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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
THE DEBS BRAND OF SOCIALISM
is REPUDiATED.

In an address recently delivered in
Cooper Union, New York, Eugene v,
pebs who has been locked upon as
the spokesman for the socialists of
America, declared that labor should
meet declaration of war by the
United States against Germany by
calling a general strike, This attitude
was vigorously condemned by such
socialists as Charles Edward Russell
Meyer London, William English Wall
ing and others. Mr.. Walling openly
accused Morris Hillquit, Victor Ber-
ger, who, with Debs practically con-
troll the socialist party, with being in
league with German socialists and in
endeavoring to carry out in the Unit
ed States the dictates of Berlin. In
discussing the proposal for n general
strike in the event of war with Ger
many, Charles Edward Russell gave
expression to this patriotic sentiment,
which Is commended to the radical
element which is disposed to follow
the Debs leadership:
"A general strike in this country
against the war that Germany has
forced upon it would be one of the
most absurd and preposterous things
ever known among men. The idea Of
q general strike has been urged here
tofore as a protest against govern
ments that drive their workers into
wars in which the workers have no
interest. This country isn't driving
anybody into war; it is being driven.
and the only possible choice it has is
to surrender it's sovereign existence or
fight.
But besides all this, which ought
to be enough for any Amesican by
whatsoever means he may earn his
bread. there ii something else Of
nature to appeal particularly to every
worker that will stop to think about
lit. The war between the United
States and Germany is not quarrel
about the sinking Of ships. The ship
sinking Is only an incident.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
LAWMAKERS TRAVELS.

Recently we have heard much or
the difficulty of reaching the state
capital from the counties of north
Idaho and this was one of the rea-
sons urged for division of the state
But a couple of day on cushions IS all
single trip requires. Different In
Alaska. Here is the trip of several
lawmakers, according to northern
correspondent:
ITO see the legislators gathered
about the streets or in the hotel lob
bys one not acquainted with Alaska
would never guess the hardships some
of these men have gone through to be
present at this session. The men rep
resenting the Koyokuk and Nome dis
tricts were on the trail from 40 to 60
DAYS from the time they left their
homes until they boarded the steamer
at Cordova for Juneau"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
KELLOGG AND THE DAY DAILY.
(Wardner- Kellogg News)

This week, as has occurred regular
ly in the paper since coming under its
present management, the Press Times
has devoted much space in an appar-
ent eager endeavor to injure this Sec
ton of the Occur d'Alenes. Especial
ly has it been active in giving scare
head circulation to inspired rumors
concerning the Bunker Hill & Sulli-
van company and suppd>ed sale to
the Guggenheim interests. While To-
cal people have long since been taking
these inspired rumors Of the Day
daily for their true worth, an en-
phatic denial of any truth to such
rumor was given by both Manager
Stanly A. Easton and President F. w.
Bradley of the Bunker Hill company.
While the story was confined to select
quarters and had not been heard of
aside from the representative of the
Press Times in this city until the I'M
management of the Bunker Hill has
settled such apprehension as might
have been felt by vigorous denial of
any present or contemplated DEAL
Manager Stanly A. Easton promptly
refuted the article and stated that
there was no truth whatever in such
q report. From San Francisco Presi.
dent F. W. Bradley wires that "nego-
tiations havesnever been entered into
and sale is neither pending nor con-
templated." The Spokane Chronicle is
authority for a statement that the Day
interests, controlling the Hercules
mine and Northport smelter, are, said
to have deal on for the sale of their
smelter and mining interests to the
Guggenheims. Possibly the Wallace
daily got the Bunker Hill confused
with the Hercules in the rumor and
consequent story.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22

stead of using 1t to depose him as the
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations, it Is announced that the
democrats will reflect him to that po-
sition.
1t comes with a mighty thin veneer
of sincerity when any democrat hurls
expfetives at any of the IL while the
party not only condones Stone, but
rewards him by renewing the highest
honor that can be given in the SEN
ate.
This is very like the kaiser's promise
to punish the submarine commanders
who sank the Lusitania and Sussex,
and then comforting upon them the
iron cross and other naval honors.
Stone added to his offense the be-
trayal in public debate, Of methods
being considered by the navy for the
protection of our merchantmen
against submarines, only technically.
If at all avoiding the statute defining
treason.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
COMPENSATION THE DEM
OCRATS.
(Boise Statesman)


