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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
DEATH OF DAN STRAW.

Well Known Occur d'AIener Passes
Away in New Mexico.
A message was received last week
announcing the death of Dan Straw
in Deming, New Mexico Mr.. Straw
came to the Occur d'Alene district
many years ago from Joplin, Missouri,
and was employed for anumber Of
years by the mining companies at
Burke and Mace. Afterwards he was
employed at the Sunset mine as COM
pressor and hoistman, where ne re-
manned until work was suspended
some five or six years ago. Mr.. Straw
then took a position as compressor
man with the Bunker Hill & Sullivan
company at Kellogg, where he re-
manned until about a year ago. Fail
ing health made a change of climate
necessary. Accompanied by Mrs.
Straw he went to New Mexico, but
evidently the change was delayed too
long. Mr.. Straw was citizen of the
highest type. a loyal friend and genial
He was widely known IN
the Occur d'Alenes, where the news
Of his death was received with express
sions Of sorrow.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
Politics the Antidoie for Politics

( same thing is true of the House and
/ the Senate, though of recent years the
number of able members has been
! decreasing and that of demagogic self
seekers increasing The average
voter, however, rarely knows who are
the good and who are the poor public
servants; rarely let's the good ones
understand that he is behind them
and the bad ones know that he is
against them. That political get
rich-quick men-the demagogue, who
appeals to passion and prejudice, the
slick politician, who tells the people
what they want to hear instead of
what they need to know-are so often
returned to Office shows that we bite
as easily on sucker political panaceas
as on Wallingford oil literature.
Unless he gets a bill for direct taxes
the average man does not even know
how large a share of that direct tax
alton he is shouldering in his cost Of
living. If he did, he would sit down
and indite a few burning lines to his
senators and congressman, telling
them to get behind MELONS program
for tax reductions. But the chances
are that he does not even know the
name of his congressman.
Yet it is this average citizen, work
ing behind and supporting his repre-
sentative. who Is tho hope OF the
country. That representative need
not be a genius if he has honesty,
common sense and practical know
ledge. The world is suspicious, and
rightly So of its slightly mad gen
fuses and its self-styled intellectuals
no real intellectual ever calls him
self one-because it is not strong
enough to stand any more of their
plumbers. In happier times we may
return to them for diversion, but
today the men who can show us how
to cut taxes, balance budgets and
build up commerce should be our
popular idols.
Taxation is imposed by both parties
but it is paid in nonpartisan dollars
Each party keeps pointing the finger
Of scorn at the other for raising taxes,
and each is right. Each party in its
platform is claiming credit for an in
tention to reduce taxes. Let us give
credit to both and see that they merit
It. There are both Democratic and
Republican tax bills in our cost of liv-
ng. That both parties should share
he honor of reducing them is only
air. A party lineup on the Mellon
program would strengthen the sus-
'icion that petty politics and not
found economics is too often the
leciding factor in tax legislation.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
NORTH AMERICAN CAPITAL FOR
SOUTH AMERICA.

A British commission of distinguish
ed hnanciers has sailed for a three
months visit to Brazil with the object
of finding opportunities for the in
yestment Of British capital in that
country. The announcement should
serve as a hint to Americans with
money to lend. In competition with
foreign capitalists. our own people
should be able to offer as attractive
terms and as low rate of interest as
anybody else. There is every reason.
too, why American rather than OLD
World capital should be used in the
development of the Latin-American
republics.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
WHY NOT THE Hath AND 18TH
AMENDMENTS ALSO?

