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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04
LAFoLLETTE AND THE PRESS.
New York World)

tNeW 1OTk "OTluD
Since in his frequent references to
the subject Senator LaFollette never
takes the trouble to explain precisely
what he means by tie "capitalfstic
press" we are inclined to supply the
necessary definition. The capitalistic
press embraces all those abandoned
newspapers that adhere to the govern
ment and people of the United States
and denounce oonspirators and cop
perheads, whether they are German
spies or German senator's
There is another press, not capital
istic, which engages in no such rep
rehensible practices Some of its con-
ductors are under indictment for trea-
son, some of them are known to have
practically all of them are in agree
ment with the Wisconsin senator that
this is q capitalistic war on our part,
that the army and navy are capitals
the interest of capital, with no excuse
better than a technicalty.
Accepting Senator LaFollettes plain
meaning, therefore, we are to under
stand that aside from the German
American alliance, the Friends of Irish
Freedom, the Peoples Peace Council
and their various journalistic and po-
litical agents, everybody in America is
l. - I.x% ~.
a heflish purpose to overthrow that
grand old democrat and friend of the
people, Wilhelm Hohenzollern. Does
the senator himself really believe it?
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04
MOVING A MONUMENT.
Famous Pyramid in Honor Of Builders
of Union Pacific.

OF Union Pacific.
One of the strangest and most diff
cult engineering tasks that has been
attempted in long time will be the
removal of a granite pyramid erected
40 years ago at the top of Sherman
pass in the Rocky mountains. This
pyramid is to be moved miles and
set in place again. 1t is 60 feet high
and 60 feet square at the base. To
reach its new site the pyramid must
be taken down, stone at a time and
then re-erected.
The pyramid Is unique among monu-
ments 1t stands on one of the most
lofty eminences ever chosen for such
purpose, some 5000 feet above sea lev
ell, and commentaries the names OF
Oliver and Cakes Ames, men whose
constructive genius made it possible
to carry the first railroad across the
Rocky mountains. The monument Is
now located at the point where this
line formerly crossed the backbone of
the continent. A change in the line,
carried out to reduce grade and mile
age, left the pyramid miles off the
right Of way. So it has been decided
to move the monument to a prominent
position in the present line where all
may see this colossal tribute in stone
to the two Ameses.
When the rails Of the railroad were
first spiked to the ties over Sherman
pass the work was considered one Of
the wonders of the world.
At the same time that the Ames
monument is being moved to new
pedestal engineers are driving a Sec
ond tunnel under the mountain at the
top of Sherman pass, building the first
iouble track across the Rockies-the
highest continuous piece of double
rack in the world.
These two events, the driving of the
lew tunnel and the relocating of the
Ames monument, are in the nature of
Of the great work of these
pioneer railroad builders.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04
MAKE THE YELLOWSTONE TRAIL
A POPULAR HIGHWAY.

Next Saturday, October 6, the peo-
pie of Occur dAlene and Wolf Lodge
precinct, constituting the Occur
d'Alene highway district, viii vote on
the question of bonding the district
FOR $4,000 to be used in the compile
ton of the road through Fourth of
July canyon. The bonds will unaues-
tionably be voted, which will make
available in addition $4,000 from Sho-
shone county, $4,000 from the state
and $4,000 from the national govern
ment through the forest service,
enough to insure the completion of
the road and make it one of the most
delightful drives in the west But the
leaders in this important enterprise
must not lose sight of the fact that the
Fourth of July canyon road is a link
in great transcontinental highway
and that 1t Is upon that ground that
this large expenditure is justified.
That is why the state and nation stand
ready to make liberal contributions
toward its construction. While it will
serve most useful purpose in afford
ing an ideal means of communication
between the towns of the Occur
d'Alene district and the lake metrop-
oils, the transcontinental feature is the
one that induced the large expenditure
for its construction, 1t is a part of the
Yellowstone trail, route that should
be the most popular for tourists tray
cling east and west.
1t must be apparent to every person
familiar with the Yellowstone trail in
Shoshone county that the completion
of the Fourth of July canyon road will
Itinental travel is concerned unless the
road over the Idaho Montana summit
above Mullan is changed to Lookout
pass. The grade of the present road
is steep and dangerous and the snow
covers the. summit early in the.fa!l and
remains until late in the spring The
condition of the road is even worse on
the Montana side, a condition that is
fully recognized by the commissioners
of Mineral county who are now taxi
ing steps to eliminate it by building a
road to Lookout pass, necessitating
about seven miles of new constitute
ton, bat which will give a grade not
exceeding 4 per cent The commits
sioners of Shoshone county can ac-
complish the same purpose by the
building of two miles, but for some
reason unknown they have up to date
shown no disposition to take action in
that direction. However, the Mineral
county commissioners are putting the
matter squarely up to them, and if
this great barrier to travel over the
Yellowstone trail is not removed, there
will be no question as to where the re-
sponsibility lies. There is no justif-
cation for spending the large sum con-
in the Fourth of July can
yon unless the Lookout pass route is
adopted also. The tax levy in this
county this year should provide
large surplus, and no better use could
be made of part of it than to build
this two miles to Lookout pass. 1t
is up to the commissioners of Sho-
shone county to make the Yellow
stone trail a popular highway.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04

