Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-10-12
IDAHO TO RAISE
QUOTA QUICKLY
Gov. Alexander Predicts Big
Sale of Liberty Bonds.

THE state of Idaho will subscribe
her $12,O00.000 quota of the second lib
erty loan inside 10 days, is my belief
declared Governor Moses Alexander at
the Davenport last night, says Mon
days Spokesman Review. "The people
of Idaho are of one mind and one sen
timent. There is nothing thought of
but to aid in prosecuting the war to
successful conclusion as soon as pos
sible."
The governor, as well as large
number of prominent Idaho officials
and citizens, was here to extend a well
come today to Secretary of the Treas
ury w. G. McAdOO, when the secretary
will deliver an address at COeurd Alene
III support of the Liberty Loan.
Times were never so prosperous in
1dahO," the governor declared. Crops
are good and prices are high. l have
been in business since 1873, and the
people have more money than l ever
knew them to have They will sub
scribe literally for the bonds.
Il think so well of the bonds l am
subscribing for block for every one
of my business houses to be used as a
reserve. Every bank and business
house has splendid opportunity to
put by reserve in this manner. There
comes a time to all of us when we need
securities, and here is where we may
lay in a supply of securities that will
be absolutely gilt edged
THE state of Idaho made the first
subscription in the United States to
the Liberty loan, for 100000 The
state has sufficient money to subscribe
to the next loan and the next one. We
will be found in line from start to
finish
mo, l don't care 10 say anything
about Senator La Follette," he replied
to a question ut would be diScour-
teay. However, l will say this, and
that is that he that is not with the
government is against it, and in time
of war the only thing for any man to
do is to shoulder a gun and fight for
his flag if necessary.
Our boys are all lined up for the
training camps. Our exemption boards
were just and liberal, think, and we
have a fine class of young men now in
training to fight for their country.
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the
interior, will be in Boise Tuesday eve
ming to speak in behalf of the Liberty
loan and other issues connected with
the war.
Farmers in Idaho are paying off
crops" the governor said. Land is ad-
vancing in price. l know of tract of
so acres selling recently for $3.50 an
acre, cash, that was raw desert six
years ago. This is the kind of things
that are going along all the time.
'There is no such thing as the /. w.
W. trouble any more in our state" said
the governor. Il handled that thing in
the proper manner, though many did
not think so at the time. We have 1900
miners in the state and there has been
no trouble from them.
Idaho is making more internal i'm
provements now than ever. We are
Spending $3,000,000 on highways, we
are putting up new buildings at the
BlackfoOt insane asylum at the reform
school at st. Anthony, at the technical
school at PocatGllO, at the Albion nor
nal school, at the Lewiston normal
school, at the university, where a con-
tract for a 100000 building will prob
ably be let tomorrow. There is no more
sentiment for change in the location
of the university. We are going ahead
now to develop it and make it better
than ever. We have a new president,
who comes to us well recommended.
The university will always remain at
Moscow, i'll my opinion.
The Davenport lobby looked as
though an Idaho convention was in
progress last night. Besides the gov
ernor there were Lieutenant Governor
Il. L. Parker of Cottonwood, Senator r.
II. Stevenson of Wallace, Senator f. S.
Randall Of Lewiston, A. f. Parker of
Grangeville, Evan Evans, chairman of
the republican state central committee
and member of the board of education;
and many other prominent men from
throughout the state.
In his talk Monday at Spokane and
COetir d'Alene Secretary McAdOO said:
When war comes to nation the
first essential is money. We must
keep our soldiers and sailors armed
and equipped with the best that money
can buy and American skill devise; we
must constantly provide them with
necessary clothing and food; we must
pay their wages I'VE must as a humane
and just nation, support their depend
ent families while they are risking and
giving their very lives for us; we must
supply them with a reasonable amount
of life insurance.
We destroy their inSurability and
conScript almost the whole of their
earning power when we draft them and
send them to the front. We can do no
less than restitute their destroyed in
suitability and their diminished earn
ing power.
We must increase, strengthen and
maintain our navy; we must provide a
predominant fleet of aerOplaneS and
air fighters; we must build a great
merchant feet so that our long line Of
communication with our gallant sol
diers in France may he maintained and
our commerce carried across the high
seas in defiance of the German kaiser
and his submarines; we must succOr
our noble compatriOts in arms-the
British. the French. the Italians, the
Relgians and the Russians-by lend
ing them money with which they can
buy arms and food and other supplies
i'll our markets All these things must
be done and done quickly.
1t is upon the treasury Of the United
= States that every demand in time of
war focuses, because everything goes
back to the gold pile. The problem of
the American treasury is the problem
of the American banker and the prob
lem of the American people; it is the