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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19

The time is most opportune for I'm.
dertaking the work outlined by the
chamber of commerce Although
there Is still much confusion in the
business world and much to be ac-
complished In the way of readjust-
ing conflicting interests, the organi-
zation of business interests through
out the country will contribute much
toward restoring order out OF chaos
and when that is accomplished all
opinions agree that the country is
destined to enter upon long period
of prosperity. The men who assem-
bled at Moscow evidently had this in
view and their purpose was to adopt
plans that will enable the northern
part of the state to secure its share
of the general prosperity. This sec
ton of Idaho needs capital to develop
its natural resources, and in this re-
spect there is no more inviting field
in the west. New transportation
lines are needed. highways must be
constructed and water power must
be developed. These are fields of en-
terprise which would in time be
brought to the attention Of capita
through individual effort, but il
would be a slow process The cham
Der of commerce, representing as Il
does the substantial business inter.
ests of every county in northern
Idaho, is in position to accomplish il
months what would require years fol
the individual, and in the result!
every individual will share in thu
benefits.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
THE METAL OUTLOOK.
(The Manufacturer, Portland)

| CINE MANUFACTURER, fOTlidHu)
1t Is easy to theorize about the flu
ture market for copper, lead, zinc
etc., quote figures and pile up stats
tics. The fact remains that these
great basic industries of western min
ing have gone through a hard six
months of stagnant market conditions
and low prices.
The readjustment in western metal
mining to peace conditions has been
more severe than in probably any
other line of industry because it was
almost wholly occupied in war work
Domestic and foreign building and
construction was at standstill, hence
when the war ended the bottom drop
ped out Of metal.
The man with vision, however, is
looking ahead. 1t is a fact that never
in the history of the world was there
so much new building and repair and
construction work needed in all lines.
Nearly everything from barn to a
transcontinental railroad must be re-
paired or built new. 1t took little
time to catch our breath and square
away on a peace instead of a war
program and it will take Europe a
little longer than it has us. But Con
struction work must go ahead. In
fact 1t Is now under way and we all
hau;p m fool tho ftll1 NJ n
A salesman for one of Americas
largest paint houses recently said
that March. 1918. was their record
month, with virtually 100 per cent
war business. They thought their
business would go flat for months af-
ter the war but he said March, 1919,
without any war orders, broke the
1918 record"
The public has become convinced
that building will not be cheaper for
a long time to come, in fact indica-
lions are that lumber will advance be-
yond 1918 figures. Therefore with
high wages and high prices for farm
crops. both Of which are higher in
than the cost Of building
lumber, metals, etc., there
Is no object in delaying building, as
before prices fall again, food prices
and wages will come down materially.
The world will use metals in many
new ways as the machinery age Is at
hand and there is every reason to be-
ieve that once peace Is again estab-
ished, western metal mining will
'urpass in volume, even Its war rec
,rds.
In the meantime. reduced cost Of
production through increased labor
and freedom from strikes,
viii tide the mining industry over
his lean period.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
THAT "PLAIN PEOPLE" STUFF.
(National Republican,

President Wilson continually talks
about his special understanding and
appreciation of the workers" and
the plain people" Where did he
learn so much tbout them? He was
either college student or professor
continuously from 1874, when he en-
tered Davidson college as a student,
until he left Princeton university to
become governor of New Jersey, ex-
cepting two years he spent in an I'M
successful effort to acquire a law
practice at Atlanta. Since 1902 he
has been continuously a politician and
office holder. Before he became
candidate for office he had pronounce
ed views about labor unions. and I'M
profitable servants. and ignorant
Crews from the south of Europe,
which did not indicate that he was
lying awake nights worrying over the
welfare of the proletariat. He has
been surrounded by wealth and social
and educational exclusiveness all his
life. He is the most secluded and ex-
elusive president the American people
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
WiLSONlAN GEMS.
(Harvey's Weekly

