Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29

VOrced, driven into the street at night.
Mary Wheeler and Count Pappen-
when the peace of this great nation
can be maintained only by the most
thoughtful and considerate means, in
order to settle a question of power
among themselves? The thing is in
credible.
The thing is not to be endured by
men who love America and more and
more the attention of this country is
being concentrated upon the Demo-
cratic party. They see that the Demo-
cratic party is under a single leader
ship, that the Democratic party has de-
finite and avowed purposes, that those
purposes are not matters of conjec-
ture, but matters of record and
achievement; that among those pur-
poses is definite and settled policy
of self respecting peace.
THE EiGHT-HOUR DAY.
The only thing that those of us
have done who have tried to lead has
been to purge cur hearts and under-
stand what we heard, because nv
friends, man who tries to serv, a
own heart the thoughts of O free ma
ton. He must see to 1t that he thinks
the same thoughts that the men on the
streets think and the man in the fac
tory and the man down in the min,
and the men running the trains. II he
believes that men ought to work only
eight hours, he Is expected to say SO
and If he is asked whether he means
everybody, he ought to answer, yes,
everybody for whom 1t is possible
There are occupations in which you
cannot divide the day up into eight
hour periods. for the simple reason
that you have got to do whas nature
determines"
Turning to the tariff, Wilson added:
Have you noticed the interesting
gyrations Of the opposition with re-
gard to the protective tariff? 1t Is
very interesting how they have dis
closed their real mind about It,
You know for long time they said
this ought not to be a matter of parti-
san politics. 1T ought to be treated with
absolute impartiality We ought to
have a tariff commission to put this
upon a scientific instead of a political
footing. Very we'll, we gave them the
tariff commission. 1t is going to be put
upon a scientific footing and so far as
am concerned. Democratic theories
are going to have no more to do with
the facts than Republican theories.
The tariff Is going to be handled, If !
can find the right man to handle it, so
that nobody's opinion Is paid any re-
gard to and the facts, and the facts
alone. are disclosed. But that does not
satisfy them. Now that they know they
are going to have q commission they
are uneasy because they are not going
to appoint 1t. And not only that, but
they say we cannot wait for it. We
have got to have protection on the old
lines and in the old familiar way, right
away, without waiting for the conclu-
sions of the commission. Are we to as
sumo, fellow citizens, that they were
insincere in, desiring a scientific Base
for the tariff or are we to assume that
they don't know what they are talking
about? A real scientific tariff in their
opinion can be written only in a pri-
vate room by a particular body of per-
sons. And after n is written in that
quiet room for the benefit of the per-
sons who write 1t, then they promise
rest Of us that we will, of course.
share with them in the generous dis
tribution Of the largest of fortune
which will ensue. The deception is go
old that 1t no longer deceives. For the
first time in the history of the United
States we have some prospect of this
matter of policy being
handled upon some non partisan i'm
partial principle.
AFTER THE-WAR SCARE.
These gentlemen make predictions
about what is going to happen after
the war which are absolutely incredi-
BILE. They say that these. nations with
rs, 000, 900 men devoted to destruction,
their own destruction included, con-
more than so per cent of the
skilled mechanical force of these ma
tons. are nevertheless and somehow
secretly engaged in manufacturing a
great body of products which are go
Ing to be dumped on us after the, war
when they are struggling for their
breath In the titanic struggle for their |
life. II they can get anybody but them
selves to believe this, then perhaps we
ought to make ready for it. but they |
ion't know what is going to happen
after the war. and you don't. The only |
hing that we can do IL TO prepare the |
impartial methods OF inquiry which will |
lind out for us what Is happening as
fast as 1t happens and then deal with |
The facts as they arise. The prophecies |
,f these gentlemen are as imperfs = as |