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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07
Decadence of Citizen Spirit Follows
The Decline of Political Allegiance

The following editorial from the
Seattle st-Intelllgencer, while deal
ing particularly with political condi-
tions in the state of Washington, may
be read with profit on this side of the
line, for the elements of so-called pro-
gress and reform in Idaho have al
ready carried many citizens from their
political mornings, and non bipartisan
ship is more and more being urged as
the only system by which the rule of
the people may be secured in its best
form. Taking the political condition
in Minnesota, where craftsmanship
has reached the limit and where reac-
ton has set in, the Post -Intelligencer
APPLIES the lesson to Washington and
it's comments are commended to Ida
no readers:
Discussing the 'decadence of citi-
zen spirit the Minneapolis Journal,
not a partisan sheet, but an independ-
ent newspaper, says that lack of po-
litical allegiance has made of the vot-
ers of Minnesota body of non-par-
tisans, which means neither fish,
flesh, fowl, nor good red herring;
that, priding themselves on their in
dependence, they really advertise their
lack of political principles, the lack OF
solid ground beneath their feet.
Personality rather than principle,
the Journal says, now counts with the
great mass of voters, who make up
their minds without any study OF is
sues on their merits and are moved
through prejudice, whim or catch
word. The unthinking independent
becomes a ready tool of demagogues
and therefore a dangerous factor in
the electorate Revolt against the old
political machine has gone to the OPP
posite extreme, which Is chaos.
what the Journal says of Mime
sofa Is equally true of Washington,
excepting that here we have not for
mally and legally succumbed so COM
pletely as yet to the craze of nom
craftsmanship There a reaction Is set
ting in. Public men are demanding a
repeal of the non-partisan law, at
least as to the legislature, and the
restoration of political conventions to
an extent that will bring men of like
faith together once more to deliber-
ate, to voice their ideas, and as lead
ers to light the way for the rank and
file of parties built on real principles
"In Washington, as in Minnesota
chaotic political conditions have serv-
ed to produce as local candidates pale
blue nom partisans' afraid to call their
souls their own and avoiding party
issues as if they were smallpox
"Recall in the late campaign the
attitude of all things to all men on
the part of officeseekers generally ana
the craven, even abject, terror Selling
them at the sound Of demagogical
outcries and the appearance of cam
paign bugaboos!
Imagine candidate for governor
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07

The administrations apologists,
who seek to deny that the war is
mainly responsible for our current
prosperity, are engaged in beilttlihs
munitions exports. They attempt 70
ignore the report of the department
of commerce itself, which shows that
53 per cent of our total exports In
1916 was of munitions. They attempt
to deny that this enormous amount Oh
trade furnished the stimulus Whlch IN
1915 developed our whole domestic
trade. They affect a lack of knoWl-
edge that the European factories have
been cut off from the South American
African and oriental markets, ana
that in those fields the United States
has nrospered because there has been
no competition.
Worst of all, they forget what the
war has done to our own domestic
trade, Here has been the most colos-
sal benefit.
our exports of munitions, now well
over $4,000, 100000, exceed our exports
of non munitions. Moreover, in their
manufacture there has entered
horde of domestic industries. Before
a shell is loaded aboard ship it mas
engaged the attention Of an assembly
shop. Of finishing shops, OF rolling
mills. of foundry, of smelter, OF NINE
It has passed through the chemical
thn nnw6nr mill,
through the cotton field. 1t has FUR
nished traffic for several railroads. 1t
has employed cotton pickers ana
planters, miners and engineers, skilled
labor and day labor, and clerical labor.
1t has engaged capital.
The loading aboard ship is one STEP
1t constitutes foreign trade. But be-
fore that step has been taken there
have been hundred transactions In
domestic trade.
And even this is not the great boon
which Europe's war has given us.
The war has prevented Europe from
competing with us. in South America
Without competition we have pros
pered there.
Likewise the war has prevented
Europe from competing in our owl
markets, and our factories, which th'
Underwood tariff placed in competi'
ton with Europe's cheap labor rae
tories, now are able to pay good wages
and make a profit, because they az
not have to compete any longer will
low priced labor.
In other words, the war has serve'
the exact purpose of a protective tar
if on an enormous scale.
The Underwood tariff, the first leg
islation of the democratic administra
ton, swept away the protection D.
means of which American industr,
had grown up and American working
men had prospered The disaster o
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07
LOOKOUT WAGON ROAD
FOREST SERVICE AID
TURNED DOWN BY SHoSHoNE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AP-
PEAL FOR ASSISTANCE.