(f1dTVeyS W6chlyJ
From the presidents Memorial Day
speech
1.-The peoples of the world are awake
and the peoples of the world are In
the saddle. Private counsels Of
statesmen can not now and can not
hereafter determine the destinies OF
nations
They seem to be giving fair imi-
tation.
These men did not come across the
seas merely to defeat Germany and
her associated powers in the war;
They thought they did.
Never before have men crossed
the seas to foreign land to fight for
cause of humanity which they did
not pretend was particularly their
own but knew was the cause Of hu-
mainly and of mankind"
Shades of Lafayette and Rocham-
beau!
"The old order of which we are
ashamed and that we are ready to
forget"
The order of Washington-asham
ed!
"The thought that these men left
| us. is the great instrument
which we have just erected in the
league of nations"
And not one had ever heard of 1t.
IF we are not the servants of the
opinion of mankind we are Of all men
the littlest the most contemplate,
the least gifted with vision"
Notably those sworn to serve the
United States.
81 found the statesmen with whom
| I was about to deal united in the idea
that we must have league of ma
| TONS
Clemenceau, in particular. And
| yet
There is something better, If pos
sible, that man can give than his
life, and that is his living spirit, to a
service that is not easy, to resist
counsels that are hard to resist, to
stand against purposes that are dill
cult to stand against and to say Here
stand I. consecrated in the spirit of
the men who were once my comrades
and who are now gone, and who left
me under eternal bonds of fidelity"
Enough!
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
r EPU BLIC AN PRESIDENTIAL
TIMBER is PLENTIFUL.

A few months ago an association
was organized in Ohio for the specific
purpose of booming General Pershing
for the republican nomination for
president AS nothing has been heard
of the movement since the first an
nouncement, it Is assumed that either
General Pershing himself called it off,
or the promoters soon discovered that
the rank and file of the republican
party, which will name the republic
can candidate, are not to be STAN
peded into support of any particular
ton is to be made. The organization
in California that is now preparing to
flood the country with literature and
pictures in behalf of Senator Hiram
Johnson will doubtless meet the same
reception with respect to the candi-
dacy of their favorite son.
The fact is there is no dearth of
available men for the republican
nomination, men who have the char
acter, ability and experience which
stamp them at once as statesmen
who measure up to the requirements
OF this highest of all political posi-
tons. 1t is not necessary for any of
these or their friends to establish a
bureau of publicity as a means of
making their qualifications and rec
of that class have frequently been
known to react against the man in
whose behalf they have been exerted.
Presidents are not made in that way.
Take the case of Senator Hiram
Johnson, who is to be doomed for
the republican nomination and Of
course with his full knowledge and
consent. There are few intelligent
citizens who are not now familiar
with the conspicuous features of his
career and have fixed opinion of his
fitness for the presidency which no
amount of machine made self-lauda-
ton will change in his favor. On the
contrary, it will more likely operate
against him.
The fact is the American people do
not desire to see mad scramble
made for the presidential nomination.
Il Is the most exalted position in the
world, and they like to feel that they
have selected their candidate through
recognition of his preeminent fitness
and his distinguished service, rather
than to feel that 1t was accomplished
through a paid advertising campaign.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
FARMERS OPPOSED TO SOLDIERS
LAND BILL.

The National Grange is maintaining a
strong lobby in Washington for the
special purpose of defeating the Mon
dell-Smoot soldier reclamation land
bill, according to a Washington cor
respondent. 1t is almost unbelievable
that the organized farmers Of the
country would oppose this measure,
and particularly on the ground of OBJ
lection stated which is purely selfish.
The farmers having grown fat on war
prices fixed by the government and
which still prevail evidently fear that
the reclamation of desert and swamp
land as proposed in the bill, will add
new competition, increase production
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19

have ever experienced. Yet Mr.. WILL
son continually turns patronizing
phrases about the humber classes"
and "the simple firesides" and the
plain jackets" as II he had been
rail splitter or blacksmith or some
thing all his life. The truth is that
the only way to understand the COM
mon or garden variety of folks Is to
be one of them and to live with them.
Mr.. Wilson, with all his affectation
of undying love for the proletariat,
knows only one thing about those he
calls 'the plain people" and that is
that in this country they have a lot
of votes. This Is the plain, unvar-
nished truth of the matter and the
country is really getting rather ia
tigued with this continuous flow Of
college rhetoric about the common
people,"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19

