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WEEKLY ESTABLISHED DEC I
1883, and entered at the Caldwell Post
office as second-class matter.—Act. of
March 3. 1871.
THE SYSTEM IS WRONG
We trust the street department of
the city of Caldwell will be economi
Ihe next two years. We have no rea
cally and efficiently conducted during
son to believe that it will not be. In
case it is not who will be responsible?
The mayor will say t'hat the commis
sioner was forced on him. That he
had a good, capable man and the
council would not confirm the ap
pointment. On the other hand the
council will say that they had a good,
capable man but the mayor would not
appoint him. Both may be right in
regard to the men but that will not
help I he tax payers of Caldwell in
cast the department is improperly
and inefficiently conducted. They
will have to pay the bills. This again
shows that our present system of
municipal government is radically
wrong. There should be some re
sponsible head. Some officer
whom the people can say we elected
you to perform certain duties and you
have failed to perform them properly.
The city manager idea, as advanced
by the Tribune some months ago,
would at least create an office that
could be held to accountability. Place
some man in a position of ample
powers and then let him make good
or get out. Conduct the affairs of
the city upon the same priciple that
private corporations employ in their
affairs.
THE BLACK CANYON DISTRICT
Several weeks ago The Tribune
published a news article which gave
publicity to a plan which contemplat
ed the watering of the lands of the
district for $37.33 per acre.
President Newport in an article
,n The Parma Review has seen fit not
only to deny all knowledge of any
such a plan, but to impugn the motives
of The Tribune. We were under the
impression that the directors had
knowledge of all matters pertaining to
the welfare of the district and acting
under such impression have gone to
some trouble to defend them upon oc
casion. It would seem if Mr. New
port did not know of any such plan
he should thank The Tribune for en
hancing his knowledge.
Mr. 1 Newport states that the "un
wavering policy" of tttie directors of
the district is to secure aid from the
government. To secure aid from the
government is a splendid policy, and
a popular one. We should like some
ourselves. But we should probably
have to wait some time before the
government got around to us.
The reclamation service is under a
very scathing fire at the present time.
The former appropriation was made
only after a hard battle. Many sena
tors are very bitter in their fight
against extending aid in tlhis direction
and while we think they hold mis
taken ideas we do not impugn their
good faith. The proposition advanced
by the western enthusiasts to have
the government cancel the obligations
under the reclamation works already
put in has given the enemies of t!he
service ample ammunition, with the
result that no less a person than the
chief engineer of the U. S. R. S. has
declared that it was his opinion that
the bill under consideration at Wash
ington lhas absolutely n ot the slightest
chance of success.
Under the circumstances is rt well
to refuse to even consider any aid of
fered from other directions? The
figures given by the Tribune have
been carefully gone over by the en
gineers of the well-known Allis-Chal
niers Co., the Klaur Manufacturing
company, the Klaur Manufacturing
Co., a branch of the Carnegie compa
ny, and at least two other experts.
All figures have been carefully exam
ined except those of Mr. Hedden, «he
engineer of the district. As a matter
of fact the cost may be less the plans
of fact the cost may be less than the
plans contemplated by these gentle
men, as a 225-ft. lift has been reduced
to 130-ft.
In his article Mr. Newport stated
that the district "has secured a water
right for all the lands within the dis
trict that is not excelled in the north
west." The district has no water
right of any description, good or bad.
It has a permit to appropriate cer
tain waters under certain conditions.
One of the conditions calls for the
completion of one-fifth of the work
in 1915—and one-fifth of the work on
the Little Payette lake by next year
If all of the conditions be met and
the water actually appropriated and
used, rhe district may obtain a water
right, but certainly not until then
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All of the settlers under the Black
Canyon cannot wait indefinitely for
water. If the government seems like
ly to come to the aid of the district,
well and good; at present it looks
doubtful. It would appear to The
Tribune that no legitimate offer
should be lightly passed by. The
settlers of the district want water—
they want it through aid from the
government if possible, but—they
want water.
IDAHO HAS AN IMMIGRATION
BUREAU
In spite of the fact that the house
of representatives during the last ses
sion attempted to abolish the office
of immigration commissioner by fail
ing to appropriate rnioney ¥or the
maintenance of the office Idaho still
has an immigration commissioner.
The commissioner will draw the sala
ry but will be unable to do anything
else. The decision of the supreme
court in the case of Major Fred R.
