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The nonpartisan leader., 1915-12-16

calfy come along an I'll give you nice little feed"
clear that these fellows don't the nature of the
animal they monkeyg with. If they they are going
to make nice, GENTLE docle work fellow they
had better revise their thinks
One of the ancient prophets reported to have said that
the ass knoweth his masters cb Of the Nonporan League
may be sad th calf knows masters barnyard And
isn't the pig lot of Big Biz either.
Ihls is timely warning. If anybody gets knocked into the
middle OF the next century by lettering around this calf let
them remember that they had notice that ay was danger
GUS. Nuff sed.
The nonpartisan leader., 1915-12-16
A GREAT SPEAKING CAMPAIGN.

! The great educational campaign of the NONPARTI-
SAN LEAGUE has started. Two hundred and fifty great
meetings will be held thruout the state during the
next two months.
BY this method the League organizers will be able
to talk personally to the farmers of this state and explain
how the League will proceed the political field to win
the fight of the farmers The proposed program of the
League will be discussed fully.
These educational meetings. will be one of the big
things for which the members of the League have paid
their and in order for you realize the greatest
possible returns investment it is necessary for you
to neither time effort in seeing that every
and his family, within radius of twenty-five miles
attend these meetings They will gladly do if you get
word to them.
Watch the towns and dates as published on this page
of the Leader from week to week and when your town
phone stop everybody the road and do everything
else to advertise the netting This is your fight;
get into it.
This campaign will forever still the voice of the
knocker who has been telling you that the League
fake and that simply out your money for nothing
Before these meetings close you will be convinced that the
only suckers the country those farmers who did
join the League
Here few dates
LEU. 10 NEWBOKG
ssG DEC. 20 .................. UPElAM and ANTlER
DEG. Fl ........... ~. KRAMER and WESTHOPE
DEC. 22'.............. 22 .OMENfEE and SOURlS
UEG. z3 RUGBY
There will be two of speakers, holding meet
gs at two different points each day, indicated above
All meetings will be advertised for o'clock in the after
noon ssa
The nonpartisan leader., 1915-12-16

W scream
Wheat oats the number bales of cotton the
10y farmer raises each and it's quite another thing to
figure out how much he gets for it.
Statstllans have peculiar of giving total num-
Der of bushels bae the per bale and even
the aggregate price, and then leaving the as to
comparing the price of big crop with the price CROP
Take for example the wheat crop North Dakota this
and its with that of year ago. On October
L. the estimated the crop bushels
On that date the 80 per On October l.
1914 the price SO cents bushe were much
this it last October year, the farmer would re-
ceve total of $3290000 for his wheat AS it he
ceve toa provided 80 the average price, of $17
260000 In other words the North Dakota farmer the basis
of the 1914 price, would made money he had
made less wheat .....
bushels 1914 brought his sevenyve Million while 143
million brought him only 100000 when it should have
brought him $l32000,OO0.
Again. the reported October aver
of wheat in the United States 705 per
ell 1t estimated the number of bushels at 3030O0000O The
aggregate price woulud be- $780, 100000 Whereas the
date last the price 1872 per
number of bushels would have brought $236946 6O0O0
In 1914 the North Dakota Oats crop bushes
The October 81 cents per bushel The aggre
gate price received was $240l4,48O.
This year the Oats crop 92500000 and the price per
bushe October IS CENTS the aggregate value at that
price would be $23l25Oo0 than million dollars less
than the price the farmer received for approximately 27 mil
lion bushels less in 1914
The nonpartisan leader., 1915-12-16
BIG CROPS AND. LOW PRICES.

m Els one thing to about the number bushels
wheat oats the number of of cotton the
10y farmer raises each and it's quite another thing
figure out how much he gets for it.
The nonpartisan leader., 1915-12-16
VIII He Be Able To Tame The Beast?