This paper IS heartily in favor OF
the enforcement of the eighteenth
amendment to the constitution, which
forbids the manufacture and sale of
intoxicants, and whatever influence it
has will be used in that direction.
Not only this, but it is in favor OF
enforcing all other provisions of the
constitution. For this reason the
prohibition TRADE in congress the
other day by Representative Upshaw'
of Georgia, fails in its purpose. He
advocated drastic action to put a stop
to all liquor drinking by congressman
and all officers of the government and
appealing to the president to call
for the immediate resignation of
every executive appointee, including
army navy and cabinet officers, who
drink the liquor that has been out
lawed by the constitution of our
country. liltt SuuuuS iAhS eiAN ANe'A
less, but as much as we are anxious
to see the law enforced, we are I'M
able to warm up to this lighting
Georgian on the prohibition question
and cannot until he and his COM
patriots in the solid south are ready
to Join in an equally aggressive move
nent for the enforcement of all other
amendments to the constitution. For
example, here is the fourteenth
amendment:
Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several states
according to their respective num-
bers. counting the whole number
of persons in each state exclud-
ing Indians not taxed. But when
the right to vote at any election
for the choice of Electors for
President and President Of
the United States. Representatives
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
GASOLINE TAX PAYS FOR GOOD
ROADS.

The last session of the Legislature
passed a law levying a tax of 2 cents
per gallon on gasoline, and although
the law has been in effect less than
year, it has already proved its
effectiveness in providing funds for
road improvement and its fairness in
distributing the cost of road cOnstruc-
ton and maintenance among those
who actually use the roads. Accord
ing to a paper issued by James p.
Taylor. secretary of the Vermont
chamber of commerce, thirtyfve
states now have gasoline tax laws
and the others are in line for adopt
ing the system either through refer
endums now pending or by legislative
action. In fact, the tax on gasoline
has come to be known as a popular
tax, because every person who pays it
realizes that he is getting the service
he pays for in the form of better
highways. But the possibilities of the
gasoline tax as a means of financing
good roads are just beginning to be
realized, and there is marked tend
ecy to adopt it in lieu of all other
forms of automobile taxation. The
secretary of the Rhode Island Good
Roads association says that it is "the
only national method of automobile
taxation that has thus far been pro-
posed" The chamber of commerce of
Rochester. II support 90 the -cse.en
dunn now pending in New York, which /
proposes to substitute a 2-cent gaso-
line tax with a nominal license fee of /
SO, says that such a tax would raise
the same amount of money as was
formerly raised from the license plate |
tax" and that "this would not in
crease the burden of taxation, but |
would be a fairer distribution of that
burden" The steady adoption of the
gasoline tax and the ease with which
the tax is collected, and above all the
absolute fairness of the system, are
making a strong appeal to authorities
on road construction, who see in IL
possible solution of highway financing.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
K EEP IDAHO FREE FRO M
CROOKED PROMOTIONS.

Compared with some other mining
states OF the west, Idaho has been re-
markedly free from questionable min
ing promotions and this, too. without
having resorted to the ENACTMENT of
an extreme blue sky law That Idaho
has never been an inviting deld for
the mining crook is, we believe. trace
able to the high type of manhood re-
presented in the pioneers Of the state
those early placer miners whose stern
sense of honor and justice established
a code of conduct in the absence OF
written law that protected the upright
and Industrious citizen and admin
istered quick and unerring punishment
TO the crook and the highwayman. AS
the years passed and attention turned
to lode mining in which initial capt.
tai was required, the principle of the
square deal so firmly established by
the pioneers of the placer diggings
became the rule accepted by those who
sought funds for mining develop
ment. OF course there have been mis-
representations OF mining property in
Idaho by INSCRIPTIONS promoters and
vendors of mining securities, but these
have been the exceptions that prove
the rule. The attitude of the men who
represent the mining industry in Ida
no is and always has been absolutely
against exaggerated and false state
ments regarding mining property as
a means of inducing investment in
mines or the purchase OF mining
stocks 1t is this fixed attitude, this /
desire TO maintain the unQuestioned /
legitimacy of mining as a business /
enterprise and fruitful field for invest
ment, that has accomplished more .
than laws in keeping the mining in
dustry Of Idaho free from crooks. and
in expanding mining until it has be-
come one of the great basis industries
Of the state.
But when sound public sentiment
fails to protect the public against the
clever devices of constituencies
crook, it is then necessary to have
laws to accomplish the purpose and
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10

