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

Two years ago they resorted to the
/ courts to crush the movement but
they res6rted in vain because they
1 had underestimated the intelligence of
our people, $1,000 of whom made reply
/ to the court decree in thunder tones
/ by successfully writing in the names
of our candidates more than $4,000
1 times.
Unable to crush this movement
which comes straight from the hearts
OF the people by the offer of brides
in the way of political preferment to
our leaders, or by appeal to the most
extraordinary powers assumed by our
courts, they have lately entered into
a conspiracy, criminal in its intent,
to devise keep ignorant, and mislead
the electorate of the state so that
! they may again win by fraud what
they at last realize they cannot win by
direct appeal to the intelligence of
/ the people.
A direct conspiracy has been formed
I between the politicians and the news
papers of the state subject to their
power and the influence of the in
/ terests bent upon the exploitation of
the poor that they may become the
1 richer at the general expense, to keep
the people in ignorance Of the truth
and to fill their minds with false
hood. Not a Republican paper in the
state of Idaho and few, if any Demo-
cratic papers, will publish informa-
ton to their readers which, in the be-
lief of the publishers. or the political
leaders, will tend to injure the chances
of the success of one Jr tn other
branches If the bipartisan machine
now in control of our government, nor
will they publish the truth about the
Progressive party, nor of the efforts
of the people to secure relief. BY
reason of the fact that a great por-
ton of the press of this state is in
the hands of those interested in the
I success of one wing or the other of
the bipartisan machine, the people
of the state are largely kept in ignor
ance of the kind of government that
they are getting, All that they know,
as they are compelled to walk to the
tax collectors offices is that they are
being required to impoverish them
selves to meet their tax bills. They
know not, the majority of them, where
the fault lies; they know not what to
do, nor where to turn for relief. Even
as it has been the purpose OF a too
subservient press to keep the people in
this ignorance so it should be our
purpose, and today it should be our
renewed resolve to see that he knowl-
edge of true conditions be conveyed
to the people Of the state. They are
intelligent enough to understand; they
are honest enough to want to do right,
and, we doubt not, they are anxious to
be told.
If any there are who may think I
am unduly harsh in these remarks
about the partisan bound press of this
, state and of the motives and purposes
of the political leaders having in
charge both the corrupt political ma
chimes constituting this bipartisan
/ government that l have described, let
{ them but consider that in no Re-
, publican paper can they find account
of the mistakes or corruption of Re-
publican officials, nor in any Demo-
cratic paper can they ever find ac-
, count Of the mistakes or corrupt acts
of Democratic officials, although we
all know there have been instances
/ almost innumerable that have been
called to their attention. About the
only reference that can ever be found
in these partisan Papers who serve
their party macliipes in preference to
serving the public, 20 acts of miscon-
duct on the part of public officials is
when they publish some denial, an
, explanation, or an attack upon the
agency that exposed the wrong.
Why Be Robbed2
. Only recently the columns of such
: papers have contained such false, un-
a founded and wholly imaginary mat
for he Drouraeefxra ~
and the Progressive movement, thai
our worthy and efficient state chair
man has been forced to publish denials
: of some OF the most glaring false
y hoods, which had been put forth with
out the slightest Justification other
than a desire to disseminate false
hood rather than truth.
We have been confronted with APP
peals for amalgamation, and when we
y have refused to dmalgamate, public
: announcement has been made that We
= have amalgamated; that we have
Il abandoned the banner of public serv-
ice and had joined the banner of pri-
waite greed to be satiated at public ex-
pense. Every conceivable argument
t for amalgamation has been advanced
> The last and final appeal is tina
Il unless you come in with us the Dem
. ocrats will win again"
e never hear this appeal but l an
: reminded of the enthusiastic nerchan
{ who advertised why &c elsewher,
to be robbed; give us a trial"
Both Are Alike.
If the Progressives cannot win tbs
. election, it is a matter of the most SUI
preme indifference to us wi ether tn,
: Democrats win or the Republican.
II win. We would as soon be robbcl b,
: the one as by the other. Both stanC
y for the same policy of serving the spe
{ cial interests at the expense OF th'
common people, and neither has faitl
: in the ability and INTEGRITY Of the ma
! jority Of the American peop.e to gov
: ern themselves.
The only difference discernable Il
that If the Republicans should win
they would relieve us of our earning