EW things equal the of the politician When it
first became whispered around the country that the
Zg partisan Political League being formed the polit
clans all simply snorted.
As the persisted they began to perk and take
tce When they that something actually being done
they thru the muzzed began rdcue abuse the
efforts of the farmers.
When finally dawned upon them that slipped
over on en- they simply drew in their horns and got good
Now they beginning collect around the bu pen and toss
spgs of and whps of hay the Some have
even far to climb upon the say mice little
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-29
AN ERA OF BIG THING

"The Krupp Monster is the name given to the big guns
manufactured by the Germans that destroy a fort at a single shot
No matter how thick the walls or how strong the fort, the Krupp
monster sends a shot into it and leaves a crater where the shot
first encountered heavy resistance. What can be done IN a small
way can be done on a large scale if everything is built in proper
proportions.
On the same theory a marked advance has recently been made
in the manner of printing. About thirty years ago a machine was
perfected to set a line of type at a time, and it lifted the burdens
of typesetting as the invention of the cotton gin lifted the tedious
hand work in the cotton belt. But the type setting machine, the
linotype was made only to set the fine type, and the advertising
world still wrestled with the problem of setting the display type
by hand. During these twenty years the ingenuity OF inventors
has worked out many ways and many machines to set the small
type, resulting in perfecting the Simplex, the Monotype' the Inter
type, and now comes the Displayotype for setting the large letters
and figures and slugs constituting a display advertisement. Under
the hand system it take a good printer all day to set a page OF
display advertising, and a quarter of a day to distribute the type,
but with the new invention the skilled operator sits at the Keyboard
and sets it in an hour or two and after it has served its purpose
it is melted down in the crucible like so much taffy.
Every newspaper plant having an advertising patronage above
a certain volume will probably install one within the next ten years,
and it is no doubt a desirable thing for every community to have'
but-the first requisite is the four thousand dollars or so to pay
for its installation.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-29
WE OVERLOOKED SOMETHING

In our tax article last week we overlook something in enumer-
ating the various duties of the chief of police while the sewer
was being built. He was sewer commissioner, street commissioner
and ex-of6cio enforcer of the rules of quarantine and public health
sexton of the cemetery and salesman of lots, city engineer to give
people their corners and lines when they wanted to build, was the
official dog catcher and presided over the shovel at the burial OF
cats, was probation officer for the village, was on the signal corps
to provide red light at night at all crossings where construction
work was in progress and was charged with keeping track o. the
places where citizens wanted wyees located during the construction
of the sewer past their property. When he asked the council to
advise him about continuing as sewer Inspector and secretary tor
the water company they decided to have him continue as ne had
been doing.
Our statement last week that the sewer contractors paid his
salary of fifty dollars a month for sewer inspection was not quite
correct. The contract with the sewer engineer included the pay
ment to him of 2 per cent o fthe amount of the sewer contract, to
nav for inspection, and this was paid by the city to the engineer
and by the engineer to the inspector up to the time when construc-
ton work should be completed, but as the contractors failed to
complete it in the contract time, the cost of inspection for the rest
of the period had to be paid by the contractors.
Citizens would like to know just how much OF the backhllng
there was done with wagons at the expense of the city and county
that should have been charged to the sewer contractors and taken
out of their bond. We wish we could tell them, but nobody kept
account of it. We do not think it was less than a thousand dollars
nor more than $4,000, it is all carried in bonds on which we are
paying 7 per cent interest.
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the account is just and true, it means that it is a fair market price.
If he charges something in the bill that is properly a private ex-
pense, and swears that it is a correct and true account and that
the money is due, and then goes before the board and lies about the
items in question in order to get it allowed, is it perjury when he
makes the affidavit, and how much does it lack of being perjury
when he comes before the board and lies to get the affidavit
through?
The things that have been done in Boise have been done in
Bingham and Blackfoot, and it appears that the system has been
the same. The grand jury has been working in one locality and a
newspaper has been working in the other. The grand jury has
power to compel people to attend the inquiry and give evidence;
the newspaper has a living to make, it has business that can be
hurt or destroyed, it becomes the victim of every opposition that
can be lined up against it by those who are being criticised, it can
not compel anybody to uncover their acts, it can be insulted and
maigned, and it can get business from those in whose behalf the
fight is made, if they are thoughtful and responsive and grateful
enough to do their part when the opportunity is open.
If grand jury had been working in Bingham county in 1914,
enough is known of conditions to make it a safe guess that there
would have been as great a sensation and as great disturbance as
has occurred in Boise, and who will dispute that it would have
disturbed men and women in trusted positions from the top of the
judiciary and county roster down to the lesser lights who furnish
goods or service and those who 0. K. the bills?
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THE TAXES
Continued from page one