or course the next war loan will be-
success. Of this no one has the
slightest doubt The principal effort OF
the American people should be, how
ever, to assure its success in such a
short time that Germany will be i'm
pressed with the earnestness of the
people of this country in conducting
Americas share in the war.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04
ARE YOU SAVING
Your Money to Invest in the Second
Issue of
THE LIBERTY LOAN :?
LA'FOLLETTE MUST BE DRIVEN
FROM THE SENATE.

From all over the country the voice
of outraged citizenship is being raised
in demand that Robert M. LaFollette
be expelled from the senate of the
United States on a charge of sedition,
a crime so closely akin to treason that
II Is difficult to determine where one
ends and the other begins. The pow
err to expel q member rests with the
senate and is accomplished by a two
thirds vote. The conservatism Of the
senate would ordinarily prevent that
body from taking speedy action in
matter so grave as the expulsion of a
member, but these are times when
senators should understand that the
people expect them to brush traditions
aside and get quick action. When ii
was found that the accredited repre-
sentatives of the German government
in this country were violating their
trust in the most fragrant manner,
they were Immediately handed their
passports and banished from the coun-
try. When a few weeks ago 1t was
found by the federal authorities that
the leaders of the l. W. w. We're ac-.
lively engaged in obstructing the gov
eminent In its preparations for war
against Germany, there was no time
lost in getting the legal machinery in
to action which has landed them in
jail, Is there any reason why an ex-
ception should be made of Senator
Laollette? Has any member of the |.
w. w. beens guilty of anything more
base or reasonable than LaFollette?
His high position and prominence give
his words weight with a certain ele-
ment that Is far more damaging to the
plans of the government than the "di-
rect action advocated by the I. w. W.
Why should he be permitted to retain
one of the highest and most honorable
positions within the gift of the people,
free to continue the propaganda in the
Interest of the enemies of the govern
ment while other men are thrown in
jail for the same offense the only diff
ference being in the method?
Members of the senate should not 1
make the mistake in thinking that the
petitions to expel Senator I.aFollette
are of a kind that can be referred to |
committee, pigeonholed and forgot
ten. Those petitions represent the
sentiment of the loyal Americans, the
people who are sending their sons to
fight the enemy across the sea and
who are entitled to protection from
attack from the enemy at home. The
first step to give that protection is to
deprive LaFollette of his seat in the
senate and then mete out punishment
to him in the same manner that has
been adopted in dealing with the lead
ers of the l. w. w. for the same Of
Tense
In an address the other day Nicholas +
Murray Butler president of Columbia ,
university, referring to the seditious }
ntterances Of Senator LaFollette, said
Gentlemen, you might just as well I
put poison into the food of every boy c
hat goes to his transport as to per-
nit this man to make war upon the =,
,ation in the halls of congress-"
That is the sentiment, tersely ex-
PRESSED, that prevails in every state in '
he union, and the senate should give .
iced to II now. =
"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04
REPUBLICANS RAISED REVENUE
THROUGH CUSTOM HOUSE.

