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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-07-03
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acceptance of its candidate 70.
presidency. iOr b
Within eighteen months os
election of 1920 this nol,or aitf
in withdrawing bank loans a ns0lla
counts by over $5,000,OO0,OOo o.. o.,
contracting our currency nv aug
500,000,o00. This contract;on v'e
rupted hundreds of thousa,,
farmers and stock growers in A.
lea and resulted in widesn,..,
dustrial depression and nns~s,
ment. We demand that th0 ssl
reserve system be so administo,susss
to give stability to industry. CONN.,.
and finance, as was intended Nv ~
Democratic party, which gavs
federal reserve system to the matt
RECLAMATION
The Democratic party was forou..
in urging reclamation for ,ha /.
mediate arid and semi-arid lana.
the west. The lands are located
the public land states and, thereto,
it is due to the government TO utiS,
their resources by reclamas0,
Homestead entrymen under rpclsm.
ton projects have suffered from A.
extravagant inefficiencies and mia
takes of the federal government
The reclamation act of 1924 rpcau
mended by the fact-fnding comm,
sion and added as an amendment |.
the second deficiency approprsir
bill at the last session of congps
was eliminated from the bill BY fs
Republican conferees in the rpu
they presented to congress one bonn
before adjournment.
The Democratic party pledges itxr
actively, efficiently and economical
TO carry on the reclamation protect
and to make equitable adjustment tw
the mistakes the government hu
made.
CONSERVATION
We pledge recovery of the nays
oil reserves and all other parts Of The
public domain which have been
fraudulently or illegally leased Or
wrongfully transferred to
the control of private interests; VIC
orous prosecution Of all public Off
Gals, private citizens and corporatioI
that participated in these tranSe
tons; revision of the water pOws
act, the. general leasing act and al
other legislation relating to the pub
lie domain that may be essential 70
It's conservation and honest and d.
icient use on behalf of the people
If the country.
We believe that the nation should
'etain title to its waterpOwer. We
'avor strict public control and con-
of all the nations natura
esources, such as coal, iron, oil an
CONTINUED on page three
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-07-03
REPUBLICAN INEFFICIENCY
AND CORRUPTION

Never before in our history has the
government been so tainted by cor
ruption and never has an administra-
tion so utterly failed. The nation has
been appalled, by the revelations of
political depravity which have char
acterized the conduct of public af-
fairs.
We arraign the Republican party
for attempting TO limit inquiry into
official delinquencies and to impede,
if not to Illustrate, the investigations
to which, in the beginning. the Re
publican party leaders assented, but
which, later. they regarded with dis
may.
These investigations sent the for
mer secretary of the interior to Three
Rivers in disgrace and dishonor
These investigations revealed the in
capacity and Indifference to public oh
legation of the secretary of the navy,
compelling him, by force of public
opinion, to quit the cabinet.
These investigations confirmed
the general impression as to the I'M
fitness of the attorney general by ex-
posing an official situation and per-
sonal contacts which shocked the con-
science of the nation and compelled
his dismissal from the cabinet.
These investigations disclosed the
appalling conditions of the veterans
bureau with its fraud upon the gov
eminent and its cruel neglect of the
sick and disabled soldiers of the
World war. These Investigations re-
vealed the criminal and fraudulent |
nature of the oil leases, which caused
the congress, despite the indifference
of the executive, to direct recovery
of the public domain and the prose-
cution of the criminal.
Such are the exigencies of parti-
san politics that Republican leaders
ire teaching the strange doctrine
hat public censure should be direct I
d against those who expose crime
rather than against criminals Jwho
lave committed the offenses. If only I
hree cabinet officers out of ten are
isgraced, the country is asked to /
marvel at how many are free from i
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-07-03
REPUBLICAN CONTRACTION OF
CREDIT AND CURRENCY

We denounce the recent cruel and
unjust contraction of legitimate and
necessary credit and currency which
was directly due to the so-called de-
hation policy of the Republican party
as declared in its national platform
of June, 1920, and in the speech of
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-07-03