the predecessor had also been allowed a deputy, perhaps they had
cut the clerk enough and ought to allow the bills for the deputy.
They did not investigate to see what the clerks services consisted
of or how much time it required or what was a good commercial
price for what they were paying for; it was just Jumping things
off and getting rid Of the problem the easiest and pleasantest way.
No officer ever recommends the cutting of his own salary, in time
to affect his own pocket and the city clerk did not advise that his
salary was too much. None of our council would care to stand
up and recommend the reduction of his own salary or one of his
colleagues or associates in the administration for reasons that the
reader will understand, and # the officers have been drawing too
much pay it must be the fault of the people for allowing it.
The Clerk has Other Duties
The city clerk has other duties that must be measured and
placed in the problem. He has to write the warrants and make
a list of them in the record of warrants, and then he must mail
most of them to the owners. We have taken the measure of this
work for the past six years, and the following table shows the
amount of the work.
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York of City Clerk


Those who are accustomed to writing warrants or receipts
and filling in the stubs can judge of how long it takes to do a given
amount, but writing warrants takes more time than receipts or
checks. County warrants are written with the machine at the rate
of about fifty per hour, not including the signature. This would
indicate that writing the city warrants for a year would require
from one to two days work. In addition to that they have to be
registered or listed in the book kept for that purpose, and the
retiring clerk, G. II. Holbrook, had also opened a book for CLASH
flying the expenses and that makes an extra registration.
We believe an average amount of time needed for the clerk
to attend to his duties as they have been going the past sly years
is fifteen days work per year, of eight hours a day, and under
conditions as they have been for the past two years it would be
not more than ten days. This would make the wages $38.4o a
day. We arrive at the average by allowing two and one-half hours
each for tw~enty-four regular and two special meetings; two hours
for writing and registering the warrants each month, and one hour
for mailing them and attending to such correspondence and miscel
laneous matters as may require attention. Much of this work is
done in the regular meetings while the council are celebrating, and
to Offset that there are things that take up the clerks time every
month that nobody but the clerk has any estimate of. If our
measure is correct on the main part of the work, and if our judg
ment or estimate is correct on the minor of it, the city clerk receives
So. 90 an hour for all the time he devotes to keeping the city
records and attending to its business and correspondence under
present conditions. When the people meet next month to write a
platform for the city campaig they will have had plenty of time to
consider the matter and can determine for themselves whether or
not they want to alter the salary.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-29
WEEKS CHRONOLOGY OF
THE LEGISLATURE
Senate

January 18.-Passed Teton county
division bill. Constitution amend
ment introduced to abolish state
board of equalization and create tax
commission. Bills introduced provide
for creation of logged-off land dis
tricts; Sawtooth game reserve.
January 19.-Bowman peace men,
orialkilled on committee report to in
definitely postpone 1t. Bill introduce
ed to repeal state highway commits
sion law passed by 1913 legislature.
January 20.-Passed resolution for
submission of constitutional prohibi-
ton amendment as introduced by
Senator Hart. Bills introduced call
ing for appropriation of $4,000 for
Northwest Livestock association at
Lewiston; to provide for creating
herding district; making It unlawful
to falsely advertise; relating to ped
dlers.
January 21.-Killed by indefinite
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-29

