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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
FRAUD IN STOCKS

We favor the immediate passage of such
legislation as may be necessary to enable
the states efficiently to enforce their laws
relating to the gradual financial stran-
Cling of innocent investors, workers and
consumers, caused by the indiscriminate
promotion, refinancing and reorganizing
of corporations on an inflated and over
capitalized basis, resulting already In tho
undermining and collapse of many rail-
roads, public service and Industrial cor
porations. manifesting Itself in unemploy-
ment, irreparable loss and waste, and
which constitute serious menace to the
stability of our economic system.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The Democratic party pledges all tt
| energies to the outlawing Of the whole
war system. We refuse to believe tina
| the wholesale slaughter of human being.
| on the battlefield is any more necessary
! to mans highest development than Is kill
ing by individuals.
The only hope for world peace and fol-
economic recovery lies in the organized
! efforts of sovereign nations cooperate
to remove the causes Of war and to sub
stitute law and order for violence.
Under Democratic leadership a prac-
teal plan was devised under which "a ma
tons are now operating and which has
for its fundamental purpose the free CO.
operation Of all nations in the work of
peace.
The government of the United States
for the last four years has had no for
eign policy, and consequently 1t has de-
layed the restoration OF the political and
economic agencies of the world. 1t has
impaired our self-respect at home and In
5ured our prestige abroad. 1t has cur
tailed our foreign markets and ruined our
Agricultural prices. ,
It is of supreme Importance to civiliza-
ton and to mankind that America be
placed and kept on the right side of the
greatest moral question of all time, and
therefore the Democratic party renews
its declaration Of confidence in the ideal
Of world peace. the League Of Nations
and the world court of justice as together
constituting the supreme effort of the
craftsmanship and religious conviction of
our time to organize the world for peace
Further. the Democratic party declared
that 1t will be the purpose of the next
administration to do all in its power to
secure for our country that moral leader
ship in the family Of nations which, in the
providence of God. has been SO clearly
marked out for It,
There Is no substitute for the League of
therefore we believe that, In the interest
the great burdens of war from the backs
permanent foreign policy on these su-
with changing Of party administration, It
this question out of the party politics and
lean people at referendum election adj
cially under act of congress. free from
ample time for full consideration and dis
sussion throughout the country, upon the
question, in substance, as follows:
Shall the United states become q men,
Der of the League Of Nations upon such |
reservations or amendments to the cove
,ant Of the league as the President and
he senate of the United States may |
lgree upon7"
Immediately upon an Affirmative vote
70 Will carry out such mandate.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
ACTIVITY OF WOMEN

We welcome the women of the nation
to their rightful place by the side of men
In the control of the government whose
burdens they have always shared.
The Democratic party congratulates
them upon the essential part which
they have taken in the progress of our
country and the zeal with which they
are using their political power to aid
the enactment of beneficient laws and
the exaction of fidelity in the public
service.
We favor generous appropriations
honest management and sympathetic
care and assistance in the hospitaliza-
ton, rehabilitation and compensation
of the veterans of all wars and their
dependents. The humanizing of the
veterans bureau Is imperatively re-
quired.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
c. o. P. CORRUPTION"

