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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-10-29
Many Drowned
In Cloudburst

Cancouver, Oct. 22.-Between ten
and twenty persons were reported
drowned in cloudburst which par
TALLY wiped out the town of Britain
mia, eighteen miles from here. The
disaster followed a week of high wa
ter and floods. The flood broke last
night and cut the town in two.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-10-29
MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA

those nations to cease warlike prep
arations against Hungary. The am
bassadors announced they had not
decided what to do with former En-
peror Karl and his wife, Zita. Since
the collapse of his second attempt to
regain the throne he has been held
a prisoner in Hungary
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-10-29
Body Of New Born
B a by Is Found

Superior, Wis, October 22.-The
body of new born baby wrapped in
a st. Paul newspaper was found in
a Northern Pacific coal car here. The
car left st. Paul yards Wednesday
morning.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-10-29
Hioux Oity IAye etoclE.

Sioux City, Oct. 29.--Top hogs
dropped back from $7.85 and SITS
and that alteration reflects the mimi
mum dip in operations. The bottom
of the bulk sank from $3.50 and
$6.25, while the upper end Of the
bulk dropped from $7.65 to $7.35.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-10-29
Send Note To
Little Entente

Paris, Oct. 22.-The council of al
lied ambassadors decided to send a
note to the little entente warning
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
POLICY OF PROTECTION.
National Republican,


As a means of national defense the
American policy of protection is far
more important to the American peo-
pie than fleets and armies. That ma
ton which has free institutions. and
busy contented. prosperous citizen
ry with an ocean rolling on either side
between it and possible enemies. en-
joys degree of safety from invasion
which comes only to the country
whose strongest bulwark is the low
atty of its people. But a free coun-
try like this. filed with UNEMPLOYED
workers. discouraged producers and
frightened investors is in real danger
Far more important than any other
legislative and administrative obiec
tive is that of keeping the American
producer on the job, even if that
should involve shutting out of our
markets every dollars worth of i'm
portations which tends to DESTROY an
American wage earners job or to |
foreclose a mortgage on an American |
farm. The lure of foreign markets.
'''ch or II transient and unsubstan-
iiaL the interests Of those whose
hearts are with their treasure in for
eign lands. should not weigh with
American lawmakers as against the
immediate practical necessity of
feeping in motion that endless chain
~ American production and consump-
ion. and maintaining that American
standard Of wages to labor profit to
Enterprise and standards Of living for
ne American millions. which are the T
ssential requisites to American pros s
'erity security and progress. 7
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS GUILTY
OF GRATING.

According to disclosures recently
made in Washington. it is claimed that
members Of congress who are allowed
$4,000 a year for clerical help have in
several cases been getting along with
one stenographer and appropriating
the remainder. of the allowance by
placing wives or business partners
who render no service on the payroll
1t is difficult to believe that men who
have received a vote of confidence
from their fellow citizens and are oc-
c'pying such positions of honor and
trust could be guilty of such dishon-
esty. The facts should be given to the
public and every one who is known to
have practiced this petty graft should
he banished from public life forever.
II his misconduct merely resulted in
his own disgrace, il would not be
matter Of grave concern He would
simply be returned to private life and
forgotten The real damaging feature
of such conduct is to destroy confid-
ence in public men. and when this is
done the unreasoning mind finds it is
only a short step to radical socialism
or bolshevism. Congressman are chos-
en- on account of their ability and
high character, and when they betray
the trust imposed in them they make
a tremendous contribution to the pro-
against our form of free and
government They
play directly into the hands of the en-
envy.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
PosTPoNINe OF ASSESSMENT.

