The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-06-24
LEGISLATION WORSE THAN WAR.

About forty years ago some eight
Cinnamon, going in body throug
Idaho to do some work which had bee
contracted for by the company Z
which their services belonged met
band of Indians who at the time wer
4 on the war path. The Chinese wer
armed, but when they met the re,
devils they smilingly gave up thei
arms TO them. The savages took thei
arms and then massacreed the Who'll,
bunch.
ON a big scale Japan has been deal
ing the same way with China, the only
difference being that the Japs have
contented themselves by taking China's
resources and trade into her own
hands and has to all intents and pur-
poses made China subject nation.
The reason Is that, long ago, the rules
of China, through the hardships to
which the masses Of the people were
subjected, permitted the military spirit
TO Wither and die within them. They
We're given, through excessive and
never-ending toll, merely bare liv-
ing, and the germs which, when quick
ened. make soldiers, died in their
breasts
Old Rome, starting with but little
band OF men, conquered the then civil
lied world and for seven hundre,-
years ruled supreme But in the third
century, after the Christian era,
through the hardships and poverty
which had come upon her people, they
had so lost the ancient military spirit
that their country was overrun by bar
barians and their leaders at length
We're forced to engage one race of bar
barians TO fight the others. People
wonder why the enllstments are so |
slow in England in these days Of peril
one reason is because out upon the
ands Of England, since the lmporta-
ion of food from America and Argen-
Inc began, no money has been made
rom the lands, for the government
would give them no protection, and the
bought that England is worth dying
or has withered In the breasts OF he. :
ons. This began to be apparent III a
he Boer war. II required six months \
energetic drilling to make them n
IKE on the attributes Of efficient sol h
iers, for nothing like extreme pow h
rty, especially when suffered where q
mother class by their side steadily p,
row rich will in a brief dime so COW
nd embltter men, that when call Iis
pom their patriotism is made there is Of
response. The thought, spoken or n,
lspoken is, What worse can our lot n
! whatever comes?" ",
That was why Napoleon was able to Of
ash. unchecked, over Europe for 20 So
ars. M,
The people We're so hopelessly poor w
at their military spirit had dice on
hen a people live on the verge or tn,
lryatlon long enough, they cease to pc
re what may come the thought pe an
:; 1T cannot be any worse" wo
The wholesale smashing of the tariff vel
i year. Initiating the arstocratic is
venment of Great Britain, was a is
stake so grave that measured by its pre
ects, II was almost or quite crime sha
was adopting measure which HAD i
conception in the brains of men ter,
o never toiled, who believed a SER VIII
race should do a eountry's hard vet
rk with no compensation save the yal
lplest food and only rough clothing ling
ugh to cover their nakedness. n
With such people the worlds long are
'erlence counts for nothing but in teri
th the legislation which aims its ma,
VS. at the Industries Of country, tai.
'es the factories and wounds its ag- at
llture and Nils Its highways and sub,
es with men who cannot find hon the
employment is criminal legislation, into
is direct blow at the patriotism the