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

The delegates which will be select
ed by the Twin Falls convention to
attend the national republican conven-
ton should not be handicapped by
iron clad instructions which will ham
per their action and restrict their use
fulness in the selection of a candidate
Tor president. This state has a "fav-
orite son." who, while not a candidate
is nevertheless strong possibility in
the event that the convention should
become involved in a. deadlock. Sem
ator Borah should have the strongest
possible endorsement from the con-
vention, and the delegates to the Chi
cago convention should be instructed
TO use their best efforts to secure his
nomination, but they should not be
tied up with instructions which would
render them useless in solving the
problem of the convention. Idaho will
nave only eight delegates to Chicago,
ana the republicans at home want TO
teei that those eight delegates will be
N position to take an active part in
naming the next president In order
o do so they must have some freedom
u action, some latitude, and must in
act be permitted to act largely unon
heir own judgment in dealing with
onditions as they develop. It is not
onceivable that any delegation sent
rom Idaho would prove disloyal to
enator Borah, and for that req ism
o instructions should be, given that O
'ould prevent the delegates from .
hitting their votes when it became :
Vident that nothing could be gained =
trough casting them for Senator I
orah. C
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13
THE BIG ISSUE IN THE WEST.

The two great issues that will over
shadow all others in the approaching
national campaign are preparedness
Tor national defense and the tariff. The
republican party is unit on these
two questions. 1t stands for q system
or military service that will insure a
trained reserve force sufficient to meet
any emergency that might involve the
country in war, a standing army large
enough to respond to all ordinary re-
quirements, and navy that will be
ample to guard our coast line in con-
nection with modern land defenses,
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13

and at the same time sufficient tC
! command respect for the flag on every
sea and protection to American citi.
gems and property in foreign lands. II
stands for tariff that viii protect
American industry against foreign
cheap labor, and that win restore and
maintain the home market for the
benefit OF our home people. There is
no material division of opinion among
republicans upon these great questions,
and whoever is the nominee of the
party for president can be depended
upon If elected to carry out the will of
the party on these vital questions.
Under these circumstances it be-
hooves the republicans of the west to
look we'll into the attitude of men who
are now prominently considered can
didates for the republican nomination
for president toward the great ques-
ton that. touches directly their well
fare, happiness and prosperity-the
question of conservation of natural re-
sources Any man nominated will be
satisfactory on preparedness and the
tariff, but he may be all wrong on con-
servation. We know that Roosevelt
is wrong on conservation and that we
are now fighting against the with
drawal of power sites and leasing of
mineral lands which are the natural
outgrowth of the ubiquitous system
which he and his man Pinchot fasten-
ed upon the west, and we know that
If elected president he would take up
the work again, with Pinchot his chief
adviser and assistant, and make con-
servation more offensive and vicious
than ever before. Knowing this. the
republicans of the west should give
their support to a candidate who at
least possesses an open mind on this
vital question and who will listen to
the voice of the west in protest
against the system that robs the state
of it's birthright, and blocks settlement
and development by withdrawing its
natural resources from use. We repeat
The republicans of the west are taking
40 chances on the questions of pre-
oaredness and tariff with any man
by the republican conven-
Ion for president, but on the cues
Ion of conservation, the question that
most directly concerns the western
states, they are confronted with a
crave situation which should be con-
ldered free from the influence of SEN
iment or the heroic pose of ambitious
In this question is in
ioVed the progress and prosperity of
he west.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13

