The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13

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position is well founded. For present
purposes we will accept this saying as
the truth II will account for some
things with which we are at present
concerned, as it applies in politics as
in all other affairs of life.
For a great many years the great
game in and around Boise has been
politics. The people of this section of
the state play politics in their sleep
They talk of little else, dream of lit
tie else. think of little else. 1t is their
bread, butter and sauce. AS is quite
natural they have become adept at the
great American pastime which vies
with draw poker as the year around
attraction. Successful politicians are
one of our chief products though no
one has ever contended that they are
valuable product. When Ii comes to
politics we would rather have the in
stinct of a Boise street sweeper than
the genius of a Richelieu or the craft
OF a Machiavelli. We make politics
our business where others consider 1t
hobby to be taken UP and developed
in their old age. We are profession
ais They are amateurs.
II is quite different in north Idaho
Up there the people are engaged In
the business Of mining ores, lumber
ing forests and harvesting crops. Their |
business Is to make nature yield up
her treasures in one form or another.
In their business they are quite as
successful as we are in our politics.
When they take a hazard in politics,
however, their lack of training evinees
itself at once, They have neither the
skill, the adroitness nor the staying
qualities Of the seasoned veteran
They are amateurs and can not dis
guise the fact Most generally they /,
ball up the adventure before they are
well started. Rarely do they bring
the enterprise to a successful eonclu-
sion.
The conclusion that all this brings
let US attend to the politics of the
state and we will let her look after the
business of the state. North Idaho Is
not entitled to participate in affairs
farther than to pay the taxes. We
will attend to their fair and honest
distribution. That section can do the
work. We will accept the honors and
the emoluments which necessarily at !
tend those honors. In this manner
every one win do the work for which
he is best fitted Society and the
state will prosper while commerce and
manufacture will not languish {
The Tip.
The Tribune will not be thanked for
tipping the mitt but as our interest is
only academic we are going to do it
anyhow The thing for north Idaho to
do is to come to a realization that
there Is more than one office in the
state of Idaho. There are United
states senator's, representatives in =,
congress. department heads, justices =,
Of courts, etc, al nauseam, The at -
tention of one candidate should be d.
rected to one office; a second should
be headed toward another; and the
third should be led to an entirely Diff :.
ferent one That is the way it is done =,
DOWN here Mr.. Crum should be let y,
alone In his gubernatorial fight; Mr.. Is,
Taylor should be sent to congress- -
Mr. Corners should become a Justice -
tho
ions are mere Illustrations They are
lot meant to be taken literally. In 90
his way north Idaho win probably get :,
III that is coming to her. -
Let us illustrate Boise usually gets
Ter share, but you rarely find three or =,
our or even two Boise candidates for
he same office. They realize the flu
liity OF such happy go-lucky meth 10
DIS. You will find Boise candidate
or every position on the ticket and A..
sually two or three Of them land in 49,
atety. The politicians of Boise know -,
nat there are other offices and that c,.
ne is about as good as the other. The
lamor of the governorship: the ten
re OF the senatorship; neither the one
or the other; blind the patriots of pc
oise to the attractions of other Of Def
ces spe
This tip is given north Idaho in any
opes that she win profit by it. We ere
'nt like amateur politicians. We rec
ke to see politics carried out with like
1ish, polish, eclat. There is nothing 4"
disgusting as to see the uncouth mes
aeticing fine art. A bobble In pol tori
cs actually CRATES on the sensibill- fact
rs of good workman cat,
French. GUS
Burton L. French, for 10 years rem TO
sentative in congress, has returned OF
his home at Moscow. Mr.. French sure
as very sick at the close OF the last mar
ngress of which he was a member case
g spent several months IN +ho 49,. and
sting up and receiving medical Il
eatment. His many friends tbro,,.,,, but
t the state will be pleased to know The
at he returns to Idaho fpuv ros+o, agai
to health. but
Since his return Mr.. French hoe gull
Ken occasion to say that he will no ferr'
for representative in con beer