The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-09


esty, decency and propriety as to be
simply intolerable.
For many years the secretaries of
the interior and other leaders of the
conservation party have been proselyt-
ing eastern and southern congressman
who otherwise never gave the sub
ject a serious thought-till such con-
gressmen and their political depend
ents, for reasons patent to them, now
believe, or pretend to believe, that
conservation as practiced on the pub
gressmen have, in some occult man
ner, been unduly influenced by hyph-
enated Americans and patronage Gear
pet bag relatives and political depend
ents sent out West)-so that right or
wrong they vote for anything and
everything the secretary of the inter
ior wants out west-it does not affect
their country-and they little realize
that it is perfect hell to US. AS a nat
ural result of all this illicit political
wire pulling, log rolling and political
grating, the conservation party is
very strong in votes in congress, and
corresponding weak in votes of the
people.
The secretary Of the interior can
pass any bill he chooses-through the
house-as congressman are wont to
say, with a Whoop"
The senate solemnly chants the
funeral anthem of our forlorn hope
with mournful measured tread Of the
dead march, but the choral services at
the grave will be the same.
The secretary of the interior has
marshalled his forces with Machiayel-
liam skill, while the people have slept
on their birthrights.
He has argued an intricate ex-parte
proceeding with masterful cleVerness
to a maladrot ending; and now wagers
his all on the land leasing bills in the
senate.
Forsooth, our presidents secretary
of the interior is playing a bold and
desperate game for magnificent stakes
so bold and desperate, indeed, that
were the sun, moon and stars the
stakes, he would darken the armament
on this one bet.
The legislatures of each of the eleven
mountain states will Immediately, as
the one timely, sensible, business like
move, instantly memorialize congress
and right vigorously protest against
these land leasing bills which carry
ruin to states sovereignty, wreck to
state government, and insult and de-
graduation to the people.
Idaho is peculiarly and vitality af-
fected in that the pending leasing bills
will rob her of her great phosphate
fields-the largest and richest in the
world.
Upon no other governor of Idaho has
rested duty so brilliant to signally
serve the state, and her people, as now
rests upon Governor Alexander to in
stantly call a special session of Idaho's
legislature.
The people of the west are now
awake to the fact that even much more
than western sovereignty is at stake.
And all attempts to induce the west to
compromise the question of federal
land leasing are now contemptuously
dismissed. The very suggestion is a
wicked insult to the intelligence of
western men. We care nothing for the
details of the federal leasing bills
they are totally and intrinsically
wrong from their very inception. Those
who advocate any system of federal
leasing rigid, or mild, but aggravate
the temper of the people of the public
land states. AS to this subject politi-
cal partisanship has disappeared in
the west; and any western congress
man who deceives himself into think
ing that he can toy with this subject
for partisan purposes, had better not
show his face back home for reelec-
tion-he will surely meet the fate as
signed by our good president to GER
tain obnoxious individuals-be hung
higher than Hannah.
Strenuous and persistent efforts are
being made by the bureaus to debauch
the western press; and to create the
detection in the minds of western po-
litical leaders as a concession to par
tisanship, but such efforts can accom-
plish nothing.
Our congressman are warned to gird
on their best armor for this fight
fight vigorously, boldly and relentless
ly-no compromise of any kind or de-
gress-nothing but unconditional sur
render will satisfy us. The leasing
system is unconstitutional, and legally
and morally wicked-there is no room
to compromise crime, and the man
who attempts it is particeps criminis.
The world loves q good fighter,
adores the winner, s4op respects the
graceful loser; butts Npises the cow
ard, the hypocritt as ae' lside-stepper,
and the chicken VI
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