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COUNTRY ALL i..um
A STRIKINGLY 8TRONG ARTICLE
BY COL. HARVEY.
THE WRITER SEES NO CLOUD
*A Plea for the Conservation of
Common Sense" That Is Meeting
With Cordial Approval.
A strikingly strong article by Colo
nel George Harvey in the North
American Review, for September, is
written in a view of such hopeful
ness for the American future that it
has attracted wide attention. The
article is entitled, "A Plea for the
Conservation of Common Sense" and
It is meeting with the cordial ap
proval of business men of all shades
of political opinion throughout the en
tire country. In part Colonel Harvey
says:
"Unquestionably a spirit of unrest
dominates the land. But, If it be
true that fundamentally the condition
of the country Is sound, must we
necessarily succumb to despondency,
abandon effort looking to retrieval
and cringe like cravens before cloudB
that only threaten? Rather ought
we not to analyze conditions, search
for causes, find the root of the dis
tress, which even now exists only in
men's minds, and then, after the
American fashion, apply such rem
edies as seems most likely to produce
beneficent results?
Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic.
"The Link that connects labor with
capital Is not broken but we may not
deny that it is less cohesive than it
should be or than conditions war
rant.
stronger than ever before in Its his
Recovery from a panic so
Financially, the country is
tory.
severe as that of three years ago was
never before so prompt and compara
tively complete,
practically free from debt. Money is
held by the banks in abundance and
rates are low.
The masses are
"Why, then, does capital pause
upon the threshold of investment?
The answer, we believe, to be plain.
It awaits adjustment of the relations
of government to business. * • * The
sole problem consists of determining
how government can maintain an
even balance between aggregations
of interests, on the one hand, and the
whole people, on the other, protect
ing the latter against extortion and
Bavlng the former from mad assaults.
"The solution is not easy to find
for the simple reason that the situ
ation is without precedent. But Is
not progress being made along sane
and cautious lines? • • •
Conserve Common 8ense.
"Is not the present, as we have
seen, exceptionally secure? What,
then, of preparations for the future?
Patriotism is the basis of our insti
tutions. And patriotism in the minds
of our youth is no longer linked solely
with fireworks and deeds of daring. It
is taught in our schools. A new
course has been added—a course in
loyalty. Methodically, our children
learn how to vote, how to conduct
primaries, conventions and elections,
how to discriminate between qualifie»
tions of candidates and, finally, how
to govern as well as serve. They are
taught to despise bribery and all
forms of corruption and fraud as
treason. Their creed, which they are
made to know by heart, is not com
plex. It is simple, but comprehen
sive, no less beautiful in diction than
lofty in aspiration. These are the
pledges which are graven upon their
memories:
"As it is cowardly for a soldier to
rim away from battle, so it is coward
ly for any citizen not to contribute
his share to the well-being of his
country. America is my own deal
land; she nourishes me, and I will
love her and do my duty to her,
whose child, servant and civil soldier
I am.
"As the health and happiness ol
my body depend upon each muscle
and nerve and drop of blood doing
its work in its place, so the healtb
and happiness of my country depend
upon each citizen doing his work in
his place.
"These young citizens are our
hostages to fortune. Can we not
safely assume that the principles ani
mating their lives augur well for the
permanency of the Republic? When
before have the foundation stones
of continuance been laid with such
care and promise of durability?
"The future, then, is bright. And
the present? But one thing is need
ful. No present movement is more
laudable than that which looks tc
conservation of natural resources
But let us never forget that the great
est inherent resource of the Amer
ican people is Common Sense. Let
that be conserved and applied with
out cessation, and soon it will be
found that all the ills of which we
complain but know not of are only
such as attend upon the growing
pains of a great and blessed country
Spiritualization.
Religion should be native. II
should be concrete and applicable.
Religion is the natural expression ol
living, not a set of actions or of hab
its, or a posture of the mind added tc
the daily life. The type of religion,
therefore, Is conditioned on the kind
of living, and the kind of living is
conditioned, In Its turn, very large
ly on the physical and economic ef
fectiveness oùttge. The religion of
the open country should run deep intc
the indigenous affairs of the op er
country.
SPEAKER CANNON'S COURSE EN
DORSED BY VOTERS AT THE
ILLINOIS PRIMARIES.
The Progressives Were Victorious In
Three Out of Twenty-five Congres
sional Districts.—Boutell, Stand
Paitter, Defeated.
Chicago.—Insurgents were victorious
in three out of twenty-five congres
sional districts of Illinois .in the pri
mary election Friday.