The decision of the conferees to
strike from the revenue bill the pro-
posed tax upon mheritances will af-
ford relief to many of the States,
where this form of taxation provides
In some states there is line of deci-
sions forbidding double taxation and
If a federal inheritance tax should be
imposed in addition to a state tax of
the same character, some interesting
complications might ensue. The whole
tendency of federal taxation of late
has made it increasingly difficult for
the states to find money. Under re-
publican rule, the bulk of the money
for the federal treasury came from the
customs. houses and was produced by
a protective tariff. This laid no bur-
den upon the taxable property with.
in the states. The democratic policy,
put into effect in 1913, has been to re-
duce customs dqties striking down
both protection and revenue at the
same time, and the consequence is
that the national government must in
wade the property of the states in or
der to obtain its revenue. A federal
inheritance tax would be the most di-
rect and serious element in such an
invasion--and the conferees have act
ed wisely in discarding it.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04

1t is the mermaid Of the side show. 1t
is the lovely, pointed beard of the
youthful medico with a receding chin.
1t is the rouge and the powder Of the
passe chicken. 1t is the fraction of
per cent OIL in the flotation pro-
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04
Your Lad and My Lad
(Randall Parrish in Chicago Tribune)

Down toward the deep-blue water,
marching to throb of drum,
From city street and country lane the
lines of khaki come;
The rumblipg guns. the sturdy tread,
are full of grim appeal,
While rays of western sunshine flash
back from the FURNISHED steel
With eager eyes and cheeks aflame
the serried ranks advance;
And your dear lad, and my dear lad,
are on their way to France.
A sob clings choking in the throat, as
file on file sweep by,
Between those cheering multitudes, to
where the great ships lie:
The batteries halt, the columns wheel,
to clear toned bugle-call,
With shoulders squared and faces
front they stand a khaki wall
Tears shine on every watchers cheek.
love speaks in every glance;
For your dear lad. and my dear lad,
are on their way to France.
Before them, through a mist of years,
in soldier buff or blue
Brave comrades from thousand fields
watch now in proud review;
The same old Flag, the same old Faith
the Freedom of the World
Spells Duty in those Tapping folds
above long ranks unfurled.
Strong are the hearts which bear along
Democracy's advance,
AS you dear lad, and my dear lad. go
on their way to France.
The word rings out; million feet
tramp forward on the road,
Along that path of sacrifice Ger which
their fathers strobe.
With eager eyes and cheeks aflame,
with cheers on smiling lips,
These fighting men of II move on
ward to their ships.
Nor even love may hold them back, or
halt that stern advance,
AS your dear lad, and my dear lad, go
on their way to France.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04

Just at present German diplomat
ranks several degrees below a self
specting porch climber, or even an &C.
casional murderer.--Chicago Herald.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04

You should. weigh your words
said the orators friend.
Yes" chimed in another friend.
and We don't mind II you give us
short weight at that."-Washington
Star.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04

be the means of removing the mask
before the organization gains a firm
footing in Idaho.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-04

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
CALLAHAN'S ACTIVITY
STIRS COPS MEETING
Cantain's Efforts to Switch Votes to
Gilbert Resented by
Delegates

Delegates assembled in City Hall this
afternoon to elect new officers for the Po-
licemen's Beneficiary Association bitterly
resented the activities of Captain FRANCIS
Callahan, of the office of Superintendent or
Police Robinson, who asked them to disre-
gard their instructions and vote for Walter
Gilbert chief clerk of the Bureau of Police,
as secretary against the incumbent, Richard
Bodkn, Manayunk patrol sergeant VINO
seeks reelection.
The Bodkin delegates professed to see
the hand of the now discredited police ad-
ministration behind the activities OF Gala
han, who was passing out slips with the
name of Gilbert on them The Bodkn men
said Callahan did not come as representa-
five of the men of the Superintendents
office, but as representative of the police
administration. Their suspicious were
strengthened by Gilbert's declaration that
he would serve for $500 year If elected.
instead of taking the regular salary OF
S1400.
A year ago Bodllin beat Gilbert for the
place, despite the fact that Callahan worked
hard for Gilbert.
There were many heated arguments be-
fore the voting today. Many delegates
frankly told Callahan that his efforts were
useless that they were going to follow
their instructions; that his position as
captain would not enable him to move them
to disregard their instructions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
TO RUN DOWN ALL
DRAFT DODGERS
Relentless Search Instituted
by U. S. Authorities for
Evaders of Duty
MEXICAN is HELD HERE