Wesley Everett, manager of the
Amazon Dixie Mining company who
for the last year or two has urged the
county commissioners of Shoshone
county to construct cut-off wagon
road about two miles in length from
the present wagon road short dis
lance above Pottsville to Lookout Pass,
thus providing a road across the divide
that would be open for travel three
months longer during the year than
the present road, recently conferred
with representatives of the forest SER
vice at Missoula with the view to get
ting assistance to build the proposed
road. The road advocated by Mr.. Ev-
erett has the ardent support of large
number of taxpayers of this county
and so far as known there is no OPP
position to it. In fact the desirability
of the change seems to be quite gen.
orally recognized in this county, and
1.-THE commissioners of Mineral county,
Montana, have offered to build miles
of road to connect with it, but for
some reason unexplained the commits
sioners of Shoshone county have fall
ed to manifest any interest IN the
project. A few days ago Mr.. Everett
was in Missoula and conferred with
the forest service officers on the sub
ject, but what he accomplished in this
respect is not known. In speaking OF
his visit the Muscular says:
Everett Confers With Forest Service
wv. Everett, prominent mining
man from Borax, spent yesterday in
the city in conference with the local
forest service officials regarding the
relocation and reconstruction of the
road across the Idaho Montana di-
vide between here and Wallace.
Though the project is a worthy one
it has held back because of the I'M
willingness of the citizens and COM
Imissioners of Shoshone county, Idaho
Ito appropriate any funds toward the
structed in their county. Mineral
county has already expressed willing
ness to do it's part, but while the Wal
lace chamber of commerce and the
Shoshone Good Roads association are
working hard in support of the road
they do not seem to be able to arouse
much enthusiasm for it.
| "Mr. Everett has had some surveys
made and also brought in some photo
graphs from the region of the project
He got action started toward securing
government aid for the road. 1t il
hoped to change the route of the high
way so as to bring 1t over the divide
Iby way of Lookout pass, where 1T i
believed that more favorable eondi
tions will be encountered, and where
also the dangerous switchback on tn
present road, which caused fatal &C
cident some time ago, will be elimin
lated"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07

on the one side pussyfooting through
the contest without deigning TO speak
of the national standard bearer or
daring to mention his party's name
lest he forfeit the support of a yellow
and noisy non-partisan champion
ldespicably to like influences for pop
ularity's sake and, in eager, con-
scienceless quests for votes, repudiat-
ing referendum measures which he
mentorious! Could there be a more
humiliating public exhibition of the
'decadence of citizen spirit or of the
lengths and depths of a eringing nom
partisanship? And imagine further,
a hardshell partisan standpatter
turning long horned moose overnight
and wildly grabbing Poindexter's coat
tails in frantic zeal to reach congress
at whatever cost
"All these things were witnessed
and observed and are fresh in MEM
DRY. Neither party, nor the remnant
of it, can conceivably take any honest
pride in it. All that is to be said in
extenuation, and that doubtfuly, is
that the end may sometimes justify
the campaign roles seemingly an un-
escapeable part of non-p partisan poll
tics.
But would it not rebound to the
good repute and renewed strength of
the old parties and make for sounder
and sturdier craftsmanship and
safer leadership on both sides to get
back once more to honest politics
founded upon fixed and courageous
principles? Can any enduring pro-
gress or real growth come out of pol
itical demagogy? Can a common
wealth thrive upon the whims and
prejudices of an unthinking elector-
ate?
Can political chaos yield construc
tive results? Certainly not
Woodrow Wilson carried Wash
ington because he typified leadership
in greater degree than did Charles e.
Hughes. He was stronger than his
party Hughes manifestly weaker
than his party But let the important
fact be not overlooked that both were
nominated as party men and by party
conventions. If for the nation the
choice of leaders in representative
convention be the wise policy and pro-
cedure, why substitute for the state a
chaotic system that makes towards
and mountebanks of candidates and
gives sway to unthinking non-parti-
sans who become the tools of dema-
gogues?
"The state, as we'll as the nation,
needs two strong political parties
History teaches it, and experiment
with the new and specifically allur-
ling system, tried and found wanting
| in recent years, is now emphasizing
that need Enthusiastically in all COM
monwealths where non partisanship
decadently flourishes."
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07
FORFEITURE NOTICE.

