Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-12-28

VOLUNTEERS, IDAHO WELCOMES YOU HoMp
Men of the Second Idaho, your state welcomes Won h
You have done noble work You not called nn e
face the shot and shell from the Mexican trenches HIT
Idaho know that you would have faced death in defan
country readily and herocally each and ever u
you responded to the call to to the front Idaho
you Idaho is enriched by having you again within ~
ders Men, who willing to quit the ordinary walks 81 r
to respond to the call for volunteers men from the %
up and needed at home Thanks the wide gnid u
Woodrow Wilson, the boys of Idaho were not calod ~ VI
shed blood upon Mexican SOIL but those who know tho VOW
of Idaho know that the states regiment was ever r
and willing for the order defend with their lives b b
Iof the nation. ~
Idaho reioices that the boys once more at homo co.,
from wars horrors. Mothers and wives who are emboo
their and husbands could receive no greater
than to have their dear restored them Rn
amid all this rejoicing the happy mothers and wives Of M
Idaho guardsmen should not fail to offer Christmas PRAYER
that their sisters the may be enjoying the
supreme happiness.-W Wallace Press Times ~
Because switch of 1000 votes to Hughes in Ca]iforni.
would have elected him. republicans feel they on
lost the presidency by hair But they forget that switch Of
only 200 to Wilson Minnesota would have saved i f
the democratic candidate Indeed the remarkable part of M
election the unanimity of the west The political map max
ers have drawn the democratic states in black the remb
in white and the bacness of the United States start
ling the republican states being confined around the
Great Lakes New York and Pennsylvania and New England
The west is black but Minnesota South Dakota Iowa
and Oregon switch of 200 to Wilson in Minnesota 5000
in South Dakota and 5000 in Oregon-65OO in awoud have
made the entire United States of the Mississippi solid
black but for small spot representing IowaNorhe Idaho
News.
The efforts of sevenyfive brewing corporations under
indictment for the illegal of money the Congressional
campaign OF 1914 to have the Federal Corrupt Practices Act
declared void in the United States District Court at Pbmg
should be watched with wide interest 1t maintained their
behalf that the campaign carried by the brewing
was educational not corruptng if brewing corporations
are permitted in spite of the Federal statutes spend money
IN national or Congressional elections for educational purposes
OF their own why not national banks, railroads and industrial
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ratlon and Congress that will be in sympathy with their
financial regulation and tariff views and respond
wishes?
Census returns for the Russian Empire for 1915 show
Total population of increase of 42 per cent since
1917 ana OF Il cent 1914 In of the fact that
vast reserve of has vet scarcely than been
touched not surprising that Russia with Consantnoe
her by her allies promptly rejects German
lures
Since the night of election and Thodore Roosevelt beamd
ana congratulated the American people, there has been
peaceful and bssfu silence Perhaps Theodore believes that
the American people for took him in earnest perhaps he
desires to keep the peace until after New Year.
The Duna will hear of peace before "a decisive vic
Tory over Germany Germany offers peace, confident
as the Kaiser that completely the vcors Brave
WORDS Tor the record both Sides but in the end both may
ieceoe somewhat from their extreme positions
Americans who have been insisting all along that the Pe
oel should do something sensational in the interest OF peace
please note the fact that the first responses London ana
W oerhahys essay that direction read like d lie"
declaration of war;
In spite of all the talk of the ever increasing and alleged
oVersuppy OF gold in the United States, has o
privilege to meet several whose pockets being worn
OUT by superabundance of the yellow metal.
Iu "neh you cannot prevail you must take counsel s I
e resident OF the United States months rena
W whch little attention paid the time but which may
yet be the basis of peace
ns we understand Colonel Roosevelt during the seven aiu
nan years he president this country at no time