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Fhe Teton Peak.
PUBLISHED IN THE GARDEN SPOT OF SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO.
VOL. VI
ST. ANTHONY, FREMONT COUNTY, IDAHO, THURSDAY, SEPT.. 16, 1904.
NO. 22.
Fire at Idaho Falls.
Last Sunday night almost every
business block in Idaho Falls was
wiped out by fire which started
about 9 o'clock in the Butte Cafe
and burned for seven hours. Fan
ned by a wind which blew with al
iiiost hurricane violence, the fire
sff ept down Broadway, destroying
eV ery building for nearly seven
blocks. The fire department was
utterlv unable to check the flames,
and the fire burned itself out. The
fire was confined to the business
district , no residences were destroy
ed. Loss w ill reach $300,0(X) with
small insurance. Preparations are
already under way for clearing the
ruins for rebuilding. Among the
heavy losers are the Consolidated
Wagon & Machine company, #95,
000; Coltman Lumber Co., #40,000 ;
0. k Wilbur, clothing, $10,000;
Johnson & Co., harness, $5,000.
This is said to be the worst fire
in the history of southeastern Ida
ho, and probably one of the laTgest
that has occurred in the state. Bus
iness in Idaho Falls will practica
bly be at a stand still for several
days until the people recover from
the shock and the "heavy losses
sustained by its leading and repre
sentative business men.
Those who sustained smaller los
ses are: Ray Smith, jewelry, $2,
500; insured for #500. Frank
Smith, glassware and notions,
# 1,500, insurance #500. Frank
Cutter, barber shop, #800, insur
ance $125. W. Rawson, barber
shop, $500, no insurance. Harry
Carr, barber shop, $100, no insur
ance. Idaho Packing Co,, meat
market, $1,000, iusuranoe $300.
Matt LaRouche, blacksmith shop,
$600, no insurance. John Leeb,
saloon, $1,0C0, no insurance.
Butte Bakery, $1,500, insurance
not known. Johnson & Catmul,
#2,500, insurance, $800. John
Vania, carpenter, and Harry Na
gle machine and blacksmith shop,
also both lost buildings and most
of their tools and material. There
were many other comparatively
small losses.
The fire department did heroic
work, better was never rendered by
a volunteer force of firemen, and
except for their exceptionally fine
work the entire business part of
the city would have burned. It
was only by the most determined
effort that the fiâmes were prevent
ed from crossing the streets and
thus involving other blocks.
Many had their hands and faces
badly blistered. Two spectators
were slightly iujured, one by a fal
ling pole and the other by a burn
of the face.
Fortunately the wind was com
paratively light otherwise a large
part of the town would have been
endangered. The two story brick
on the southwest corner of Broad
way and Park avenue, was the
only building in the block saved,
h is owned by Dr. Franklin LaRue
and Jerry Deneen and occupied by
W. 3. Jackson as a drug store and
restaurant, the upper floors being
used as the office of Drs. LaRue
and Bridges and the family of Mr.
Jackson. The damage to the build
ing is nominal and Mr. Jackson's
loss is principally confined to dam
née by water.
I'be flames lit up all the sur
rounding country with a lurid glare
and people came in for several
.. #
"» es to witness the conflagration.
Later. —The loss reported by the
fi re at Idaho Falls was not so great
as at first estimated, but it will
exceed $200,000. with insurance of
a quarter of that amount. The
flames swept one entire business
block, with the exception of one
J»ct,„ bU n di " 8, """T* ! h
Jackson riritor et«™ and dining
son Drug store
ball. The ground is already be
J"K cleared and substantial brick:
b °cks will replace the burned
buildinw
will replace the burned
»»gs.____
banners will do well to insure
'cur lmy w j t h FuiJer and Moore.
Maine Roils up 30,000.
Portland, Maine, Sept. 13.—The
Republicans of Maine were success
ful yesterday, William T. Cobb
being elected governor by a plural
ity which will probably reach 30,
000. This estimate is based on
returns from three hundred and
fift\ out of five hundred and twen
ty-two cities, towns and planta
tions, which give Cobb 71,085,
and Cyrus W. Davis (Dem.), 46,
162. The plurality will probably
be about 3300 smaller than that of
four years ago. All the present
congressmen, (Republicans), are
re-elected by pluralities of from
5000 to 8000. A noticable feature
of the falling off of the Republican
plurality was that of Portland
which was about 700. The Demo
cratic sheriff and the Democratic
senator are elected there.
Portland. Me., .Sept. 13.—Re
turns for governor in yesterday's
state election up to midnight last
night from 100 cities and towns
give Cobb, Republican, 24,034;
Davis, Democrat, 14,987.
In 1900 these places gave Hill,
Republican, 22,445, and Lord,
Democrat, 12,020. The returns so
far show a Democratic gain of ,1378
and on the basis of the present re
turns Cobb's plurality is estimated
at about 29,000.
