Idaho County free press. [volume], May 20, 1909, Image 6

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FISHING TACKLE
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Pulse Drug Store.
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Grangeville *nn Meadows Stage Line
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Good four-horse wagons and careful drivers. Leaves Grangeville every day
except Monday, at 6 a. m., and arrives every day except Tuesday, at 12 m
FARK—Grangeville to Meadows,
—Grangeville to White Bird,
Only three days from Grangeville to Boise over one of the most picturesque
routes in the west, and no night rides. For further information call on
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E. R. CAWLEY, Agent, Orangeville, Idaho
GIBSON d ALLEN
JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS
Watch Repairing
Edison Phonographs
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THE L. & E. BARN
(Formerly Lanninghams' Bam)
LIVERY AND FEED
Best Rigs in the City.
Excellent Saddle II orses.
Board by Day or Week.
GIVE US A CALL
AM JONES Proprietor, Grangeville
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Count Your Money
and see how much more you have to-day than you
had one year ago. Our ledger contains many
accounts with balances ranging from $200 to $500
begun a year ago with a dollar or two. You can
do as well if you follow two rules: "Begin,"
"Keep at it.
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Savings Department.
Grangeville Savings & Trust Co.
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New Kodaks
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Photographic Material
PLENTY NOW
FISHING TACKLE AND GAME LICENSE
A M. STEPHENSON ADDING MACHINE
RIGHT DRUG STORE
"THE POST CARD STATION.
Contractor
A. J. Turner
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Builder
5 Frames, Porch Columns, Balusters, Bracketts, Cement,
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FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES
FRESH AND CURED MEATS
A SPECIALTY
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Isn't it disgusting to pick up a jiaper and note where some white woman
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lias married a Jap or some other male of one of the inferior races? Every i
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state should have the strictest kind of laws against such disgraceful practices
and in the absence of such a law the parties should be waited on by a com- '
inittee of citizens who are still of the opinion that the white man is superior,
although there be isolated cast's of some member of this race losing all sense
L. A. WISENER, EDITOR
Grangeville, Idaho, Thursday, May 20, 1909.
CHAROEH FOR NOTICES:—Local entertainment* from which a financial benefit Is expected,
curds of thanks, resolutions and poetry will hereafter be charged for at the rale of five cents a
line each insertion.
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It may be treason to the last administration, but it is stated as a fact
Possibly the writer is a little too severe on account of southern
of decency.
ancestery but it sure looks tough to see a white woman the wife of a slaut
eyed Mongolian or a son of Ham.
that Judge J. Otis Humphrey, the federal district judge who brought upon
himself the wrath and abuse of Roosevelt on account of the immunity bath
given the beef packers is to be apjiointeil to the circuit bench by President
Taft, to succeed-Judge Grosscup, who is soon to resign. Senator Shelby Cul
loin is backing Humphrey, and there are no protests against his appointment
from the judicial district from which he hails. Judge Humphrey has recent
ly visit«! the White house and hail a pleasant chat with the executive, and it
is said Mr. Taft had no sympathy with the attacks of his predecessor upon the
courts in general and the federal judge in particular, and will call him up
higher when the vacancy occurs.
I 11 this matter of tariff-making, it seems apparent that the consumer is
getting the worst of it; that the measure is being shaped as others have been,
for the benefit of the chosen few. Because this is the ease, the consumer is
occasionally abused because he is not more active in bis own interest. But
this criticism is hardly fair. He might write more letters to congressmen
than he does, but it is doubtful whether tliat would change matters. And lie
cannot, being numerous and unorganized, maintain a loby in Washington, ;
Last, but not least, the consumer
which could compete with the interests,
was of the opinion that he helped to elect a lot of representatives last fall, and
that he is helping to pay them $7,500 a year and mileage, to keep an eye on
his best interests. But this delusion is rapidly passing.
FEUDALISM OF TODAY
(By l">eth Low, ex-Mayor of New York.)
