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The Connecticut labor press., 1919-10-18
Future of the Women of Britain Lies Wholly in the Hands of Labor
By BEATRICE FORBES ROBERTSON HALE

There alternatives before the of Britain. There SO0O0 marry the people
  these will chance indus try But the labor agators their will be loggerheads will be the for will be unable employment this there will be nothing colonies Their future lies virtually in the hands of labor.
 wrote in Femins, if it live thing cannot the elimination of children lives; afford trust only life but for that The time has already when achieving their work the upbngng of their ch we'll complete freedom both children unmaginabe changes conditions housing nursing eduon cooking cleaning and industry and the professions 1t is the biggest job of the feminist movement and it's fail the whole thing hangs"
 These "unimagab changes already coming about England result of the and home @ community @ education and indus try being put on a basis
 The reconstruction of the British reaching that years of would have called soc but people have moved forward Q
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-10-18
MEATS Fl

E. Schoenberger & Sons, 615 Howard Ave-, 339 Grand Ave, 3o0 State St., II Shelton Ave, 151 Dixwell Ave, and 28 Congress Ave.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-10-18
FURNITURE

FURNITURE Bu1lard's, o1-o7 Orange St. Collins Furniture Co.,, 40o State St. w. B. Hall, 458 to 40 State near Elm St. s. Stein, 57 Broadway.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
REPORT ILLUSTRATES
GAIN IN STEEL OUTPUT
Increase OF Nearly Two Million Tons
is Shown i'm Statement of Steel
Corporation.
SELL MUNICIpAL BONDS
Directors Of Chandler Motor Com
pany Declare Quarterly Dividend
of Sc and Recommend Change in
Stock Ccrtificatcs-Othcr Gossip.

NEW YORK, sept. .io.-As iilustrat-
ins the increased iron and steel bust
ness OF the country, the report OF the
United States Steel Corporation ycs;er-
day Of lis untitled orders on hand Aug
ust 81, IS important. These orders
were e.ole.io3 IONS. an Increase in the
month OF Angus; ot 55ofi. tons, and
an increase OF nearly 100000 tons
compared with the orders on the books
on May 5! last. They are almost iden-
.tical With the volume o. unified busi-
mess on October 81, 1915. before the
great VA pressure had assumed
momentum
New YORK cry opened bids yeste--
hriet period and responses from bank
tn- institutions We're LIBERAL. Salo-
mon Brothers and Iiutzler. the Chase
National Bank. and the National Bank
aci,oun; on a i$2 basis.
one of the ia-ses; lending inst!tu-
tonS in Wal street offered sixty and
ninety-day time money on ali industrial
collateral a; per cen; :or both periods
and its offerings We're eagerly taken
up. Doubtless many times the amount
offered could be readily placed
Financial Gossip.
Continental can raised It's quarterly
dividend from ll-2 per cen; TO 81
I.eh!gh VALLEY Coal Sales Company
declared quarterly dividend OF s..
Famous Players Laskey declared re-
Sular quarterly dividend 81 50.
National Cloak and sui; declared re-
cuia. quarterly dividend OF ii per
cent on common.
S,ee! mills in the Chicago distr!c; are
working al 90 per cen; capacity.
Thirty companies. representing 81
per cent OF the producers made in
August. 2.7s6.0Sl tons % steel !nEo;s.
IAN increase over July Of -3,.'o' tons.
600 600 Of oranges and lemons this
year, and S3.os2 carloads o: ;nem Mere
shipped. the largest on record. as VAS
the crop itself.
Schafrer OIL and Refining Compa ny
declared the first dividend on its pre-
terred stock 3-i per cent.
PITTSBURGH. Lake Erie and Bcsse!ner
Railroad declared regular semi-annual
dividend OF / IL per cent on common
Duluth Superior Traction declared re
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
HOLD PRELIMINARY HEARING
AT KNOXVILLE ON THURSDAY
Nlnudc Moore Describes Alleged Dcs-
pcrntc Fight in Defending Herself
Against Hnrth.