Indian School Opened,
The new Fort Hall training
school opened on Monday of this
week and the old art Hall board
ing school was abandoned at 8
o'clock Monday morning. The
new plant is not quite completed
but nearly enough for Contractor
Owen to accommodate 150 IdWian
children gathered in by Indian
Agent Caldwell. This number
will be augmented by another
hundred within two weeks.
Old Fort Hall, which has been
used for an Indian boarding school
since its abandonment as military
post, will be a thing of the past, so
far as Government ownership is
concerned, after this. One or two
of the best buildings will be torn
down and re-erected at the agency,
but the greater number will be
issued to the Indians, and will be
removed intact to their various
farms on different parts of tbe
reservation.
If some of the officers who were
stationed at old Fort Hall in tbe
60's were to return to the reserva
tion now they would find tbe men
they were sent there to fight living
in their houses and bringing up
their families as peaceab'y, even if
not as cleanly, as they had their
own. _____
Mistaken for a Deer.
Neihart, Mont., Sept. 12.—Mis
taken for a deer, Charles Wittala
was instantly killed yesterday by
Matt. Sands. The two men were
members of a camoing party, and
Wittala, thinking to bag an ani
mal in the earlv morning, was
leaving camp when Sands, aroused
by his friend's movement, and
thinking him to be a deer in the
uncertain light, blazed away with
a rifle, sending a bullet clear
through Wittala's head.
Mormons in Mexico.
City of Mexico, Sept. 12. —Dr.
John H. Reider of the Mexican
Bureau of Colonization announces
that arrangements have been com
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| , , with ' the Mormon authorities
P ieict ' " 11 -
'Upectedn timber tract of 45.000
c
of Utah for the location of seveial
additional colonies in Mexico. It
is probable that several hundred
Mormon families will be located in
the State of Michoacan.
Some time ago W. \1 • Cluff and
H. R. Kline of Salt Lake City in
;
colonization pur
taken
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acres in that State, and it is un
derstood that this tract will he
ASHCRAFT JEWELRY COM
PANY.
THE TARIFF AND THE SOUTH.
Enormous Advantages That Have
Resulted From the Morrill
Law of 1861.
Whether theories are true or false
is demonstrated by experience.
1 be War of the Rebellion was a
test in which both theories under
went trial. The Southern States
had for years prior to the war ad
vocated Free-Trade and carried it
out to its legitimate results—a
ruined and prostrate people.
On the contrary the Northern
States had advocated the theory of
Protection. The result was strong
and united people, who were able
to meet the great burden of debt
incurred by the war, and have
made the credit of the United States
the best in the world. No nation
can borrow money at so low a rate
of interest.
While it is nearly forty years
since the war closed, it is well at
this time to review the facts and
lay before the American public the
conditions of the people of the two
sections of the Union.
FiTst—The people of the South
prior to and during the war had
every natural resource to make a
people rich and independent. The
political economy adopted by the
South was expressed by Jefferson
Davis in his first inaugural address
as president of the Confederacy.
He said : "An agricultural people,
whose chief interest is in the ex
port of a commodity (meaning cot
ton) required in every manufactur
ing country, our true policy is
peace, and tbe freest trade our
necessities will permit."
Horace Greeley said, nearly
twenty years before the days of
secession, in a debate with Samuel
J. Tilden and Parke Goodwin, who
were Free-Traders: "The nation
whiah is eminently agricultural
and grain exporting, which de
pends mainly or principally on
other nations for its regular sup
plies for manufactured fabrics, has
been comparatively a poor nation,
and ultimately a dependent nation."
The following, from a speech of
the late Hon. H. W. Grady, a
progressive Southerner, eloqueutly
and truthfully describes the condi
tion of the Southern soldier at the
surrender of Lee:
Think of him as ragged, half
starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled
by wounds and want; ; having
fought to exhaustion, he surrenders
his gun, wrings the bauds of his
comrades in silence, and lifting his
tear strained and pallid face for the
last time to the graves that dot the
old Virginia hills, (Malls his gray
cap over his eyes and begins the
slow and painful journey. What
does he find?—let me ask you who
went to your homes eager to find in
the welcome you had justly earned
full payment for four years' sacri
fice—what does he find when, hav
ing followed the battle stained
cross against overwhelming odds,
dreading death not half so much as
surrender, he reaches the home he
left so prosperous and beautiful?
He finds his slaves free, his stock
killed, his barns empty, his trade
destroyed, his money worthless,
without mouey, credit, employment
or material.
These truths were expressed at a
New England dinner, December
21*, 1887.
In these three quotations we have
the false theory announced by
Davis, what the result would be, :
by Mr. Greeley, and the truth of
Mr. Greeley's assertion affirmed by
Mr. Grady's eloquent words.