The search by Federal authorities for
draft evaders will be relentless, according
TO an announcement made today. II was
said that the Government will bend every
effort to run down each man who evaded
the law. regardless Of time or expense.
Marcus Salvan. a Mxican, today was ar
raigned by Todd Daniel, special agent of
the Department of Justice, for not ap-
pearing for examination before his local
board. When arraigned before United
States Commissioner Howard NJ. Long,
SalVan said he thought his status as an
alien excused him from complying with
the law. Mr.. Daniel testified that the
prisoner was duly notified to register. He
was held in 800 bail.
out of population of 73O the little town
OF Mckinley, along the Old York road, laws
claim to having the largest percentage Of
her inhabitants for military duty. e The
number Of men wearing the uniform from
that borough is thirty-one. There were
ninety young men IN all who were within
the age limit set by the draft. OF these
about forty more expect to be called in the
near future
On the charge Of having failed to register,
william r. Edelman, of the banking and
brokerage firm of Edeman & Co., had
hearing before United States Commissioner
Long, Edelman, basing his belief on several
insurance policies, claimed he believed his
age to be thirty-two.
officials of the Department Of Justice
found the record of Edelman's baptism in
ST Aloysius's Church, Pottstown, which
gave his date of birth as 1882 making him
twenty-eight years old. Edelman admitted
the authenticity of this record and said
the whole affair was an honest mistake.
lie was released on his own recognizance for
further hearing on Friday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
ORDER OF SPARTA
ADMITS LARGE DEBTS
Statement in Court Shows Liza
bilities of $163,132.39 and
Assets Of $81, ,256.78

A statement showing that the order OF
Sparta, an unincorporated fraternal and
beneficial society, with hundreds Of mem
bers, owes $162,132.39 in death benefits,
to meet which It has liabilities of only
$S1, ,256.7S, is contained in bankruptcy sched-
ules filed by John l.. Smith, great treasurer
of the order, in the United States District
Court today.
The order Of Sparta has run the gamut
of court proceedings eliminating in a
bankruptcy petition being filed against II
by three widows, benedclaries of death
benefit policies, on November 90, 1915.
On the question of its solvency. the order
was carried through the State courts, with
the Supreme Court deciding that from the
evidence it had financial stability. It like
wise ran the course in the Federal courts
up to the Court of Appeals, but the claims
of creditors, together with the admission
of the Order that II is unable to meet
its debts, resulted in the financial condition
being set forth today in the usual schedules.
Almost the entire Indebtedness is com
prised in the unsecured claims of bene-
ficiaries of death policies While the
schedules show the present condition of the
order, they also contain the names of
hundreds of living members of the organi-
zation, who have contributed to the various
funds to obtain benefits, with the statement
that the amounts of their claims are un-
known. Benefits would not accrue to the
bensAciaries, obviously, until the death of
the insured, and seemingly this is the
explanation for the inability of the treas
urer to state the amount Of the claims
of the living members.
other members of the order endeavored
to have the bankruptcy proceedings dis
missed, but failed both in the District Court
and Court of Appeals.
In an answer to the petition in bank
ruptcy the order admitted its insolvency
and attributed its embarrassment to "un-
warranted attacks" that had been made
upon It in court proceedings.
The assets Of the organization consist
Of deposits in banks and elsewhere. S12'-
s77.79; property in reversion trust etc,
s5356.5S, and unliquidated claims, S3OOI4l
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
BETTER PAY FOR PUBLIC
SCHOOL TEACHERS URGED
DIR. George f. Wheeler Says Increase
Is Necessary to Retain Good
Instructors

The necessity of increasing teachers
salaries if good teachers are to be retained
was again called to the attention of the
committee on higher and elementary schools
of the Board of Education when 1t met in
the Board of Education Building, Nine
teenth street above Chestnut, today, by Dr.
George F. Wheeler. He said many teachers
were quitting because they were being Of
fered more money in educational institu-
tions elsewhere
It was reported that two sets of boys will
be sent to Adams County to save the apple
crop, which is rotting on the ground. The
boys had been requested by Franklin Spencer
Edmonds, of the school mobilization COM
mittee. Forty-eight boys will be sent from
West Philadelphia High School and forty
eight from Northeast High School, They
will camp and pick apples for two weeks
and will receive So day The tirst group
will leave tomorrow, the second two weeks
later.
The appointment of DR.. Frank C. Neely as
professor of astronomy in the West Phila-
= -deIphia High School for Boys to succeed
DR. George Snyder, resigned, was approved
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
MORSE SHIP TORPEDOED;
TRIED TO DODGE U-BOAT
Third Effort to Evade Rotterdam Block
ade Results in
Sinking