"Give me a democratic legislature
pleaded Governor Alexander. last fall
during the campaign, "and then you
will have no more foolish legislation.
There will be business-like, econom-
ical session, and it will be over in 40
days
The governor got his democratic
legislature, but it not only did not
get through in 40 days, but actually
did not get started in that time. ana
really never got through at all in the
sense of having carefully deliberated
over measures needed for the welfare
Of Idaho.
of favored bills by favored sons the
governor is faced with the task of 60
ing over within limited time mass
of bills so great that it will be impos-
sible to give even majority of them
the proper attention they should have
before they are signed or vetoed.
The reckless appropriations of past
republican legislatures have been so
far exceeded that when the full story
is told it will be realized by the people
OF the state that no attempt has been
made to save cash in spite of "econo-
my" platform pledges and campaign
promises. One of the most expensive
exhibitions of legislation INDUCED in
was the county division craze. 1t
costs money for county governments,
but the majority in the Legislature
went ahead swapping counties on
swapped votes without thought for
the necessities involved. and one of
the results is that Idaho will now
have some counties without taxable
property enough to maintain county
governments unless taxes are made so
high as to amount practically to con-
fscation.
The republican minority deserves
commentator for what it attempted
to do but was unable to accomplish
because of the majority's steam roll
er. There were weak spots Of course.
but never before have the republicans
in an Idaho legislature averaged per-
sonally so high in ability or public
spirit.
The democratic legislature for
which the governor pleaded so earn
estly has gone home, after passing
every bill that created new positions
for democrats-and when the truth is
finally known the people of the state
will be shocked to find the size of the
new tax eating army they will have to
support. Probably the only reason
the workmen's compensation bill ever
got through is because it will make
jobs for from 80 to 100 democrats
nice jobs at good pay. The measure
provides compensation for needy dem
ocrats If it does nothing else.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
VOL. XII y THURSDAY, MARCH n, 1917. MOO

government is hailed with delight by
the people of all civilized lands. 1t
is one of the most remarkable
achievements in the history of ma
lions that the upheava should be
successfully accomplished in despotie
Russia with so little disorder and
practically no loss of life. 1t shows
what few people realized that the
spirit of liberty had taken firm hold
throughout the empire in spite of the
system of espionage vigorously main
tanned by the imperial government,
and that they We're ripe for revolt
when the opportune time arrived. The
conduct of the masses and particu-
larly of the vast army when the news
came that the car had abdicated and
that the country was in transition
from the old order to a new govern
ment yet to be formed was admirable
In the extreme, and is the best evil
dence that they are ready to assume
the responsibility of citizenship UNI
der a government of which they will
be part in fact as well as in name.
There was no rioting. no disorder of a
lawless kind, but rather manifesto
lions of Joy such as would come from
a man who all his life had been CROP
ing in darkness and had suddenly
been brought to light. They seemed
to grasp the fun meaning of the mo-
mentous change that was taking
place. and their attitude was one of
readiness to assume and faithfully
bear their part of the duties involved.
The great republic of the west halls
the birth of the giant of the east AL
though Russia and America have
Istood>es the extreme types of govern
ment, since the civil war, when the
car placed his fleet at the service of
the Union, there has been strong
bond of friendship between them
which will grow in strength now that
Russia has passed from despotism to
people such as we enjoy,
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
FLABBY AND COMMENTED.
minneapolis Journal)