and eventually force reduction in
the prices Of farm products. The
grange is said to be threatening con-
gressmen with opposition from the
farmers in order to prevent the pass
age of the bill which would immedi-
ately give employment to many
thousand soldiers and eventually pro-
vide homes for from $4,000 to 100000
men who served in the army and navy
against Germany. Not. content. with
this selfish and unpatriotic contention,
the Grange has also undertaken to
show that the arid lands of the west,
even when irrigated, are not fit for
cultivation, and that for the govern
ment to encourage soldiers to go upon
them is in effect adopting gold brick"
methods in dealing with our returning
veterans.
The National Grange can hardly ex-
pect popular sympathy in their oppo-
sition to this bill. and we shall be
greatly surprised and disappointed If
the organization Is able to intimidate
members of congress into voting
against this measure Certainly the
farmers who have derived such enOr-
nous profits from the public through
war prices for their products, and who
are still holding prices at war level or
higher, should be the last to protest
against giving the soldiers a chance
to acquire homestead. Compare
lively few soldiers will want to go on
the land. but it is certainly the wish
of every true American that every SOL
der should have the opportunity to
do so If he desires.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
President Passes Prohibition Buck
(Harvey's Weekly

wanted to have them relieved of the
odious prohibition but that congress
refused and thwarted him.
We do not think the trick will work.
The president is responsible for the
law, and, despite the advice" he says
he has received, has full power to
suspend or recall it If he wishes. 1t
is up to him to deal with it.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
ARE WE PREPARING FOR WAR
ON MEXICO?

The quartermaster's department Of
the United States army has advertis-
ed for bids for the construction of
thirty army posts along the Mexican
border in Texas, New Mexico and Ar
iona, which will require the con-
struction of 997 buildings to accom-
modate infantry, artillery and cavalry
units. This announcement coming at
a time when the entire world is about
to be drawn together through the
beneficent bonds OF universal brother
hood we naturally wonder what is the
meaning of this belligerent exhibition
toward our neighbor to the south. Is
there no longer merit in "watchful
waiting?" Have we thrown pride to
the winds in our eagerness to fight
Really our purpose or policy or ma
tional aim, or whatever may be call
ed our attitude toward other nations
has become so confused since we
moved the White House to Paris that
in our bewilderment we can only
adopt the form of speech of dis
tihguished democrat and ask where
are we at?' Commenting upon this
hostile move toward Mexico, the New
York Sun says
1T is well for the people of this
country to remember that for
generations the United States and
Mexico were peaceful neighbors,
cooperating with each other in
the maintenance of international
amity and the promotion of in
ternational commerce Amer-
can capital and American brains
helped to develop the rich re-
sources of Mexico; good will ex-
listed between the two nations.
But today, after six years and
Nih W liloillhS VI tIleSlueHt wv IL
sons policies of 1dealism,' after
his rhetorical tributes to his de-
votion to democracy, after his Oft
repeated declarations of his love
for humanity in general. a love to
serve which he would sacrifice
the sovereignty of the United
States in the league of nations,
the most friendly thing we can do
Is to build row of forts on the
Mexican border and line the in
ternational boundary with can
non to shoot peace and good will
into a people whose transactions
with us were conducted on high
plane of friendship and mutual
benefit for sixty-nine years with
out the aid of anything more for
midable than the frontiersmans
pistol"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
Brothers
K L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution

Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution
Close to the heart Of their country
One from over the foam
From the long, hard fight
To the loved home-light,
And one who didn't come home.
Joy for the one returning,
And Joy for the one that lies
Where the battle sod
Knows the peace of God
Under the silenced skies.
AS one they went with the legions
Heart true to their country's call;
And who all would give
That their land may live
They fail not when they fall
And greet the home returning
with joy that shines through tears!
And Preside place
For dreaming face
Through y-giving years!
Close to the heart Of their country
One from over the foam,
And God that gave
hero's grave
To the one who didn't come home.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
KEENAN, COMPANY.
Prepares to Resume Work on Pony
Gulch Property.

