The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
The Gem State Fair
Boise, Idaho, August "a, 1915.

Boise, idaho, August "a, 1915.
Dear Editor
The applications in ali departments
are coming in rapidly and the success
of the GEM STATE FAIR is now
assured.
We have applications for more
than 300 head of stock and space for
ten County Collective Exhibits. In
fact every department will be obliged
to arrange for overflow exhibits.
The FAIR spirit is abroad in the
land and all seemingly are interested
in the success of our farmers fair.
Boise Behind the Farmers Fair.
The City Council of Boise have do
mated to the fair management the
streets of Boise for our Carnival
Show. This feature will bring in
about $150000 cash for our fair.
The Merchants of Boise have
bought $4,000 advertising space in
our premium list, showing their CO.
operation with the management for a
big fair.
The Boise Commercial Club have
agreed to put on big Barbecue, suf-
fcient to feed twenty thousand peo-
pie. This feature is worth at least
$4,000 to our big fair and wil cost
should any one offer the suggestion
that he adopted policy of generosity
toward the warning customers he
would probably laugh contemptuously.
Furthermore if labor ever waited until
the publicity sheets of the manufactur-
ers favored his contentious he would
die of starvation. There is no crime
too black for the subsidized news
papers to apologize and plead excuse
| for, nor no just demand that they
won't howl against, and it is fortunate
for organized labor that it is no
| longer governed by the attitude OF
subsidized sheets of commercial brig
andage. In any just contention be-
tween capital and labor the country
at large is less influenced by the ap-
peals of cosmopolitan publicity bur-
eaus, because the mask of newspaper
tools is too transparent nowadays not
to be seen.
The great cosmopolitan dailies are
fast reaching a critical stage in. their
history, in which they will either have
to mend their ways or lose circulation
Petty rascals have brought disgrace
uponthe newspaper profession and il
is high time that there was a change
for the better in the class of editors
and publishers. When a man sub
scribes for a newspaper that stands
for bad economic policies and apollo
gizes for rascality in business he is
lending aid toward his own undoine
and any close study of the question
will lead him to this conclusion.
There is one way to hurry the end
of corrupt newspapers and that is an
organized withdrawal of subscriptions
on the part of those who no longer
believe in the policy of the paper and
its editor
Too long have the people allowed
publishers and editors TO use them in
4 building up greedy business men ii
dishonest practice. Business adver.
tisinp depends for its profit in using
papers of large circulation; when the
circulation drops the advertiser drops
the newspaper. A newspapers whols
policy should be directed toward the
| betterment of economic conditions al
a whole without prejudice toward any
class or favoritism toward any class
land any paper that breaks this rule il
not newspaper in fact, il is simply
dishonest advertising sheet thai
should be morally. loutlawed.
KEEPING UP THE WAR SCARF
Our war material manufacturers
making in some instances three an
four hundred percent profit over tn