Second -At the commencement
of tbe war the people of the North
were totally unprepared for the
gigantic struggle they had made to
preserve tbe Union. It was not
the lack of loyal men that was the
main difficulty, but to equip them,
create a navy and carry on the war
ro a successful issue involved a
great serious problem. The people
of the North cheerfully and patient
Iv submitted to taxation. Specie'194
:
a
payment having been suspended,
the ( Government must have gold to
meet its payments of interest. It
was provided that the duties should
be paid in gold. By the effect of
suspension of specie payments gold
went at once to a premium, and the
higher the premium the higher the
custom duties became. At one
time the premium on gold was
#2.50—that is, $1 in gold would
purchase as much as $2.50 in
paper currency. Yet it was during
the time there was a premium on
gold that some of the great indus
tries that have been a source of
wealth were started in the United
States.
One of the lesser industries, the
manufacture of spool cotton, is a
striking illustration of the result of
that high Tariff. The duty on
spool cotton was 6 cents a dozen,
which, plus the premium on gold
in 1864 and 1865, was extremely
high. It was at this time that the
Clark Thread Works at Newark,
N. J., were started and the Coats
works at Providence, R. I., were
commenced. Both were brought
to this country to save their Amer
ican market. The result of indus
try has been remarkable. In 1884
the consumption of thread was said
to be $11,000,000 annually, of
which 80 per cent, was made in
this country.
In that lesser industry we see
that $8,800,000 annually was kept
in the Untied States and added to
the wealth of the nation. In twenty
years that alone made $220,000,
000. The silk industry is another
instance of what the Tariff of 1861
accomplished in the manufacturing
of the country.
In the census of 1890, Mr. Bryon
Rose, who prepared the report of
the silk industry, brings out very
clearly the result of the Morrill
Tariff on that branch. He says
the census of 1850 showed that the
value of silk cloth made here was
$17,050. In 1860 no mention
whatever was made of that class of
production. Mr. Rose further says :
"During the war the production
was greatly stimulated owing in
part to the frequent deficiencies in
the foreign supply, and in part to
the excessive cost due to the high
premium on gold. ' '
Mr. W. C. Wycoff, special agent
of the tenth census (1880), in his
report of American silk manufac
ture, prepared under the auspices
of the Silk Association published
in 1887, says:
But neither the close of the war
nor the Tariff proved so effective a
lever for a few years in raising up
American silk manufacture as did
the high prices of gold. Competi
tion with various European fab
rics, especially ribbons, handker
chiefs and lining silks, first became
practicable when gold rose to a
premium that confined imports to
the other classes of goods which
we were not yet ready to make.
The branches of manufacture
thus founded, being supported by
the Tariff, gained a permanent
place and have since developed
largely.
The following brief table shows
that the development of the silk
industry has added greatly to the
wealth of the country :
Made in
Imports. United States.
$32,961,120 $6,607,771
24,219,981 12,210,662
31,348,948 41,033,045
37.363,145 87.298,454
26,803,534 107,256,258
What a change! In 1860 there
was imported nearly five times as
much silk as was made at home,
while in 1900 there was made in
the United States more than four
times as much silk goods as was
imported.
The one item of wages is suffic
ient to illustrate the great advan
tage the silk industry has been to
the people of the United States. In
1860 the total wages paid in that
industry was $1,150,224; in 1900
the total wages paid was 820.982,
If the average wages paid
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
to
annually is $11,000,000 for 40
years $440,000,000 has been retain
ed in this country for labor which
has gone into the wealth of the
nation.
If we examine the pottery indus
try we will find the same result.
The Morrill Tariff, plus the pre
mium on gold, gave this industry
such an impetus that it has grown
to be one of the greatest import
ance.
In this brief resume of the census
tables we see the facts upon which
James G. Blaine in his incompara
ble letter of acceptance of the Re
publican nomination for President
in 1884, based his statement that
the wealth of the United States had
increased more in twenty-five years
under the Morrill Tariff than in
the two hundred and fifty years of
its previous history.
The philosophy of the statement
was stated by Abraham Lincoln
when he said: "If we buy a ton
of pig iron of England, England
gets the money and we get the
iron. But if we make the iron, we
have both the money and the iron. ' '
These historical facts, so well
authenticated, flatly contradict
every statement made by the Free
Traders.
