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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-02
PAVE Line RETAINED
BYDESPERATE FIGHT.
Edgar A. MoNrer Describes
i the Glorious Stand Of the
Italian Armies.


ny EDGAR ANSEL. MOWRER.
sra.~.a.. cc-..uocdeucro Of The Evening
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pOME IfAlv Feb. 22.-Oh, the glory
y = .,-...s.s.a.. - The Italian retreat,
s na wreecheui.esS u '..e -
Human metal was assayed ana there
was much gold. Portions OF the second
and all Of the third army were masnin-
~. -. hottarv
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1 - - c.,,oy ard many others
q -, ho;,ed in their
ssa -. veal the unruly.
shearts' Aions '"e
the unworthy. the helpless, they snow
Z al ALI too conspicuously. The Italians
! A.,n,,.rnant narhans the worst defeat of
: uaoer vent -, o.,,... M
lack of manliness brought it to pass.
:. .ve 70 rnanv that opportunity
: g u - 49,, nravinp
{ Tor which they hao oee
Young officers who had not known nv"
-, n,Id their d;sordered men gave their
ss.ns 4,;,h q shrue and a snap of the
& 4.S a,rtiilery commanders took
;nfantrv Columns. enforcing
ssisc;niine with fists and revolvers.
/, lsssaa;te .rnnns Of soldiers, recruited
rom dozen divisions, fought battle
between S so oa oIn,nst checked the
mass Of Won Bellows mlgnS Soiase-
gents. III Gforglo s.ahu a. liz Troens
{ head OF Plnzano was sup .nt;nns
ngnting oespeIae sseIta, ~ sun,
plies. were fed IN part by avaas W.
dropped sacks OF oreao ana cahneo oeeA
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cavalrv Has It's Hour.
5 Ana the cavalry came back into its
- - hr,aY bour of glory and
~. i've who
q pertshed that the army misn. iise' w
before the war had foreseen how men
i a tr.rcbes conld fmmobilize men on
I E.~sasa THE italian cavalry, though,
! *.saT On one or two small occasions,
s - ,yaited behind the infantry. often
s@,,Sier Are for two years and a half.
4 1nt the cavalry in italy had been spe-
s<ss,,, As 80 inad and chosen from the
Stsrds rds We're high. Rather than re-
sa .na saa ssns any To o. be changed into
he arditi. the artillery, the aviasion.
fS1noeniy those WY az ra4raat If Two
iEantic armies, one OF taen hert Nc
s1ney were asH ~, I;,,a. r. Vas a bir
nents 90 give sneil Tvs -,tho,,4 Sac
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- : 49, 20 .ccn,,r,1ishefi in three davis
4 E<N...n ~ 80 Csrmana crossed the
~ e psr.ano nesr the hills
s ~ 3. ~ nau,sI Tha water. boiling with
Us when me Italians Msva nad cr9ss ths
*<z. o " Nee v er,r +ho Carsn jo,ned
90 ALmy Ui.,a sI p,sM. ,v,tt ~ :
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tnere Was 1s. fesp - ~
= evennH Gen- IaooI Ia. on snS ~
cedinG ms piaSe 70 anosns!, "oee ~
men nnder nun. ae sag:
a nave Iaken az inn .;.in 9 e on
me newly reacned positions from ene
.or Of Italy are to be defended Let
md. that comes to him out Of the
nscience OF the entire Italian people;
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zs
When the Navy Retre4ted.
* &ot less brilliant. though less event
- was the retreat OF the navy. The
IaMUf nome between Grade and MOnIal.
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01

and regulating the air and few sim
pie remedies to At the case, but he
was strong on speeding up. regard.
less of the outcome. Nobody could
teach him to find >out what was
wrong and then apply known rem.
edy that would get some certain eff.
feet that was needed. II he had the
finest machine in the world and
needed only to adjust a setscrew to
keep it working normally, he was
liable to tinker with everything else
but the setscrew."
Mitchell, We'll, by the eternals
our governmental machinery is blow
ing the grain of business too much
into one mans half-bushel and am
in favor of making some change to
see If we can't get more equal dis
tribution of profits. / don't know
exactly what's wrong, but l am in
favor of change, for | know there
is something wrong somewhere"
Stranger, well sir, | ain very
glad to have been here and heard
your suggestions. Your philosophy
certainly has been an eye-opener to
me. l have heard about the ma
chinist who became disguised and
threw the monkey wrench into the
gearing and l always supposed he
was myth, but / shall know here
after that he is very much alive"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01