There is in this land today a system of feudalism which has under control
the processes of production and distruction and* is just as binding and just as
certain a source of menace to the people as any of the earlier systems of slav- ;
cry. You and 1 are obliged to pay tribute to this system, which has increased
the cost of living 40 per cent in the last seven years, during a period when the
necessaries of life could be produced and distributed cheaper than ever before I
in the his tor)' of the history of the world. This condition of things is fostered
by corporate control of the government. Government by the people for which
Abraham Lincoln stood, has come to be a farce. The great problem of today
is to put the people back in possession of the stolen government. Abraham
Lincoln was the great exponent of "new idea" in politics. Who will take his
place in solving the promhlems of today?
THE ETHICAL SIDE OF THE TARIFF
The Tarill will always be a political issue, periodically agitated to the
disturbance of business stability, until the false idea of protectionism is sur
rendered and the fundamental ethical fact, that it is morally an iniquity, an
! oppression and a prostitution of governmental power to permit a public statute
to be twisted to private gain, is fully or generally recognized. The Democrat
j ic party will never win by paltering with the issue. It will win after a cam -1
I paign of education when it fights the system on moral grounds as iniquitous in I
principle, oppressive to some, burdensome to many and necessarily unequal for
all. When a man tells you that a given business cannot thrive without gov
emmental aid by imposition of taxes upon possible competitors or by direct j
subsidy, ask him upon what clause of the Federal Constitution, or of any eon- j
eeivable code of morals ever recognized by men, lie bases the profitable as
! sumption tliat it is the duty of Government to insure profits and # eonnnereial
I "thriving" to him, or anybody else in, his, or anybody else's private business.
' Even from a pure monetary standpoint is it better in the long run for all, be
j cause better for stability of conditions, that private business and public laws
should be as nearly ns jtossible divorced. Their marriage is corrupt in itself
1 and corrupting in its example of influence. When a man tells you he advo
cates protectionism not because of the profits to accrue to him or toothers, who
i have capital invested, but because of the increased wagt» violently presumed
j to accrue to Libor, ask him if he would be willing to fix by laws upon a wage
as an American standard of living—as the least amount for which a decent
living could be bought (say "one dollar, or one and one-lialf dollars or twodol
dars a day) and then pay directly from the Treasury at the end of each week
! to each laborer who bail earned less than the standard, the difference between I
the standard and Ids actual earnings? He will tell you "No!" He is apt to
swear in addition and to call you a "Socialist," "Communist," or even "An
archist." And yet this plan would have this advantage over the protection
ist - plan of "helping labor;" the money could be seen to go into the pockets of
the supposed beneficiary—poor sewing women in sweat shops, etc.—anil would
not remain, for the lion's share, or entirely, as now, in the pockets of the self
! assumed "patrons of labor for incidental gain."
True a tarif!' can anil sometimes does make a pet industry supported by
public enforced largess able to pay labor more, but it would require the special
grace of God to make its prime beneficaries who sell the protected product to
the American Consumer, for the most part at a higher price than to the for
eign consumer, willing to pay American labor one cent more than the price of
1 labor fixed by the demand and supply of laborers in the American market j
Moreover, it is a known, though melancholy fact, that the class of men who
handle the shekels, as "intermediaries" between the Government and labor is
in very small part indeed composed of those who seek the special grave of God
to enable them to part in part even, with profits attainable and we are told
tliat special grace "does not come save by seeking."