postponement Lowe justice court trial
bills. Attack made on public utili-
ties commission through introduction
of Johnson bill to repeal act creating
1t.
January 22.-Passed supreme
court opinion bill making it optional
to file written opinions. Attack made
on educational system on educational
mmittee report recommending pas
e Of resolution to abolish office of
state superintendent of public in
struction. Join memorial introduce
ed asking congress to aid in reclama-
ton of arid lands. Butte county bill
introduced.
January 23.-Passed Whitcomb
physician witness bill; deferred rati-
fication of Jay A. Czizek appoint
ment; bills introduced allowing pref
erence to voter in casting primary
election ballot SO as not to show his
party ~affiliation, to require governor
to select appointees for state medical
board, suspend and fix judgments.
House
January 18.--Minority Leader An
derson introduced stringent prohibit
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ton resolution. Bills introduced to
abolish tax commission, public utili-
ties commission, commissioner OF
education, and child labor act. Adopt
resolution asking governor to furnish
data for board of health appropria-
ion, and north and south railroad
resolution.
January 19.-Passed Teton county
division bill as amended by senate.
Passed open range bill, county mu-
tual insurance bill. Measure intro
duced to abolish office of water COM
missioner. Board of health resolu-
tion withdrawn.
January 20.-Passed anti-alien
bill barring aliens from owning prop
erty in state. Bills introduced for
uniform sales, to make. road over
seers elective and reasonable witness
mileage act.
January 21.-Passed senate reso-
luton for constitutional prohibition
effective May l, 1917, by unanimous
vote. Bills introduced to give force
and effect to initiative, referendum
and recall, to amend statewide pri-
mary law by which state officers can
be nominated at convention instead
of at primary, reducing penalty on
second tax payment from 18 to 10
per cent.
January 22.-Passed bill for linn
tied sale of infected fruit. Statewide
prohibition by statutory enactment
bill introduced by 23 members, to-
gether with act to abolish Albion
normal and establish Idaho Junior
college at Pocatello.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-29
HOUSE BILLS INTRODUCED

H. B. No. II, by Hunter and Bob
man-Provides that on petition of
majority of the resident taxpayers o
any road division in a highway dis
trict, a psecial tax of not to exceet
SO cents on 800 valuation may b.
levied on all the property in that di
vision.
H. B. No. IS, by McGowan-Pro
vides that a graduate of the college
of law of the University Of Idaho
shall be entitled to admission to prac
tice before all courts of the stat,
without examination.
H. B. No. 70, by Sweet and Lay
To appropriate $4,000 to maintain
the Children's Home Finding & AID
society for the next two years.
H. B. No. 80, by Clark and Custer
Cannon and Gilcrist-To abolish the
Offices of water commissioners.
H. B. No. 81, by Shattuck-Pro.
vides that employers of labor shall be
charged with the collection of pol
taxes from their employees.
Joint Resolutions
H. j. r. No. 5, by Thrailkill-Pro-
posing an amendment to the constitu.
tion to prevent the establishment oil
any new county which does not have
and assessed valuation of $5,0OO,0 900,
Joint Memorials
H. ] M. No. 2, by Kribs-Memori-
alizing congress to have properly seq
regated lands in the Yreka mining
district now classified as. agricultural.
Killed by oHuse
H. B. No. Is, by Shattuck-Pro-
hibiting the location of a colony OF
bees within 100 yards of the property
Of another without the written. con-
sen Of such property owner.
Passed by House
H. B. No. 10, by King of Lewis
Repeating the law under which un-
branded stock on the public domain
might be picked up and sold as es-
trays.
H. B. No. 80, by Anderson of Can
yon-Permits mutual insurance COM
panies to insure schools and other
public buildings outside of incorpo-
rated municipalities.
, H. B. No. 10, by Taylor, as amend
ed by the senate-To create Teton
county from a part of Madison.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-29
so IN BOISE SAME IN BINGHAM