Wallace, Idaho, October %, 1916.
To c, w. Veder his heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
rotified that the undersigned, Bel
mont Banner Mining Company,
corporation, has expended during each
of the years 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909,
1910, 1911, 1912, 1918, 1914, and 1915,
one hundred dollars ($100.00) in labor
and improvements upon the Belmont
lode mining claim, situate in Beaver
mining district, Shoshone county,
state of Idaho, the location notice OF
which is found in book IN" OF Quartz
Locations, on page "539,' in the once
of the County Recorder of said coun-
ty of Shoshone, in order to hold said
mining claim under the provisions OF
Section 1924 Of the Revised Statutes
of the United States and amendments
Il ereto concerning annual labor upon
said lode mining claim, being the
amount required to hold said lode
mining claim during the said years.
And If within ninety (90) days af-
ter the publication of this notice, you
fail or refuse to contribute your pro-
portion Of such expenditure as such
co-owner, being the sum of twenty
five dollars ($25.00) for each of said
years, or the sum of two hundred
fifty dollars ($25O.00) in all, your in
terest in the said lode mining claim
will become the property of the UNI
designed your co-oWner, who mas
made the required expenditure by the
terms of said section.
BELMONT BANNER MINING Co,
CONRAD WOLFE,
N2-F7-15t President
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07

worry how long the mines will last.
Rio Tinto, in Spain. which has been
mining for 5000 years. and Cerro de
Paseo, in Peru, which has been mined
for 400 years land is still at very
shallow levels}. should dispel their
worries. But both Rio Tinto and
Cerro de Pasco emphasize, what ought
10 be we'll known, that though mine
may last 5000 years, no company lasts
SO long. 1t is one thing to say that
that copper will be produced by cop
per 100 years hence. 1t Is another to
say that the copper will be produced
by the present company,
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07
RIO TINTo.
After 5000 Years It Still Ranks With
Worlds Great Mines.

AFTER SUUO ears u 0tti "N'
Worlds Great Mines.
Rio Tinto, Limited, has posted an
Interim dividend of 40 shillings COM
Hared with So shillings six months
& go, and 20 shillings year ago. FLO
Irinto is today repeating the history
hf 1000 years ago, when the Romans
Used Rio Tinto copper against the
1oths. Today the Italians and the
allies are using Rio Tinto copper
against the Germans, the descendants
of the Goths The Rio Tinto mines in
the province of Huelva, Spain, were
worked, according to the oldest rec
ords. by the Phoenieians 10 B. G.
The Carthaginians and Romans work.
ed the Rio Tinto mines and then the
Goths took a hand when they finally
overthrow Rome For 5000 years Rio
Tinto has been the great copper mine
| of the world. Though still a great
copper property, it shines in modern
times mostly through the glamor OF
bygone centuries, for today the Rio
Tinto mines are exceeded in market
value by a number of American cop
per mining plants, notably Anaconda
Utah, Kennecott and Copper Queen
lPhelps Dodge, not to mention
"smelters." Rio Tinto ranks next after
these and is one of the eight mining
companies in the world with a market
value of over $1OO,OO0,OO0 for theii
securities. The other two are New
Jersey Zinc company and De Beers
Limited, the diamond trust"
1t is to laugh when long-hairet
statisticians ponder over the ore re
serve figures of copper mines ant
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07
Notice of Postponement.