ing houses with public mony,-in
short running around after new Gods
that they can take with them, Gods
that they can get right down in front
of and do business with at short
range, as did the children of Israel.
If Moses was kept guessing in his
time, he is not the only one who had
such experiences, for there is many
a Moses considering the present sit
uation and wondering how it is that
people will at certain times believe
everything that is told them even
when the evidence of the contrary
is before them. We have even heard
of these modern criers cumming a
ride out to the meeting place with
the county agent and then during the
speech, ask what the party in power
has ever done for the farmer, and
in the audience would have
the thoughtfulness to reply that it
had furnished a jitney to bring him
to his own meeting.
The children of Israel always came
back to the one God after following
with the crowd, after false God
or something worthless which they
pinned their faith on.
1t has been the same with our mod
ern popular movements that took
form quickly on big promises. The
people put in their gold to mould the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01
A MONKEY WRENCH IN
THE GEARING

BlackfOot had a queer character
among it's local men talking politics
in the campaign of 1895, and some
of the dialogues he took part in are
as good today as they were twenty
two years ago.
The gentleman's name was H. B.
Mitchell, and he hailed from
Nebraska, where he had the honor
to be a member of the populstic leg
islature elected in 1892, and which,
according to MITCHELL Spent one
half it's time scheming and the other
half fighting" and when he said
fighting, he did not mean mere argu-
ments. Mitchell was in charge Of
some construction work out on the
reservation and used to come in to
town to spend Sunday and he loved
to walk into the Jones and Johnson
saloon and cry out, Everybody come
up and have a drink with H. B.
Mitchell" whereupon everybody was
his friend and ready to fawn upon
him. He used to entertain little
groups of men in the then leading
hotel,' known as the Idaho House,
now the Palace Barber shop at the
corner of Main and Pacific. One Sun
day when rather distinguished
looking representative of the Case
| Threshing Machine company was in
the lobby, Mr.. Mitchell was sustain
ing one end of a loud harangue
about how to run the government.
The stranger got so he could no
longer keep still, and he took hand,
a Ant, To-.
lows:
Stranger: Pardon me sir, but
what remedy do you suggest for the
ills you have named?"
Mitchell, Remedy! My God any
thing is better than the way things
are going now"
Stranger, But sir, we have a con-
dition confronting us. Not a mere
theory, and we all admit that there
are disorders in the body polite.
You have been berating everything
from Dan to Beersheba, now tell us
what you would do to remedy some
Of these ills.'
Mitchell, II would elect good men
to the legislative bodies; men who
are against the trusts; men who can
be depended on to fight all legisla-
ton that is proposed by the repre-
sentatives of monopoly. I would re-
peal about half of the laws we have
now, and enact some good laws
whereby the people, the common peo-
pie could get their rights"
Stranger, well, well, my dear
fellow. I must say you have any
thingSbut judicial mind. You GER
tainly recommend a strenuous kind
OF craftsmanship. Il am not sur
prised that the state Of Nebraska is
suffering from unsettled conditions
in business if that is the way you
legislated. You remind me very
strikingly of so-called thresher ex-
pert we had over in Dakota. If a
thresher outfit was not working
right, if it was throwing grain out
in the strawpile and running weed
seed into the half-bushel, he was
liable to 60 to the horse power and
tell the driver to throw the whip
into the horses, and then tell the !
band cutter not to be so particular
about cutting every band, but to get |
the sheaves into the machine and get |
them there faster. He was not very
about adjusting the idler
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01