Are We learning the lessons of the
war in time to put them to practical
use? The spectacle of the sixty
fourth congress dying in impotence
and futility was so tragic as to fill one
with doubts. II our national legisla-
ture can not legislate in the presence
Of towering crisis, II the chosen men
Of the nation can not find the way to
declare the will of the American peo-
pie, what hope is there for that will
to harden into a resolution that will
not be denied?
May the spirit Of the Americanism
of other days descend upon us once
more? We seem to have lost hold
somehow on the hardy courage, the
stern resolve, the passionate devotion
to American liberty and American in
situations that animated those other
Americans. We have grown rich and
flabby and contented. We stand on
the marge Of war untouched by any
prescience Of what may be our fate,
as 1t has been the fate Of other peo-
pies who grew rich and flabby and
contented.
The American nation Is not yet fully
awake. The giant Is still yawning
and stretching and looking confusedly
about.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
SUPREME COURT DIVIDED ON
VALIDITY OF ADAMSoN LAW.


The decision of the majority of the
supreme court sustaining the consti-
tutionality of the Adamson law does
not appear to be based on ground suf-
ficiently firm to justify the ruling or
the highest court on question or
such reaching importance. In
handing down the decision Chief Jus
tice White stated that the law fixes
both the hours Of labor and wages
OF the power of congress to fix the
hours of labor, that was out of the
case ana stands unquestioned. The
real question at issue was the right
of congress to fix wages, which was
embodied in the Adamson law
Transportation, he said, is of both
private and public interest. Discuss
ing this phase of the question he said
that the right of private parties to fix
private wages was inherent and that
to take it away would be unconstitu-
tional but the fact that the employers
and employees could not agree is Civ
EN- as justification for the conclusion
that to deny the government the au-
thority to fix wages would be to de-
clare that private right had destroy
ed public right" He cited the laws
fixing rates, prohibiting rebates, and
other measures to- protect the pub
lie interest" and then held that con-
gress had authority to act in this case
because of the failure Of the rail-
roads and employees to reach an agree
ment." To the laymen this appears
to establish a precedent for
congress to step in and arbitrarily
establish a wage scale in settlement
of any controversy between employers
and employees when there appears to
be no probability of reaching an
agreement, for there are few strikes
or lockouts of any great importance
in which it can not be shown that the
public Is to some extent concerned.
The minority opinion rendered by
Justice Pitney and Vandeventer seems
to cover the merits of the law more
effectively than that of the majority.
They take the view that was express
ed by the opposition to the measure
when it was being considered by con-
gress, that it was Legislation without
investigation" view also taken with
great force by former Justice Hughes
during the campaign last fall. The
minority opinion says that the law
should be held unconstitutional "be-
cause congress, although confessedly
not in possession of information ne
cessary for intelligent and just treat
ment of the controversy, arbitrarily
imposed upon the railroads the entire
and enormous cost of an experimental
Increase in wages"
This statement of the minority is
VIGOROUSLY true. and it might have
gone further and still kept within the
bounds of truth by saying that the
law was passed purely as a political
expediency to save the Wilson admin :
stration in the rapidly approaching
election.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22

The fourteenth session of the Idaho
legislature appropriated more money,
more new jobs for deserving" demo-
Gratis. and accomplished less of actual
benefit to the people of the state than
any former session of that body. There
is no divided responsibility for the
work of that body in cooperation with
the officers Of the administration,
which will simplify the operation of
voting a change when the election
rolls round again.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22

The real basis Of the struggle Is
, contest between two tremendous
IDEAS and there is nothing else In
which working men can have so pro
found concern. II Germany wins,
then the German ideas become tri-
umphant and dominant around the
globe; democracy is overwhelmed
and set back for centur-
les; the principle Of arbitration among
nations receives its death blow; JUS
tice and liberty become the worlds
memories; nothing is left for stand
ard of actions and morals but the
creed of sheer brute strength; the
stronger arm becomes the only gospel
and the bigger battalion the only
faith.
'In other words, everything the la
Dor movement has aimed at ano
striven for goes down in one huge
cataclysm. The suggestion that the
working men should strike to brins
that disaster upon themselves and up
on the world of progress can be en-
tertained only by one who has nj
knowledge of the real nature of thu
issues involved in this war or ha'
never thought about 1t.
1T is terrible error to think tina
only the wealthy have anything a
stake in this war We all have some
thing far dearer to us than all tn
money in the land, millions of time
dearer, and that Is the survival of tn
democratic principle in this countr.
and on this earth"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
Standard limo.

