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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26

An editorial in the Boise Statesman
of last Saturday reminds us that
when thieves fall out then honest
men get their dues" but the heading
to the editorial. Il Never Thought of
That" is a glaring misnomer. The
Statesman describes conditions in
Boise and how the direct primary OPP
crates to enable Boise to hog all the
nominations. To intimate that this
was never thought of before is to
imply a dullness of comprehension on
the part of the people of northern
Idaho which they make haste to re-
sent. AS a matter of fact this very
condition the Statesman describes has
always been and is today one of the
stock arguments in northern Idaho
against the direct primary, as it has
been one of the chief motives of pri-
mary advocates in Boise and the
south. The Miner reprints the edi-
torial, not especially because it is part
of the Statesman's attack on Senator
Borah, but because it confirms the
contention of primary opponents in
the north. This expose coming direct
from Boise should intensity the OPP
position to reenacting the primary
law and make it profit against the
persuasive argument by Senator
Borah The Statesman editorial fol-
lows:
Lets be frank about this primary
business. Let's put all the cards on
the table. Let's see what's what
1.-THE direct primary is a Borah-
Boise affair The thing that has
started all this confusion. all this for
saking of platform and signing of
pledges, is the Borah- Boise primary.
When did the primary begin to be
talked about? Was it not when some
friends of Senator Borah in
jected it into the pre-primary cam
paign? But it was not argued much
then 1t did not get to have the dig
nifty of an issue.
The Boise politicians wanted it.
They sent delegation to the Wallace
to fight for it. It was the |
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26

that this association is cooperating
with Senator Borah in his effort to
override the declaration of the repub-
lican platform the idea being that the
candidates will not be able to resist
the senator's argument and viii at
least wayer from the straight path Of
duty long enough TO fall" for the
pledge. No candidate who has a
proper respect for himself and a sound
sense of his duty as a representative
will even consider signing this or
any other pledge that will deprive him
of his freedom of action. In this con-
nection Senator Borah's conception of
the position of a representative elected
by the people is interesting. Discussing
his own action in the senate at Weiser
the senator said:
Every vote l have cast has been
my vote; it has not been the vote
of any caucus; it has not been the
vote of any conference; it has
been my vote. 1 have been in
harmony with what 1 believed TO
be the interests and honor of the
people of the state of Idaho"
Can it be possible that one who oc-
,upies this high ground himself would
sanction this scheme of the direct
primary association to degrade repre-
nominated by his own party /
o represent in the Legislature the peo-
lie of his own state? If there is any
for the legislature who is in
loubt what his action should be when
his pledge proposition comes up to
lin. he has only to read what Sena-
or Rorah says of his own action as a
of the people to make
lis duty clear
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
a PULPIT VIEW OF ALExAN DER's
ECONOMY.