substitutes that should be as cheal
as wheat -four.
Government regulation that act
ually regulates would wipe out |
good many of these wrongs and tn,
greediness of dealers breeds discon
tent and a determination to seek /,
remedy.
This county is about like othe
counties politically, and it has beef
dominated by a large percentage o
rascals in both political parties
crooks, upstairs and hastily-mad,
royalty that makes or acquires som,
money, have pushed self to the from
and dealt out special privileges ant
crookedness with two-by-four auto
cracy too disgusting to be tolerated
Men who stick to square dealing
get pushed out of public life or be-
come Disguised and drop out, anG
that pleases and encourages the
tricksters. Uninterrupted in theil
course, making good fellows of them.
selves on money filched from others
they become the recognized stand
ards of citizenship to such an extent
that graft and Doodle actually have
standing and no man dare de.
nounce it unless he is willing to pay
a penalty.
Grafters Arrive
Into this kind of soil, this kind
of public mind, a bunch of Social
lists from North Dakota have come
and sowed the seeds of discomfort
told people they were going to apply
the remedy without going into pc.
litcs, and now they are not only in
politics exclusively, but are practic.
ing all the debasing features of the
two old parties, the convention sys.
tenn and the direct primary with big
bosses and grand larceny at the head.
The so-called business men and
cheeky leaders of both Of the old
parties, are responsible for a great
deal of the discomfort growing out of
greedy dealing and political treach-
cry and large numbers of people have
become so disguised they were ready
to join almost anything that was
against them, and it happened that
the Non-partisan league stepped in
at the OppOrtune time, organizing
the farmers in agricultural districts
and the Industrial Workers of the
World in numbering and mining dis
tricts, and thru secret agencies
among the leaders, the energies of
both bodies are concentrated to elect
one set of men to carry the Social
istic schemes into effect. Therefore
the business men and the men of
the two old parties have some meas
ure' of responsibility for the turmoil
that threatens to deliver the whole
state over to the leadership that has
declared for Socialistic and Bolshe-
Wiki management in our free land,
fastened upon us by our own votes
while the boys are fighting cover
there" to whip the same disease out
of Europe.
In this county no set of men have
been true enough to band together
and stop these wrongs. No news
paper has acquired sufficient power
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01
REASONS FOR THE FARMERS
ORGANIZING

A good many people are concerned
about the farmers organizing, and
would oppose it because they them
selves are not capable of any big
broad views. A good many of these
people are engaged in mercantile pur-
suits, and themselves share the Ger
man view that one-half of the people
were made to ride the. other half,
and each man wants to Belong to the
first hall and wear the spurs.
A still greater number than those
mentioned above, are pleased to see
the farmers organizing and would
encourage it, but are filled with fore
bodings and. anxiety at their being
organized by set of men like those
at the head of the Non-partisan
league. Both of these two classes of
men are opposed to the league in
this campaign, but no line of distinc-
ton has been marked out between
them, and good men in the league
and good men outside of it, whose
purposes are about alike, are blindly
fighting each other in this campaign.
Reasons for Organizing
Farmers are getting to where they
dislike to have the town man name
the price of merchandise both ways,
and it sinks deeper if he brings in a
sack Of green peas and is given, say
8 cents pound for them, and sees
them Immediately sold at 16 cents
Or he may bring in comb honey and
be given 20 cents pound and see 1t
sold to his neighbors within the
hour at 35 cents a pound At the
meat markets he may sell hogs at
15 cents live weight and buy it back
at from Is cents to so cents a pound.
He is required to sell his wheat at
1920 and pay 10 cents a pound for
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01
DECLARATION OF PURPOSE

On behalf Of the candidates Of the
Republican party in this county.
adesire to announce that it will be our
purpose to have the county accounts
audited every two years hereafter for
the triple purpose of discovering err
rors in bookkeeping, improving and
undermining methods of accounting
and to prevent fraud and remove the
temptation to defraud.
j. H. ANDERSEN,
Chairman.
REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMIT
TEE.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01
NOT SUPPORTING
SENATOR BORAH