Henry 8. Boutell, stand-patter Re
publican, who has represented the
ninth, a Chicago district, in congress
for twelve years, was defeated by
Frederick H. Gansbergen,, who con
ducted his campaign on an out and
out Insurgent platform. Gansbergen
was supported by the regular Repub
lican organization.
In the eleventh district Colonel Ira
C. Copley, the first man in Illinois to
come out as an insurgent candidate,
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J08EPH G. CANNON.
Congressman from Eighteenth Di»
trlct of Illinois.
won the Republican nomination over
George W. Conn, who classed himself
as a progressive conservative. This
seat mow is occupied by Howard M.
Snapp, a stand-patter.
John C. McKenzie secured the Re
publican nomination in the thirteenth
district, after a spirited contest with
Reuben R. Tiffany. Both McKenzie
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and Tiffany denied affiliation with the
stand-patters, McKenzie making his
campaign as a progressive, while Tif
fany exhibited slightly more radical
views an called himself an insurgent.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon was re
nominated in the eighteenth district
by a majority close to 6,000. He was
opposed by Henry B. Downs, an insur
gent of his own city.
Nearly Drowned In Beer.
Fort Wayne, Ind.—A vat at a breiv
ery here collapsed while workmen
were repairing its foundation. The
vat contained 18,000 gallons of beer,
which poured through the streets. The
workmen were caught in the rush and
were rescued with difficulty from
. , .
drowning. The beer found an outlet
in a sewer, showed a head of over
three feet when it discharged "the
suds" In the Maumee river.
Misunderstood Orders.
Holt, Mo.—One man was killed and
eighteen persons injured when two
passenger trains met ,n a head-on col
lision on the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy railroad, one mile north of
here, at 6.30 o'clock i riday night,
misunderstanding of orders is said to
have been responsible for the wreck
Lepers Children May Attend School.
Lansing. Mich.—That the four
daughters of JohmJensen, a leper, iso
lated at Calumet, Mich., would not be
a menace to the school population and
cannot be excluded from the public
schools, is the conclusion drawn by
Attorney General Kuhn.
Aeroplane Plunged Into Crowd.
Milwaukee. Wis.—Eight persons, five
women and three men, were more or
less seriously injured when a Wright
aeroplane driven by Arthur Hoxey,
swerved sidelong from its course and
plunged into a crowd before tne grand
stand at the state fair here.
Britons to Build Railroad in Bolivia.
la Paz, Botlzia.—The senate has ap
proved the concession granted a syn
dicate of British capitalists for the
construction of a railroad from the Ya
cuma river to Santa Cruz.
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WILL TREAT THEM ALL ALIKE
President Taft Will Recognize No Dif
ference Between So-called "Pro
gressives" and "Regulars."
Beverly, Mass.—No difference be
tween so-called "progressives" and
"regulars" will be recognized by Pres
ident Taft hereafter, but all party
leaders will be treated alike as Repub
licans in the matter of federal sup
port. The president's views to this
effect are given in a letter from Sec
retary Norton to a Republican leader
of Iowa, whose name is not disclosed.
In the letter Secretary Norton stat
ed that while important Republican
legislation pending in congress was
opposed by certain Republican lead
ers, the president felt that his duty re
quired him to withhold federal patron
age from senators and representatives
who seemed to occupy a position hos
tile to efforts to fulfill the pledges of
the party platform.
The attitude on the part of the pres
ident ended, however, with the more
recent primary elections and nominat
ing conventions in which the people
have declared themselves and the
president now looks on "progressives"
and "regulars" alike as Republicans
and as such entitled to his support
and the support of the party, and the
fall elections, Secretary Norton's let
ter says, must settle the question
whether the differences of the last
session of congress shall be perpetuat
ed or forgotten.
Babe Entombed Alive.
Greeley, Colo.—Buried in a shallow
grave for over forty hours, the three
year old baby of Mary Georgia, the
daughter of a ranchman living near
Pierce, a neighboring town, was dug
up alive by Coroner Macy of this
county, who had been called to investi
gate the infant's death. The child had
been placed in a peach basket ovei
which the lid of a tin wash boiler
had been fixed., and had been burled
in the yard of the Georgia residence.
It lived for several hours after being
taken from the grave. Its parents
have been arrested.
Cook's Backer After Records.
Copenhagen.—The Danish steamer
Hans Egede arrived here Thursday
with the news that John H. Bradley,
the financial backer of Dr. Frederick
A. Cook's north pole expedition, was
on his way to Etah to secure the
much-talked of records and instru
ments which Cook has said he left at
that Eskimo settlement northeast of
Greenland. The captain of the
schooner thinks that Cook is with
Bradley but gives no particular rea
son for this belief.
Spreading Gospel Through China.