Readers OF the Saturday Evening
Post who content themselves with
reading the fiction and other special
features and skip the editorial page
that follows, always miss something
worth while, and occasionally an edi-
torial that is so apt that it seems
made to the average readers order.
One of these appeared in the Post of
December % under the hr aiding cut
Yourself a Piece of Cai,' " 1t dealt
with the indifference of the people to
the tax question, and particularly the
Mellon Proposal to revise and reduce
federal taxes. Here is the closing
section of the editorial:
Present tendencies could easily be
checked if our great inarticulate mass
of so called good citizens-home-lov-
ing, country loving, law abiding, and
church. going people-who do not
vote, or who, if they do, vote for the
set-up that the machine provides for
them, could get it into their heads
that protected vice, bootlegging, dope
selling, banditry and too-high taxes
can exist only with their tacit con-
sent. If they would take as much
interest in their taxes as they do in
the baseball scores; look over their
public officials as carefully as they do
the big-league pitchers; go to the
polls in as great numbers as they &c
to the football games; take as much
trouble to register as they do to get
seats at the Follies; feel as concerned
over throwing incompetents out of
public Office as they do over throwing
out josses in China; fight as hard to
protect their incomes against foolish
public expenditures as they do against
foolish private ones, there would be
something doing along the Potomac
and various other rivers, estuaries, !
bays, branches and creeks on which
capitals Cities towns and farms are
located. The only antidote for poll
tics is politics.
On the other hand, we must not run
away with the idea that all men or
even a majority of the men in public |
office are incompetents and crooks !
Many of them are only insists; others |
are cheap men with low standards; |
still others are direct and indirect
grafters; a surprisingly large number
are honest, intelligent and competent
of them working for smaller
than they could get in private
business. But when the system-and
that includes the Indifference and
ignorance of the good people-does
not prevent them from giving the
public the best that is in them, the
politicians usually do The
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10

officers who will enforce them. This
seems to be what happened down in
southern Idaho last week. when Stew
art Campbell. state mine Inspector
exposed the false and misleading
statements being broadcasted by the
Idaho Gold corporation regarding its
property at Rocky Bar AS Is often
the custom with those who plan to
fleece the public through illegitimate
promotions. a prominent citizen Of
Salt Lake City was induced TO head
the corporation and an equally promi-
nent and reputable citizen of Boise
consented to act as statutory repre-
sentative Of the company in Idaho,
the main Office being in New York.
Immediately following the revelations
made by the inspector showing the
false representations regarding the
both these gentlemen re-
signed and severed all connection with
the company Having removed the
mask Of respectability from the cor
poration, Mr.. Campbell is now plan
ming ways and means to get at the
real offender, who has long record
Of similar promotions in other states.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
The Democracy of the Dead
John ]. ingalls,.

In the democracy Of the dead all
men at last are equal There is
neither rank nor station nor preroga-
tive in the republic of the grave. At
this vital threshold the philosopher
ceases to be wise and the song of
the poet is silent. Dives cast off his
purple, and Lazarus his rags: the
poor man is as rich as the richest, and
the rich man is as poor as the paup-
er. The creditor loses his usury, and the
debtor is acquitted of his obligation
There the proud man surrenders his
dignities, the politician his honors.
the wording in pleasures; the inva-
lid needs no physician, and the la
borer rests from his unrequited toll.
Here at last is natures final decree
in equity. The wrongs of time are
redressed, injustice is expiated, the
irony of fate is refuted, the unequal
distribution of wealth, honor capacity.
pleasure and opportunity, which
makes life so cruel and inexplicable
a tragedy, ceases in the realm of
death. The strongest there has no
supremacy, and the weakest needs no
defense. The mighty captain sue
cumbs to the invincible adversary
who dfsarms alike the victor and the
vanquished.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
PLANS OF PEARSON
FOR MAKING A MINE
CONTINUED from Page l.