the condition OF the mine gave then
reasonable assurance that dividend
could be expected for a long period In
the future. Almost two thirds OF tn,
stockholders, or rather stakeholder.
representing almost two-thirds of tht
stock. sent the manager proxies t.
vote without restriction, which was In
itself significant of their attitude to-
ward the management. Besides there
was quite a large attendance of indi-
vidual stockholders, and with the ex-
ception of one criticism directed
against the manager because he re-
fused to make public the new ore con-
tract, there was not an incident to mar
the harmony of the meeting, which be-
fore adjourning passed a resolution
commenting the management.
But the harmonious action of the
meeting of stockholders was disap-
pointing to coterie of Spokane brok-
ers, one Of whom is so extremely soli-
citous in behalf of the public that he
issues paper twice a month which is
dedicated to telling the truth about
mining in the northwest, a sort of
guardian for the people to steer them
away from the pitfalls of speculation
and guide them along the solid ground
of legitimate mining investments The
report of the condition of the Success
mine by reputable mining engineer.
which was submitted at the meeting
and subsequently mailed to the stock
holders, while Certifying to the stock
holders, was far from satisfactory to
Spokane brokers who were short on
Success stock, of whom the publisher
is said to have been one. But whether
he was or not as the publisher of
paper consecrated to telling the truth |
about mining, he felt impelled to issue
an extra and tell the truth about Sue
cess In bold headlines he proclaimed |
the Success mine an empty SHE'LL"
by several columns devoted |
to condemning the officers and direct
1rs of the company and the engineer
who made favorable report on the
physical condition of the mine. Along
With all this array of truths" about
he advised all holders of Sue
'ess stock to sell. All of which leads
o the inevitable conclusion that the
'roker- publisher was short of Sue
ess; that it was up to him to make
'ood before the next regular issue of
lis paper; that the effect of the meet
ng, the engineers report and the ex-
ra dividend would strongly tend to
.dVance the price of Success stock:
nd that he must break the market to
ave being pinched. Hence the extra
truthful" edition.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13
THE GREATEST DAYS.

). e. Kiser in Chicago Record Herald
The greatest days are not the days
That bring us unearned victories,
NOR those that bring US loudest praise
Or high rewards or placid ease.
The greatest days are not the days
When luck pnrsues us everywhere,
NOR those in which disaster shuns
The winding ways on which we fare
Inc greatest of all days are those
In which We view our work with
pride
When Ger us evenings shadows
close
In heart and conscience satisfied.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13
WHY ADVERTISE AUTOMOBILES
FREE?

Most newspapers, and particularly
the large daily papers, absolutely re.
fuse to allow anything in the wav nj
free advertising to appear in thei,
news columns, nor will they allow II
Tor pay except in form to distinguish
it from news matter. 1t matters M,
now extensive local merchant NAV
advertise, he gets no free or commit.
mentary notices, If he wants to make
known the merits of his goods, he
must pay for it. Some papers go TO
the extent of barring the names of
business houses in the course of de-
scribing local events, because the pub
LEFTY thus given would be in the ma
ture OF free advertising. Why are au-
manufacturers made an ex-
ception to this iron -clad rule of news
paper publishers? We would like IN
hear an explanation. Sunday editions
generally have an automobile section
which is largely devoted to a free dis
;ussion of the various automobiles
giving the points in which they are
imposed to excel. Why is this free
-dVertising given to the automobile
manufacturers, while local business
oncerns must pay for what they get
nd then not in the form of straight
eading matter?
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13

phase of the subject. The Miner very
rightly takes the position that Colonel
Roosevelt should not be nominated bv
the republicans, especially western re-
publicans, because the Pinchot con
serVation fad is one of my policies''
whose reputation by President Taft
caused the break between the presi-
dent and Colonel Roosevelt. The pub
lie sentiment of Idaho, at first favor
able to the conservation policy adopt-
ed under the Roosevelt administration
Is now entirely opposed to that policy.
Ten years experience has taught us
the fallacy and injustice of the policy
as applied in these western states.
The people of the west believe that
they are as competent to control the
natural resources of the states as
bureau of sentimental faddists can
possibly be. They look in vain for
evidence of discretion, wisdom and
common sense on the part of the fed
eral government in the matter of con-
serVation or any other matter with
which it deals. They are certainly as
vitality interested in the conservation
Oh their resources as these faddists
can possibly be- A government which
has failed, and failed signally, to
attend to the functions for
which it was organized has little BUSH |
ness in taking on new cares, powers |
md responsibilities. The administra-
ion of strictly state affairs should re-
main where the founders of the gov
eminent Intended they should remain.
With the states. If any one has been
Vasteful, profligate and reckless in the
management of the natural resources
# the country 1t is the federal sovarn
nent. There is no evidence that II
will do any better in the future than
has done in the past.
AS an illustration of federal "con- !
ervation" as applied by Mr.. Pinchot
We point to hundreds of thousands NJ 7
cres of the finest standing timber in /
ne world in Oregon, Washington and i
aiifornia, belonging to whom? To
he Southern Pacific Railroad COM /
any. These hundreds of thousands h
acres, hundreds of miles from the
abroad, were received in exchange for
orthless desert tracts in New Mexi-
and Arizona which were originally
ranted the railroad and later includ-
in forest reserves. They were CIV Il
in lieu of desert lands because Mr. q
nchot wanted forest reserves in the 7.
'sert. It illustrates Pinchot- Roose-
1T conservation in practice. II
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13
ONCE AGAIN, THE SPOKANE
SPIRIT,

