Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-05

crowd. A splendid crowd or 1OU peo-
pie packed Amusement hall at Jerome
last night to hear the governor. Stand
ing room was at q premium and q
number of people were turned away.
1t was the biggest crowd for any pur-
pose that Jerome has had in several
years and 1t was very enthusiastic
audience. A feature of the Gooding
meeting was Rev. p. A. Gilliams acting
as chairman. He is lifelong Repub-
lican. He said my county tax went
up and the state tax went down."
The governor visited the institution
for the deaf, dumb and blind while at
Gooding and delivered a fine talk Of Is
minutes to the students. Superintend-
ent Taylor interpreted the governors
talk to- the deaf and dumb students by
use Of the sign language.
MEETING AT JEROME.
The meeting at Jerome was held at
7:30 o'clock in Amusement hall. Pro-
longed applause greeted the governor
when introduced.
Prosperity is manifested in all parts
Of the state and nation" said the gov
ernor. 1T all comes as the result of
one word. That word is peace. Do all
you can for peace and next Tuesday
vote for peace"
The governor deprecated the war in
Europe and in Mexico. I'VE are reap
ing a harvest of business in this coun-
try as never before" he said. 'It is
all due to peace. Every star in our
flag is a star OF hope for the oppressed
of the world" Applause greeted the
statement that "the politicians who talk
| war in this country will be elected to
stay home next Tuesday,"
I'VE are all Americans, that is
good enough title for any man in the
world A storm of applause greeted
this statement: Woodrow Wilson is
the prince OF peace in the flesh"
Under that create leader we have
given you the great legislation that is
making this the richest nation the
world ever knew. This legislation is
the federal reserve act, the income tax
Jaw, good roads law. eight-hour law,
child labor law, rural credits law aD1
the remodeled tariff.
The governor dwelt at considerable
length on the rural credits law which
he terms 1.-The greatest legislation for
the farmer that was ever passed since
the dawn of history" "All the agri-
cultural districts of the United States
will grow and prosper as never before"
he said. There was applause when the
governor said: Woodrow Wilson will
go down in history as the liberator of
the farmer from the money lender and
money shark"
Two years ago the only issue before
the people of Idaho was lower taxes"
the governor said in taking up state
issues. II promised you to lower taxes
and was elected your governor on that
issue. l have kept my promise and
have reduced your state taxes"
The governor summed up his accom-
plishments by saying: Il saved $685.
900 in taxes. $4,000 in bonds and
s270.000 in vetoed bills or a total of
s1.120,000 saved the taxpayers.
Your county has paid $4,000 less
state taxes than it did under my pre-
decessor," he said. Idaho is the first
and only state in the union that has
reduced it's state taxes. Idaho has the
best statewide prohibition law enacted
in the world" (Applause).
II believe we ought to have a rigid
prohibition law"
PRAISE FOR WOMEN.
The governor paid high tribute to
the wives, mothers and w. c. T. U. for
the noble work they have done and are
doing for the prohibition cause. He
strongly urged the people to vote in
favor of the constitutional amendment
The governor said Boise is more pros
porous under prohibition than it was
previous to the city and state going
dry. Whenever you talk of civic
Righteousness you are on the right
course" he said
THE state treasurer's report for
October 1. 1916. shows that the state
treasury had in it s1,1s4.930. BY next
January when the 1916 taxes are col
lected the state treasury will have
about s1.5oo,o0o in it," he said.
The governors statement brought
forth applause when he said: 1.-The
state recovered from Aliens bondsmen
s154,000 instead of $4,000 as the poll
ticians wanted I should accept as a
settlement" More applause came
when the governor said: IF stay out
of my coffin long enough that man
Coffin never will get a cent of that
| $4,000 claim he has filed against the
state"
In answering the criticism of the
|, politicians for travelling about the state
the governor said: 81 am going tc
continue to go about the state and thus
J learn the needs Of the people. I am
governor of all the people of the state
and not of any one community.
you ask How did the land board dc
, the millions of dollars of business an
nually without the use of printed
rules" I'll tell you how it was done
The land board did most of its business
through favoritism. Since I have beer
governor the land board does it's bust
ness according to printed rules. Now
one man is equal to any other man sc
far as doing business with the LAND
, board is concerned. The politicians dc
not like this new system of doing busi-
, ness in Idaho.
Your governor shows favoritism tc
no man. That is one reason why he Is
unpopular with the politician. Let III
forget we are Republicans, Democrats
, | PrOgresSiVes or Socialists Let us bt