The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-09-29
THE HIRED MAN

except 10 purchase 1t and own 1t. 1t
it is worth SO much to the people who
are on the land it is worth more to
the government and l would like to
see our dear Uncle Sammy buy it out
right and own both land and water.
He owns the water, why not own the
land? | will rent from him a good
forty acres and pay him liberal and
reasonable rent. When I am ready to
move off, he will still have his prop
erty. He is sending out lot of seed
and advice from headquarters, why
not do the thing UP good and brown,
and take charge of it? When our ter
rifle railroad strikes comes off in JAM
uary and come it must, it is going to
force Uncle Sammy to take over all
the railroads. Why mot begin to take
over the land. In the first place l
do not find where God ever gave the
land to Uncle Sam in the beginning,
but yet he calls it his and controls it
until it goes out of his hands into ours,
and even then our title is not abso-
lutte, for if we fail to pay the taxes he
takes it away from us. So | propose
to all the farmers that they put
good sensible price on their lands un-
der these projects and ask Uncle to
give or take. Of course we all know
that the land is worth twice as much
as the water and the offer ought to be
made on that basis. If Uncle Sam
comes back at us with the hint that
our lands would not be worth much
without the water, we could retaliate
with the suggestion that a whole lot
of water piled away some place is
worth very little within ITSELF
The Hired Man has no daughters.
There is where he has made the mis-
take. But at this late date there is
nothing to do but to smile about it
and let it go at that What want to
say is this: There are walking in Cald-
we'll perfect wilderness of fine young
girls in their teens. In form and man
ner they are simply superb. / don't
know the names of one-tenth of them
| meet. | do not in this article dis
parage the proper care and drilling OF
the boys Chat matter of the boy cul
ture will come in later story, but let
the older people in Caldwell COM
mence a definite work of persuasion
on the heart life of the teen-girls and
have them Born Again NOW. Per-
suade these teens to throw wide the
heart to the influences of the Holy
Spirit now in their innocency and par
take of the Divine nature right now.
Form and color and tone do not reach
it. Culture is good so far as it goes
Our splendid school will this time add
much and multiply greatly their nat
ural resources for loving kindness
and tenderness, but right now lets in
augurate some new form of enticement
to the beauty of Christ life in the
teen-age Give them an opportunity
to decide once for all what they will
do with Christ
Man has asked what the Hired Man
thinks, about Hon. John c. Rice
for Chief Justice. ! do not think l
SANDER the other splendid lawyers in
the country when l state that John c.
can come as near as any other man
guessing what the last guess of the
supreme court will be on any living
subject. John C.'s natural modesty
keeps him from spreading his wings
and soaring skyward in his oratorical
flying machine, but when another at
torney quietly walks into his den to
get his idea about what the supreme
court will do with a matter when it
gnts into its hands, John c. usually
makes a pretty close guess on it, and
our other lawyers know that he hits the
bulls eye, too. Now those of you who
have heard John c. getting after me,
must remember that the question is:
What do | think of him. and not what
he thinks of me. Law, in Idaho, as
we'll as in most every state, is simply
the last guess of the supreme court
and would like to see good guesser
there.
The Hired Man was in little hotel
not long ago where everybody was
soon acquainted with everybody else
and we all talked about the things we
knew and wished and wanted. TIC
show the calibre of people, let me
state that sat for fifteen minutes and
listened to a woman express her en-
phatic opinion about the war in. Eu,
rope. She said, among other things
that she did not particularly like the
Germans, but that we must remember
here in the United States that oul
crime list is far above theirs. Sh'
said the war had to come for thu
reason that Almighty God has dccreca
that there is no remission without tht
shedding pf blood. She rounded III
Wilson for preaching arbitration on'
hour and swatting it with an abrup
law the next. She knew about thu
canals of the world from the days, o
Pharoh down to date. She had he
opinions about monarchs and demo
cratic forms of government, govern
ment ownership, control of sex. i'm
mortality Of the soul, and things. il
general. She was posted. She LET
my company when the moment cam
and the second woman took up tn
conversation. She was having goo'
deal of. trouble getting hold OF he
"Hcart and Hand" paper that SHOULD
have been forwarded to her. Jimm,
Skinnigan was about to marry Burt
Murphey and they were going to rails
fcrrets For a living and she though
they could take couple of ferrcts i
gunny sack and go to the burrough
of rabbits and let the ferrets go dow
after the rabbits and thus get thci