nomced purposes, but contend that
the act has failed to accomplish them.
| 1t has failed to reduce the cost of
transportation. The promised i'm
provement in service has not been
realized. The labor provisions of the
act have proven unsatisfactory In
settling differences between employ
er and employees.
] The so-called recapture clause has
worked out to the advantage of the
strong and has been of no benefit to
/ the weak. The pronouncement in the
act for the development of both rail
and water transportation has proven
futile. Water transportation upon
our inland waterways has not been
encouraged, and limitation of our
coastwise trade is threatened by the
administration of the act.
1t has unnecessarily interfered
with the power of the states to reg
ulate purely intra-state transporta-
ton. 1t must, therefore, be so re-
written that the high purposes which
the public welfare demands may be
accomplished.
Railroad freight rates should be So
readjusted as to give the bulky haste,
low-priced raw commodities such as
agricultural products. coal and ores
the lowest rates, placing the higher
rates upon more valuable and less
bulky manufactured products.
MUSCLE SHOALS
AND FERTILIZERS
We reaffirm and pledge the fulfill
ment of the policy with reference to
Muscle Shoals as declared and passed
by the Democratic majority of the
sixty-fourth congress in the national
defense act of 1916 "for the produc-
ton of nitrates or other products
needed for munitions of war and use
full in the manufacture of fertilizers"
We hold that the production of
cheaper and high-grade fertilizers
is essential to agricultural prosperity.
We demand prompt action by con-
gress for the operation of the Muscle
Shoals plants to maximum capacity
in the production, distribution and
sale of commercial fertilizers to the
farmers of the country, and we OPP
pose any legislation that limits the >
production of fertilizers at Muscle
Shoals by limiting the amount of
power to be used in their manufac-
ture.
CONTRACTION OF
CREDIT AND CURRENCY
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
VierUs onSome of the Big Events of the Week

the grazing and agricultural areas and max
ing them wage-slaves in the worst sense of the
word.
Translating these miserable conditions for
which the exploitation of Porto Rico by our
imperdalists is to a large extent responsible
into the sufferings of the every day life of the
workers we find that the death rate here is
about twice as high as it is in the United
States. The hospital conditions are deplor-
able. Rickets (mulnutrition) tuberculosis,
malaria and hookworm are reaping bumper
crop amongst the exploited masses
Yet our imperialist historians will swear
themselves blue in the face that we are civiliz-
ing Porto Rico. And they are right. Capital
ist civilization invincibly translates itself into
fabulous profits for the capitalists and CHASTITY
misery for the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
CiUilizing Porto Rico

Many of US may recall that one of the les
sons most forcefuliy impressed upon us in our
school days was that the United States alone
of the nations of the world played the role of
the Good Samaritan towards its weaker neigh
bors. The pictures given US of the happy
lands we made out of the Philippines, Hawaii,
Cuba and Porto Rico are still green in our
memories
Now, since this is the open season for inves-
tigation, let us do bit of prying into some of
these beautiful pictures painted for us by our
poor school teachers, who very often uncon-
sciousy propagate the most poisonous impe-
rialist frauds. Let us take, for example, one
of these lands made happy by our marines.
bluejackets, or khaki boys
Taking good look at Porto Rico which has
been in the brutal grip of the ugly civilizing
hand of Wall Street for twenty-five years, we
find totally different picture from what we
were given by our good-hearted teachers in
school. Tho the Stars and Stripes proudly
wave over Porto Rico, more than half of its
children of school age are not in school, More
than half of its population of ten years and
over are ilIiterate Most of the people, the
working masses, live in matched huts having
wretched sanitation. The seasonal require
ments of the American capitalist-controIled
sugar and tobacco crops have created great
group of migratory workers who have no
homes of their own, are almost completely
dispossessed Their children are deprived of
the slightest opportunity of being educated.
The steady rise and development Of the great
sugar and tobacco plantations controlled by
Wall Street, are driving the poor farmers Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
Brass and Cash

Whatever one may say of our own capitalist
class, no matter how much one may denounce
the American employers, all must agree that
our capitalists at least have the brass And
that is why they have the cash, too.
This seems to be the era Of super-bonuses
for the powerful capitalists by the Govern
ment person, nowadays, doesn't get the
chance to put away his paper and finish read
ing about one huge grant by the Government
than another edition of the same newspaper
Is rushed to him with the story of a new and
more gigantic bonus given to the bossing class.
OF course, there always follows an investi-
cation to serve as sort of a moral blanket to
hide the multitude of sins that are committed
in such profitable transactions.
Now it is another shipping steal The Ship
ping Board has just sold seven high grade
ships, of the President type to the labor-hat-
ing Dollar Steamship Company of California
for less than four million dollars. These ships
cost the American workers and farmers $780,
100000. Then the steamship Los Angeles was
sold to the Los Angeles Steamship Company
for 100000 after the Shipping Board wisely
invested close to three million dollars merely
for installing Improvements on it.
This surely looks like good business 1t un-
doubtedly is monument to that oft-heralded
capitalist virtue of private enterprise. Then,
to seal these profitable contracts to the capt.
talists, Chairman Farley of the Shipping
Board hands in his resignation. The matter is
closed. The last prayer of the departing
Chairman Farley is that the details of the con-
tracts cannot be made public because such
publicity might injure the companies in COM
petition with their foreign rivals.
This is mighty clever game, isn't it?
When you haven't leg to stand on, call in
the flag, national pride, and what not. Patri-
otism still is the last refuge of the worst scoun-
drels Our capitalists and their lickspittles in
their Government at Washington surely have
the brass to commit such brazen holdups in
broad daylight. But that is precisely why
they have the cash and own the government,
body and soul.
When will the workers and farmers kick
these capitalist buccaneers into the alleys of
history?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
Mailing Their DUN Hides