Third—The reason that has been
assigned for the suffering and pov
erty of the South during the war
the enforcement of the blockade of
the Southern ports, but this is not
the primary cause. Though you
should build an impassable wall
along Mason and Dixon's line from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, aud put
every Southern port under the most
rigid blockade, the people of the
South, with their great natural
resources which they have always
possessed, aud now with the indus
tries they have established under
the fostering care of the Protective
policy, could supply themselves
with every needed comfort and
most of the luxuries of life. This
assertion is proved by a glance at
the industries of Alabama, Georgia,
South Carolina and North Carolina
as revealed by the census tables of
1900. It is shown that in I860,
the last census prior to the war,
there were in the above named
states 193,700 spindles. The pro
duct of the cotton mills was $5,
170,451. These states had in 1900
3,794,054 spindles, and the output
was $84,794,054. All the other
Southern States that were in the
Confederacy show a great increase
in the same industry. In the iron
industry, Alabama in 1870 produc
ed only 6,304 tons; in 1880, 56,237
tons; in 1890, 864,120 tons; in
1900, 1,303,595 tons. Virginia in
1870 produced 33,782 tons of iron;
in 1900, 449,060 tons. In 1900
Alabama was fourth in rank in the
making of iron and steel. In the
manufacture of lumber all the
Southern States show a wonderful
increase.
When this great increase is com
pared with the growth of popula
tion it is marvelous. From 1860
to 1900 the population of the
Southern States named increased
from 4,937,447 to 91,35,338—a
small fraction less than 85 pei cent.
During the same 40 years in the
same five states the increase of tbe
products of the cotton mills aud
iron furnaces increased more than
1,539 per cent. With the excep
tion of the four years of war and
the three disastrous years of the
Wilson Free-Trade Tariff, this
stupendous increase was uuder the
Protective policy, which the states
men of those five Southern States
opposed.
No argument for the Tariff can
be more effective than the contrast
between the South, which advocat
ed and adopted Free-Trade, and
the North, upon which the stress
of circumstances forced a high
Tariff; yet from its effect there
came a great industrial revival,
which saved the Republic.
The political economy adopted
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by the South previous to the war
proved a great blunder, and verified
the saying "that whom the gods
would destroy they first make
mad. "
In the light of these historical
facts, which have fully shown the
folly of Free-Trade and the wisdom
of Protection, how frothy is the
rhetoric of Bourke Cochran in his
wordy fulmination against Protec
tion, and how false the statements
and illogical the argument of the
Free-Trade press and Democratic
Congressman.
It is well to restate the facts of
the effects of tile war Tariff upon
the industries of the nation, to
show how false are the allegations
made against the system of Protec
tion.
The time will come when the
schedules will need readjusting,
and it will be proper to make it,
but that is far different from de
stroying the system which has
been so beneficial.
Oscar Jerrery.
Washington, July 22, 1904.
The question is asked: "Who
among our workingmen is willing
to favor a Tariff change which
would reproduce in the country
the stagnation, idleness and distress
of the years following 1893? What
workingman does not see the wis
dom of a Protective policy which
maintains a higher average wage
in the United States than that
which obtains in Europe?" Our
myriads of industrial workers will
heartily agree with the President
that Tariff readjustment, when
made, must maintain and not de
stroy the Protective principle,
Ungentle Critics.
The campaign the Democrats
are making against the Tariff is
not savage enough to suit Free
Trade journals like the New York
"Times" and "Evening Post."
Curiously enough, the only part of
the Tariff plank in the Chicago
platform which these newspapers
cordially admire is the part Bryan
wrote: "Protection is a robbery."
What they don't like and don't
hesitate to deprecate is Candidate
Parker's gingerly treatment of the
Tariff in his speech of acceptance.
They seem to think that the head
of the party of Free-Trade cuts a
queer figure when he begs to assure
the country that there is really no
danger that the Tariff will be rip
ped up so long as the Republicans
hold a majority in the Senate.
The "Times" and "Post" refuse
to be calmed or reassured by any
such statement. ,
Believing, with Bryan, Champ
Clark, Williams, Bailey, Cockrau,
and the rest of the custom house
abolisheis, that to Protect domestic
labor and industry is a felony, they
are unable to understand why Can
didate Parker should refrain from
pledging his administration, if
elected, to undertake the supression
of the crime of Protection at the
earliest opportunity. Senate or no
Senate. But the "Times" and
"Post" seem to forget that it isone
thing to edit Free-Trade newspa
pers and a very different thing to
run for the Presidency on the Dem
ocratic ticket. They don't need
votes; Parker does. They ar
inconsiderate and unkind. If Pi.'
ker shook} come out openly for ti
elimination of Protection from or
Tariff system he would scare aw;;
a grear many votes among conser
vative business men. To be sane
safe and reasonable is Parker's e
until after ejection. Then, F a
goes well with the Demor*
ticket, the ripping up proct
come as a matter of course.
Thomas Budford, repri ••
Hamilton-Brown Shoe com]
St. Louis, was in the city t
of the week and sold a nie^
of shoes to J. D. Baker and
Mr. Bucfford also made a c
with the Peak to adverti:
famous shoe..