Prepares to Resume Work on Pony
GuIch Property.
Colonel Chester T. KEENAN,, accom-
panied by R. H. Blevins, of Lynchburg,
Va, visited Wallace and the North
Side the first of the week. Mr.. Blev
ms has an Office in Spokane and is as
ISOLATED with Colonel KEENAN, in min
| ing operations in this district, north
ern Washington and In British Col
umbia. The large holdings of the
KEENAN, Mining company, on Pony
gulch, were visited and Colonel Ken
nan stated that arrangements were
being perfected to resume work at
an early date. What is reputed to be
tungsten in the northwest has been
opened on the KEENAN, property, and
at least two gold bearing veins have
also been developed to an extent that
proves their value. The ground upon
which these deposits have been open
ed Is what was formerly known as the
Fay Templeton. The ground was also
rich in placer gold and 1t was while
being worked by placer miners many
years ago that the tungsten vein was
uncovered. Much tungsten was found
in the gravel. Its weight and color at
tracing the attention Of the miners.
but its value was unknown at that
time, in fact it had no value then In
addition to the tungsten and gold,
the KEENAN, company's ground is also
believed to cover the westerly extern
sion of well known lead-silver and zinc
veins crossing Beaver creek. About
a year ago an option was taken on the
KEENAN, property by John A. Percival,
president of the Interstate Callahan.
but 1t was relinquished a few months
ago owing to the unsettled metal con-
Blaine Ward. a stakeholder in
the KEENAN, company and also having
other large mining interests in that
section, is in charge of the property.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19

SO the president passes the buck
or tries to; for we have little ex-
pectation that his political manoeuvre
will succeed. Having, with his own
hand picked congress, imposed upon
the country wartime prohibition,
| which is to go into effect not in war
time, but after the war is over, he
now seeks to throw upon the new
congress responsibility for the en-
barrassment Of either maintaining or
repeating it, and for the odium which
seems sure to attach to whichever
course is adopted.
Let the circumstances be well re-
membered. The prohibition provision
was driven through congress under
whip and spur as something quite ne
cessary to the presidents successful
suffrage; which, however, was denied
him, and yet without which the war
was won, after all. 1t was put
through in the most odious and dis
ingenious forms: as a rider" on an
appropriation bill--a Legislative free
booter," as Senator Spooner would
have called it. And it was to remain
in effect until the president should de-
clare rehabilitation of the army to
have been effected.
The president now asks congress to
repeal it. 1t was upposed--congress
supposed when it passed the thing at
his behest-that he could himself end
1t by proclamation, whenever demo-
bilization was completed. But he says
that he is advised" that he can not
do SO without legislative aid.
Apparently 1t Is on his own author
ity that he declares rehabilitation to
have proceeded SO far that it would
now be quite safe and proper to un-
chain the demon rum. That state
ment will, we are sure, surprise the
average citizen, who has no more
knowledge than that which he gets
from the papers, and who therefore
imagines rehabilitation to be very far
from complete. Apparently there
must have been great holding back
of the news Of arrivals and demobil-
ization Of troops. as there was Of the
news of casualties, and there must
have been hundreds Of thousands Of
soldiers returned home of which the
as yet knows nothing. 1t is
to be wondered where they are kept
in hiding II the secretary Of war
can do such thing as that. he sure
~ deserves the presidents testimon-
al as "one Of the ablest public off,
,ials I have ever known"
SO the president wants congress to
10 something about 1t, right away,
luick before the law goes into effect
IN July 1. II congress should vote
Upon 1t, he shrewdly reckons, 1t would
20 certain to get itself into trouble;
+ 1t voted for repeal. 1t would incur
he resentment and hostility Of the
dry" forces. "See!" all the, Creels
would cry, 1.-THE president had pro-
ibition law enacted, and the wicked
epublicans have repealed 1t and made \
he nation drunk again." If, on the. i
Their hand, congress should vote 4
gainst repeal. 1t would incur the dis
leasure Of very large part Of the
enera eppblic, who have II cfeeled |
ito their ears that the president Il
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
BIackhawk.