Reed against Fred L. Husted, state
auditor, is clear and conclusive in re
gard to the salary of Commissioner
Reed. The Court says:
"Section 1, article 13, of the state
constitution provides that, there
shall be established a bureau of im
migration, labor and statistics, which
shall be under the charge of a com
missioner of immigration, labor and
statistics, who shall be appointed by
the governor, by and with the consent
of the senate. The commissioner
shall hold this office for two years,
and until his successor shall have
been appointed and qualified, unless
sooner removed.'
Sec. 1418, revised codes, as
amended in 1911 (1911 session laws,
page 564) provides that, 'It shall be
the duty of the governor, by and
with the consent of the senate, to
appoint a competent person as com
missioner of immigration, labor and
statistics who shall have charge of
said bureau, and wih'o shall hold his
office for the term provided in said
article 13 of the constitution. He
shall receive a salary of $2,400 a
year,' etc., and section 276 of the re
vised codes, provides that, 'The sal
ary of all state and district officers,
whose salaries are paid from the state
treasury, shall be paid quarterly on
the second Monday of January, April,
July and October of each year out of
any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated.' "
During the next two years Major
Reed will draw a salary of $2400.00
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for merely acting as an ornament. Jle
can do absolutely nothing to advance
the interests of the state because
has no money to work with. The fail
ure of the legislature to either repeal
the former lav or make an adequate
appropriation for the office shows its
brilliancy completely. Major Reed
is a big, brainy man and an ornament
to any state. We believe however
that the tax payers of Idaho will not
relish ornaments that cost $2400.00
per year. It is high time that some
change were made in our methods of
enacting laws. Hardly a session of
the legislature is held withlout it mak
ing some costly, miserable mistake.
THAT SENATORIAL ELECTION
The election of Hon. James H.
Brady to the United States senate
has the distinction of having created
more excitement in political circles
than anything that has taken place
in Idaho in a great many years. It
has revived the Mormon question;
resurrected the agitation for the cre
ation of a new state; created more dis
sention in north Idaho than that unu
sually dissention-afflicted section has
enjoyed in many years; caused mem
bers of «he legislature to question
the integrity of their fellow members:
and the end is not yet. The general
opinion now seems to be that Repre
sentative Burton L. French was really
responsible for the defeat of Judge
James F. Ailshie. The Latah county
delegation refused to support Judge
Ailshie and Congressman French re
fused to raise a finger in support of a
north Idaho man and especially the
leading candidat^. Readers of the
Tribune will remember that imme
diately after the election we pointed
out the position taken by Congress
man French and also his reason for
his actions at that time. It was sim
ply a matter of politics with French
He did not care whlo represented Ida
ho in the senate during the next two
years so long as he was not a north
Idaho man of ability and popularity.
Judge Ailslhie was a man to be feared
two years hence as he is just as pop
ular as Mr. French and a great deal
abler. At the next primary election
Mr. French will be a candidate for the
senate. He will base his claims on the
fact that he is from the north although
at the last session of the legislature
the claims of north Idaho were of in
difference to him. It was shrewd
politics but does not show a very high
regard for his section of the state.
The Tribune is glad that north Ida
ho has commenced to realize who
was to blame for the defeat of Judge
Ailshie. The Tribune don't give a
hoot where our United States senators,
conic from so long as they are able
and sincere in their work at Washing
ton. We imagine that the advantages
that accrue to a certain section by
having a senator from that section
have heen greatly exaggerated in the
minds of most of us. During the past
few years conditions have changed in
politics as in everything else. What
ever they may have done in the past
politicians today are keeping in close
touch with the people in all sections
of their state. They know that they
will have to answer directly to the
people in all parts. In consequence
they study and learn the needs and
conditions of their entire constituency.
The people, too, are learning more
about conditions other than their
own. They take a broader view of
things in general than they did a few
years ago. Under such conditions if
both senators were from north Idaho
the affairs of south Idaho would be
carefully looked after. South Idaho
never had a better friend nor abler
representative in Washington than
W. B. Heyburn. North Idaho never
had a more sincere friend nor an abler
representative than Senator W. E.
Borah. We should look to the quali
ty of the man rather than to resi
dence.
BETTER THINGS ARE COMING.