The churches of Wallace are not in
politics The pastors are content to
interpret the words and life of the
Master, having faith that these will
eventually become the rule and guide
of action in the daily affairs of life, in
GLIDING the conduct of political cam
paigns and the administration of gov
eminent by political parties. But the
hypocracy and deceit practiced by
some pretentious leaders in order to
secure votes is a severe test to the
patience of the preachers, and if one
of them occasionally for a moment
breaks into the political field to give
vent to his human indignation and ex-
preston to his righteous protest we
are disposed to commend rather than
to condemn him. Last Sunday in the
course of a sermon of rare force and
excellence, in which the ultimate goal
of Christian effort was reduced to the
of man. equal opportun-
ity democratic education and inter
national peace. the speaker diverted
to the political campaign which he said
seemed to revolve around the question
of economy in state government with
the view to reducing taxes. Then with
scorn and indignation which was
shared by his hearers he referred to
one candidate who proudly pointed to
his record Of economy in conducting
the state administration. economy that
deprived the inmates of the eleemosyn- /
lry institutions of the state of humane
and crippled the educational
Iystem to an extent that robbed the
routh of Idaho of their birthright.
lave the people of this great common
wealth dropped to that sordid level in
which they will listen to such an APP
zeal as a means of reducing taxes?
That is what Alexanderism means
S viewed by devout churchman. I
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It's privileges, seek to destroy it,"
IN another decision, in a somewhat
similar case, the court commented on
the invoking of the constitution to
protect people who were seeking to
destroy it. "A curious spectacle was
presented" it said. THAT great ordi-
nance of government and orderly lib
erty was invoked to justify the activ
tiles Of anarchy or of the enemies of
the United States, and by a strange
perversion Of its precepts it was ad-
duced against itself"
The underlying idea is that any per-
son in America has the right to criti-
else a law and urge its repeal. He has
no right to urge its violation. A per-
son may denounce the voIstead act
and call for its repeal. He has no
right to advocate bootlegging.
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portant contributing factor. and. judg-
ing by the attitude of former demo-
cratic administrations, the conditions
here would probably have been quite
different if the republicans had not
been on the job. The agitator. the
l. w w and the professional disturber
of peaceful and prosperous industrial
conditions receives no encouragement
at the court house under republican
rule, but every citizen. whether en-
ployer or employee, knows that he will
be protected in all his rights under the
law so long as the county government
is in the hands Of republicans.
This paper makes no charges against
democratic candidates, but it does de-
sire to refresh the memory of voters
on what has happened in the past I'M
der democratic rule OF course it
might not happen again if the demo-
cratic ticket is elected. but as a com
mon sense proposition, why take
chance? We know what the repub-
Leans viii do, for they are doing it
right now Conditions were never bet
.er in the district and there is a feel
ng of security and confidence that is
,ver present under republican rule.
rhe success Of the democrats would
change this at once TO a feeling of I'M
uncertainty and doubt.
Again. why take the chance? Let +
veil enough alone" by voting the re-
publican ticket the straighter the bet
err.
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Chicago Tribune.)

/
Mr. Lamont of the house of J. p.
Morgan Mr.. McAdams, retiring presi-
dent of the Bankers association. and
other financiers are concerned over the
foreign debts to u.s. Mr.. Lamont wants
the bankers to do some thinking upon
this subject and as to that we hearth
ly agree. The subject needs the best
thought we can bring to it, not only
that of bankers, but of the public gen
orally.
If we gather the drift of New York
banking opinion, we are being led more
or less tactifully toward cancellation.
Mr. Lamont, for example, requests his
fellow bankers to ponder whether it
is really true that these sums are
owed, in view of the fact that about
one-half of the entire indebtedness
was incurred between the time con-
gress declared war and the time the
American army got into the trenches
IN large numbers.
That is an interesting query. Most
Americans west of the Alleghanies
will promptly tell Mr.. Lamont that the
fact he alleges has nothing to do with
the debt. The query to us is interest
ing as showing how we are being in
voted to slip into the assumption that
America was in duty bound to enter
the war in 1914 Mr. Lamont's impli-
cation is that we ought to have an
army of European size ready to save
England and France on call. Since we
lid not, we ought not to count the ad
RANGES we made them while they were
lighting for us.
Well we think the more airing this
inc of thought gets, the better. But
We would explain to Mr.. Lamont in
ADVANCE that if he is for cancellation,
IS we don't doubt he is he is not ad-
-ancing his object by intimations that
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
FREE SPEECH DEFINED.
(Kansas City Times)