Never before in our history has the
government been SO tainted by cor
ruption and never has an administra-
ton SO utterly failed. The nation has
been appalled, by the revelations of po-
litical depravity which have character
lied the conduct of public affairs. We
arratgn the Republican party for at
tempting to limit inquiry into official
delinquencies and to impede, II not to
Illustrate. the Investigations to which
In the beginning the Republican party
leaders assented. but which later they
regarded with dismay.
These Investigations sent the former
secretary of the interior to Three Riv-
ers in disgrace and dishonor. These
investigations revealed the incapacity
and indifference to public obligation
of the secretary OF the navy, com
polling him. by force of public opinion,
to quit the cabinet.
These Investigations confirmed the
general impression as to the un1tness
of the attorney general by exposing an
official situation and personal contacts
which shocked the conscience 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
ornment and its cruel neglect of the
sick and disabled soldiers of the World
war.
These Investigations revealed the
criminal and fraudulent nature of the
oil leases, which caused the congress,
despite the indifference of the Execu-
tive, to direct recovery of the public
domain and tho prosecution Of the
criminal.
Such are the exiRencies of partisan
politics that Republican leaders are
teaching the strange doctrine that pub
lie censure should be directed against
those who expose crime rather than
against criminals who have committed
the offenses. II only three cabinet oni-
GERS out of ten are disgraced the coun-
try is asked to marvel at how many
are free from faint
Long boastful that It was the only
party "ft to govern" tho Republican
party has proven its inability to gov
ern even Itself. 1t is at war with it. |
self. As an agency of government 1t |
has ceased to function.
The nation cannot AFFORD to intrust /
its welfare to political organization |
that cannot master itself. or to an Ex- |
ecutive whose policies have been re-
iected by his own party. To retain In
power an administration of this char
acter would inevitably result in four
years more of continued disorder. in
ternal dissension and governmental in
efficiency.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
COMPARISON OF PARTIES

We urge the American people to COM
pare the record OF eight unsullied years
of Democratic administration with that
Of the Republican administration. In
the former there was no corruption.
The party pledges were faithfully full
filled. and a Democratic congress en-
acted an extraordinary number of con-
structive and remedial laws. The eco
nomic lifo of the nation quickened.
Tariff taxes were reduced. A federal
trade commission was created.
A federal farm loan system was es-
tablished. Child labor legislation was
enacted. good roads bill was passed.
Eight-hour laws were adopted. A sec
rotary of labor was given a seat in the
cabinet OF the President. The Clayton
amendment to the Sherman antitrust
act was passed. freeing American labor
BY tho Smith-Lever bill improvement
of agricultural conditions was effected.
A corrupt practice act was adopted.
A well considered warehouse act was
passed Federal employment bureaus
were created. farm loan banks were
organized and the federal reserve sys-
tenn was established. Privilege was
uprooted A corrupt lobby was driven
from the national capital. higher
sense of individual and national duty
was aroused. America enjoyed an I'M
precedented period of social and mate
rial progress.
During the time which interviewed be-
tween the inauguration OF a Democratic
administration on March 4. 1918, and
our entrance into the World war, we
placed upon the statute books of our
country more effective. constructive
and remedial legislation than the Re-
publican party had placed there in a
generation.
During the great struggle which fol-
lowed we had leadership that carried
America to greater heights of honor
and power and glory than she had ever
known before In her entire history.
Transition from this period of exalted
Democratic leadership to the sordid
record of the last three and a half
years make the nation ashamed. II
marks the contrast between a high
conception of public service and an
avid purpose to distribute spells.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
LABOR, CHILD WELFARE

Labor Is not a commodity. 1t is human.
We favor collective bargaining and laws
regulating hours of labor and conditions
under which labor is performed. We favor
the enactment of legislation providing
that the products Of convict labor shipped
from one state to another shall be subject
to the laws of the latter state exactly ~
though they had been produced therein.
In order to mitigate unemployment at
tending business depression. we urge the
enactment of legislation authorizing the
construction and repair of public works
DO initiated in periods of acute unemploy-
ment
Without the votes of Democratic
members of the congress the child Ia
Dor amendment would not have been
submitted for ratification
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
DEEP WATERWAYS

We favor and Will promote deep water
ways from the Great Lakes to the Gulf
and to the Atlantic ocean.
We favor q policy for the fostering ana
building of inland waterways and the re-
moval Of discrimination against water
transportation. Flood control and the
lowering Of flood levels IL essential to the
safety of life and property, the productiv-
ity Of our lands the navigability of our
streams and the retaining Of our wet
and overlooked lands and the creation of
hydroelectric power. We favor the ex-
peditious construction Of flood relief
works on the Mississippi and Colorado
rivers and also such reclamation and
irrigation projects upon the Colorado
river as may be found to be feasible
and practical.
We favor liberal appropriations for
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
LAUSANNE TREATY