Engineering and Mining JOurnaD
In the last hours of the old year
congress passed the bill giving six
months extension to miners for doing
the annual assessment work neces-
sary for holding their claims Just
previous TO its passage Senator Thorn
as, of Colorado. remarked that if the
/ bill did not pass he would be quite
reconciled to the fact as he had been
receiving so many letters and tele-
grams from miners in his state, pro-
testing against its passage.
We have never advocated this
measure and such comment as we
have received from the mining states
OF the west has been uniformly I'M
favorable to it. It appears to be
statute designed to win the favor of
certain group of citizens, without cost
to the country, but the proponents
erred i'm the failure to reflect and to
investigate. During the war the obli-
cation of the annual assessment work
was properly postponed on account of
the fact that a large number of claim
holders were in the service; and later
the principle was extended because of
the difficulty of obtaining labor None
Of these reasons excuse the most re-
cent legislation. The soldiers are
long since back on their jobs; and for
the last few months unemployment /
has been growing in a most alarming
way. There have been plenty of men /
eager to DO the 500 worth of work /
necessary to hold claim: but the .
claim owners, as one correspondent .
put it for his section or Nevada were
glad to save the money and spend the
winter i'm California on it, Therefore
this foolish legislation served to ag-
gravate the present unemployment
evil
But the GROWING stupidity as
Colorado correspondent points out
was to pass the bill in the last hours
of 1920 when all miners prospectors
md other owners of mining claims.
who thought enough of their claims
to hold them had already faithfully
carried out the assessment work re-
luired by the law. Such law-abiding
md Woodworking individuals (and
hey are in the majority look with no
,avor upon the government pull which {
assisted the gamblers i'm mining d
'laims, who would not think of spend r
ne any money in developing them. /
'ut who rely upon congress, or some j
ubterfuge. to keep them in possession "
# government land without labor or y
Expense. a
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
REPEAL TWO MILL LEVY FOR
ROAD CONSTRUCTION.

According to reports from Boise, the
bill to repeal the 2-mnl tax levy for
construction of state highways is be-
ing opposed by representatives from
some counties in the north. who seem
to think that while there must be a
slowing up of expenditures generally.
there must be no curtailment in the
matter of road construction In this
they will probably find that they are
out of harmony with public sentiment
There should be a slowing down of
road building along with other public
improvements until the business Of the
country has reached more stable
basis. Besides, and this is a fact that
advocates of the special tax seem to
overlook, the people last fall voted a
state bond issue of 100000 for state
construction. and it is certain
that in doing so they did not under
stand that they were to be subject to
a special highway tax of two mills al
SO The people have reached about
the limit of taxation. and it would be
well for members Of the legislature to /
Keep that fact in mind
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27

obstruct that process and to persuade
young men to evade the draft Now
the government at that time and af-
terward dealt severely with young
men who tried to evade the draft;
who, that is to say, followed the coun-
sci of Mr.. Debs. The question in-
evitably rises whether it would be
just to punish them and to give i'm
munity to the man who melted them
to their crime. Abraham Lincoln.
who was disposed toward all possible
clemency once demanded: Must
shoot a simple minded soldier-b boy
who deserts, while I must not touch
a hair of a willy agitator who induces
him to desert?" That is a view of the
case which must not be overlooked
even by those who feel sorry for the
present plight of Mr. Debs
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
PEOPLE MUST PAY.
CKansas City starr


The government so far as finances
are concerned, is simply a panhandler.
When it wants money it writes to the
folks. and oil it gets it gets in letters
from home. If it spends $4,000 600 900
or more a year it asks every family
to contribute on the average 5000
apiece to support it, Two hundred
dollars a family is lot of money It
keeps millions of people busy scratch
ing to raise it, Every head Of n house
would find it much easier to support
his family if he didn't have to send
that 5000 to Washington. That is why
people are incensed by the extrava-
gance Of the government departments
that make no effort to hold down ex-
penses, and particularly by the action
Of men like Secretary Baker. who en-
JOYS spending other peoples money.
md who now proposes to throw away
Camp Funston while asking $4,000 600 !
rs startep for permanent barracks /
n Camp Pike, an army post that for /
'ome reason has caught his fancy.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27

without reference to its intrinsic
merit which remains to be examined
and weighed, Governor Davis propos-
ed program of state development by
means of a vast reclamation system
deserves congratulation because of the
effort thus manifested and the thought
and care given to constructive work
in the public behalf Comparisons are
as odious now as when the expression
was coined. but that fact need not
prevent recognition Of the difference
between public men who seek and OBJ
tain high office for the personal dis
tinction and political patronage it
conveys and those who use that Office
for the purpose Of working out great
projects or services of lasting import
ance and benefit. We compliment
Governor Davis tor thinking out and
organizing the proposal by which the
great arid plains and deserts of south
Idaho are intended to be watered and
made to blossom and fructify, and
W which if practical and carried into
~ dOtitf WOhiu ictb ~ Il btNtiopiuthA
from which the state would perhaps
double in population, in production
and in wealth. The states credit is
the medium by which the project is to
be carried into effect, and at that
point very serious difficulties and OBJ
tections arise
These difficulties and objections are
and are both material and
ethical. The proposed costs, it is safe
to presume. will be immense, taking
as a criterion the estimate that the
American Falls project would require
SIS. 900 of capital Before any re-
suits or any returns could be had |
years must elapse during which the |
state would be taxed and bled white |
TO keep mp the expenditure This drain
IN the peoples capacity to pay would.
Of course, extend equally to north
IDAHO, which is so remote from the
scene of improvement and so isolated
rom any of its effects and influences
hat it could have only a sentimental
interest in the operation Meantime,
{ would stand to lose its own great L
alter highway. the Snake river. in (
arge part, by the diversion of its flow
ntO irrigation mains and laterals
his diversion would affect only the
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
SHOSHONE REPUBLICANS AND
LINcOLN'S BIRTHDAY.