Continued from Page j.
now completed. 1t is 120 feet long
and provides a storage reservoir 20
feet deep and 200 feet long, and is
expected to provide an abundance of
water for power throughout the year.
The water will have a head of 204
feet. and will be conveyed to the COM
pressor site by a steel pipe line IS
inches in diameter at the upper end
and reduced to ~ inches below. In
the event of failure of water power
for any cause, an oil burning engine
will be available for use. A new
four-drill compressor will be installed,
and new and modern boarding and
bunk houses will be erected to accom-
moate a large number OF employees.
Success After Prolonged Effort.
1t has been a good many years since
Harry and Morris Pearson started out
10 make a mine Of the Lucky Swede,
The name under which the Pearson
Mining company was originally incor-
oorated. II is a question whether the
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
BEAR TOP.
Supplies Being Taken and Soon Start
DeveIopment.

Supplies Being Taken and Soon Start
Development.
After securing an option on the
Bear Top late last fall, f. Gushing
Moore planned to have development
work under way by the first of the
year. Heavy snow and later the ex-
tremely cold weather made it impos-
sible to move supplies as contem-
plated and forced a delay in starting
work. According to information from
Murray, since the weather moderated
a trail has been broken to the Bear
Top and it will be possible to deliver
the necessary supplies at the mine
within the next few days. and work
in the mine will follow as soon as
practicable. A careful inspection of
the Bear Top convinced Mr.. Moore
that a comparatively little work
would make available quite a large
tonnage of lead-silver ore, enough to
justify restoring the 1OO-ton mill to
for operation in the spring.
Also that with the old workings pro-
ductive, the extension of the tunnel
which has been started just back OF
the mill would be undertaken which
will open the vein to an additional
depth of 500 feet below tunnel NO
and with a reasonable certainty OF
finding a large body of ore. These IN
general are understood to be MT
Moores plans, and for the carrying
out of which he has made financial
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10

to Congress, etc, is denied to any
OF the male members OF such
state, being Of twenty-one years
Of age and citizens of the United
States, or in any way abridged.
except for participation in re-
bellion or other crime, the basis Of
representation therein shall be
reduced in the proportion which
the number of such male citizens
shall bear to the whole number
of male citizens twenty-one years
of age in such state"
Is the gentleman from Georgia in
favor of a vigorous enforcement Of
that amendment? And how does nc
stand on the fifteenth amendment
Here it Is:
The right of the citizens of the
United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any state on
account of race. color. or previous
condition of servitude," and Con
gress shall have power TO enforce
the provisions of this article by
appropriate legislation"
By all means let us enforce the
eighteenth amendment, but 1t is no
more a part of the constitution than
he fourteenth and fifteenth. and its
Is therefore no more
binding.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10

first name was happily chosen, for
after long years of arduous labor, if
success finally comes, 1t can hardly be
credited to luck; rather it is the re-
ward for hard, honest and persistent
labor. The new year finds the outlook
bright for the Pearson company, and
the opening OF a mine in that section
will result in benefits far beyond the
immediate stockholders
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10
The Wallace Miner

Entered at the Postonce in Wallace.
Idaho, as Second Class Mail Matter.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-10

Revenues OF the Panama Canal are
now running about 100000 a month
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-17
OAKLAND

