglect
incompetency or corruption, and they
have destroyed the states financial
credit through the sale of worthless ir-
rigation bonds bearing the approval of
the same officials;
They have left barren fields to follow
the sweat and toll of the honest labor
of honest farmers who have come at
their invitation to build homes among
us, and naught but signing winds dis
turb the accumulated dust, and the
bowling OF coyotes echoes through the
abandoned houses which should be the
homes of prosperous and happy fami-
lies upon hundreds of the most fertile
acres that the sun shines upon;
They have sold in the most secret
manner possible thousands upon th0us-
ands of acres of the states richest and
best timber lands to the great timber
syndicates of the state at prices lower
than those offered years before but
then refused because the prices were
too low;
They are developing a policy of pri
vate landed proprietorship under the
guise of antagonism to public owner
ship of OUT public lands;
They have revised our tax laws in
the interests of the rich and against
the poor;
They have exempted our rich mine
owners from taxation upon the value
of their property;
They have penalized the small home
owner by taking away from him the
reasonable exemption formerly allowed
for improvements upon his property,
thereby adding to the favors of the
landed rich who refuse to aid the prog
ress and development of our state and
its several communities;
They have added penalties to those
unable to pay promptly the great bur-
den of taxes that constitute actual con-
fscation of the property of the small
property owner and unduly and I'M
fairly works hardships upon large
property owners;
They have sought to disfranchise us
from voting for candidates of our
choice;
They have given us a supreme court
whose condition cannot properly be
discussed in public;
When we have sought redress for our
grievances they have applied to the
courts to deny us even the right of pc
tition;
And when we have complained at
their partisan corruption. they have
confiscated our property by fines and
have placed our citizens behind prison
bars.
Only a Partial List.
This is but partial list of the griev-
ances we have The full list that the
people have against the old parties,
both of whom at one time or another
have been in power and both OF whom
have yielded to the demands of the
same bipartisan political machine, Is
too long here to enumerate, but how
ever long the enumerated list might be-
the half would not be told for the rec
ord is safely guarded in the hands of
beneficiary officials whose secret ma
nipulations of public affairs for the
benefit OF private and corporate gain
can only be disclosed by turning the
rascals out" and by cleansing the foul
Augean stables of our public service
with the purifying agency of publicity;
whose extravaganza. graft or down
right robbery is only partially disclosed
in the poverty tax bill from
which relief can only come through the
same cleansing process. and whose in
competency, subservieney to special in
terests able and willing to contribute
literally to their campaign fund, and
whose unwillingness to serve the whole
people who are seeking only an OPP
portunity to work out their own fate
unaided by enforced service of their
fellowmen. and unhampered by en-
forced contributions from their own
elevation to power OF this new giant of
twentieth century progress, the Pro-
gressive party.
Great Moral Issues.
Our enemies say that we cannot win |
because we have no great, overpower- |
ing issue, except a moral issue This |
criticism comes with unusual strange |
ness from our Republican opponents. |
The Republican party was founded on
a moral issue, and 1t fought success
fully a great war upon a great moral
issue. That issue was the Liberation of
the black man from the bonds that
held him unequal and made him the
servant of others.
Our great issue is to free the white |
man and his children from his unwill- |
ing servitude to the great masters of
finance and of commerce that havs
gained dominion over the nation; we
are fighting TO leave a nation which |