If there was ever time when re-
publicans should celebrate the birth
Of Abraham Lincoln. it is on the com
ing anniversary. February u, 1921
The republican party is just about to
take over the control of the govern
ment and the questions that will con-
front it, while of a widely different
nature. are nevertheless as compli-
Gated and far reaching in their con-
sequences as those which confronted
Lincoln when he entered the White
House as the first republican presi-
dent It is therefore of the highest
importance this year not only TO hon
or the memory of the great enamel
pator, but for the purpose of receiv-
ing inspiration from study of his
life that will aid in solving the prob
lens now confronting the country and
which the republican party must solve.
For good many years the repub-
Leans Of Shoshone county have cele-
brated Lincoln's birthday and it is
presumed they will do so this year.
though so far as the Miner is inform /
ed no definite steps have been taken.
Surely the anniversary following the /
great republican victory last fall in
county state and nation will not be
permitted to pass without a formal
demonstration in some form in honor
Of Lincoln by the republicans of this
county. The celebration has hereto
ore taken the form of a banquet held
n this city. but it has been proposed
hat the occasion be celebrated in
Kellogg this year. Only two more
weeks remain, and whatever is to be
lone in the matter should be taken up
Without further delay.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
WOULD MAKE THE ASSESSMENT
YEAR END JUNE 80.

Bills have been introduced in both
houses Of congress changing the year
within which to do assessment work
on mining claims to end on June 80
instead of conforming to the calendar
year The proposed change seems to
be meeting with general favor
Throughout the mining sections of the
country although it has been propos-
ed in some quarters to have the year
end later in the summer or fall. How
ever it is believed that June 30 will be
retained as the final date in the as
sessment year. and it seems altogether
probable that the bill will pass in that
form. The change will insure those
who persist in waiting until the last
of the year to doStheir annual work in
having favorable weather and will
also encourage them while on the job /
to break away from their time-hon-
ored habit and do the work for the
year also The change
would prove decidedly to the advan-
age of mining districts, the favorable
weather conditions making it possible
@ accomplish the work more effect
vely and thus encouraging develop
nent rather than tending to induce
he claim owner to do as little as pos ]
ible, as is often the case now when 7
he work is postponed until the last ,
{ the year and when weather condi- S
ions are most unfavorable. d
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
Bonding the State for Irrigation
Lewiston Tribune CDem)

low water season. but during that
season the lower and intermediate
reaches of the stream would run dry
for all useful purposes.
What is there to compensate north
Idaho. in its just and necessary rights
for the sacrifices it would be called
upon to endure for the sake of pro
noting reclamation in south Idaho
The public policy of south Idaho has
already assisted in stripping north
Idaho of its legitimate resources and
opportunities by giving its adhesion
and support to the Roosevelt Pincbot
conservation schemes, and is contin-
uing to do so wherever the state has
the power through its holdings of
timbered or semi timbered areas i'm
north Idaho I'm what way if any
does this south Idaho proposal con
template that the benefits and the
fostering care of the commonwealth
are to go all the way around and be
as mindful of the north as of the
south and of all alike, in every rela
ton and in all circumstances? 1t is
material that this phase of the cues
ton be not lost sight of. if the pro
ject is to be pursued seriously and
with any hope of success. North Ida
no can not be expected to, and must
not vote its vitals away for the ae
grandizement of south Idaho. unless
its own welfare. it's rights and its
compelling necessities are recognized
and safeguarded by coincidental pro
cesses. We touch here only on the
barest outlines of this subject. as
other elements of it need not be con-
sidered until further and more defn-
lite developments arise. We again
applaud the industry, the knowledge
and the purposefulness which Gov
ernor Davis has brought to bear on
this enterprise. and in the further
opportunity which it opens for each
part of the state to assist and to
serve all other parts in their chances
and in their needs. The proposition
will prove of double value if it can
open the eyes and touch the mind of
south Idaho with a realization of the
existence of north Idaho, not only as
/ taNbearing animal but also with
with duties to perform
md a patrimony for which it must
iccount.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
A DANGEROUS DOCTRINE.
(St. Louis Times)