Mr. and Mrs William HeelImans
were guests Sunday OF Mr.. and MIS-
Nathaniel Woodsunl. a
ReY. weston p. Holman will. leave
this morning for Augusta to attend
the sunday school Institute.
: Mrs. Marion Farr OF Littieton, y.
H. is the guest of Rev. and Mrs.
Weston p. Holman.
Miss Myra Wells has gone TO rive
Islands ass, to T. s howe auk Roland viii
liams passed Sundaytin Old Orchard.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Higgins and
children were calling on friends In
sidney, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gates Murchie and
son, Edward. were visitors In Bath,
Monday.
MI. and Mrs. Clarence Shelton and
Mr., and Mrs. William Foss have re-
turned from a weekend visit In
Rome.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the United Baptist church plan TO
hold y harvest home festivaI az .nc
community house Friday. Sept. 2oth.
The program will be musical and
dramatic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Leavitt and
three children of Brunswick were
weekend guests of relatives In
Mrs. Josephine Decker of Mercer,
who has been quite Ill, is much I'M
proved.
The Swarthmore Chautauqua of
Swarthmore, Pa, is booked for OAK
land, November Is. IA and 10. This
is the fourth visit of the ChautauQua
10 Oakland.
The Merry Maids of the Universal
ist SUNDAY school met Monday AFTER
noon at $50 o'clock in Murray YES
try. There was short business
meeting and the following officers
were elected: President, Rachel Hal
lett: vice president. Ruth Wheeler;
treasurer. Margaret Blaisdell: sec
retary. Charlse Haynes After the
| business meeting the remainder OF
l the afternoon was pleasantly passed
with sewing.
| Miss Velma Perkins is employed
with Wallace Patterson at the Red
Front store on Main street during
| the absence of Douglas Cocker, VINO
/ is working at the Red Front store
Mr.. and Mrs Alton Wood and
family motorcd to Norway saturday
The Christmas Club will meet on
| Thursday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. Everett Garland on Alpine
street.
The neishbors of Harold Bridges.
who underwent critical operation
for appendicitis last week at the Elm
city hospital in Watervillc. met at
his farm Tuesday on the tnirhelu
road TO dig his potatoes and harvest
his crops. Although resting comfort
ably, MIR. Bridges is not considered
out of danger. 49,,
The Ladies' Social Circle of All
Souls Iniversalist church will meet
today in the church vestry. Inc
meeting will be followed by a pub
lie supper at $50 The Mems Cup
will hold their regular meeting III
the evening. There will be short
business meeting. after which {. H.
Martin will give an interestlhE nc
count of his trip to California. Illus
trated by views. The ladies Will be
invited to attend after the business
meeting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-17

tho hall: rhc had reached the head
of the stairs when she saw oBricn
below. clancius through one of the
r,,rox;uas that lay on Il table. lie
WAS standing guard then. TO be sure
that she did rot slip out.
"Oh, I'll go anyway; I don't care"
sha cried bitterly. But she knew
even as she spoke that she would
rot 30. In those few golden mo-
meYts with Gillian II has seemed rs
IL she might be free OF the morass
through which she had stumbled all
this last year: now 1t was sucking
her down again.
"lTI explain to Bruce IN tho morn
ing" she promised herself. trying to
fight off the tears that threatened
to be 100 much for her. Hell UNI
derstand surely He may even see
n way out. He must know that ]
love him"
Yet sh, could not rcaSsure herself.
And many Of the girls who mad en-
WED beautiful Mary HAYWARD when
thew saw her photograph in the
pho;ogravure sections OF the news
pap,rs and read Of the court that
was being paid her at Newport or
Palm Eeach or Southampton. would
have piticd her instead. as che threw
herself Gown on the bed and cried
hcartbrokcnly. 80
She slept late In the morning: II
was nearly eleven when she crossed
III. terrace where the others sat
smoking and looking through the
papers.
"AIary, Dee Lewis is marrying the
little Wynship girl" announced Ca
milla with n laugh: then. to the two
men. Dee was a beau OF Mary's all
winter. but you know how 1t is
Suddenly nan wants TO get mar
red and then" she waved her
bards in the air. laughed again. and
bent forward TO light cigarette
fror, the one Gillian was smoking.
As she looked up at him through the
smoke Mary shivered. lie had risen
pcrs,,nctoriy as she Joined them. but
bis ewes had not met hers; he had
shared no pains to make her see
th,t he no longer felt as he had the
night before.
Hes angry because ! didn't come
downstairs" Mary told herself
wro.chcdly. "Eut when I tell him
CoayriaIt. 1921. b. The