Pekin.—The final revised edition of
the New Testament, together with the
first completed book of the Old Testa
ment—the Psalms of David—is now is
suing from the press in Chinese, and
stacks of the volume are being ship
d to the remotest rart8 of china.
' . . . ... . . , .
The s ' )ecfal committee of translators
gathered together ar Chefu at
its annual conference on the work,
which it hopes will be to China what
the authorized version of the gospel
is to the English speaking world.
Communistic Society Sells Holdings.
Harrodsburg, Ky.—The Society of
Shakers, whose estate is located near
High Bridge, has transferrqd to Col
onel George Bohon their holdings of
1,800 acres of land in Mercer county,
and their personality. The estate Is
valued at $150.000 and in addition to
a cash consideration of $5 000 Colonel
Bohon binds himself to support the in
dividual members of the society dur
ing the remainder of their life. There
are only fourteen of the Shakers left
and their ages range from 70 to 90.
Fighting the Grocer's Association.
Birmingham, Ala.—Judge Grubb of
the federal court on Thursday gave a
general charge for the defendants in
the suit of Minto G. Clabaugh against
the Southern Wholesale Grocers' as
sociation. with officers and a number
of members, the suit being for $150.
000. The plaintiff alleges that the de
fendants forced him out of business
because he did not belong to the as
sociation. The government has a suit
against the same association, charg
ing violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law.
STRINGENT PLANK ADOPTED BY
UTAH DEMOCRATS IN STATE
CONVENTION.
After Three Hour Fight the Conven
tion Adopts Platform Declaring for
State Wide Prohibition, thF Di
rect Primary and Initiative,
Referendum and Recall.
Provo, Utah.—After a fight of three
hours, the Democratic state conven
tion, in session here on Thursday, de
clared in favor of state wide prohibi
tion. An attempt to write into the
platform a provision for submitting
the liquor question to a vote of the
people failed by a decisive vote.
Besides declaring for state-wide pro
hibition, the platform adopted favors
the exclusion of coolie labor and
workingmen's compensation act. Di
rect primary law, and election of
United States senators by the vote of
the people. The initiative, referen
dum and recall. Limitation of cam
paign expenses and publication
same. Commission form of govern
ment for cities. Conservation of the
natural resources of the state. Tariff
commission to settle the tariff ques
tion.
Incidentally. Ferdinand Erickson,
mayor of Mt. Pleasant, and. former
judge in the Seventh district, was
nominated for congress, and C. C.
Richards, a prominent old line Demo
crat of Ogden, who has held many
public offices, was named as the Dem
ocratic candidate for the supreme
bench.
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ARE THOROUGHLY REGULAR.
Wyoming Republicans Endorse Taft
and Place Ticket In Field.
Rawlins, Wyo.—President Taft's ad
ministration, Secretary
conduct in office and
drlch tariff bill were Indorsed by th«
state Republican convention in ses
Bion here on Thursday. United States
Senator FTancis F. Warren was chair
man of the convention.
Ballinger's
the Payne-Al
Attorney General W. E. Mullen ol
Sheridan, Wyo., was nominated foi
governor. Other nominations were as
follows: Justice supreme court—
Potter (renom!
Chief Justice C. N.
nated). Secretary of State—William
R. Schmitzer (renominated). Auditoi
—Robert B. Forsythe.
John T. Baird.
Public Instruction—A. D. Cook.
Treasurer—
Superintendent of
Oldest Congressman Dean.
Kingwood, W. Va. —James Clark
McGrew, who claimed the distinction
of the oldest congressman in the
United States, died at h:s home here
Sunday in his ninety-eighth year. He
served in the Forty-first and Forty
second congresses, and was one of
the fifty-five Un'onists in 4he famous
Richmond convention who opposed
| the secession of Virginia,
President is Fifty-three.
Beverly, Mass—President Taft was
53 years old on Thursday. MaDy con
gratulatory letters and telegrams wert
received bÿ the pres'dent at his sum
mer home on Burgess Point, but there
was no particular celebration of the
day. In the morning, the president
and Secretary Norton went t-> the
Myopia club links for their usuai game
of golf.
Night Riders Cont nue Outrages.
Brookville Ky.—Night riders, pre
sumably burned two barns in Bracken
county Thursday night, and although
the losses were small both equity and
anti-equity men suffered. The barns
of VV. O. Broadford, an equity society
solicitor, and George B. Kenney, a
non-equity planter, were burned.
Dread Infantile Paralysis.
Providence, R. I.—An epidemic of
poliomylitis. commonly known as in
fantile paralysis, which began early
in the summer, had spread to an
alarming extent through the state
there being many deaths.