An auditor was employed recently to investigate the expenses
of the state at Boise, and report to the governor. The work is
being done by The Audit comapny " of Illinois, by w.. II. Gleason,
manager, and he has just filed his report of the maintenance of
the state house for the past four years. The report indicates that
there has been a waste of thousands of dollars a year, the loose
system of buying extending into all things used from the smallest
to the greatest.
The price of coal had a range from So to $3.50 per ton, and
the amount used varied from 9o7 to 2o77 tons for a year for
heating the same amount of building, the new capitol and the old
1t seems that everybody could buy supplies, and if the bills fled
bore the o. X. of anybody about the building, the state board of
examiners allowed the bill on the theory that it must be all right
This being true it is no wonder that all kinds of unjust claims
should be filed. The report contains the following significant state
ment: "The whole system is wrong, and the officials and employees
should be pitied rather than censured."
We do not agree with this last expression. Anybody who
knows enough to hold any of those position or jobs, knows enough
to do better. We take the view. that the lax system developed
through yielding to the temptation to have their friends, the dealers,
reap profits or to reap profits themselves or both. When they all
got to approving bills that were unjust, that broke down their
own moral fiber, and they could find no place to quit the loose and
perncious system. The only way to clean out such a nest and such
a system is to clean it out. Alexander, the candidate, said that he
would "yank out" everybody from dome to basement and we are
grand jury are working on his ideas of "yanking OUT the extra
VACANT bunch, then we hope it will go down the line" and do its
work well, though we do not think everybody that has been in
dicted is deserving of a term in prison.
When is a Peirer?
When the bills are filed in the state house or in a court house.
claiming certain sums of money for certain goods or service, the(
person making affidavit to the bill, knows whether it is for some
thing actually done or furnished, and whether the price is a fair
market price. If the bill is for something that cost forty donars|
and he charges the state or county four hundred, and swears that
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]. D. Little came down from Howe
the last of the week.
Mrs. John Mcmillan, of Firth.
spent the week with her mother, Mrs.
D. W. Mcmillan at Blackfot.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-29

Senator Thomas announced that he
would not vote for the confirmation
If he did not believe in honesty of
purpose on the part of the governor
and he felt assured that after Mr..
Czizek has done his work as exposi-
ton commissioner he would resign
and leave the office of immigration
commissioner vacant
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Judge d. W. Standrod, Thomas
Terrell and Attorney White came up
from Pocatello, Wednesday, on bust
ness.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-05-22
FIGHT BUGS TRY To PICK
Man TO MEET WILLARD
MUCH SPECULATION Is TO WHO
WILL MIN THINGS WITH
THE NEW CHAMPION

written for the United Press !.

NEW YORK, MAY 22--The al
vance signs Of coming summer seem
not to deter the fight bugs Straw
hats are as common as flies in
August along Broadway now but
the indoor winter sport is claim
ing more than its share of atten=
ton Everywhere there Is an IN
dercurreut Of talk about the big
fighters. and finally the discussion
always leads around to tie question
When and who will Jess Willard
mix it With That seems To be ri
more interest to the Broadway fight
sport than anything on the calen lar
Just now
And Billy Gibson request tar
$4,000 tor Jim totfey S end Ina
match With Charles Welnert has stir
red the unsettled waters anew jack
Bulger Weiuert's maneger replied
he was wiling to split that figure
But Gibson can hold out. for Cofley
IS worth all he can get and would
prove a mighty good drawing card
in such match OF course. the
talk of his meeting Willard right
soon is little premature but Cor
tsg ought To be able 10 hold his
own with Weinert
But The big idea in Gibson s. mind
ii that Coffey lis ia training for a
match With Willard sometime Ths
3afe is not of much Importance for
the bis champion as net anxious 20
display his wares in the ruped ring
Iust yet, bur when he is prepared
10 come ont into the ring again Jim
cotley expects 20 be sitting inside
fhe ropes waiting tor Jess
So Otbsou wants Coffey 70 meet
ala comers uuu the big time ar
Ftses when MS tighter will be in
condition - stand up 10 The champ.
Billy Gibson is enety manager
hut it VIII take some clever work
to ieree the blg Kansas COW boy
champ uto The ring before he wants
Ia.
How ever uuless Gibson and Bul-
ser come 90 terms there is not much
chance of Geffey meeting wetnert,
The broadway sporting club want.
ed The match as Cofgey is "a favorfla
OF the New York tight shags" fass
uUN-