The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-18
Gooding for the Common Peopl,

A0A AudAo, WOFk1ng W1tnOu
salary, and right well did be system
atize the fuel situation and get &C
ton on the tagging activities OF Goa
mines and railroads. Taking hol,
OF the subject at time when It wa
considered hopeless, and when me,
were saying it was such a hopeless
task that Frank Gooding had To-
once tackled Waterloo he smoothet
out the difficulties so effectually tina
he prevented repetition Of ou]
former losses and suffering. anf
averted a season Of disaster that wa,
by many considered inevitable. All
last spring when men were trying t.
get arrangements made to build thu
spur from briggs to the new Goa
mine, as often as difficulties appeared
and blocked the project, Goodins
would take hold and find a way
around or over the trouble. After
coming to the rescue several times
and making long trips to get action
the plan was approved at Washing.
ton and the road is under construc.
ton and 1t is expected that we shall
be getting coal from there before
mid-winter.
McCauley a Good Man
A person going back over Good
ing's record finds a life full of such
! activities, and always fearless and
> without regard for the trusts and in
favor Of fair deal for all, notwith-
standing the statement of our friend
Mr.. ,McCauley. We believe that Mr..
McCauley has been misled by agita-
tors. We belive that he is a far bet
ter man than his badly written letter
and his crude discourteous express
sions would indicate. We believe
that the use Of such expressions as
dirty little old paper" are picked
up from the league speakers and or
ganizers he has heard talking, and
that he feels honored to find chance
to repeat their expressions. In
every address we have heard made
by league men they have slurred the
press collectively as If they were all
vile, and have spoken Of them as the
kept press and the servants of
big business, and defenders of
monopoly" They always talk in the
spirit Of bragadocia and defiance, the
same as Mr.. McCauley writes, and we
think that If Mr.. McCauley had list
ened to addresses by courteous men,
using clean fair language, delivered
with respect and courtesy and with
the force of truth, that Mr.. McCauley
would have addressed his letter in
that spirit, and would not have for.
gotten that the editor he was adj
dressing had reputation for dealing
fairly with all sides of questions and
with all classes and industries, and
especially with the farmers whom
Mr.. McCauley says we are always
slurring. He asks why we have not
printed something about the way the
business men beat and rob the farm
ers. Mr.. McCauley seems to forget
the sixty-two chapters we published
on the tax question to get protec-
tion for the taxpayers, the farmers
being the main body. He seems to
forget the twelve chapters we pub
lished to straighten out the tangle
and aid the helpless patients at the
asylum He seems to have forgotten
the sixteen chapters We published to !
show that certain deserving poor |
people and poor widows in this |
county were receiving less aid than
they deserved and needed, while |
other undeserving people were wear
ing fine raiment, getting money they
lid not need and deserve. He seems
not to have noticed that this paper
IS just now conducting campaign
% get better roads among the farms,
Ind system Of high lines for. the
better handling of coal and beet pulp
10 the big stockmen will not be al
owed to have all the beet pulp, and
he othrs farther out over the county
)arred out. Our system, when put T.
nto operation will put them all on
he same basis, but our Mr.. McCauley
las not comprehended the magni-
ude Of the things this paper is ad-
coating, tho he swears by what the
organizers and the leaders tell him.
Ir. McCauley probably forgets that
he last legislature enacted sixty
TX new laws at the request of the
armers, and the government has al
eady attended to many other things
s war measures that the league or .
anizers are telling such men as Mr..
lcCauley that they are going to ac- :
omplish thru the league. Mr.. Nc ]
auley ought to wake up and see ,
hat he already has at his command,
nd he would see that he has no need !,
going after them thru the league. ;
McCauley is Only Mistaken =
Since Mr.. McCauley challenges us :
18th "You never print thing to help ;
le laborers or the farmers" we re- :
,r him to tn case of nine laboring :
len, H. A. McCaffery and others, Z
hose case we fought thru the Idaho J
epublican for six months in the
aar 1914, not so much because we =
,uId help McCaffery and his crowd,
ut to get the square deal for scores :
other laborers who might come =
ter them, and we broke up the :.
'actice, then in vogue, of throwing :,
en- in Jail simply to give the jailer :
chance to graft the taxpayers for :,
calls at outrageous prices. r
His remark, that we never do any ;,
ing for the farmers interest indi- -
ties that he does not know we in >,
iced the Oregon Short Line to send :
cir demonstration trains out over !,
q branch lines Of this county to :.
for the scattered settlers 4
ng ago. He probably does not a
low the part this paper took in =
,itating for and putting up our own ~
oney to- help get the experimental r.
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