Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-02
SPECIAL, INTEREST ADVOCACY OF LAWLESS-
NESS IN IDAHO
Na.AM....s

The following open invitation to lawlessness and vo
Hence as for putting to silence troublesome oppo-
of their plans and schemes does not come from the
Appeal to Reason other fanatca advocates OF the probe
ta1a it did the press of the state would be filled with
condemnation and there would be howl up that would
be heard from border to border in the state 1t in
stead from the Elk River Sentinel, the newspaper in
which published the notice of the recent sale OF val
liable timber lands to the Potatch Lumber company at
price which melted the state less than offered for the
same land three years ago by the company the sale
at that time being refused when there great public
recently when the public generally did not know that
the sale contemplated and it is reprinted with ap
prova by the Nampa LeaderHerald another organ and
advocate Of the special interest government and spe
ca privilege that the Elk River paper advocates and sup
ports The appeal to violence made in the northern paper
and approved by editorial republication in the southern
paper is poorly concealed but openly invited
Opponents of the deal advocates of the granting OF
unfair privileges and advantages to certain favored inter
ests and all who 40 not approve Of popular government
in all the term implies openly invited to assassnate
the editors and publishers OF the Capital News, and they
urged apply the horsewhp and the tar and feathers
to the1-all because the Potlatch Lumber deal
posed in these columns The invitation to violence is
follows:
scurrio bakgaards the publishers
doing their plain du and guarding the interests Of the state
bdding the and the 9 ] Which alone the punish
Th p ca %we skunk ounsm and own mos If not law
Inc OffenSe or Cpltal News is not CnaC 1t
that it has scurilously attacked any public officer
whether he be trying to do his duty whether he be try
ing to avoid doing his duty. If that its offense it
would be hailed before the courts in both criminal and civil
actions instanter. Those whom the Capital News ex-
poses know that THEY have nothing to fear from the
of this state in any action they may bring against
the Capital News.
The offense does not lie in any falsehoods alleged
against this paper Its for offending is the telling
Of the truth and its advocacy of popular
forces it to be the unyedng foe of all special interests
which fat at public expense through the agency of
corrupt incompetent officials backed by equally corrupt
newspapers.
Ii the Capital News had remained silent concerning
this sale of timber lands to the Potatch Lumber company
if had approved that SALE the in which it
made and the lesser price realized for it than was of
fered three years ago but declined that tme matter
what its other oenses might have been both the Elk
River paper said to be owned by the Potlatch Lumber
company and maintained for the purpose becoming the
medium for advertising the sale of public lands so as to
give the least publicity possible and the Nampa Leader
Herald would have sung it's praises great state news
paper, at least, would have remained silent
Let it but make the public aware however of the acts
of the states officials and there demand for tar
and feathers the horsewhip ian invitation to load
of shot!''
And thus where the real anarchy in this
try is.
That Adams county preacher suspected that his