KNOXVILLE. TENN. Sept. 1o,-The
preliminary hearing OF AIaudc Moore.
confessed assa:lant of Leroy Harth.
pominent young business man of this
She Will plead self-defensc. claiming
tina; she shot Harth on lonely high
way about eight miles west of Knox
vile late Monday night in defending
herself against him. She claims he
icrkcd her from the automobile and
III the melee ensuing. his pistol dropped
from his pocket. She grabbed the
weapon and Shot him. fearing furt!,r
bodily harm.
Thc girl IS now in jail. She was
apprchcndcd early last evening. hay
ing been in a cave near Inc city the
greater part Of Yesterday. II has de-
veloped that about three weeks ago
4 suit for $1,000 damages was in
stitutcd against Harth by Mrs. Luell,
Temple Vines. or Memphis. who was
playing at a local thcatcr. when she
charged uarth offered indig entities
wh!ch she and her husband reseNtcd.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

THREE Lost, Saturday night b.tw 60
twenty .nrst ana Marshall streets and 80.
tog M"sby street. automobile tire raGked
Win Two urss. lamp ANA license No. is1y
l'ind"r please return TO GOO East Broad
street ana srcur. reward. T. u. Bakers
Shoe Repairing
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
URGES RAIL MITIGATION
senator IcnroOt SnyS Prcscnt System
Means Bankruptcy of Lines
"Sky High" Rates.
Try Associated rrcss

WASHINGTON. Sept. Discontinued
operations OF the railroads as at pres
cnt Will result IN bankruptcy "or sky
high" crates. Senator Lcnroot. Wiscon-
sin. today declared before the House
Interstate Commerce Committee. hear
inG on the railroad reorganization
problem.
lie urged adoption OF his plan cali
inS for creation OF a national railways
corporation to provide for ihc uniiica-
ton OF the roads with an operating
hoard OF eleven members, chosen from
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
state commissions. business man. far
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
HOG PRICES SUFFER SHARP
BREAK AT STOCK YARDS
Reduction OF Moro Than 81 n Hundred
weight In Fortnight Reported
mt Chicago.
Ivy Assnciaind rrrss.l

CHICAGO. Sept. l0.-Thc principal
basis of the cost OF meat was shown
today to have been reduced more than
81 a hundrcdwcight in the last fort
night.
Thousands OF live hogs at the Chicago
stock yards went unSold this morning.
some as low as S14.25 whereas on .Au-
gust Is the advent of hog prices under
Si6 WAS hailed as promising notable
relief to sufferers from high cost of
living. Even before today,s decline. tho
drop in hog values OF late was de-
clared TO be the sharpcst since 1907.
At the board of trade today. both
grain and provisions showed IA down.
ward tendency as result of the ar
rival OF the si4 hog.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
CuIr\Co rRoprCE MARKET.

Price cf hogs had a Weakening cfoct TO-
day on the corn market Rallies WHICH tnoF
,'ia-e failed 70 last The close was heavy
:, 20 ;, ne, lower Oats lost sc 10 i'.c
IN r.cvislcas the outcome ranged tTom 80
decline 10 sc advance.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.

CHICAGO Sep; lo-HcEs; Receipts. l'.Hlo
market slow. s. love. than yesterdays aver
ages Piss. sisiNG s!s.ei.
cattle Receipts. 1900: market SLOW Zee
steers heavyweight. SIS 2 $3.50; YEA
calves h.ndyweirht. S!a.15 q sSl.25.
Sheer: Receipts. 900: market unsettled
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

WASHINGTON. Sept. lo-Sena;or
Fletcher of Florida who WAS recently
struck and seriously injured by a street
car. returned IL his sea; III tho Senate
today. n.uCh IMPROVED in heAltM.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

SAVANNAH. GA. Sept. io--Turpentinc
steady, 55A. sales. $50: receipts. $50: ship
moutS g.: stock. AS.
Rosin nrm: sales S:o: rcccints. Loot: ship
mentS.. log: stock; it:eSS Quote y. l6@:
II. Is -: l.. 1890: r. i1.l5: 6. i1.5o: II. 1875:
|. 1900: X. 2o.o5: NJ. c0.S9. y. ESQ: VIZ 2e.3o:
MN .sioJ
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
FEWER CIGARS AND MORE
CIGARETTES USED IN 1919
Latter shows Consumption More Than
Double rhrt or iW3-WOmcn
the Cnusc.
tBy Associated Prcssl

WASHINGTON. September 10 -
Fewer cigars and less chewing and
smoking tobacco were used in the lis
cal year 1919 than in any of the last
seven years. Internal revenue statis-
ties just issued by the Treasury De-
rartment show Cigarettes. however.
SHOW rapidly increasing use. this
years consumption on which taxes
have been paid. being more than two
and half times larger than in 1913.
one reason conjectured for the in
creased consumption of cigarettes is
the increase OF smoking among women.
The official report. however. does not
touch upon that.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
NEW YORK LIVE STOCK MARKET.