BY resolution of the board of direct
ors, the payment of the above assess
ment has been extended from the 18th
day of November. 1916, to the 18th day
of December 1916, and the sale of de-
linquent stock has been postponed
from the 18th day of December, 1916,
to the 18th day of January 1917
OTTO A. OLSON,
N16-D7-4t Secretary Treasurer.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07

everything comes to him who
waits" remarked the ready made
philosopher.
Eyes," replied Farmer Corntossel'
But the patient man don't always
get things when he needs them. Any
body can have the hammock after all
the rest of the summer boarders have
left."-Washington Star.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07
N23-D7-3t
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office of the New Hope Mining Com
pany, Limited, Wallace, Idaho, Oc-
tober II, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that at q
meeting of the board of directors OF
the New Hope Mining Company, Lin
tied, held on the 18th day of October,
1915, an assessment of two (2) mills
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT STOCK.
HOLDERS.

Office of the Nonpareil Cooper Min
ing Company, Limited, Wallace Ida
no. November %, 1916.
Notice is heerby given that there is
delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock on account of an assess
ment of one Cd mill per share, levied
on the Goth day of September, 1916,
the several amounts set opposite the
names of the respective shareholders
40 follows to- wit.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07

And in accordance with law SO many
shares of each parcel of such stock as
may be necessary will be sold on the
18th day of December, 1916, at the Of
flee of the secretary treasurer Null
Ian, Idaho, at 600 o'clock p m. of said
day, to pay the delinquent assessment
thereon, together with the costs of adj
vertising and expenses of sale.
H. G. LOOP,
Secretary Treasurer Nonpareil Copper
Mining Company, Limited, Mullan,
Idaho N23-D14-4t
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-03

The question Of a closed for halibut fishing is being agated in some quarters mostly It Is under stood by habut fishermen sailing out of Seattle The claim Is made that the halbut banks in danger of depletion by reason of ndscrminate fishing during all seasons of the year. and that the fish should be protect ed during the spawng season. which lasts from Febru- ary to about May It is alleged that If closed season were declared for hobut three months the business would not suffer to great extent. inasmuch as the spawning season occurs during the stormiest months of winter and early spring when fishing cannot be prosecuted very successfully.
 The Empire does not know how much need there may be for a closed season for habut According to the United States Bureau of Fisheries there does not seem to be any elimination oi tec supply Of halibut New harbut banks have been located. from time 90 time by vessels Of the Bureau and 1t is believed that many others could be located If dngent search were made Indeed. the Bureau holds that halbut fishing is capable of great expansion It might be- however that there Is considerable waste of this fish, which
 might be obviated t greater care taken by fsn- ermen and strcter supervision exercised by the Ba- reau Of Fisheries.
 That the halibut of the off the Alaska coast are valuable asse, cannot be denied and if there be danger of depletion of banks of this valuable food fish, immediate steps should be taken to conserve it, and one way would be the establishment of closed season
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-03
A spENDTHRIFT NATION

The United States has long been known as a spend thrift nation Nature has kind and bounful and our country Is stou young through our material re- sources are now beginning be husbauded. and the necessity of thrift of sayinf finding odgment in the American mind It is true that man can save unless he can make living wage and. notwithstanding the spacious cry of protection for the American working men, it Is fact that there are many large concerns which do not pay living wage to their employees. and many others who pay it only under compuision Un- fortunately there Is large class of employers to whom accommodating gold is magical spell whose sole Dur- pose in lie Is to see their pile of dollars mount higher and higher. The more they get the more they crave bu, even this class Is becoming fewer in number The example set by Henry Ford is bearing fruit. and what. ever one may thns of bis peace plans and ideas he accomplished much for the cause of labor and for thrift as we'll when he shared his good fortune with hs work er because he startled the conscnces of many other employers Now proftsharing schemes are springng up an around and there has been naugurated general rise of wages in many industrial centers of the country
 Just as the European war has been one cause of increased prosperity so the end of the paradox- cal as may seem is going to place upon us the new duty of becoming nation of savers instead of na- ton of spendthrifts War has transformed the United States from borrowing nation mo ienolhs H"'on a fundamental and farreaching change When we have wanted to build railroad finance large industry in the past we have gone to Europe for the money. The following will show why: The United States has los savers in 100 o population; Italy has 22S England so2. Germany sl7; France s5s; Sweden sss; Belgium had ss7 before the war Switzerland 5i4 savers in every 1000 of population
 France has been called The Banker of the World" but French capital does come from large natural resources. but from small savings of her people who
 a,o been taught thrift rom childhood up. This Is true Of most European nations. We are, indeed a spend thrift nation but our spendthrft habits are doomed to change to saving. whether shall like 1t or not
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-03
Our Daily Special Beauty is often only enamel deep.
luke McLuke Says