The people of Caldwell, and of Ida
ho for that matter, should remember
that the agricultural resources are not
the only resources of the state. For
many years we have advertised the
soil and climate of southern Idaho to
such an extent that we have led our
selves to believe that agriculture was
our only resource. It Ihlas remained
for others to discover further possi
bilities. Agriculture is a science that
has been the basis of all prosperity
for centuries. It will remain the ba
sis of prosperity in Idaho and every
where else until time shall be no
more. While we should not neglect
the development of our agricultural
resources, nor the perfection of the
science, it is well to look to and cul
tivate the other means by wihSch men
live. Trade and industry will develop
during the next few years as agricul
ture has developed during the past.
To build a great state diversity of oc
cupation is as necessary as diversity
of crops is to develop a farm, Trade
and industry depend upon two things:
better transportation facilities and
capital. The first is already being
given us by the Oregon Short Line
railroad with its improved facilities
along many lines. Additional irn
provement is promised by the con
hejstruction of the Winnemucca North
em railway. Evidence of the willing
ness of capital to enter this field is
slhbwn by the activity of outsiders to
establish a union stock yards and
packing plant in Caldwell. The peo
ple of Caldwell, however, should re
member that while others are willing
to locate in this city local help and
above all local enthusiasm is an ab
solute necessity. The history of stock
yards shows the great benefit they
are to the city and country. It is es
timated by the markets and dealers in
•horses that the horse business alone
would increase in this city from half
a million dollars per year to a million
and a half in the next year. The bus
iness transacted in this city in horses,
cattle and hogs would easily reach
between two and three million dol
làrs per annum. The packing plant is
practically assured as shown else
where in this issue of The Tribune.
There has never been a failure of a
packing plant of the kind proposed
for Caldwell in the history of the in
dustry. As the good faith of outside
capitalists is shown at this time the
people of Caldwell should get behind
both projects.
The era of construction of railroads
by promoters who are only looking
to their own selfish) interests is past.
Railroads are'now built in order to
accommodate traffic. They naturally
take the most feasible route between
two termini of importance. They are
diverted from this route solely in or
der to secure traffic. We believe that
the practical route for the Winne
mucca Northern to take is through
Caldwell. Whether it be or not a suf
ficient business will compel it to pass
through this city, as it will the Ore
gon Short Line to give us still better
railway transportation facilities.
In view of all the advantages the
local business men of Caldwell and
the farmers as well should do every
thing in their power to secure the
packing plant. As the stockyards are
assured, the people of this city could
well afford to build the packing plant
themelves. This, of course, is un
necessary, but it would be good busi
ness. Outide capitalists are willing
to build the plant but let us show our
good faith, our confidence in the fu
ture of the country, by lending the
two enterprises our honest and en
thusiastic support.
THE COMMENCEMENT GOWNS
In few cases is the girl graduate's
commencement essay written as yet.
Perhaps its outlines and heads are
not yet laid out.
But are any of the commencement
gowns not yet planned? Possibly
many of them are now hanging in the
closet. *
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Suitable dresses for commencement,
Sc m hoo h .T T b ;T \ the T
School board and teachers commonly
work for simplicity. They feel that
public schools are democratic institu
tions, and that the clothes for the
final doings should be planned on a
democratic basis.
During recent years in response to
this idea, many commencements have
been hleld where the girls appeared in
gowns costing $1.99 or $2.78 or other
reasonable figures.
The greatest difficulty in carrying
out this program appears to be from
the families for whose benefit the sim
ple gown crusade was started. The
wealthy are usually willing to dress
their girls simply. They have plenty
of other chances for display. Others
who can less afford a splurge are apt
to vote for fuss and featlhiers.
The corect time to. put on a straw
hat is not so much determined by the
thermometer as by the fashion plate.
SPRING FEVER
Some people give that name to the
enervating languor brought on by
the first warm warm weather. Others
apply it to the restless dreams of
winding country roads and grassy
trout streams that tempt a man to
shiut his desk with a bang and skip.
Spring is the hardest weather in the
year for a fellow to work. The office
or factory seems a friendly enough
shelter during the chill storms of win
ter. In May the whole system of the
world's work seems â crime. Dusty
Rhodes looks the only true philoso
pher.
This confinement within four walls
on these lovely days may be abnormal
and different from the life man was
built to lead. But the persistence with
which people stick to their tasks, deaf
to these calls of vagrant nature, shows
that the, human spirit has acquired
some splendid habits of persistent
industry and patient regularity. These
habits and qualities in the long run
bring ample rewards.
* ★ *
It is feared that if the courts cut
down Sam Gompers' sentence much
farther, he won't get a decent vaca
tion out of it.