The political atmosphere of Washington is
reeking with graft and corruption. One can
hardly walk a street in the Capitol without
being In danger of walking into some news
sewer, without being splashed by the filth of
some exposure.
Smelling committees" are on the Job inves-
tigatlng every thing under the sun and almost
every section of the great green globe of ours.
Picking up a Washington evening paper one
finds the following instructive headlines: "Sen-
ator Walsh Infers Fall is CRATER" Senator
Pokes Fun at Polar Flight; ''McKellar Flags
Traction Companies on Fares; Hughes
Gives Data in Soviet Inquiry; Wood, in Fear,
Lets Up on Filipinos."
What's all this terrific noise about? Why
are these gentlemen and senior and Junior
senators from Maine to California going after
each other hammer and tongs? Why are they
trying to nail each others hide on the door of
their own political shanties? There must be
some deep going reason for senators to look
into matters ranging from Moscow to the
Philippines and from poor Washington street
cars to oil wells in Wyoming.
The facts are these: national election is
on our heels. There is great volume of dis
content The capitalist political parties of all
shades and stripes are now vieing with each
other in the game of throwing mud in order to
capitalize as much of this discomfort as posi-
Bile for the sake of getting control of the gov
eminent administrative machinery out of the
hands of one capitalist political clique and
into the hands of another employing class
clique. The variety and number of the inves-
LEGATIONS, investigators and investigated only
reflect the present conflicting interests among
the various layers Of the ruling class. The
vagueness and indistinctness of the present
riffs within these sections of the owning class
of the country is best mirrored in the chaos and
general purposelessness of the whole puppet
show now going on in Washington.
But let no one take these fights too seriously.
important as they are. None of these CAPT.
talist politicians is willing and ready to go out
to swing the axe against the system responsible
Tor this diseased condition. They are only
mailing each others hides for their immediate
petty party advantages. They will go thus far
and no further
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26

Followers of Zaghoul Pasha, whom the Eng
lish rulers of Egypt have kept in jail until re-
Gently, have been returned as a majority in the
Egyptian parliament.
In India, the followers of Nahatma Gandhi,
who is likewise experiencing the blessings of
British democracy in prison, despite almost i'm
possible restrictions on their suffrage, have
piled up majority in the Indian government.
All of which would indicate that Great
Britain would have to inaugurate new colo
NAL pelicy and weaken the empire or lose some
colonies and likewise weaken the empire. ].
R. Thomas, the new colonial secretary. is going
to have his hands full of a number of things.
Join the Workers Parfvf
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Phillips County herald., 1924-03-13
The Court ofLoue

The Court Of Love was the name ap-
piled In the later Middle ages to
groups Of noble ladies who often,
while assembled to listen to the decla-
nations Of the troubadours, took occa-
sion to decide upon questions of cour-
tesy and etiquette, particularly In af-
fairs of love. According to some au-
thorities, these courts formed regular
Institutions during the Twelfth CEN
tury. There was code Of 81 articles
and decisions are said to have been
based on this code. A typical example
OF the questions submitted to such
tribunals is the following: "If lady
listened to one admirer. pressed the
hand OF another. and touched with her
toe the foot of third, which OF these
three was the favored suitori"
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-13
The Devils Touer