(kanSaS City I1meS)
Just what do the constitutional
guarantees for free speech mean and
amount to-" a friend writes to the
Star. Various kinds of speech are
forbidden, as / understand it, under
the Daugherty injunction. Isn't that
an interference with the right of free
speech?"
The first amendment of the constitu-
ton provides that congress shall make
no law 'abridging the free
dom of speech or of the press" That
doesn't mean absolute license. The
courts have held that freedom of
speech is not abridged for instance, by
the prohibition Of addresses in public
parks or of the publication of libelous
or indecent matter. The right of free
speech is exercised subject to regula-
ton.
A general principle was laid down
by the supreme court of the United
States in a decision last year. which
applies to many of the questions rails
ed.
The National Defense Act of 1917
provided that newspapers violating
the act should not be conveyed by the
mails. A newspaper was excluded IN
der this act for denOuncing the gov
condemning the draft law as
oppressive and unconstitutional and
that soldiers could not le- /
gaiiy be sent outside the country. The |
court upheld the action of
the postofice department in the face
Of the plea that the constitutional |
right to a free press had been violated |
oy the exclusion from the mails The
natter published, the court held, was
not designed to secure the amendment
II repeal Of the laws denounced. but
o create hostility to them and to en-
courage their violation. The court
idded:
freedom of the press may protect
and agitation for modifica-
ion or repeal Of laws, but it does not
xtend to protection of him who coun-
els and encourages the violation Of
be law as Il exists. The constitution {
Ias adopted to preserve our govern g
lent, not 70 serve as a protecting I
Green for those who. while claiming {
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
HYPoTHEEK.

Since prosecuting the vein west of
the old workings the Hypotheek Min
ing & Milling company has drifted
east 1876 feet toward the point where it
Is believed three strong mineral bear
ing veins unite, one of which is the
vein developed in the shaft and which
has produced ore that returned over
100000, and the other two have been
exposed on the surface and also cut
by diamond drill from the shaft After
transferring operations 10 the west
the crosscut to the vein and 125 feet
Of drifting were accomplished by
hand work. 1t was then found nee
essary to provide power, and last April
steps were taken to install com
pressor, which involved the construc-
ton of buildings, extension of power
line, new road construction of fume
and numerous other expenses, all of
which are reviewed in a letter to
stockholders by Otto A. OLSON, man
ager, under date of October IS. Since
the first of August the drift has been
extended 200 feet and several crosscuts
run to the foot and hanging walls, the
vein being from 90 to 100 feet wide
and all conditions favorable to ore.
TWO shifts are employed and have
been making IL feet day though re-
Gently this record has not been kept
~ on account Of having to timber.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
ADA COUNTY REPUBLICANS
WOULD UNDERMINE PARTY.

The Ada County Direct Primary
club has established headquarters in
Boise. and according to the Statesman,
has started out with pledges from six
republican candidates for the legisla-
ture from Ada county to vote for a
direct primary law if elected 1t is
further stated that forms of similar
declarations are being mailed to re-
publican candidates for the legislature
in every county in the state. 1t is re-
called that in the Wallace convention
the Ada county delegation voted
against the adoption of the platform
because the convention had refused to
place in il a plank favoring the direct
primary and it is on that ground we
presume that these Ada county can
didates will undertake to justify their
position. Suppose the primary ad-
yocatos had been successful in the con-
vention. what would be their attitude
toward supporters of the convention
system If they had openly undertaken
10 defeat the expressed viii of an over
majority of the convention
md which unQuestionably represented |
/ corresponding sentiment in the /
,arty of the state? Is majority rule |
10 longer a tenet Of the republican
,arty? Is the deliberate declaration
# the republican party, expressed
through representatives selected by
he blessed direct primary plan, moth
ng more than scrap of paper? Evil
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
Cancellation and Isolation

somehow we owe an apology and fur
Their compensation to Europe for per-
forming our duty. We know that is
the conviction among some Americans.
but they are in a minority which is
decreasing, not increasing.
Then there is Mr.. John McHugb.
president of the Mechanics & Metals
bank of New York. who, addressing the
clearing house committee remarks
that he is mot going to criticize Amer
lean isolation" but 'if we are blessed
with courageous and clear-sighted
Leadership we are bound eventually TO
go beyond our isolation barrier so far
as we should go and in any case time
is bound to widen our vision and ad-
just our absorption in domestic af-
fairs"
1t is this sort of pseudo-moral
twaddle from New York financial in
terests that makes the average Ameri-
can weary. To talk of America as
isolated" is itself a proof of disingen-
uousness. We invite Mr. McHugh and
$3.50 -@AS " ACNcliA Tie TACT, IneX
seem to overlook, and that in the years
1917 and 1918 American isolation spent
the lives of $4,000 American citizens to
save the allied nations of western
Europe from defeat in a war which
had no slightest part in bring
ing about. In addition to this blood
sacrifice the United States government
has loaned more than IL billions of
dollars to the allied nations at war.
and besides that sum we have loaned
billions of private capital on rather
1uDlous credit for reconstruction
which does not reconstruct and poured
out hundreds of millions in charity for
the suffering.
II that is isolation, what would par
-icipation come to?
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
Boise and the Direct Primary