Lon Hedrick, one Of the early day
prospectors Of Mullan, returned to his
home near Goldendale, WASH, last
Tuesday, having been engaged during
the past month In work on the Black
hawk. Of which he and C. M. Baillie
are the owners. The Blackhawk Joins
the Morning on the south and is on a
parallel vein. The face Of the tunnel
In which the work is being done shows
about a foot Of oxidized material
which looks very promising for an ore
shoot. is the way Mr.. Hedrick describ-
ed the showing. He expects to return
later in the summer and continue the
work.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
WORK..
u. F. Ferris)

Is there anything the matter?
Work it of!
Are you growing fat or fatter?
Work 1t off!
II your brain is in a mix,
If your livers' out of fix,
If you're crosser than two sticks
Work 1t off!
II you're suffering from sadness,
Work 1t off!
If you're on the verge Of madness,
Work it off!
If the world has slapped your face,
Downed you, kicked you out of place
Show it you're still in the race
Get to work!
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19
WAR METAL PRODUCERS TO RE-
cEIvE PROTECTION.

Producers of tungsten. magnesite,
pyrites, antimony, sulphur manganese
and other minerals who were encour-
aged to make large expenditures under
a special act of congress to insure a
supply of these metals during the war,
will have hearing before the ways
and means committee Of the house for
the purpose of securing tariff protec-
ton on their products. Some of these
will be or have been reimbursed by
the government for their losses due to
the sudden termination of the war, re-
endorsement being made when 1t can
be clearly shown that their loss was
sustained through representations
from the government that there would
be a market for their products.
But aside from the losses sustained
through the signing of the armistice
and the sudden end of the war de-
mand, the domestic production of
these metals during the war under a
guaranteed market proved that with
proper tariff protection the domestic
supply could be produced from dom
In ,i,.n nd to on,
that the producers desire to be heard
by the ways and means committee. 1t
Is gratifying to know that the facts
they have to present win fall upon
friendly ears, and that as result
congress will give the war mineral
producers the protection to which
they are entitled.
But we can not say as much for the
president when the measure finally
reaches him for approval. In fact, If
the president had shown friendly at
titude to these war mineral producers,
they would now be enjoying temper
arily the relief they are to ask from
congress. The war mineral law which
authorized the president to purchase
these and many other minerals enum-
Grated at a price not less than the cost
of production, contained this provision
also:
''The president is further auth
orzed, upon finding that importa-
ton into the United States Of any
of the necessaries covered by this
act is likely to result in loss to
the United States on any neces-
saries which 1t may have acquir-
ed hereunder, to ascertain, fix, and
proclaim such rate of duty upon
such imported necessaries as shall
be sufficient to adequately protect
the United States from any such
loss"
Provision is made in the war miner
ais law that the act shall cease to ex-
list two years after the proclamation
OF peace Prior to the war most of the
minerals covered by the act had been
obtained from foreign countries and
as soon after the armistice as ships
were available their importation was
resumed, which had the effect to put
the domestic producers out of bust
ness, In this emergency the president
could have exercised the authority
conferred upon him in the extract from
the law above quoted and proclaimed
tariff on the minerals which would
have kept out the foreign products or
at least have forced them to enter on
an equal basis with the domestic pro-
duct. Having failed to do this, pro-
ducers are now appealing to congress
for the relief denied them by the
president, whose excessive desire to
serve humanity seems to be directed
to foreign lands rather than to the
people of his own country.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19

The wind has great deal to do
with making the weather-vane.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-19

There Is no rhyme for silver, but It
tineIes with gold very nicely.