We condemn the Lausanne treaty. 1t
barters legitimate American rights and
betrays Armenia for the Chester oil
concession.
We favor the protection of American
rights in Turkey and the fulnllment of
President Wilson's arbitral award re-
specting Armenia
Republic of Greece-We welcome to
the sisterhood of republics the ancient
land of Greece, which gave to our party
its priceless name. We extend to her
government and people our cordial
good wishes
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10

Platform

The following 10 the text of the Dem
ocratic platform as adopted by the
conventions:
We, tho representa- tIves of the Demo
cratic party. In national convention as
sembled, pay our profound homage to
the memory OF Woodrow Wilson. Our
hearts are filled with gratitude that
American democracy should have pro-
duced this man. whose spirit and infiu-
ence will 1.-Two on through the ages; and
that 1t was our privilege to have CO.
operated with him In the Advancement
of ideals Of government which will
serve as an example and inspiration
for this and future generations We
afirm our abiding faith in those ideals
and pledge ourselves to take up the
standard which he bore and to strive
for the full triumph of the principles
of democracy for which he dedicated his
life.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
NARCOTICS, DRY LAW

Recognizing in narcotic addiction. espe-
cially the spreading Of heroin addiction
among the youth. grave peril to Amer
lea and to the human race. we pledge our
selves vigorously to take against 1t all
legitimate and proper measures for edu-
cation, for control. and for tho suppress
sion at homo and abroad
TIE Republican administration has failed
to enforce the prohibition law: is guilty
Of tranhcking in liquor permits. and has
become the protector Of violators of this
law.
respect and enforce the Constitution and
all laws.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10

iron, copper and silver than any ether
country. The value Of our mineral
productions II second only to agricul-
ture. Mining has suffered like agricui-
ture and from the same causss. 1t 10
the duty OF our government to foster
this industry and to remove the rsstric-
lions that destroy ~ prosperity.
We pledge tho Democratic party to reg
ulate by governmental agencies the an
thracite coal industry and all other cor
where public welfare has been subordi-
porations controlling the necessaries Of life
mated to private interests.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
POPULAR ELECTIONS

We pledge the Democratic party to a
policy which will prevent members of ell
Their house who fail of reelection from
participating In the subsequent sessions Of
congress. This can be accomplished by
fixing the days for converting the con-
gress Immediately after the biennial ma
tional election; and to this end we favor
granting the right to the people of the
several states to vote on proposed consti-
tutional amendments on this subject
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10

We demand . revival Of the spirit Of
LEGAL seif-govsrnment, essential to the
preservation Of the free institutions Of
eur republic.
We pledge ourselves to maintain our
established position In favor Of the OK
clusion Of Asiatic immigrants.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
STATE RIGHTS

We demand that the states of the union
shall be preserved In all their vigor and
power. They constitute bulwark against
the centralizing and destructive tenden-
cies Of the Republican party.
We condemn the efforts of the Reptfb-
lican party to nationalist the functions
and duties of the states.
We oppose the extension Of bureaucracy
tho creation Of unnecessary bureaus and
federal agencies. and the multiplication
Of onices and ONCE holdern.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
IMPROVED HIGHWAYS

Improved roads are OF vital Importance
not only to commerce and industry, but
also to agriculture and national life. We
call attention to the record of the Demo-
cratic party in this matter and favor con-
tinuance of federal aid under existing fed
eral and state agencies.
Mining Is one of the basic Industries
Of this country. We produce more GOAL.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10
LATIN AMERICA

From the day of their birth friendly
relations have existed between the
Latin-American republics and tho
United States. The friendship grows
stronger as our relations become more
intimate. The Democratic party sends
to these republics its cordial greeting;
God has made us neighbors-justice
shall keep us friends
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-07-10

A vote for Coolidge IL . vote FOR
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
SILVER DOLLAR COMING BACK