only whole delegation asking for Ithe
primary. And when Mr.. Borah OF
Boise returned to Boise, he demanf BED
that the party, which wouldn't tbke
Bosses primary. reject its whole plat
form and follow him. The party Ire
fused The candidates ignored BoI rah
and went ahead standing on ttleir
platform.
Here is the main point of this tpri-
mary business. Boise is the hodbed
OF office seekers. Boise is full Of
people who moved here to work at \the
capitol and then, after their termsI Of
office, stayed on, hoping to get nj lore
terms. Boise is full of underlingsi in
departments who want to get the top
jobs Boise is crowded with political
manipulators. There is seldomI an
election when Boise doesn't have
number of receptive candidates for
every place.
More than this, Boise has thel ia
cilities of communication. She is the
center of the telephone and Telegraph
systems. She has the most widely
read newspapers. She has the head
quarters for travelling statesmen, ex-
tension workers, highway engin GERS
accountants all the people who are
constantly travelling all over Idaho and
make the best sort of political work
ers. She has ten times the publicity
power of any other part of the state.
Boise itself is not ambitious to be
known as the champion office-seek-
ing town in the state, but under the
direct primary Boise can and Boise
does hog the nominations. The south
east and the north have no look-in
unless they take somebody who hap
pens to live in Boise, but formerly
lived in their section to represent
them.
1.-THE BOrah- Boise primary is good
for Borah, who doesn't trust his party
and is laboring under the delusion that
he needs it, and good for Boise poll
ticians, but it isn't good for the rest
of the state and the rest of the state
knows it.
That's the whole truth about this
primary business which Borah and
some Boiseites are trying to glorify
by talking about principle. 1t don't
work for the state or for good gov
eminent; it does work for Borah and
Boise politicians. Let's be frank
about it,"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
ENEMIES OF AMERICA.
nicholas Murray Rntler !

(Nicholas Murray Butler.)
I'VE have only to look around about
us to see by how many enemies
American principles are surrounded.
Every individual and every group,
however powerful. that aims to use
the government of the United States
for its own ends, is an enemy of
America. Every individual and every
group of individuals that would sub
vert our whole governmental system
in order to get money out of the pub
lie treasury is an enemy OF America.
Every one, whether individual or or
sanization. that stands in the way
Of the ascertainment and effective de-
of the public will, is an
enemy of America, and into those gen.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
TAKE NO CHANCES, LET WELL
ENOUGH ALONE"

1t was in the second Mckinley cam
paign after the country had recovered
from the blighted effects of the Cleve-
land administration, had passed
through the war with Spain and the
outlook was bright for many years of
prosperity, that Let well enough
alone" was adopted as the watchward
OF the republicans and Mckinley was
reelected by a tremendous majority.
The people simply exercised the plain,
practical common sense for which the
American people are noted in dealing
with political questions. They made
business of politics and as result
politics made business.
The conditions in Shoshone county
are such that this motto is especially
applicable at this time. Owing to cir
cumstances over which this local
community had no control, the past
two years have ben lean ones, but the
district has now emerged from the
period Of depression The mines are
all working, metal prices are high with
a strong tendency for further advance,
wages are the highest in the west /
working conditions are good, and the
outlook for the winter and for long |
time thereafter could hardly be bet
ter There are no labor disputes to
disturb the steady operations of the /
mines. and in fact employers and en-
ployes are dwelling together in per-
feet peace and harmony the attitude
Of each evidently being favorable to
continuance of these relations and to
adjust any possible differences that
might develop through mutual conces-
sion.
This happy condition has been
brought about under republican ad-
ministration of the county govern
ment. While we do not say that the
republican county government is to be
credited with bringing it about it can {
not be disputed that it has been an i'm {
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
District
Judge District Court
ALBERT II. FEATHERSTONE