so far as can be learned from the
proceedings of the recent meeting of
stockholders of the Success Mining
company the stockholders generally
seem to be well satisfied with the man
asement of the company. They have
oeen receiving regular monthly divi-
aends the past year. and the report ON
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13
...Hou Do You Tackle Your Work..

&c. A. Guest in Detroit Free Press)
How do you tackle your work each
day?
Are you scared of the job you find?
Do you grapple the task that comes
your way
With a confident, easy mind?
Do you stand right up to the work
ahead,
Or fearfully pause to view it?
Do you start to toll with sense of
dread
Or feel that you're going to do it?
You can do as much as you think you
can.
But you'll never accomplish more;
If you're afraid of yourself, young
man,
There's little for you In store;
For failure comes from the inside
first,
It's there if we only knew it.
And you can win, though you face the
worst,
- too ASCi tldb yuu l0 6OlHS u uO IT.
Success! It's found in the soul of you,
And not in the realm of luck!
The world will furnish the work to do,
But you must provide the pluck.
You can do whatever you think you
can,
It's all in the way you view 1t;
It's all in the start you make, young
man,
You must feel that you're going to do
it.
How do you tackle your work each
day?
With confidence, fear or dread?
What to yourself do you stop and say
When new task lies ahead?
What is the thought that is in your
mind?
Is fear even running through it?
Ii so, tackle the next you find
By thinking you're going to do it,
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY FARCE
Detroit Free Press)

What a meaningless inanity the
presidential primary is proving to be
in practice!
Three men, Hughes, Root and
Roosevelt, are most prominent in the
discussion of republican nominees for
the presidency, and not one of them
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13
THEN AND NOW.
National Republican,

Inc republican vote in Indiana at
the general election Of 1912 was 151 :
z6'' AT the general primary of March
T. 1915, 1t was 10000.
me democratic vote in Indiana at
the general election of 1912 was 2s1-
SSo' AT the general primary of March
T. 1915, 1t was $4,000.
The progressive party vote in In
olana at the general election in 1912.
was l62,OO7' At the general primary
OF March Z, 1916, it was less than 5000
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13
ROOT AND THE REPUBLICAN
NOMINATION..