The silver dollar, or ''cart wheel" as this form of money is popularly known, soon will be restored to general circula- ton. The iron dollar, sait also is call ed, formerly represented material DOT tion of the money used by the general public, but on account of < the incon- veniefce in its handling due to it's great weight, and bulk it was discarded as a means of exchange many years ago, ex- cept in certain sections of the country, particularly in the west.
 Some 5000 clerks ins the treasury department were surprised on their last pay day, when there appeared in each of their pay envelopes one silver dol lar. It was not known until that time it was the intention of the government to put the silver dollar in general cir culation once more.
 The initiation of the treasury's pro- gram among the clerks of it's own de- partment shortly will be followed by in- vitations to other government depart ments, banks and civic organizations generally throughout the couAtry to CO., operate in the movement to, place the silver dollar in general circulation.
 It was stated at the office of the di- rector of the mint that there are at present in the vaults of the United States treasury 503, 756, ,769 silver dol lars and that it will not be necessary to coin any additional number outside of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
NOTED SOPRANO FOR THIS WEEK Temple Secures Grand Opera For Week
 Engagement

Mime. Maddelena Hauff, termed by critics of the New York newspapers who cover the operas presented in that city, as "The Songbird of the South. will open a weeks engagement at the Temple theater on Monday assisted by Mir. Max Ring flute solist of the Tenn pie concert orchestra.
 Mme Hauff, who for many evenings was star entertainer for the Atlanta Journal radio station, and who filled a two weeks engagement at the Howard theater in Atlanta, has just finished a limited engagement in Jacksonville, Fla, in the Arcade theater. One of the daily paper critics there in writing of Mime. Hauff states ''Maddelena Hauff, The Nightingale of the South" just lifts the heart of you when she sings, To, Hear the Gentle Lark and 'Marcheta' at the Arcade theater this week. There is a certain quality in the depths of her lyric coloratura so- prano voice that fingers with you af- ter the song is done. Maddelena when she talks is just as exhuberant as Mad delena singing"
 In speaking of Miss Hauff and her voice, the great Martinelli says: Miss Hauff finished on high F above hi. h c, taking the note with absolute sureness and clearness and scored distinct triumph The endorsement of Mar tinelli himself comes as the final word of encouragement to Mime. Hauff who recently signed with the Savine Opera company of New York City for a sea son.
 Mime. Hauff will open a weeks en- gagement at the Temple Monday, sing ing at 80, z 80 and 9 80 p. m. daily, and every music lover in the city of Bir niingham will no doubt avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing this fa- nous little songbird.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
CAPITOL SHOWS
 TO THE LADIES'
Screen Offering Monday And Tuesday James
 Cruze Film
James Cruze has scOred again.

James Cruze has scored again.
 The Paramount picture, ''To The Ladies'" which will be shown at the Capitol on Monday and Tuesday, is this directors fourth consecutive screen triumph. The others, "The Covered Wagon" Hollywood" and "Ruggles of Red Gap" are all current productions enjoying tremendous popularity throughout the country. Edward Hor- ton, Theodore Roberts, Helen Jerome Eddy and Louise Dresser are featured players in the principal roles.
 The story is one of the Kincaid Piano Factory where John Kincaid has the position of manager to fill. A sales mans banquet it held at Mrs. Kincaid's suggestion, for her husband consults her on all important matters, at which selection is to be made Three clerks are candidates for the position. Leon ard Beebe. Tom Baker, the boss's ''yes man." and third visionary individual. Each is called upon for a short talk. But alas the "yesman" gives the same speech that Beebe had memorized but a few evenings before from a book about After Dinner Speeches For All Oc- casions." He is lost-visions of the coveted job go up in smoke. But his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14