County
Senator
DONALD A. CALLAHAN
Representatives
RICHARD L. THOMAS
ROBERT L. BRAINARD
Commissioner-First District
JOHN c. WOOD
Commissioner-Second District
DANIEL w. PRICE
Commissioner-Third District
JAMES IL. TAYLOR
Auditor anu Recorder
HARRY A. ROGERS
Prosecuting Attorney
JOHN l.. FITZGERALD
Sheriff
JESSE FREEMAN
Treasurer
JOHN l. LUCAS
Probate Judge
JOHN Il. SHERRARD
Superintendent Schools
MARIE CLARY
Assessor
w. IL. HERRICK
Coroner
HERBERT c. MOWERY
Surveyor
M. c. TOBIN
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IDENTIFY these Ada county patriots
think so, but we have faith to believe
that they will find that republican
for the legislature in other
counties have a different conception
of the obligation that rests upon them.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-26
REPUBLICAN TICKET
State

COngressman-First District
BURTON L. FRENCH
Justice Supreme Court
WILLIAM A. LEE
Governor
CHARLES c. MOORE
Lieutenant Governor
II. c. BALDRIDGE
Secretary of State
+. A. JETER
Treasurer
DANIEL e. BANKS
Auditor
e. c. GALLET
Attorney General
ALBERT IL. CONNER
Superintendent Schools
ELIZABETH RUSSUM
Inspector Of Mines
STEWART CAMPBELL
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END OF BIG FOUR"
(PhiladeIphia Public Ledger.l

philadelphia Public Ledger)
w. G. Lee, president of the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen, an
nounces in Cleveland the beginning of
the end of the Rail BFotherhood's big
Four" Their working and strike
threat alliance is being dissolved.
This is big railroad news, big labor
news and big news to the nation It
will end the menace Of a general rail
strike that has hung over this country
since the fall of 1915. came dangerous
ly near in October, 1921, and threat
ened again in August of this year
The trainmen and conductors will go
| il alone. The engineers and firemen
will, perforce. do the same. That
means the ringing down of the curtain
on any nationwide strike.
President Lee sees a little further
into the future than some of his
brethren and realizes that unionism
has been drifting straight toward a
head-on collision with the public
There was certainty that this massat-
tack of the unions would be met by a
terrible solidarity on the part of the
public and the government in the end.
Outrages on the public by union labor
were about to breed outrages against
labor by the public. The situation was
getting out of control of the unions,
and the executes. AS President Lee
says:
This whole business, with all
railroad labor on one side all the
railroads on the other and the
railroad labor board in between,
got too big for one man or a few
men to handle. It was loaded
with dynamite for the country as
well as for ourselves and the ev
ecutives. a nation wide rail
strike is not possible today 1t
costs the railroads and the unions
which indulge in it more than they
can afford to lose. The shopmen's
strike proved that When strike
gets so big that it can not be con-
trolled then the government will
step in and control it. This re-
suits in legislation detrimental to
all concerned. No sane gov
eminent would permit any faction
or class to paralyze the transpor-
tation business, and thereby pun
ish the innocent who are always
in the majority.
In the opinion of President Lee the
only way out" the one way to avoid
national disaster was to separate"
The separation has begun The
will work together on
legislation, but will play a lone hand
n wage negotiations. Rail unionism
s to go back to the time tried, less
methods of 20 years ago
n its dealing with the railways.
This action will make less necessary Z
legislative checks upon strikes in the
industry. Laws for h
arbitration will not be {
pushed quite so vigorously now. The
all workers are afraid of arbitration f
md are beginning to be fearful of that i
public control that was foreshadowed q
" the rail labor board. The executives q
hare these fears, and the mutual fears Nv
f the two are, pulling them back to- G
ether in a chastened mood.
The coming dissolution of the big ii
our is for the national good. There
7as too much power in that group. A
he action of the trainmen is an exer- "
Use of the common sense of labor that fl
as been lacking so sadly in recent Il
ears. il