The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-22

The immense gathering in the Law
ering had been called to order last |
by Dr. John E. White, who |
had introduced Ray McKaig; McKaig
had told something about the work If
the Non-Partisan league and had in
formed the audience about how w. G.
Scholtz, while director of farm mar
kets had gone after the octopus and
had Just assembled information that
would have put j. K Mullins behind
the bars, when he was foiled in his
work by the dramatic removal from
place by Governor Alexander; Scholtz
had spoken his little piece, telling how
he was still loyal to the cause, when
A. c. Townley, president of the Nom
Partisan League was introduced.
Mr.. Townley began by saying that
whatever had been done in North Da
kota or might be done in Idaho, will
be done and has been done, not by me,
but by the people who live there" He
illustrated the point by telling a
good story. the moral of which was
unless you can agree among your
selves I can do nothing for you"
Continuing he said that North Da-
kota, had an extremely cold climate
in the winter but the Creator had
made ample provision for Keeping the
people warm For beneath the sur
face of those prairies in the state of
North Dakota are 700 billion tons of
Ignite coal For less than a dollar
ton that Ignite coal can be taken
out of the ground, briquetted, that is,
pressed made a concentrated fuel
and a ton of that Ignite coal gives as
much heat as a ton of hard coal. Now
of course you understand that in the
state of North Dakota nobody gets
cold in the winter time, as we have
plenty of cheap fuel. but / am here
to make a confession. / want to con-
TESS to you that in the state of North
Dakota a great many people are cold
and a great many households are not
able to buy enough coal to keep them
warm, because strange as it may seem,
though we have 700 billion tons of
coal in the state of North Dakota,
enough to supply all the people of the
United States for many years, we
buy our coal in Pennsylvania. That is
the arrangement of the railroads and
the politicians. We buy our coal in
Pennsylvania and l suppose we will
keep that up if the railroads and pol
iticians have it their way, until the
coal in Pennsylvania is all gone and
then we will ship it back from North
Dakota to Pennsylvania.
1 understand that out here in the
dry farming districts of Idaho are
thousands and thousands of acres of
fertile wheat and good farm lands
and where they can irrigate they
raise hundreds OF thousands or many
thousands of tons of hay, the best hay
in the world That you have here
wonderful resources; that in the
state of Idaho you have something like
one million horse power locked up in
the streams of your lands. Water
power@Now, I don't know whether
you know what water power is good
for. / didn't use to know. l don
know much about it today. But
understand that with a little work, the
work of damming up these streams,
Harvesting that tremendous water
power, it could be converted into cleo
tricity and that by the use OF that
electricity you can not only light your
cities, all your streets, but you could
light your farm houses, your farm
barns, you could even plow land. You
could pump the water out of the riv-
ers up to the plains. You could
run manufacturing of every kind, flour
mills, terminal elevators, packing in
dustries, anything and everything.
Electricity as / understand 1t is one
of the strongest motor forces in the
world. the easiest to harness and the
easiest to handle. You not only could
do that but you cold so harness II
that you could not only light the
houses but you could heat every
house in the state of Idaho and you
could do it cheap. A man told me
today that if the water power of the
state we're harnessed and used toI
heating and lighting purposes and de-
livered to the people at what 1t Co.'S
to harness it and deiver-he told
me today that it could be delivered
so cheap that if someone should hau
the best coal on earth to his door
give it to him for nothing, he couic
not afford to buy a stove and shove
it in. if he could get the electricity
at what it cost
He told an amusing story of pig
here, illustrating the superiority o