Princess Wahletka. ("Red Apple") 7, daughter of the late Minnie Spy Buck, who met her death while attempting heroic rescue of human life in the great Iroquois theater fire at Chicago, will appear in person at Loew's Bijou all of this week, beginning Monday after noon, as the headline special attrac- tion of the vaudeville bill, and some astounding feats are promised all who will hear and see this great American Indian seeress, who, according to psy- chic experts, is marvel in penetrat- ing the past and lifting the veil of the future.
 The psychic power of the princess and her uncanny predictions are said to have attracted much attention even when little Wahletka as a Cherokee Indian child went to school in Tala- quah, where she astounded her tutors not only by her quick learning, but by her remarkable occult gifts. One of her old teachers in speaking recently to newspaper reporter said of the prin- cess ''There was apparently nothing that she did not know, anticipating her lessons, and foretelling events correctly long in advance of their happening
 But other vaudeville treats are also promised on this weeks bill such as the Surprise" of Emma Raymond and company, in daring acrobatic wire and balancing act, also the vaudeville remnants" of Dobbs, Clark and Dare, full of eccentricities and daring feats, while Calvin and O'Connor, black face comedians, in '''In the Dark" assure their friends of riots of laughter, fol lowing their dramatic high brown opening. Last, but by no means least, the four Rubini Sisters, in their revue of music and songs, with cello picollo and piano promise rare treat.
 "The Tenth Woman" a noval by Harriet T. Comstock, has been trans lated to the screen, and the film yer. sion will form a special feature of the program at Loew's Bijou all of this week. The cast, with June Marlowe and Beverly Bayne in the lead. consists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
AUTHORS DISCOVERY.
Finds Impossible Fiction Characters in
 Real. Life.

Mrs. Virginia Woolf is not merely novelist. AS daughter of Leslie Stephen, she has hereditary right to be a critic. Writing in the Criterion on Character in Fiction,' she makes public great discovery, most illuminat- ing to those of us who stumble along tapping our sticks cautiously, in the darkness of much modern fiction.
 "On or about December, 1910," she tell us human character changed" An "epoch-making" change, if ever there was one. Strange. that it should have escaped all but one penetrating eye. On certain Georgian, on much of what may be classified roughly as post Rooseveltian fiction, the effects of this revolution are marked. It makes in telligible much in many recent novels that has hitherto been inexplicable.
 No longer, as we read them or their doubtless as genius-dripping successors, shall we feel that we are shut up in the consulting rooms of some eager and brash amateur psychoanalyst, in an in- sane asylum, in an idol asylum. To the cynical in ignorance and astonish- ment viewing what seemed to be pos sessed, defective or bedlam world of the novelists, its unreality and impos- sibility left but one conclusions Out of , all this dismal gibberiag, these curious inmates, these profound solemnities and this pulling erotomania. rich, if gro tesque, comic impression disengaged it. self. This stuff was too serious to be taken seriously. Our eminent young and middle-aged talesmiths were spool ing" the unsophisticated and jeering at the supposed intelligence of the intelli- gentsia.
 Now the scoffers of the "spoofers" must sing palinode. On or about De cember, 1910, human character changed. Consequently, the characters that seemed inhuman, extravagant, de mented, in certain novels, are human. natural, actual; and nothing is but what is not. Mir. D. II. Lawrence, Mir. Sherwood Anderson and their CO., mates in the new fiction are splendidly justified. The political, economic and social results of this change in human character we leave to abler penS."- New York Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14

these provided under the Pittman act. During the World war;, in order to allay the feelingof unrest in India, con- gress authorized the treasury depart ment to melt down standard silver dol lars and to sellsthem as bullion for the use of the government of India. Under this law approximately 260,000.000 sil- yer dollars, repfesenting over 200,000,- 900 fine ouncesSof silver were disposed Eof When silver again became avail able for purchase the treasury, as re- quired by law, bought silver to replace Ithat sold and ebined new standard sil- yer dollars. This repurchase is now substantially completed.
 While much of the silver sold was represented in currency circulation by silver certificates, there has been ma- terial decrease in the number of silver dollars in the hands of the public since the original melting down.-New York Sun, 2~