NEW YORK. Sept. lo.Beeves iower
caves. steady veals. FI5ea .2S,ce; cu!ls.
as no n si7 60; skim milk and fec calvcs.
SO oNTi $500. Sheer and lambs steady. Sheen.
e, =, 81 N: cuils. coGsiro Lambs. HtNtr
s. -: cuiis slid1 n $500. HOGS. lower. at
S'a J.1 4, /.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET.

iNERPOOI. sept ,o-Cotton; S0ot IN
GOOD demand: rrices Good TiddlirC.
: -: iuliy middl!ne $50; middlinc. ITO:
in,y r,iddiin-. - ~. good ordinary. 10: o.
dInarv i567 Sales. 500 bales. Including
30 American Receipts. $500 bales, includ-
inr u 500 American Futures closed barely
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

mcrs. railroad employees and stock
holders.
The Plumb plan is ABSOLUTELY i'm
possible" asserted the Wisconsin
Senator.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

sular quarterly dividend OF 81 on pre-
tcrr-i stock.
American Coal Company declared
sem;-annual dividend OF So.
ST. Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific
declared regular quarterly IA per
cent on preferred.
C,ucible steel declared regular
quarterly dividend OF IA per cent on
preferred.
Brunswick Bake -Collcndar Company
cent on preferred.
Standard safe Deepest, Company de-
cla"ed regular quarterly dividend OF
= 10 per cent.
Union CARBIDE and Carbon declared
regular quarterly dividend OF Sl.2j.
Ccr,a!n-Tecd Products declared re-
Gular quarterly dividends OF 81 per
cent on first and second preferred
stocks.
Foundry Declares Dividend.
American Brake shoe and Foundry
declared regular quarterly dividends
OF ; per cent on preferred. and 81
Pc cent on common stock
United Frui; declared regular quar-
terry dividend o: 2i-2 per cent.
National Licorice declared regular
quarterly OF IL per cent on preferred.
porphyry Copper Companies declared
The same quarterly dividends AS three
'uunthS aso--Ctah. $50: chino. %
cents. Ray. 80 cents. and Nevada, 81 / .
cents.
Indian Gove-n'rcn; has rkt Is pcr
cent export duty on hides and skins
on all sales. except TO England and
British colonies. spain has also put
an export. duty on hides and skins
Directors OF Chandler Motor declared
a quarterly dividend OF So. and re.
commended that the present stock OF
100000 shares be exchanged for "'V.-
GOO shares OF no par value. present
stockholders to receive three shares
OF new stock Tor one now held, which
would use up 2lo.ooo shares Of the
3cO. 900 and leave 10000 shares IN the
Conpany's treasury in place OF $4,000
shares ot 800 mar now so held. Fur
thv- the directors recomMS ina {
dividends on the new stock be at the
rate OF s. per annum.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

Will Investigate Camps.
WASH lNGTON. Sept. l0.-A Congress
Sioral committee, beaded bv Represent
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
AUTOMOBILES
Automobiles ror Sa

ARMSTRONG MOTOR co,
4el5 West broad; Phone Eoul..a.d cscs
Common wealth TOURING cars and Oneida
Trucks.
AuIOMoBiLE rAlNTI%G-Cau Randolph
pcis. High class WORK. Calls Painting
% To-. West Broad Street.
"a Dii.iAC FOR sale. in pcrfect condition:
ne" one man top. tires. Windshield. and
SrombcTs carburetor. y bargain for d
QUICK buyer. EanHoiph ISIS. fiih Street
iatnge. Al: North Firth.
SiiA LhEE CAR cheap Motor MechanIcs'
CO. rear III tanuNcr Avenue
COMMERCIAL. AUTO BODIES and wagons
Richardson Bros, bis lSroon Avenue.
DEPENDA BILE USED CARS for safe At
lantic Motor Corp. 1887 IVES, Broad
SI:.t.
DODGE--FoT sale. Dodge touring car. 1915
model Phone boulevard l.+.-W.
DODGE AND fOEU-F!v-- passenger Dodge.
t,y.. !aEs.nGcr Ford :l2 North Eighth.
FORD roAdst,r in good condition: one new
FORD on Ford touring. run very IittIc.
MIN VINO 90 extras. also 3-paHsefIgCr
StuLchaHcr in good condition; viii sarrince.
ltilh street Garage. 81. North Fifth
FpRD--lc20 Ford touring. brand new /,
south Tenth street.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
NAVAL. STORES

steady. September. 17aS: October. 1876: Jan
uary. 1907: March. 1870: May. l7N July.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

EMEKGENCY road service. 2i-hour day
sunday included. Call Randolph tc11
Richmond Auto Service Corporation. 100
West Rroad Street
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
Service MISUNDERSTANDING.