» v-ojuui luge, mass., and other
pIaces have been stHki
derStC>od that the * willing to ar
bitrate, but will never recognize the
When a ball team can't play ball, it
usually proceeds to learn how by lick
ing thie umpire.
+ * *
These { school children's strikes
should be submitted to a board of ar
bitration consisting of a shingle.
* * *
The government clerks are agitating
for half holidays. It is believed they
will be satisfied if they get every af
ternoon off.
* * +
The Australian cricket team plays
at Philadelphia in June. The police
men will go around and wake up the
spectators every five or six ihburs
* * +
If things keep coming Jack John
son's way much longer, the simple life
down with the old folks at home may
look better to him than it did for
merly.
* * *
Julian Hawthorne is writing poetry
while in Atlanta jail. The justifica
tion for his imprisonment now seems
to be complete.
* * *
The Chinese republic ha9 now been
recognized, but it may take a long
time to get into society.
+ * *
If Mr. Long Time Sleep of Monta
na, the first Indian to join thle Auto
mobile association of America, does
not drive carefully he will be Mr.
Long Time .Dead.
* * *
There is talk of placing bibles on
the free list, but it is doubtful if this
reduces the cost of living for the con
gressmen. .
* * *
Jury reform is earnestly called for
in New Jersey, perhaps on account of
the difficulty in distinguishing jury
men from the prisoners.
* * *
The blowing up of tlhie European
war scare again suggests the truth
that a two spot plus a fierce look is a
great hand in diplomacy.
★ * *
The bankers object to paying two
per cent interest on government de
posits. Probably they think Uncle
Sam ought to pay for putting his
money where he can't spend it.
* * *
They are now working to get Julian
Hawthorne released from jail, but it
wtfuld seem as if he ought to come
back and make h week-end visit there
occasionally.
* * *
Harvard boys permitted straw hats
to be worn as early as May 10 this
year. Pretty long season, but not
many Harvard fellows have to buy
their own hats.
* * *
The English women lostthe suffrage
but no one has dared to interfere with
their inalienable right of throwing
bombs.
* * *
The school children of Pittsburg,
Pa., Cambridge, Mass., and other
parents' union.
* + *
Mr. Bryan did all tihht was possible
to shake the California legislature,
but it is reported that next time he
will send his office boy.
* * *
The political book-keepers are still
working over those 1904 campaign
contributions just as if the money
wasn't all spent.
★ * *
Grave alarm was expressed lest the
senate might do something while the
house was discussing the tariff, but
that is not one of the ways the senate
has had, in the past years, anyway.
* * *
Ex-Governor Dockery of Missouri,
now third assistant postmaster gen
eralv wears old fashioned long
legged boots, but the dispatches do
not say whether h'e has his wife train
ed to pull them off at night.
THE OBSERVATORY
'f one stops to think and make com
parisoris he will realize that a great
deal of intemperate language is used
in public speeches and talk; it has
been the fashion in late_ years for
those who objected to ministers and
theological teachers being called to
account for laxity, to refer to the in
quiry as persecution; and many of the
public agitators have called the exist
ing l^ws and court decisions as "ty
ranny." If such people could be prt
back for a few days in the old times of
real persecution, or be sent to live in
Russia for a while, they might use
more temporate language afterwards
when describing conditions in our
land. I suppose the? habits of such in
temperate language comes from trying
to be emphatic; it usually defeats its
desired purpose; a calm, simple,
straightforward statement has more
weight, nine times out of ten. The
more we know of tlhle rest of the world
the more we can realize our liberities
and the great freedom we enjoy in our
government and public institutions.
At the present time there is in Europe
and America much discussion of
PEACE. It is almost a hundred years
since we. made peace with England,
and since' then have had only one dis
graceful war, that with Mexico in
1846-47; but even that was undertaken
by the vote of congress. We ought
to be profoundly thankful that our
rulers cannot plunge us into war or
extend our boundaries. I have been
led to this thinking by a recent re
reading of Bismarck's career. The
one great aim of his life was to in
crease the power and influence of
Prussia; and to do this, he would defy
the constitution and the representa
tives of the people; Frederick Wil
liam IV., the great-uncle of the pres
ent King of Prussia, was not willing
at first to do such a thing, and it re
quired much nagging, persuasion and
"coaching before he would consent to
Bismarck's policy The latter careful
ly studied the character of the king
and finding his weakness played on it,
which was a personal vanity to be
worthy of his ancestry; it seems
strange to an Englishman or an Amer
ican that one could care so little fo*
the constitutional liberties of his coun
try as to deliberately set about en
hancing the power of the crown, even
if he overturned the Constitution or
defied it. Bismarck deceived the Ger
man people and the world deliberately,
at the opening of the Franco-Prussian
war of 1870, and tried to write history
in his Reminiscenses according to the
lies he told the world; but one of his
associates, Dr. Busch, published "Rev
ciations," which reveals the naked
purpose of Bismarck to carry out his
policy to increase the power of the
Crown, even if he had to deliberately
lie and ride rough-shod over the elect
ed representativs of the Prussian peo
ple. He told a distinguished French
man that "The proper course for a
Prussian minister was to resist the
Ohlamber (representatives of the peo
ple) and disregard its decisions, hold
ing the army ready for action," and at
last when he tried it, he just told them
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that he should "carry on the^finance
of the State without the conditions
provided for in the Constitution."
