Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-01-02
DAGOS BETTER THAN KNOCK
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And by the way a little dust
would do Orofino a lot of good,
for some of the knockers might
get strangled and choke to death.
Dust! Bless your souls, if there
is anything on earth that Oroflno
needs more than another its dust,
stirred up by factories, working
her mountains Of high grade lime,
rock into a valuable commercial
product for which there is a ready
demand, and which will bring
back into this community thous
ands of dollars annually to be
paid out for labor, supplies and
profits. If the Orofino knockers
should move to Butte we would
expect them to advocate the clos
ing of the smelters, because OF
the smoke, and stop the mines
and kill the payrolls because
somebody happened to employ
an italian. The Republican does
not know just who may be en-
ployed when the cement factory
gets to going, but let them 90
their worst and fill the factory
with rat-eating coolies, who live
on rice and sleep on the floor.
packed into huts like sardines;
let the company run their plant
with poems, who work for moth
ing and board themselves, and it
will be better for Orofino than a
million cheap pessimistic knock
ers like the gang that is now try
ing to run the cement company
out of business, and keep Oro-
fino from ever becoming anything
more than a flag station" Yes
stree, a Chinaman knows enough
to mind his own business which
is great deal more than can be
said of the highbinders now in
Testing this poor town. The
trouble with some people is that
they can see no good in any prop
osition that affords them no
chance to graft. Perhaps if the
Orofino Cement company would
purchase a few $65 typewriters
at $1.OO per, or pay the gang
some 81, 600 for bridge plans that
that are donated to other coun-
ties or pay a royalty on culvert
that was given to the county, or
a hundred other dirty gratis that
would feed the gang, then a &C.
ment plant with a big payroll
would be a good thing for
Orofino.
And while we are at it we
might say that Italian laborers
would not have to eat. They
would import their milk and but
ter, ship in their meat and lard,
get their bread from Rome by slow
freight, and their potatoes from
Cork. When we cansider the
splendid class of laboring men
this company always employed
there is grave cause for fear.
But what's the use? Why waste
time discussing a pipe dream
worked off the morning after?"
Had somebody proposed a big
for Orofino these fellows
would probably have knocked it
on the ground that somebody's
baby might play in the sawdust
and get choked to death, or that
a laborer might get a silver in his
finger and die from blood poison.
BY all means let us keep the air
free from the germs of industrial
dust, or some of the knockers
may have to take to the tall tim
Der for their health, Too bad if
a Dago, going to work some early
should step on one Of
the editors of the Tribune and
hurt the poor fellow.
Perhaps, by the time the Re-
publican has dug into the county
records a little farther some of
the gang will change their opin-
ion about dust, and the inquiring
inhabitants some morning will
discover that the cloud of dust
down the canyon is caused, not
by a new saw mill at Ahsahka,
but by the hurried departure of
some of the gang getting out of
the county before a grand jury
investigates things.