A large number of Republicans in
Idaho do not feel like supporting
senator Borah in this election. Po-
litical organizations do not say any
thing in particular, but there is a
general apathy on the subject, and
individuals hesitate about voting for
him. The same condition prevails
thruout the state. s..
The reasons for this are many.
Borah has not stood close to his con-
stituents for years. He has stood
aloof. He has not seemed to care
much whether he reflected their
wishes or not. He has given the i'm
preston that he knows more than
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01
RUNNING AFTER
FALSE GODS

When the children of Israel at the
crossing of the Red Sea and in the
wilderness had had number of
demonstrations of the interest and
watchfulness of the Lord, looking
after their needs in a way that was
unheard-of among the other classes,
they used to become very anxious to
have some new kind of God-one
they could see and carry around with
them; one they could get right down
in front of and talk to at close range,
and Moses had a great deal of diff
ficulty getting them to see that they
already had special protection and
attention. Each time they got up a
propaganda and went to rallying
around false Gods they came to
grief
In our own generation the govern
ment considers that the farmers are
at the crossing of the Red Sea or in
the wilderness in need of water or
mama about all the time, and has in
operation homestead laws in various
forms, appropriates great deal of
everybOdy's money for maintaining
the department of agriculture. keeps
an army of experts and scientists
gathering information and sending
it to the farmers by means of special
lecturers and picture shows, keeps
a printing house busy printing and
mailing 1t to them, appropriates
money for establishing and main
tanning agricultural colleges all over
the Union, keeps up experimental
farms, mails out free seeds, estab-
fishes farm bureaus, county agricul-
tural agents and farm credit banks,
appropriaes money for road building
and road maintenance thus taxing
all the people of the nation to i'm
prove roads that the local people do
not or cannot properly maintain;
state farm markets bureaus are
by all the people of the
state for the special benefit of the
agricultural classes, county auditors
and assessors are required to COM
pile information at the expense of
all the people of the counties to
enable the farm markets bureau to |
advise the farmer and shipper of |
farm products into more intelligent
action and to make the markets more
steady; government inspection of po-
tatoes, wheat and other products is
to protect the honest |
farmer from the acts of those who
would smuggle the poor and the
damaged products into the market
and thus push down the price that
,an be obtained for good, honestly
packed products, and yet with all
,hese special attentions and privil-
eges extended to the agricultural
classes and practically all others left
% shift for themselves, organizers
nave been going over the state tell
ng the farmers that they are the
,nly class that are absolutely i'm
posed upon by everybody; the only
lass that are not organized for pro-
ection, and that because everybody
las been fleeing the farmers, they
hould organize and pass laws favor
bile to themselves alone, cut out the
middle man, start stores of their own
md put the other stores out of bust
less, start newspapers of their own
nd put the other papers out of |.
BUSINESS, start banks of their own
nd put the other banks out of COM
mission, build elevators of their own
With the public money, build pack
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01