 What doth 1t profit a man to marry the champion tangoist in his territory and then discover that she can't boil water without burning 1t?
 A man likes to wave the old flag and cheer for personal liberty when he is lined up in front of the bar with bis gang. But that doesn't keep him from chewing cloves and coffee beans all the way home because he is afraid his wife might smell booze on his breath and bawl him out for drinking it.
 Some men are so practical that they won't even build a castle in the air until they have gone over the blue prints and have made sure that the concrete comes up to specifications.
 It doesn't take much to get wo mans goat Just put railroad folder in your overccat pocket SO that she will see 1t and then so home. And Friend Wife will take one quick look at you and scream: Where are you goingT
 We do not agree with old Doc Os- Ter in some things But we do main tain that when man gets so old that a shapely well-filled stocking with glimpse of something fluffy at the knee fails to arouse any interest in him it doesn't matter much whether Doc Osler uses the chloroform or not.
 We never did like cold weather What is the use of a girl having a lot of curves and dimples in her shape if she is going to put on big plush coat and hide them?
 When a man has to tell his wife that he is in bad he discovers the pro- is one of the best things ever invented
 One reason why the agents of the Purity League stop the seml-naked dancers in the theatres and fail to pinch the ultra-decollete dancers fin our fashionable home ball rooms is because the agents collect their sal aries from the ultra-decolette dancers.
 Before you start in to cuss your hard luck 1t might be a good idea to sit down and add up your bad habits.
 Onions and marriage ere two of the things that will always cure love sick ness.
 Of course you think you have kick coming because your wife gets mad and lectures you and nags you when you stay out late at night. But right here is a good place to announce that when your wife doesn't seem to care a hang where you were. and isn't a bit suspicious of you 1t is about time you were getting supicious of her
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-03
sMgLLINe our waIsKEY cACHEs

sherin Bob Hedge of Seattle aocs not believe ''st @ mans house Is his castle especially when he has reason to think that the mans domicie conceals more sPIRITUUS FRUaENTI than the Washington dry law allows Because man Is rich in wealth and whiskey' that fact should not protect him against search if the
 man short on kae and therefore whiskey may be made the object of the laws vigilance And Hodgei charged
 i,h radng the residences of the rich for purely per sonal and revengefu reasons. This is probably not true but it Is certain that he is no, making himself popular with certain exclusive clubs and rich men who like Go know that there Is something in the bottle for the morning. Nevertheless. man. be he of the Lords poor. the devils poor simply poor devil
 likes to his home invaded by sleuths of the law who go around his premises smelling out the hidden vhiskey caches Anyway whatever the merits of the controversy that has arisen in Seattle. Hodge is con trbuting to the unpopularity of washingtons prohibit tory liquor law and to the gaiey of those people who are never thirsty though always dry"
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-03
WILL HISTORY REPEAT
n,etter to Detroit Free Press.l

tLelttl tO Dctv4s AA1e +-~'''f
 One hundred years ago. 1916. was n year without a summer Win history repeat itself this year. it be- ing the enc huudredtn anniversary of that momentcus yearl
 In 1916 It showed every month in the year. An old man in Kentuc told me he had heard his grandfather talk of that year and incident had impressed itself on his mind His grandfather sad that he and his girl" started for Fourth of July celebration but were compelled to turn back on account of terrific snow storm.
 The old man told me that in the spring of 1877 his grandfather and another man rode from Kentucky on horseback into Pennsylvania and paid 5 per bushel for seed wheat with which to plant their fields
 The past year was step in that direction We did not have any snow during the but at the same time we did not have two weeks Of real summer weather during the entire year.
 Possibly the weather man was waiting for the one hundredth anniversary to roll around so that history might have a chance to repeat itself