ACcESSORlES--A fun line or automobt
accessories. NaSO Auto Supply Co, 81
West nroad Street.
AUTO BODIES-we build commercial su,,
mobil. bodies. repairing and paintlnsl
ThOs. H. Duke & Co. sos BROOK Avenue
AUTO REPAIRING and everything. That's
all. Foukrad Il Son. i22i Hull Street.
Madison 2is0
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

RICHMOND AUTO SHOP 5 =. Eighteenth
Street. Second hand parts all cars;
also lot lat
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11

AUTOMOBILES FOR HIRE-3l5o 10 S,
hour. Parker Bros. SCI W Broad
Street. Call Madison 5059.
AUTOS hired. $3.50. 81. 50 per hour Dan
icis Cal boulevard 227
MAXWELL and Chevrolet cars for hire
$50 up. Cali Randolph ;Al; night. Mad
ison 1855
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
Auto Livery-uarnges.

SANDY BROS & COTTRELL for ForC
service. None better. with E!chmon,
Motor Co. Broad Al Tenth.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
Funcrui Directors.
Lost and Found

CAPE-Lost. navy blue pc Tuesday night
. in West End. Can boulevard ii1V.W. |
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
Sizes: ~ to 10 years

macy; take a tablespoonful in a glass
of water before breakfast and in a
few days your. kidneys will act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, COM
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush and stimuli
ate the kidneys, and to neutralize the
acids in urine so it no longer causes
irritation, thus ending bladder weak
ness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes delightful efferves-
cent lithia- water drink which every
one should take now and then to keep
the kidneys clean and active and the
blood pure, thereby avoiding serious
kidney complications
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
QUIT MEAT WHEN
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Take gass of Salts before break
fast if your Back hurts or
BLADDER is troubling you.


No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make a mistake by
flushing the kidneys OCCASIONALLY, says
a well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys,
they become overworked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then we get sick. Nearly all rheu-
matism, headaches, liver trouble,
nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness
and urinary disorders come from
sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding,
stop eating meat and get about four
ounces Of Jad Salts from any phaf-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11

department of David's sent the store
box of peaches that are believed to
be the largest ever sent to Moscow.
They are on exhibition in the show
window of the big store. 1t requires
48 extra large peaches to fill peach
box and box containing only that
number is regarded as extra fine
peaches, but there are only 81 of these
peaches in the box which has two
extra cleats in order to make room
for the big peaches at that. They are
of the yellow freestone variety and
are certainly mammoth peaches.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11

Lairds Visit Moscow.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Laird, of Pot
latch, accompanied by Miss Marian
Mendenhall, of Duluth, Minnesota, a
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
More Rain Last Night

section after midnight Wednesday
night, and there was light rain fall,
accompanied by bright lightning and
heavy thunder. There was but slight
rain fall, and Thursday morning the
sun shone bright and warm, but in
dications are for more rain and the
weather bureau predicts showers and
cooler weather for tonight and Fri
day.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
Latah County Records.

Wednesday, September 10, 1919
Rel.-Dorothy P. Thull (Horne) to
Mamie Hampton, R. M. 11-16-18.
w. D.-Mamie Hampton to Andrew
Wilmot, 81; 7, 8, 8, 10, II, 1876, Julia
eta; also tract beg. at SW cor. lot II,
6.
R. M-Andrew Wilmot to Annie
Horne, $4,000; above.
W. DC. H., Bert and Ethel Oder
lin to S. J. Boone, $4,000; W1aSWA
IS; E1ASEA II; N7sNEA 2O-41-5 w.
w. D.-Melissa 7. Raymond to w.
W. Burr, SITS; lot 8, VIZ lot 9-13,
North add, Genesee.
Consent and deed of TT. wy.-across
road district No. 26.
Read today's news today in The
Daily Star-Mirror.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
Wanted-Jobs For Students.

Many students attending the Uni
versity are dependent upon their be-
ing able to earn part of their expenses
at least, doing odd jobs, such as split
ting and stacking wood, carrying coal,
cleaning windows, janitor work, stem
ographic work, clerking stores after
Moons and Saturday, moving lawns,
cleaning yards, spading gardens,
table waiting, furnace tend, press
work, chauffeur, and auto cleaning.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11

Many lady students are anxious to-
render domestic service for board and
room. Any person desiring to secure
the services of student for any of
the above or any other job not herein
enumerated, please call the Bursar's
Office, Phone 81. 201-315
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
Dance Friday Night

There will be the regular weekly
dance by the American Legion at the
big tent on Main street Friday night.
Man Brothers orchestra will be in at
tendance. Everybody invited. The
Legion will have two dances in op-
GRAFTON every evening during fair
week with Mann Brothers orchestra
at one and the full orchestra of the
Colfax band at the other.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
THREE LATAH COUNTY
FARMS CHANGE OWNERS

The county records show three
large farm sales.
Ollie j. Hopkins sold 100 acres in
the Palouse river country to j. M.
MOrine for 500 an acre.
Joseph N. Hasfuther and T. Driscoll
sold to Harry Whittier the Lee Guy
place south of Moscow, consisting of
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
Announcement.

