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THE CALDWELL TRIBUNE
Established December 7, 1883.
Sworn Circulation Over 2500
Published by
THE CALDWELL PRINTING CO.
(Limited.)
Tribune Building
811 Main street
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Advertising Rates on Application.
Entered the Postoffice at Caldwell,
Idaho, as second class matter.
LOCAL CHARGES NEED INVES
TIGATION.
The Tribune takes this occasion to
remind the officers of the Republican
organization of Canyon County that
they have a public duty to perform.
They were entrusted with the conduct
of the campaign; they accepted the
responsibility; and now it is up to
them to go through.
It is charged by responsible men
that ballots were tampered with in
Caldwell. It is charged by responsi
ble men that floaters were sworn in
on election day at Nampa. These
grave charges should be investigated.
If they are well founded the authors
of the crime should be prosecuted and
the rightfully and legally elected offi
cers installed in office. The duty of
the Republican county organization is
clear. It cannot be escaped and the
people of the county will insist that it
is not escaped.
The remarkable increase in the vote
of Idaho has aroused suspicions
Those suspicions must be shown to be
unfounded or proved to be true. The
election in Idaho is not going to be
stolen. The people of Idaho will not
stand for that kind of theft.
We wish also to remind the people
that it is their solemn duty as citi
zens to stand behind the men who
must make a thorough investigation.
If anything is done it is done in the
interest of the entire public and the
public should lend its moral support
to the men who must take action. To
attempt to steal an election is one of
the gravest offences known to the
government. It is treason to the very
spirit of this government. The mem
bers of all political parties are of
fended against, whoever may be in
jured or benefited, by the investiga
tion.
PEOPLE WANT COUNTY DI
VIDED.
If the vote cast by the voters of
Canyon County at the general elec
tion has any significance at all it is
that they want Canyon County di
vided in two or more counties. The
issue in the campaign was well un
derstood to the taxpayers of the
county and those taxpayers have ex
pressed their wishes. It is up to the
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legislature to grant the demands.
Speculation as to the lines becomes j
interesting. The Payette Valley will j
want a new county, and of necessity, I
some area from the Boise Valley |
must be included in the proposed j
county. According to the lines pro
posed during the session of the leg- j
islature two years ago the proposed
Payette county would come within a
mile or two of Parma. There is no
escape from that boundary line.
Homedale a.nd surrounding terri
tory want a new county. 7'here is
ample area in Owyhee county for
lomedale's county but wealth and
population are desirable in counties.
It will be necessary for Canyon Coun
ty to give Homedale a strip of terri
tory along Snake river. We are told
that the Fargo section desires to be
come a part of the new county. The
people there are in favor of the di
vision and they should be permitted to
go.
Nampa unquestionably has a county
seat ambition. As there is hardly ter
ritory enough left in Canyon to sup
ply Nampa the proposed county will
also have to reach over into Owyhee
or perhaps take a slice of Ada.
When the carving is finished Can
yon county will be as big as your
hat and not nearly as useful. The in
teresting feature is that Caldwell by
her vote is half willing that the carv
ing commence. With everybody will
ing there will be great sport for the
county butchers.- Counties will be
born over night, each with its horde of
county officers. We can hardly awai'
the convention of the legislature.
THE WORRIES OF THF. GREAT
We believe that on more than one
occasion in the past The Tribune has
adverted to the worries of the great.
We expressed the opinion that the
worries of great men were no more
grevious to the great men than were
the worries of little men to the little
men. After turning that opinion over
in our mind for several years we are
still of it. The statesman, in whose
hands to some extent at least, is left
the welfare of the nation, experiences
no more exquisite anxiety than does
the poor laborer who must, somehow
or other, provide a living for a wife
and six children.
During the past six months the
cares and worries of President Wilson
have been presented to the American
people by one writer and then by an
other. The President was painted as
a heroic figure bearing the burden of
Atlas. He is a regular Pandora's box
according to the writers and support
ers. We got to thinking that the
greatest benefit that could be con
ferred upon Mr. Wilson was to re
lieve him of his burden. Aside we
tried to do that very thing but were
unsuccessful.