Paying for Foreign Missions.
Boston.—A reduction in the debt of
the American commissioners for for
eign missions from $35 585 to $6,005
during the last year is shown by tb«
statement of the board's accounts foi
the year ending August 31.
WILL FORTIFY CANAL
PRESIDENT TO RECOMMEND AN
APPROPRIATION FOR THAT
PURPOSE IN MESSAGE.
Will Advise Appropriation of Two Mil
lion Dollars to Begin Work of For
tifying Panama Canal, and Fa
vors Building of More Bat
tleships.
Beverly, Mass.—Before leaving Bev
erly for Boston Sunday night. Presi
dent Taft announced that in his mes
sage to congress in December, he will
recommend the appropriation of $2,
000,000 to begin the work of fortify
ing the Panama canal. The president
also will recommend to congress that
provision be made for two new battle
ships of the dreadnought ' type. Mr.
Taft does not believe that the economy
plans should preclude the construc
tion of at least two battleships a year
until such time as the Panama canal
is completed. He believes the canal
will have the effect of doubling the
efficiency of the navy and that after
it is in operation the building of new
battleships can be cut down to one a
year.
The president will reach Washing
ton next Sunday. The cabinet will be
gin a series of daily meetings on the
morning of Monday, the twenty-sixth
Secretary Ballinger, it is said, will at
tend all the meetings and so far ae
Beverly is informed, the Ballinger
case will not be taken up.
Economy in administration in all
departments will be one of the many
subjects considered by the cabinet
Estimates for the coming fiscal year
also will be considered. The supreme
court appointments will be considered
with his cabinet advisers, although
the president has announced that he
will not make these appointments ud
til congress meets.
SAFETY LIES IN FLEET.
^ear Admiral Evans Wants Ships fot
the Pacific Coast.
Portland, Ore.—At the first ban
quet of the newly organized Portland
Press club, on Sunday, Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans, U. S. N., retired
made the following plea for a fleet
for the Pacific coast.
"I like this beautiful country oi
yours; I like your farms and youi
cities and all that, but whenever I look
out over the Pacific ocean I see whal
you want, and I want you men—you
newspaper men—to see it from th«
right standpoint; you need sixteen
battleships stationed on this coast
with all the cruisers, torpedo boats
ammunition boats and colliers thal
are necessary to go with them. Thai
is the only way that you people ol
the Pacific coast can go to bed and
rest easy, rest care-free of the great
peril—I won't say yellow peril, but
green peril or any other peril, so a»
to be impartial."
Over Niagara in Motor Boat.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Captain Klaui
Larsen in his little motor boat, th«
Ferro, late Sunday afternoon, mad«
a successful trip from the foot of th«
cataract through the whirpool rapids
to within a mile of Lewiston, a dis
tance of four and one-half miles. De
spite the battering of the whirlpool
rapids, Larsen went through safely,
but his boat was leaking badly aj
the finish and through the trip.
Shot by Rival.
Sequin, Texas.—County Judge H
M. Wursbach of Guadaloupe county
was shot, but not fatally wounded, bj
Adolph Seidemann, a rival candidat«
for the county judgeship on the inde
pendent ticket.
American Mules Wanted In Africa.
Washington.—Mules and donkeyi
are in demand in South Africa, ao
cording to George L. Foster, Amer)
can vice consul general at Cape Town
who, in a report to the department ol
commerce and labor, gives as a reason
therefor the spread of east coast fevei
among cattle and the consequent de
struction of transportation and farm
oxen. He has learned, he says, thal
North American mules are most suit
able for the work in South Africa
As much as $600 a pair can be ob
talned for good mules.
Murdered Father and Uncle.
Arkansas City, Kan.—Ebby Shep
pard, the 16-year-old daughter og J. W
Sheppard, who with his brother, Tay
lor Sheppard, was murdered at theii
home in Newkirk, Okla., Friday, con
fessed to County Attorney Burns ani
Sheriff Rader that she killed the twe
men. She declares- the cause of th«
crime was that the men whipped her
She went to the woodshed and se
cured the axe with which the crimi
was committed and gave it to the of
ficers. The girl has always been con
sidered feeble minded.
Boy Accidentally Killed.
Great Falls. Mont.—At Hinsdale
Mont., Frank, the six-year-old sen ol
R. H. Hardin, was accidentally sho»
by an elder brother and died from th«
wound. The older boy was examining
the gun when It went off.
New Peers Appointed.
Lisbon.—King Manuel has appoint
ed sixteen new peers, all of them sup
porters of the present ministry Th«
king also has signed a decree of am
nesty to those who have given offens*
to government through newspapers.