The "intermediary" does not want the Government to dole out its larges
directly to the laborer even under the most stringent provisions to prevent
fraud on the treasury, because then he would lose his job as "Intermediary"—;
I the fattest job this day in America—whether in steel, or sugar, or tobacco, or
other Government-petted enterprise. It may be said that money paid direct- *
ly from the Treasury to the needy would lie the restoration of the only Homan
theory and practice of giving to the people panent et eircenses.
true tliat the system was ruinous and debauching; but as protectionists claim
that tliat is their object and tliat they accomplish it indirectly through the in
termediary capitalists, it is difficult to sec: any difference in principle, unless it
be based upon a recognition of the fact tliat the direct system would carry the
governmental charity to the laborer^, while the indirect one, |>er tarifl', while
pretending to do it, does not. A system of taxation based on the idea that
the thrifty, industrious and judicious, who go into industries naturally profit
able, because adapted to the soil, climate, and spirit and economical condition
of the population, must Ik* made to pay in order that the unwise, or corrupt,
may engage in or carry on industries naturally unprofitable, because unadapt
iii to soil, climate, development or population anil confessedly anil avowedly
to be made profitable only by aid of law enforcing purchase in a limited mark
et, is robbery by law. There is a difference in criminal intent but none in in
iquitous result between robbery or larceny in violation of Statute. In fai't
vigilance and courage on the part of the individual may protect him from the
former; nothing but death or a revolution of publie policy may relieve from
the latter.
To tax profitable enterprises in order to establish or encourage losing
business is self-evident economical waste. It is geneally supported by the
ses
True, and
abeured theory tliat a country lose* by all its citizens buy and ,
they sell to citizens of other countries. Hack of this is another fak* * •
tion, to-wit: That one country "trades" with another. Of course on *^
as much by what one buys as by what oue sells. Both parties to a hf*"
profit, if the calculations are sound, because the commodity bought ' fiT*
worth more for consumption or exchange or resale than the monev heh ^
for it, and the money paid by the other is, on account of what it will ^
buy worth more to him than the commodity with which he parted
it. England never sold a thing to the United States nor bought a th'
that government and never will. It is John Smith, the American ""
turer, that wants me to believe tliat I am somehow patriotically
my country" and put the profit in her coffers, while it is he who re»!? H
an< f keeps the unholy and law-made extra price made by statute out nf^
Countries are rich in proportion to the abundance which exist« ....
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respective populations—abundance of useful things for necessity ^
impr ovement; and the abundance* is in proportion to their cheap.u^as*
,-d by the number of hours of human labor required to be expended *
manufacturing or growing them, or in manufacturing or growing so,!,
* or Ka ' e for money wherewith to buy them. Attracting money and
to naturally losing businesses detracts capital anil labor from
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able businesses and therefore necessarily burdens and hampers and ,'J!^
ecomomic progress for the community in the aggregate and for the *
large. No question is ever settled until it is settled right, and ta ritf
w ill go on in America and other protectionist counties, with all of it
veniences, until the fundamental principles of justice and right are recoeni*
not only here but "all the world over, wherever might does not control '
and wherever privilege does not outweight equality.—By Hon. Johns;?
Williams. '
C. P. THOHPSON
D. RAUENZAHN
PEOPLE'S MARKET
THOMPSON & RAUENZAHN. P ropi
Fresh and Cured
Meats.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Residence Phone, Nez Perce 396.
Business Phone, at Austins. Nez Perce 173; Pacific
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J. W. PHILLIPS
Draying and Transferring'
GRANGEVILLE, IDAHO
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WALLACE SCOTT, Pres.
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MARTIN WAGNKR.Canbi«
The
First National Bank.
Of Grangeville, Idaho
Capital and Surplus
- - INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSIT
$ 75 , 000.00
Directors Personal Resourses— One Million Dollars
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Bank of Camas Prairie
Grangeville, Idaho
CAPITAL andnSURPLUS .
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$ 130.000
OFFICERS
F. W. Kettenhach, President
A. Freidenrich, Vice-President
W. W. Brown, cashier
John Norwood, Asst. Cashier
, DIRECTORS
W. W. Brown. A. Freidenrich, Frank McOrane, F. W. Kettenbach, W. F. Kettenb«*
Jesse L. Rains, Wm. Steinheiser
Fire Proof Vault for sale keenina of customers papers and valuables.
A Keneral ban kina business transacted.
Interest Paid on Time Deposits
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