To show our confidence in Michelin
Tires we are not going to stop telling
you it is the best tire but that we
have been appointed the Service Rep
resentative to decide just what service
this tire should render which means
we personally stand back Of and guar
antee satisfaction in Michelins. Ida
no Garage, A. S. Frost, Moscow, Ida.
295
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
Drives Cattle from Camas

Mons Hansen, buyer for the Hagen
& Gushing packing house, is enroute
from Camas Prairie with large
drove of fine beef cattle that are be-
ing driven to Moscow because of the
lack Of stock cars for shipment.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11

college chum of Mr.. and Mrs. Laird's
daughter, who is visiting them at
motored to Moscow Wednes-.
day. Mr.. Laird is general manager
of the Potlatch Lumber Company. :.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
Thorn Creeks Good Crops.

Threshing is about done in Thorn
Greek neighborhood and some fine
crops were harvested there this year.
The entire district had good yield.
Anderson Brothers are believed to
have had the best crop for a large
acreage, getting an average yield of
A bushels of Hybrid No. 1903, from
their entire farm.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-11
$40 acres at 500 an acre.

240 acres at $500 an acre.
The largest recent deal was the sale
by Perry Black of $50 acres on Amer
lean Ridge for $34 1000 to J. C. Bean,
a recent arrival from the east The
last deal was made by G. T. Walker
of Kendrick
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12
REDS USE FALSE PASSES
Mystery Of How They Get to copen-
hagen Solved.

Mystery Of How They Get to copen-
hagen Solved.
The secret police service Of Copen-
hagen has solved a mystery which for
several months had puzzled both the
police and the government. Some time
ago it was discovered that lots Of
people were crossing the Schleswig
border on passports not issued by the
German authorities. They came to
Copenhagen, where they were sup
ported by the Danish bolsheviki.
The police, on investigating the mat
ter further, discovered that all the
refugees were prominent German
Spartacist leaders, who tried to hide
in Copenhagen. It was also detected
that the Danish bolsheviki had formed
q secret bureau for making out false
passports and had supplied all their
German Spartacist friends with them
to return. The Danish bolshevik Or
ganization got great sums Of money
from the Spartaeists.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12

publishers note: New readers
Of this paper are informed that this
series is written by the editor to
make a good many matters of state
business better known than they
have been. A similar series cover
ing county business in Bingham
county in recent years, and treated
in series of So chapters, are said
to have brought about so much bet
ter understanding and so much bet
ter conditions, that requests from
many men have been made for what
is being treated in this series. In
order to give it as wide publicity as
possible, the publisher is sending
the whole series to all 1.-The 40 news
papers in Idaho, hoping that some of
the press of the state may approve
OF the work and aid in similar eff
forts.)
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12
Chapter XII

Idaho taxes her mines. That is,
she taxes their net earnings, If it
is shown that they do not make any
profit, they do not pay any taxes.
II that method were applied to other
kinds of business the state govern
ment would soon cease to function,
and every firm that was making any
money would find that deception
and dishonesty or shiftlessness were
at premium. The man that can't
absorb little block of profits in i'm
provements and salaries would
have to pay taxes on it.
There Is certain amount of merit
in exempting non-producing mines
from the tax burden, and people who
are familiar with prospecting and
mine development recognize the
principle needed to permit prospect
ing and development work to be car
ried on. But the matter has been
banded about till it has been fixed
at a questionable point. The prin-
ciple encourages shiftlessness and
dishonesty, and places an unfair
burden upon other industries and
upon the honest, energetic mine Op-
orators, in competition with the
dishonest.
The State of Utah fixes the assess
ment on a sum equal to three times
the total net profits. New Mexico
asses, l think, on four times the
total net profit and 25 per cent of
the gross earnings. This last clause
has the ring of an equalizer in it.
II people would go at the tax ques-
ton with as much patience and gray
matter as they devote to card part
les and the purchase of mining stock
oil stock that they know nothing
about, they could apply remedies to
a good many things that are work
ing the wrong way and cultivating
business integrity downward. People