Standard time is a uniform system
of time reckoning in the United States
and Canada, adopted in 1888 by the
principal railways, and since then by
the principal cities and towns Of both
countries. BY this system the contin-
ent is divided into four sections. each
extending over Is degrees Of longitude
(making difference of time Of exact
ly one hour. the time prevailing In
each being that Of its central meri-
dian.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22

President Wilson asserted that the
failure of congress to grant MN the
unlimited power he asked can not be
explained so that foreign countries
will understand The whole country
can not but reflect that his TOO PROUD
to fight" speech is the one thing that
has prevented the rest of the worid
from understanding the true spirit OF
the American people. That was one
thing that can never be explained.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22

The return Of Editor Stevenson, rep
resentative of the Day interests IN
the state senate, was signalized by the
temperance of that choice collection
Of Syndicate stuff" which has long
been the dominant feature OF the ed
itorial page Of the Press Times.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
IRON CROSS FOR "GUMsHoE
BILL"
Duluth News Tribunel

IDUIUtH NtWb- I TIUtIHtJ
The New York World, the official
organ of democracy in the White
House, suggests that those states Of
the west that have recall laws might
use them on their senators who were
of the ~ apostates.
What of Senator Stone? Missouri
does not have the recall power. but
the democrats Of the senate have. In
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22

never known before. The people gave
the governor all he asked for ana
more and now he is threatening TO
call a special session of the legisia-
tnre to cut down the appropriation
bills in order to save the people from
the extravagances of his democratic
co workers.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
DAYS AND BUNKER HILL & SUI
livAN SHELTER.

few years ago, when Harry L. Day
was the chief representative of the
Guggenheim interests in this district
his nersonal organ, the Press Times,
published with well guarded dualiaca-
tions that the Guggenheims had tax
on over the Bunker Hill Il Sullivan
mine. which meant that the domain Oh
the Days would be extended TO that
great property. OF course, II was
proved to be a pure and maile'oos
fabrication which probably originated
IN the fertile and falible brain of the
then Guggenheim manager NOW
again. when the air is charged with
reports, which seem to have more Oh
less foundation, that the Guggenheims
are about to absorb all the Day hold
ings. smelter, refinery and ALL the
same canard is sprung by the same
servile organ, inspired from the same
source and with the same malicious
motive. the last report including, OF
course, the Bunker Hill Il sullivan
smelter, now nearing completion, The
emphatic and unqualified denial by
the president and general manager OF
the Bunker Hill & Sullivan company
IL wholly ignored by the Day daily
and the story is repeated regardless
of the damaging effect 1t may nave IN
the minds of the uniformed. Indeed
il is no doubt published for the spe-
cific purpose of raising doubt re-
garding the completion and operation
of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan smelter'
the most important enterprise from
the standpoint of direct benefit to
the mining industry that has been
undertaken in the history of the dis
trict
There may be beasts so barren OF
the instinct of gratitude that they
would bite the hand that feeds them,
and we are told that there is bird of
evil omen in the islands of the south
that befouls its own nest, but it is to
the everlasting credit of the newspa-
per fraternity that the history of
Journalism showed no newspaper so
lost to common decency and self-re-
spect that it's conduct could be com
pared to these revolving acts until the
control of the Press Times passed to
the present ownership.
The Press Times enjoys a very nd
eral patronage from the business men
of this district, and they have a right
to expect its policy to be one OF 10y
atty to their interests by encouraging
every enterprise calculated to enlarge
the field of business activity. The
Bunker Hill & Sullivan smelter is
conceded to be an enterprise of tre-
mendous importance to the entire dis
trict. 1t will not only give perman-
emf employment to a large num-
her of men, but it will at once give
4 home market for the ores of the dis
trict. in small lots as well as large,
eliminate the heavy freight charges to
distant smelters, and altogether give
the most substantial encouragement
to mining development. The story
that this great enterprise had passed
into the hands of the Guggenheims
implied, of course, that 1t would not
be completed and operated, for the
Cuggenheims would find 1t more to
their advantage to divert the ore to
the large smelling plants they now
have rather than operate a smelter
here
Could there be baser betrayal OF
the people of this district? And this
from the Exponent of the Occur
d'Alenes."
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22