This is huge tower of volcanic
rock In the eastern part of Wyoming,
near Moorecraft. II rises l,20O feet
above the plain, and Is visible for a
hundred miles In that cloudless re-
sion. II was used as guiding mark
by the early Indians Of the plains and
mountains. Pathfinders of the French
colonies in Canada used II as land
mark, and later military expeditions
In the Sioux and Crow Indian country
during the Indian wars directed their
march by 1t. So great was the popular
interest in the DEVILS Tower that the
United States government, In 1905.
pronounced 1t national monument
and placed ii under the direction OF
the National Park service.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-13
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Prairie Center
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F. A. Woodlands and son. Earl,
were visitors at the August Bjorklnn
home, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jensen were cal
lers at the August Bjorklun and F..
A. Woodlands homes Tuesday.
Luttin were callers at the F. A.
Woodlands home Wednesday morn
ing to get couple of their mules.
The A. B. c. club met with Mrs.
John Wright Sr, Wednesday after
noon. There were twelve ladies and
seven children present and pleasant
afternoon was spent by all. A fine
lunch was served by the hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sandqu;st and
daughter, Lena, visited at the A. p.
Sandquist home Wednesday.
F. N. Austin was business visito,
to Chappell, Thursday.
C. ]. Kicker, A. P. Sandquist. Cliff
ford, 0rville and Harold Woodlands
and Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Woodlands
attended the Blaine Canaday sale
Thursday.
Henry Hiatt and two sons. from
near Venango, were visitors at the
F. n. Austin and w. E. Hiatt homes
last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wright, Sr,, Mr..
and Mrs. John Wright. jr., and sons,
Mrs. F. N. Austin and daugter. Leatha
and Mr.. and Mrs. Joy Lounsberry were
among those from this neighborhood
who visited Holyoke, Saturdad.
C. ], Kicker was Julesburg visitor
Saturday, Miss Gladys Kicker return.
ing home with him to spend Sunday
Henry Yonng who has been husk
ing corn for F. A. Woodlands. left for
his home at Wymore, Nebr., Satur.
day.
F. A. Woodlands and son, Earl. cal.
led at the c, j. Kicker home saturday
morning.
James Mcmillan and Clarence Kin
ney were callers at the W. II. Wood
hams homa Saturday.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-13
Hello Is an Old and
RESPECTABLE Word

A need of the time is some plain
and serious salutation, like "IIail. fel-
low" or Good morrow, neighbor"
Men of spirit are rebelling nj the de-
mure monofouy of Good morning, Mr..
jenkins" On the other hand. a pro-
fessor of English takes us 10 task for
using Hello" as a term of greeting.
On top of which Miss Megan Lloyd
George confesses that In America the
never-failing PLEASED TO meet you"
left her AT a loss for response con.
formable 10 the local rubrlc.
She might have said. "Oh, are your"
or she might have contenied herself
with "Really?" Or, she might have
been more loquacious and babbled. $50
good Of you 10 mention IT," Or. had
British reserve permitted. she might
have taken the wind out OF the other
persons sails by retorting. "As for ME,
I'm simply transported at such an
auspicious encounter"
But. not venturing to invent for
mnla. she stuck TO her mild How
dyou doi" and wondered II she were
transgresslng American etiquette by
not making verbal acknowledgment OF
the other persons profession OF pleas
ure az the meeting.
An easy way to greet everybody Is
with Hello" But some persons con-
slider that too Informal. Despite pro
fessorlal condemnation, hello" Is Il
word OF old and respectable lineage.
New York sun and Globe.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-13
First American Money
Made of Clam Shells

The proprietor of "a ranch on Cape
Cod" has found traces of trndlng
station established at Bourne, or
Manement, In the year Of the Pilgrims,
1927. AT this trading post American
money was rrst invented MS a device
for making trade more convenient. This
post was established for trade be-
tween the Pilgrims ON one side aud the
Indians and the Dutch New Workers
on the other.
In the course OF time they invented
wampum, which was to have n stable.
fixed value nj all times. Wampum was
a piece OF quahog (clam) shell cut
into a certain shape and well polished.
One piece of quahog shell represented
a certain fixed value,-Detroit News.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-13
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Mr.. and Mrs. Spohn and family
moved to the Carl Millage place las
Monday.
c. o. Hecht and family moved to
their new home in Holyoke, Wednes-
day, and c. L. Bredwell moved to the
Hecht farm the same day.
Mrs. Jim Marian helped Mrs. Bred
well get settled in her new home We'd
nesday.
Mrs Arthur Thompson and Mrs.
Heinz entertained the members Of the
Epworth Ladies Aid last Thursday af-
ternoon at the home Of Mrs. Thomp-
son.
Mrs. Miell visited at the home of
Mrs. Otis Ide last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Schmidt as
sisted Mr.. and Mrs. Struckmeyer with
their butchering Tuesday.
VIM. Miell helped Otis. Ide butcher
a couple of hogs Thursday.
Mrs. Milholland called on Mrs. Ar
thur Thompson, Thursday evening.
Mrs. Pearl Balderson and children
OF Nebraska arrived here Friday to
make their home on the Starbuck
place in this community. Mr.. Balder-
son will arrive soon with the car of
household affects and machinery.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-13

Eddie Gribbon is a william who
makes you laugh and sneer at hin.
at the same time. He attempts to
wreck the career of rising young
cop in Jack O. Clubs" the Universal
picture starring Herbert Rawlinson
showing at the Peerless Theatre nex4,
Friday evening. Rawlinson plays
the policeman and has many a hard
fought battle with Gribbon before the
picture Is finished.