The last six or seven days has con
vinced us that the greatest worry
which occupied a nitch in the presi
dential mind was the fear that he
would not be re-elected. The worry
that lie would be relieved of his wor
ries was a real substantial worry and
put all others in the discard.
As a matter of fact there is very
little difference between the great
and the little. They all have their
fair share of burdens, of joys, of
hopes, of selfishness and of discom
fitures. Don't waste any time wor
rying over tile worries of somebody
else. The other person is probably
worrying over your worries and with
as little reason. This of course ap
plies to the ordinary affairs of life
and not when some great calamity
overtakes a man or a nation.
TOO RAPID AMERICANIZATION
The United States has received
nearly a million immigrants a year
from the different countries of Eu
rope. This is the only great commer
cial nation which receives any con
siderable immigration. The United
States is also the only great com
mercial nation which has difficulty in
securing agents for its great business
enterprises who can speak fluently an
other language than their own. One
would naturally think that the children
of foreigners would be able to speak
and write the language of their par
ents. It is not so.
We try to Americanize our foreign
ers too fast to secure all the benefits
which might accrue from their immi
gration to this country. Our first
idea is to get them to speak English
to the neglect of the language of their
parents. It is entirely possible to
Americanize foreigners without first
rooting out the tongue of the land of
their parents.
Haste makes waste in more ways
than one. We arc trying to teach one
part of our child population a modern
tongue and another part we teach to
forget a tongue they probably know.
The great American melting pot is
handled rather heiter skelter. We
teach the children of Italians German
and the children of Germans French
and the children of French extraction
Danish, if we teach them any lan
guage at all other than English. The
children of American parentage arc
given one year of German and then
switched to a year of French. The re
sult is that indicated in the first para
graph. Xo child grows up in this
country with a thorough knowledge
of two or more languages. In fact he
is mighty lucky if he is graduated
from school with a fair smattering of
English.
IDAHO IS GROWING FAST.
The remarkable increase in the vote
of Idaho as cast at the general elec
tion is exciting some comment and
not a little suspicion. There arc those
who do not hesitate to allege that
fraudulent voting was done in this
state. The vote of Idaho increased
from 107,000 in 1914 to about 140,000
in 1916. It is apparent that there has'
been no such increase in population
as the increased vote would indicate, j
A fact which excites suspicion is that ,
so large a percentage of the vote was j
sworn in on election day. In some I
counties the percentage of sworn-in
votes ran as hgh as 33.
Several of tlie Democratic state offi-1
cers were elected by very small mar
gins, if they were legally elected at !
all. For instance it is stated that ■
Governor Alexander lias a lead of ;
only 300 votes over D. W. Davis, j
Other Democratic candidates have I
margins of less than five hundred. A
thorough investigation will be made
and it is entirely possible that the j
Republican state ticket as a whole (
will be shown to have been elected.
An ugly and far reaching conclus- j
içti is inevitable if it be shown that ;
there were systematic polling of j
fraudulent votes in this state. If
fraudulent votes were systematically '
polled in Idaho it is reasonable to !
assume that the same course might !
have been pursued in other states. In
view of the fact that many states are J
close on the presidential candidates an
investigation may overturn the re
sults, as shown on their face, of the
electicn throughout the country. The
Democrats raised the cry of "stop
thief" even before the election; and
the officers of the Republican nation- |
al organization have never been sat- i
isfied that everything was absolutely
right.
If there has been an attempt to steal .
the election the people want to know
it. Xo punishment is too severe to
visit upon the man who attempts to
steal an election. It is fraud of the
ugliest and most damnable kind.
Family Reunion.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Look of this
city were honor guests last Friday
"veiling at a family reunion held at
'be home of ther daughter, Mrs. Joy
Weeks of Wilder. The four other
children of Mr and Mrs. Look who
were present with their families were
Messrs. John and Lee of CaldwMl,
Flmer of Fargo, and Mrs. Hammon
of Fargo, this being the first time in
fourteen years that all the five chil
dren had been together. All of the
nine grand-children were present, also
Mr. Joy Week's three brothers and
their families, making a company
which totaled nearly half a hundred.