Seventy four prominent republicans
of New York, many of them known
nationally, and including both friends
and enemies of Colonel Roosevelt,
have signed a call for the nomination
of Elihu Root by the republican ma
tional convention Heading the list Is
the name of Robert M. Bacon, former
| ly member of President Roosevelt s
cabinet and still his warm personal
! friend. 1t is also stated that the action
taken by these influential republicans
is with the full knowledge and consent
of Mr. Root. In this connection an
nouncement Is also made of a dinner
party given last week by Mr. Bacon
at his home, whose guests were Elihu
Root, Theodore Roosevelt, Senator
Lodge and General Leonard Wood.
This Is said to have been the first
meeting of Mr.. Root and Colonel
Roosevelt in five years. Senator
Lodge, although strenuously opposing
Colonel Roosevelt four years ago, has
always been his intimate friend. Cen
eral Wood and Colonel Roosevelt have
long been fast friends, and his pres
ence at the dinner is taken to mean
that national preparedness was under
discussion in connection with the re-
publican nomination, the cause of
which he Is such a distinguished
champion, Subsequently Mr.. Bacon
was asked the significance of the din
ner party and it's connection with the
call for the nomination of Mr.. Root. to
which he replied: my first choice for
president is Elihu Root my second
choice is Theodore Roosevelt"
Mr., Root was II years old last Feb
ruary, and months ago he announced
that he regarded his age barrier to
his becoming a candidate for presi-
lent This was never accepted as
sufficient reason to eliminate him by
Millions of voters, particularly since
lie Is known to be in the most robust
health physically as fit as most men
t %, and with his marvellous mental
lowers unimpalred The action of
hese leading republicans of the en-
ire state in formally launching the
andidacy of Mr.. Root has been hailed :,
nth enthusiastic delight by hosts of j.
spublicans in every state. He is the
ian of the hour, the premier citizen i,
ld statesman of the nation, the man !,
'ove all others whose matcbless
adership is needed to steer the shin ..
state through the troubled waters :,
to which it has drifted through the =,
eakness, cowardice and Incompetence J.,
a democratic captain and crew. =.
The meeting of Mr.. Root and Col .,
el Roosevelt at the Bacon dinner a,
flowed by the announcement of Mr..
icon that Mr.. Root is his first choice -
licates that Mr.. Root is also to have 8
support of Colonel Roosevelt, and c.
TINS proves true, his nomination al -
icago is assured. The opposition to
:. Root by progressive republicans =,
nld vanish the moment 1t became ~,
own that the colonel was supporting ~,
and he would be given practically D.
unanimous nomination. With Root
standard bearer leading a united
ty, the republicans would sweep the
ntry by an overwhelming major
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13

A single projectile from a 15-inch
naval gun weighs 1850 pounds.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13

Cologne, Germany, before the war
had population of 652,sS1.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
A KANSAS INNOVATION.

A course of study that will train
men and women of Kansas to be may
ors. city managers, street commission
ers. park commissions, equity clerks;
registrars of deeds, treaSUrers and
other county officers, members of the
legislature and to fill other city and
state offices is wanted at the Univer-
sity of Kansas. A petition signed by
500 citizens of Chapman, asking that
such a course of study be established
at the university was sent to Gov n
or Capper.
The people of Chapman would re-
quire every candidate for a public
office to show his diploma or his Gre
dentials of successful experience in an
office. The petition filed with the gov
ernor by W. S. Robb, principal of the
Dickinson high school. says:
"A public office holder fills a posi-
ton OF as much Importance and re
sponsibility as any professional or
business man of the community. Our
public office holders, while sometimes
men of broad general intelligence, in
tegrity and loyalty, almost always
have been unframed in the science, re-
sponsibility and practical workings OF
public affairs. We have special de
partments in our colleges and univer-
sites for the training of men for the
practice of medicine, law, ministry, en-
gineering and teaching. The depart
ments of political economy and sOciol-
ogy in our schools do not propose to
train specialists in public management
or professional public men We be
! lieve that no man or woman should be
/ allowed to qualify as a candidate for
| public Office who cannot show creden-
tails, either in school training, success
| full experience or eminent citizenship.
| I'VE therefore ask the University OF
/ Kansas for the establishment Of de
! partment for the training of city man
! ayers, mayors, legislators and other
| officials and thus elevate politics to the
! dignity of a real profession"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
New York worId.)

Mr.. Hughes told his audience at Far
go that Il am here because l have
vision of what America needs"
II Mr.. Hughes says he has a vision,
we are bound to believe him; but what
is it? Apparently Mr.. Hughes vision is
like Mr.. Hughes's policies of govern
ment. 1t is something too Intimate and
sacred TO be discussed in public.
Yet whoever will read the campaign
speeches of Mr.. Hughes can arrive at
fairly correct notion of what the
Hughes vision is likely to be. 1t is the
orthodox republican vision. 1t is a
vision of government in the hands of
Consecrated and impeccable republic
cans who think in terms of property.
1t is America efficient" as Mr..
Hughes says, which means an Ameri-
ca organized with an eye single to the
greatest possible production Of ma
terial wealth. 1t is an America that has
got to be organized" as Mr.. Hughes
says, and organized, of course, for
the benefit primarily of the property
classes
Occasionally Mr.. Hughes makes pa
tronizing reference to labor or to agri-
culture. but it is always in the spirit
of the British Tory squire who fondly
happy and prosperous and shun all
radicalism.
Mr. Hughes's vision is the vision of
J. Pierpont Morgan &, Co. 1t is the vi
sion of Penrose and Crane and Barnes
and Rodenberg and Healing and all
the rest of the old guard. 1t is the vi
sion of the steel trust and the Ameri-
can Protective Tariff league and the
tariff monopolies. 1t is the vision of
American mourners for Huetra- 1t is
the vision of the corporations that OBJ
ieCt to an antitrust law as bad for
business" 1t is the vision of the I'M
compromising republican partisan
who can never forgive democrats for
being democrats.
AS a respectable and successful re-
publican, Mr.. Hughes believes in what
he calls "a business administration" of
national affairs. This means a govern
ment by conservative republicans who
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