Governor Alexander told the people
last fall that II they would elect him
and give him democratic legislature
and Ted Walters for attorney general
he would guarantee them economy
and efficiency such as the state had
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA lNSuRES
POPULAR GOVERNMENT.

The success of the people of Russia
in ending the autocratic rule OF the
car and taking the first step toward
the establishment Of representative
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
The>Pacifist

&c. C. Garrett in North Americam
towards and ours and traitors,
Fatuous dreaming fools
Binding us, stripped, for the madman
Nurtured of bastard schools
Where might of right and who
springs first
Are the only known rules.
Well fed, we'll housed and sleek and
smug
Full pursed and full of pride
Your fields are green, your lanes are
fair
Where peaceful homes abide,
And your children play by sunny
streams
That laughing seward glide.
What Primal Power tells you eat
TO the ends of your belly greed
What holds your fields with harvests
full,
And answers every need
And bids your BARNS play laughngly
With never care or heed?
The answer, Fool, is written large
In words of blazing light
They are rewards of dwelling in
A Land of kingly might
That grants you surety and wealth
And guards you day and night.
And whence, Fool, came it's splendid
strength
And why, and how and when?
In world of strife and Redeemed knife
Did 1t rise by tongue and pen?
No, bolt, but by the strong right arms.
The arms of fighting men.
And Ye. Ye would sit with folded
hands,
Agaze into Heavens blue,
With sanctimonious murmurings
OF what the Lord will do;
While your neighbor and your neigh
boris son
Go forth to fight for you.
For you, you cur, and your belly-need.
For your hearth and kith and kin;
For your harvest and your banking
house
Where you shovel the shekels in,
Till the labor has hardened your hands
and heart,
And your soul Il parchment skin.
Religion can not cover
dog whose liver is white.
Your Christ, with righteous anger.
Smote hard to left and right
The usurers. And never said
He was too proud to fight.
When we are another Belgium
And the land with blood Is dyed.
And your homes are burned and your
women raped,
And We know that We have lied
Maybe We wifi say with your final gasp
That We are satisfied.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
THE ISSUE.

(New York SUM
Armed neutrality against armed
brutality.
God defend the right!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-18
Cost of Coughing

G. S.--Your question is answered by an
article in the Medical Critic and Guide
which says: "a German statistican has
calculated that patient who coughs once
every quarter of an hour for ten hours
expends energy equivalent to $50 units OF
heat. which may be translated as equivalent
to the nourishment contained in three eggs
or two glasses of milk. In Dormal respra'
tion the air is expelled from the chest y
the rate of four feet per second, whereas
in violent coughing 1t may attain veloc-
ity of 900 feet. This waste of energy ~
especially important, because 1t occurs, for
the, most part, in persons whose assimi-j
lative functions are working under DIM
culties; consequently. the indigestion OF he
corresponding quantity of nourishment y
no means compensates for the exertion u
follows that persistent cough is per 80 "a
cause of emaciation, though there are ma<v
other factors which tend in the same direc-'
tion; hence the desirability Of restraining
cough within safe limits, especially when
1t Is due to irritative reflexes, such as are
excited by laryngitis and pharyngitis.4