IN THE GEM STATE
The enrollment ln the Salmon
schools this year Is 287, as against
236 last term.
The Increase In the public school
population of Twin Flails, as compar*
ed with that of 1909, is over 300.
Twin Palls county's expense forth«
primary election is estimaiea io ne,
when all bills are paid, approximately
$3,000 to $4,000.
The valuation of Canyon county Is
$8,916,000. On this amount a levy
of $2.60 on each $100 has been made
by the county commissioners,
is the highest levy ever made in the
county.
Governor Brady and James
Hawley have been invited to speak
at the sixth annual convention of the
League of Southern Idaho Commer
cial clubs, to be held at Gooding Oc
tober 17 and 18.
N. W. Vernon was drowned in the
ditch which runs througn tue mmwry
reservation at Boise. Mr.
who is an invalid, went out for a
stroll, and it is supposed fainted and
fell Into the ditch.
L. H. Dunham, a prominent Michi
gan sheepman, has accepted the ap
pointment tendered him by the Idaho
Intermountain fair management, and
will be the official judge of all the
sheep which are exhibited.
The residents of Big Jam district,
on the north fork of the Coeur
d'Alene have no place to send their
children to school this fall. The Big
Jam school house was burned in the
forest fires on Graham creek.
The postoffice at Boville and Post
Falls, Ida., each of the $1.100 fourth
class rating, will be advanced Oc
tober 1 to the presidential class,
which gives the president authority
to appoint the postmasters.
William Sheave, while out shooting
grouse near Wallace, was surprised to
3ee a great bear rise up from behind
a log. The first shot from Mr.
Sheave's rifle cut the jugular vein of
the bear, killing It instantly.
The last three weeks have witness
ed much activity in the Twin Falls
country among the sheepmen who
have been cleaning up the season's
work. Four carloads of wool went
out of Twin Falls in one day.
Regardless of the fact that the re
cent fire drove hundreds of families
from Wallace and rendered scores of
them homeless, the first day's enroll
ment at the public schools shows an
increase of about 100 pupils over that
of last year.
James Hewitt of Bonners Ferry,
while riding home from Porthill, car
rying a sickle over his shoulder, met
with a serious accident. The horse
threw his head up and one of the
knives entered Mr. Hewitt's eye, de
stroying the sight.
Greater preparations are being
made this year than ever before for
Idaho's state fair. A 60-foot exten
sion has been added to the grand
stand, which will seat 1,000 people.
This brings the total seating capacity
of the stand up to 3,800.
The selling of whisky continues In
Sandpoint, notwithstanding that it is
"dry" territory. Ed. Murphy, who
claimed he brought in a bottle of
whiskey from Trout Creek, Mont.,
was fined $50 in probate court, and is
in jail for 25 days in lieu of his fine.
W. H. Dennison, a resident of Sand
point, has disappeared, and his
friends fear that business troubles
have unbalanced his mind, or that he
has met with foul play. He left his
home for Spokane, August 25, and
disappeared shortly after arriving in
that city.
W. W. Gates of Wallace has start
ed a profitable industry. In the ten
days that he has had his newly in
vented mink trap out, he has caught
fifteen live mink. He has had an offer
from a Cincinnati breeder offering
him $10 apiece for all the live mink
he can forward.
Falling through a vestibule of a.
day coach as the train was traveling
at ordinary speed one mile west of
Caldwell, the 4-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mills of Pittsburg,
Kan., miraculously escaped death.
The girl was found beside the track,
but slightly injured.
Leland Deuel, a twelve-year-old
boy, was instantly killed at the G. M.
Dewey ranch near Burley. He was
riding on a hay derrick, which was.
being moved by his father and an
other man from one stack to another,
when the boy fell from the crosspale
upon which he was sitting and was
crushed by (he weight of the derrick
passing over his body.
The presence of glanders among the
horses in Genesspe country has occa
sioned considerable alarm among the
horse owners of I he Lewiston-Clark
country. One farmer has lost horses
valued at $2,200.
A box of apples was recently pick
ed from an orcharl on Bud Gigelow's
place, near Emmett which for size
and quality will equal those of any lo
cality. Forty-two apples filled the
box. They were of the Alexander var
riety. !
A freight wreck on the Oregon
Short Line railroad a few miles west
of Lava Hot Springs, in which seven
teen cars were ditched, delayed all
trains for fifteen hours,
were loaded with coal, which
scattered along the track for
hundred feet.
A bridge is to be built which wilt
span the Potlatch river at Juliaetta
and will be constructed jointly by
Nez Perce and Latah counties,
other bridge will span Lawyer's Can
yon creek and will be built by
Perce and Idaho counties.
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