that II he could have seen me he won,.
have opened fire instead. I digarwns
him and drove him before me To o.
OF our Outposts, where he was searcboS
and information OF the utmost iranor
lance was found on him. He turneA
out 10 be a Confederate soldier ana ~
ing in citizens dress, fulfilled all ~.
conditions Of spy.
Wei, he was tried BY drurnba.s
court martial and sentenced IN -.
hanged. Before he was executed -
wrote letter 70 his mother and ore
TO his sweetheart. / was ordered -
deliver them. I'd rather have beso
hanged myself than obey the order
But l had no choice. Besides. sor1.
one must take the letters, and bad n
do it because l knew the location ~
the house.
Il carried also the news that the son
and lover had been executed for a sn,-
Don't ask me TO describe the deliver
of this news and the letters. for 1,
breaks me up even TO this day. This.
is the last time / shall tell the story,
Young Appleton and his bride looked
~ each other at the conclusion Of fha
narrative, then suddenly were locked
in each others arms. There was
story between them similar TO the oua
that had been told, but which had re-
suited differently. Appleton, having
relished scouting service. volunteered
to go hunting for information in terri
tory that had been conquered BY the
Germans. Within that territory was
the home of the Belgian girl whom be
later married and brought 70 America.
Appleton had sought d place OF rest
and refreshment in the house, for he
knew that any Belgian would harbor
him. He was eating a supper prepared
for him when a company Of uhlans
rode up to the house Their com
mander dismounted and entered. Ap-
pleton had no time to evade the officer
and, not being able to give an account
of himself. was arrested On his per-
son were sketches OF German works.
and death stared him in the face.
When he was taken away the girl fol-
lowed, and when the uhlans went into
a deserted house with their prisoner
for the night she set fire TO II. This
gave Appleton chance for his life
During the confusion when the uhlans
awakened, encircled in flames, their
prisoner, who was wide awake and
prepared, got out into the darkness,
was Jplucu bA MS dtllFCICAF aL4u lhb
two disappeared together.
"Grandfather," said the young man,
there's a lot Of difference between
man having a girl TO help him and one
who hasn't. If the girl in your case
had known that her lover was in dan
ger of being taken your story might
have ended differently"
Il wish she had" said the old man.
"I wouldn't have been loaded with the
remembrance of the tragedy / had
caused"
you did only your duty"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
PITY FOR MEXTCANS.

One American soldier from Maine,
who went to the Mexican border with
the expectation that there would be
war with the Mexicans, has been i'm
pressed with the pitiableness of the
situation of the people south of the
Rio Grande. IN a letter home he
wrote: THE poor Mexicans need sym
pathy and charity instead of bullets
They are just poor, ignorant beasts,
half starved and not half clothed or
housed. You can't imagine how the
feeling changes toward them once you
see how they live. The little Mexican
children are real objects for charity
They crowd around US at messtime
and will take anything from prune
seed to a crust of bread"
Ignorance, poverty and iIl-usage
have made the Mexicans what they
are. The intelligent men who wear
the uniform OF the United States army
naturally desire to feed and protect.
not pursue and shoot, these wretched
people.
They are entitled to assistance in
securing good government of their
own. The Americans will continue TO
exercise restraint in their dealings
with the unfortunate, suspicious and
uncompromising alien inhabitants of
Mexico.