The occasion was a happy one, and
one Lug to be remembered by every
member of the families represented.
P. R O.'s Banquet.
P. E. O. held forth Monday evening
at the home of Mrs.. Carrie Steunen
berg. This being the annual domestic
science program, each member pres
ent contributed the tangible results of
a favorite recipe, the results being a
feast fit for the gods, to which the
banqueters did ample justice, each
course being served by its contribu
tors. Pillowing the dinner, an ex
change of recipes was indulged in and
two new members were received into
the fold.
Ruth Homeward Bound.
Friends of Miss Ruth Hammer will
be interested t. know that she started
home Wednesday of this week, ac
cording to télégraphie advices, and is
due to arrive in Caldwell Friday even
ing or Saturday morning. The long
trip from St. Louis will be a trying
one for the sick girl, but it is hoped
the change in altitude and climate to
gether with the reunion with home
folks will help in her restoration to
health.
Some Comedy—Some Politics.
Just two days after election the
water users of Caldwell and vicinity
wcie favored with a visit from Hon.
■a ill R. King, the sage from Jordan
Valley, he who dishes ut th° political
plums served by President Wilson and
incidentally appoints postmasters and
surveyor generals. It was advertised
that an address would be delievered
at the City Hall for the benefit of ihe
people living under the Boise Payette
project. The meeting was held and
the Hon. Will R. King advised the
farmers in substance, that at present
■rater under the project would cost
about $80.00 per acre, that the settlers
ought to be glad that it was not any
higher, because in many .ther places
lie farmer was stung worse than here,
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COSTLY ECONOMY
"Fur God's sake, Jake, put surne inure
cement in; the building will fall. This is
the essence of the testimuny ut a heariu»
investigating the cullapse uf a building in
New iurk recently. Such practice tuu
often accounts not only for building and
constructiun failures, but much uf the pour
work frequently to be seen. There is nu
punishment tuu severe fur contracture or
builders who are guilty of such practice,
still such things are being dune every dav.
altliuugh we learn uf it when it is tou late
and a building ur a piece uf construction
wurk has failed. We suppuse there always
will be 'Jakes' in the cement and concrete
industries as in every uther line, but the
first uft'ense sliuuld be sufficient tu justify
their elimination."—Portland Cement.
W e invariably use ALL the Cement the
S pecifications call l'or. To be safe we then
use a little more. That is one of the reasons
our work stands up. The most costly
economy is scrimping on material. We can
not afford to Scrimp. You cannut afford tu
Scrimp.
TERRY & McGEE
All Thing's Cement. Caldwell, Idaho.
that former promises and representa
tions for cheaper water were not bind
ing that if \vater users did not form
a district those that were using water
at present would have to pay the
whole bill, and last but not l ast inas
much as Uncle Sam already had a
mortgage on the land for $W.OO per
acre he would not loan any mure un
der the Rural Credits law.
Seems strange the administration
could not have imparted these glad
tidings before election. Surely all this
information was at its disposal before
election. The Hon. Will R. King
p'ust bave brought it with him from
Washington. Strange he could not
have reached Caldwell before election.
Thrift and Waste
^ Economists say that France
would grow rich on what Amer
ica wastes.
^ German strength is based on
efficiency and efficiency is thrift.
Every other person in Japan
has an account in a savings bank.
England, the richest of all na
tions, produces the greatest amount
of capital through savings.
tj On thrift depends the nation's
progress as well as your own.
A growing account in a savings bank
is insurance of independence.
First National Bank
CALDWELL, IDAHO
Can it be possible lie lias b<- n j n se
elusion some place in Oregon « itch
fully waiting for election t . ;»■ over
while our governor and tile other
Democratic spellbinders were running
all over the project congratulating the
settlers that now when they wanted
to mortgage their Inme, thanks tn the
Democratic administration, they could
do so under the Rural Cmliis Maw at
a ridiculously low rate of interest.
Good-bye cheap water. Good-bye
cheap money. Welcome four more
years of Dem cratic soft snap. Better
get the southern Democrats to whack
up on the rivers and harbors hill.
Some politics for the administration.
Some comedy for the fanner.