The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-11

Passes & ON m e mt on
Khan and Freedom
OF Press

he hrSt issue OF the weekly cam
o hand few days ago.
It's a beauty. so clean and wei
printed. easy to read .,hd just the RICH
lie. giving more space and time 70
more solid articles. | think It's al
Improvement upon the Semi-weekly
Cosmopolitan dailies can give the dis
patches. the weekly is a storehouse o
ocal history.
was little surprised at your frs
ditorial in the new departure. wherein
'ou disclairned forth in Lincoln!
lmous Gettysburg speach. "A gov
rnment of the people for the people
nd by the people"
Il has been eulogized for more
han half century and this is the
rst time that ! have seen i, called
n question.
The people delegated certain powers
0 general government. Outlined in
he constitution. 1t would be bad To-
C TO say tina; the power to delegate
as not the power to withhold.
Governments have been run under
many forms, ours may be the happy
Medium for permanency.
The rule OF the majority so firmly
established by its success. affords the
people the opportunity OF saying JUS
what they want.
In the early history of Idaho the
convention system prevailed. 1t had its
weaknesses. The saloon institution
vas in the plentitude of its power II
always asked for concessions. Some
OF the candidates must be acceptable
o the saloon element Since idaho
has become bone dry the convention
system may give better results. But
God made the common people and
made so many of them that ii they
make blunder they all suffer.
We are trying the primary system
IN Oregon. Ii is burdensome but
education has produced some good re-
suits.
II gave us the compulory education
II bill, patterned very much like the
Idaho law, which Professor Sisson
'aid in lecture in Caldwell once
vas probably the best educational sys-
EN- in the United States. But now
zones a sec.arian minority and BY
some means gets the supreme court
" the State declare the law unconsti
uilonal. Ii goes up to the supreme
:ourt of the United States.
The whole controversy is the re-
iult of the World War. So many
'nemies of our government during the
var were plotting against us that
societies thought it best +
raugurate system that would make
oval citizens of the rising generation
Hence the Scottish Rite Masons
the school hill. which ther
introduced by the initiative. 1t carried
y handsome majority.
Now let il be forever remembered
nat not one of Porilands daily news
apers supported the measure.
A spirit OF investigation induced
he TO ascertain why. After inter
iewing several of the editors and get
ng their views. concluded that the
atholic church had them "roped and
oeiied' and now am WONDERING
IT has the Tribune in the same FIX
am writing this to end out. On
the editors told me that not a word
ivor'ng the X. X. X. could ever an
ear in his paper. AS | am too old
join after night clubs and DOM
now anything about the hooded or
'r | could only conjecture nv WIN
saw in the papers. that the X. X. X
I'd the Knight OF Columbus were
1t in the marrying mood.
was surprised that you published
a; X. X. X. from the Payette In
pendent, You couldn't drive an
'icle Ike that into a Portland paper
It'll sledge hammer.
1t you wish could tell Won some
ore about the hooded clans in Port
nd. There are two OF them that |
We seen. On day | saw two men
rsehack. with white robes and K
X. printed on the robes. I was
d they were Ku Klux. Almost every
y | see the other hooded order on
streets. They are robed in black
tn a hood covering the head and
'ped to the shoulders, the face only
covered. They seem to be all fe-
les and can vote. Both sides seem
be represented in the famous New
rk Democratic Convention and
ange to relate. though one side is
silly male and the other female
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