AN ATLANTIC PORT, oct Ger
many is maintaining a strict blockade
against all outgoing steamships from Rot
terdam by U-boats and seapanes, men,
bers of the crew of the Norwegian steam
ship Thomas Krag, a Belgian relief ship
sunk by torpedo, declared on their arrival
here today from England.
The krag sailed from Port Arthur Tex,
and delivered her cargo without difficulty
at Rotterdam. When she came to sail she
made three attempts to get beyond the
German Gordon. once her steering gear
was shot away by a U-boats shel-fire
again German plane dropped bombs near
her, and the third time she was torpedoed.
j. j. Sullivan, of Boston, one of the
survivors, said after the torpedo's explo-
sion started the Krag began to settle and
boats were being lowered the U-boat
came close and opened shel-fire on them.
One boat was knocked from the davts and
fell eighteen feet to the water. killing one
of the men. Four were wounded One
man was killed in the torpedo explosion.
The twenty-siX survivors were picked up
by British trawler after being af1oat
five hours.
Survivors of the Norwegian steamship
Majorin were on the same boat as the
Krags crew. Their vessel. which sailed
from Philadelphia for Glasgow, August
20. was sunk by shell-flre of German
submarine off Tory Island Irish coast
When the German commander was asked
in English to tell the survivors their posi-
ton he ignored them, but when the ques-
ton was repeated in German he carefully
gave the exact latitude and longitude.
The submarine fired fifty shells
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
PEACHES AT S1.50 TO So
PER BUSHEL WHOLESALE
Market Plentifully Supplied as Canning
Season Draws to
Close

Peaches are now selling from $3.50 to SO
for bushel basket wholesale, and are
cheap and plentiful, according to the daily
food report by ]. Russell Smith. chairman
Of the Food Commission of the Philadelphia
Home Defense Committee These come from
New York State and are the white free
stone Elberta variety, finely favored and
all good sizes This will probably be the
last opportunity to put up peaches for win
ter use
Cape May goodies are a good "buy" at
present prices. They are selling whole
sale at 4 cents TO 5 cents a pound. Snap
blues and round trout are selling at cents
to cents a pound, and whiting at cents
to cents. This gives plenty of cheap fish
to choose from.
ABUNDANT Peaches, cabbage, SQUASH
beets parsley, carrots and lettuce.
NORMAI-LemOns, Cranberries, apples or
anges, cucumbers, 'cantaloupes, sugar corn, pep
pers, onions, pumpkins, potatoes, radishes
spinach, garlic, eggplant, turnips and sweet DO.
SCARCE-Tomatoes, celery string beans.
lima beans. grapes, plums. pineappes, pears
and bananas.
Wholesale fish prices follow:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
COMMITTEE TO TACKLE
CHILD LABOR PROBLEM
Chairman of Industrial Board Names
Doctor CARRIER and Two
Others

The French and English system for
women who enter industry was advocated
by DR.. s. Hammil at meeting today or
the Industrial Board Of the Department of
Labor and Industry in the North American
Building. In those countries woman
must pass a physical examination before
being permitted to work, and good working
conditions must be provided by the EN-
ployer.
other speakers were John Price jack
SON. Commissioner of Labor and Industry;
DIR. John p. CARRIER, city superintendent OF
schools, and Associate Superintendent Nuss-
baum and Cornman and Henry ), Giaeoh
chief of the Bureau of Compulsory Educa-
tion.
DIR. A. L. CARRIER, chairman Of the In
dustrial Board, presided, and appointed the
following committee to assist Doctor Ham
mil i'm establishing a solution of the IN
tricate child labor situation in this State:
Mrs. Samuel Semple, DR.. ]. P. CARRIER and
Mr.. William Young.