Some years before, when he first pro
posed such a course to Frederick Wil
liam IV, the king replied to him, "My
dear boy, that is all very fine, but it
is too expensive for me. A man of
Napoleon's kind can afford to make
such master-strokes, but not I." But
Bismarck gradual!-' cajoled him into
his policy, and when he was succeeded
by his brother William I, grandfather
of the present Emperor, he found a
more willing ear, and tlh'en entered
deliberately on his course by meaib
straight-forward or crooked, open
handed or under-handed, to over-ride
everything to make the personal gov
ernment of the king supreme, just
what George III, a century before,
tried in England After the death of
Frederick VII of Denmark, he urged
the Prussian king to seize Schleswig
Holstein, and at a cabinet meeting he
deliberately told William I and . hi>
ministers "tfhat everyone of his imme
diate ancestors had won an increment
of territory for the state. Frederic!:
William IV had acquired Hohenzol
lern and the Jahde district; Frederick
William III, the Rhine Province;
Frederick William II, Poland; Fred
erick II, SSlesia; Frederick William T,
Old Hither Pomerania; the Great
Elector, Further Pomerania, etc.; and
he encouraged the king to do likewise.
It is said that the specdh was received
with consternation, and the kin«
thought it was the effect of his dinner
wine; the Crown Prince, Frederick,
the father of the present king, raised
his hands to heaven, as if Ihle doubted
the minister's sanity. The historian
says, "But Bisimarck was neither
drunk or mad. He was merely pre
paring his master for the ambitious
policy which was the object of his
life, tlhie aggrandisement of Prussia in
Germany." And so in 1864 Schleswig
Holstein was seized; in 1866 Austria
humbled at Sadowa, and in 1870 Bis
marck deliberately published a tele
gram as though from the French Am
bassador which was re-written by
Bismarck, which made it say almost
the opposite of what was originally
sent, and that was as a spark of fire
in gunpowder to the Germans, which
brought on the Franco-German war,
overthrew Napoleon III, humbled
France, made Prussia preponderant in
Germany and made her king emperor
of the new Germany. And Germany
was united, and her sons are proud of
her; and yet, and yet. her common
people_ are now struggling to have.a
voice in the government; the minis
ters of the State are not responsible
to the elected representatives of tfhie
people, but alone to the king in Prus
sia and to the Emperor in Germany.
While Bismarck was pushing his
policy relentlessly, Cavour in Italy
was trying to unite her separated
duchies and kingdoms, and while he
strove to honor his king, Victor Em
anuel I, and increase his authority,
he was careful to preserve «he con
stitutional liberties of the people; and
I believe he had a harder task set him
to unite the wide differences between
north central and southern Italy than
Bismarck had to unite the discordant
north and south Germans. A dis
tinguished historian says of Cavour
that "he always showed that he was a
Italian first and a Piedmontese after
wards. He never hesitated to sacri
fice the interests of his own country
to those of his race. Bismarck, on the
contrary, never forgot that he was a
Prussian." And so whatever he would
do for Germany must be done through
Prussia being made the medium and
being aggrandized.
Profoundly glad am I that I am an
American; the English talk of our
shirt-sleeve diplomacy" because our
statesmen say just what they mean,
without going round Robin Hood's
barn to state their meaning. But af
terwards they applaud our staight
course, as in the case of Venezuela.
Now when our Secretary of State fol
lows his deep convictions, and de
clines to serve wine at his table they
tsrlk of "Wishywashington." Very
well, -we have principle on our side,
and many an Englishman would be
healthier and happier if he eschewed
wine. America and Idaho are very
good.