10 run these wrongs down and right
them. While 1t was up-rooting one
set, another set would form clique.
Missed Their Opportunity.
For while the Civic League
looked like ii might become a power
in the county, capable of forcing
both political parties into honora BILE
| action and getting business men and
farmers to working together on pro-
jects so big and beneficial that petty
wrongs would be snuffed out like
| smoking candles when electric lights
appear, but two diseases crept into
the Civic League at the outset,-the
man trying to get at the head of
some popular movement where he
can reap without sowing; and the
man who talks everything to death
without ever reaching practical con-
illusions.
A Worthy League of Men.
The Nonpartisan league is not
dead, but its leaders, by greed and
dishonesty, have administered the
death blow, and the men of this
county Of all vocations should do
some sober thinking to see how they
can come together in some form that
will bar out the local crooks and
grafters, the outside crooks and
grafters, and undertake process of
publication of business and politics
and drive the energies of he county
into cooperative movements to build
good roads, to provide convenient
distributing stations and loading sta
tions, get vast wealth of pure bred
stock into the county, develop the
dairy industry, milk routes, mail
routes, express routes, swift trans
portation and short cuts from pro-
Queer to consumer, establish more
sugar mills and seed farms to hold
the advantages the war has brought
to us, establish potato -four mills to
help supply America with product
we have been buying of the Germans,
while our potatoes sold at low prices
in glutted markets, force the greedy
dealer to fair dealing as we force
the stingy man to buy bonds, control
the output and production of staple
crops by taking census and appor-
tioning the acreage as we now appor
ton the liberty bonds, requiring all
men to use good seed, to grade it
to standard and treat it to destroy
diseases before planting as we now
quarantine and fumigate and admin
lister antitoxines to stamp out cholera
and other diseases-increasing our
incomes, cutting out our losses, null
tiplying efficiency and luxuries, till
petty grating is useless and des-
pissed, these are some of the larger
activities which the people of this
county should engage in rather than
biting each other in destructive eff
fort as they are doing in the present
campaign.
If the present fight only brings
men of both sides to realization of
the seriousness and danger of their
own course, and opens the way for
clean cooperative Undertakings on
a big scale, the present turmoil, at
home like the present war abroad,
may be worth all that it has cost us.
A winters work organizing on SEN
sible lines among ourselves for con-
structive work for us all, would be
starting our whole population on the
opposite road from the destructive
program we have been. hearing about
for few months.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01

A vote for these men assures tn
defeat of un-American, Social
istic administration in Idaho.
Republican Ticket
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Borah, William E.
Gooding, Frank r.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS
Smith, Addison T.
GOVERNOR
Davis, D. w.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Moore, c. c.
SECRETARY OF STATE
Jones, r. o.
STATE AUDITOR
Gallett. Edward G..
STATE TREASURER
Eagleson, John w.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Black, Roy L.
INSPECTOR OF MINES
Bell, Robert N.
SUPT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
Redfield, Ethel E.
STATE SENATOR
Lee, William A.
STATE REPRESENTATIVES
Yorgesen, Soren
Robbins, Lewis
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
First District
Christensen, James
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Second District
Bills, R. Gordon
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Third District
Fugate, M. A.
CLERK DISTRICT COURT
Fisher, F. M.
SHERIFF
Simmons, A. II.
PROBATE JUDGE
Good, James e.
COUNTY SUPT. OF SCHOOLS
Faulconer, Grace
ASSESSOR
Malcolm, E. T.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
Adair, Ralph w.
CORONER
Peck, E. T.
The form of ballot has been
amended. Take this list to the polls.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01

golden calf, or>they brought in the
choicest of their sheep and oxen for
the sacrifice, but in the final, sober
moments when the light within be-
comes the guiding star, they come
back to the original source of the
best that Is known. And those that
stick to the false Gods the longest
miss the most and find it the hardest
to get back into the harmony of the
former associations.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01

Continued on page five
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01
STATE AND COUNTY TICKET

A vote for these men assures the
defeat of un-American, Social
istic administration in Idaho.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-12
NEXT PATRIOTIC SUNDAY
AT FORT ATKINSON

The following program has been
arranged for next Sunday at Fort At
kinson:
At 10 a. m.-Parade headed by JEFF
ferson County Defense band.
At 1890 a. m.-Program at the big
tent in the city park.
At 11:3O a. m.-Pageant, when
Liberty Calls" directed by Miss Cor
nelius Cooper.
At IL m.-Picnic dinner in the park
At. 2 p. m.-Concert, Jefferson Coun-
ty Defense band.
At 2:30 p. m.-Community singing,
led by Prof 3. B. Gordon Of Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, assisted by the Lii
berty Chorus
At p. m.-One act play, "The
Girls Over Here" given by the Lii
berty Sextette.
AT $3.50 p. m.-PatriOtic address, w.
j. Kershaw of Milwaukee.
At $50 p. m.-Basket lunch in the
park.
At 1880 p. m.-Concert by Victory
orchestra of Fort Atkinson
At p. m.-Liberty chorus and COM
munity singing.
At $3.50 p. m.-Tableau, Immortality
of Service.
At 8:45 p. m.-Patriotic address,
Captain Albert Stumpf, Camp Grant.