Samuel Gompers charges that the
supreme court of the United States
has joined forces with the anti-union
shop movement in its decision that
the Clayton act did not make legal
secondary boycott as waged against
tie Duplex Printing Press company
Pc calls it a blow at efforts for bu-
nan freedom. Does Mr.. Gompers
mean that this is the only weapon
that union labor has or that 1t is in
dispensable? If so, it is in a bad way.
The secondary boycott is not I'm the
interest of human freedom II Is
aimed against it. Many a store keep
er has had his store boycotted as to
al wares because he bought one line
Of a manufacturer who was having
with labor unions. This Is n
sort Of labor warfare that is danger
ous and any reasonable laboring man
ought to so understand it.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
THE CASE OF DEes.
CIarvey's Weekly


The president having declined to
grant pardon as a Christmas or a
New Years gift to Eugene V. Debs.
rumors have now arisen Of the i'm
pending Intervention of the attorney
general in his behalf some time be
fore the close of the present admin
istration There can be no doubt that
many people who are not socialists
sympathize with the prisoner and
would be glad to see him released.
chiefly we assume. because Of his
amiable and sincere personality. and
with little or no regard to the merits
Of the case. 1t needs to be borne in
mind. however that at the time when
he selective service law was calling
20 the colors all the young men of the
nation. Mr.. Debs in a public speech
deliberately and Intentionally tried to
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
THE AsSESSABLE COMPANY.
(Denver MIMI Record

(Denver Mining Record
There would be more successes in
the mining fields of the west if every
one interested in these projects had
done his part to gain this success. An
other round of shots might have open
ed the riches sought as there are in
stances where new companies on clos
( ed down prospects have struck it rich
practically with the first round of
shots. The former operators would
have gained fortune if they had con
4 tinued work and no doubt this work
would have been continued if each
had done his part. 1t is only natural
that a few stockholders should refuse
to carry the burden for all. To mine
properly and fairly the burden should
be divided proportonately among all
the stockholders.
In the mining fields the assessable
company is gaining in favor. Some
people will not invest in a company
unless the stock is -assessable.
They are gamblers pure and simple.
for they put their money in the com
pany with the thought that this is
their bet" and they will win or lose
and say nothing. The roulette player
does the same thing in placing his
money upon a number to win or lose
The buyer of an assessable stock
buys an interest in a prospective min
ing property. He has faith in the Ill
innate success Of this project and he
Joins with others to find ore. If his
first investment is not sufficient to
ind the riches. he and his other
stockholders. partners in the com
)any, each chip in to carry on the
work, paying an amount proportion
tie to their holdings. If any stock
holder does not care TO continue his
hares are offered for sale and new
interests come into the organization.
n this way numerous dividend pay
rs have been developed in Nevada
IDAHO, Utah, California and other
tates. Colorado has been unfOrtun-
te in having most of it's companies
on -assessable. The assessable com
anies are the real mine developers.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27

The resolution offered few weeks
ago by Senator Borah requesting the
president to invite Great Britain and
Japan to join the United States in
disarmament agreement has been
favorably reported by the senate COM
mittee on foreign relations. The pur-
pose is stated to be with the view Of
promptly entering into a treaty by
which the naval programs of each Of
said governments shall be re-
duced annually during the next five
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27
TO SETTLE LABOR DISPUTES.
baltimore Evening SINH

Baltimore Evening SUM
Further proof that the way lies open
for employers and workers to get to-
gether without the intervention of
governmental agencies, to provide
amicable methods for the settlement
of labor difficulties is given in the an
nouncement made of the working
agreement just effected between the
officials and the engine and train ser
vice employees of the Pennsylvania
railroad Under the plan as outlined
there is to be a joint reviewing com
mittee created to carry out the agree
ment on this committee the man
agement and the employees will have
equal representation and an equal
voice in the adjustment of controver-
sial difficulties.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27

The average citizen and taxpayer Of
Idaho will fail to see any valid reason
for increasing the salaries Of justices
OF the supreme court from $4,000 to
$4,000 and district judges from $4,000
TO $4,000 The people have just voted
to increase the number of supreme
justices from three to five and the
legislature viii probably add a few
more district judges. There seems to
be plenty Of good material for these
positions on the present salary basis
and the senate bill to raise it should
be promptly rejected.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-27

come to be the pride of the state
If Mr.. Hall wants to accomplish
something Of real advantage in con-
nection with our educational system
let him introduce a bill abolishing the
state normal school at Albion and add
ing a normal department to the tech
meal school at Pocatello