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EVENING : CAPITAL : NEWS
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
MEMBER OF THE A880CIATE0 PRES*
at Bolaa, Idaho, a City of
Published fivary Afternoon and Sunday Morning
»0,000 People, by
NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY. LIMITER
THE CAPITAL
RICHARD 8TORY SHERIDAN.
Entered at the Poet Office at Boise, Idahe. as Second-cloa» Mall Matt«».
Society Editor, S13-J.
Editorial Rooms, 23« ;
-Business Office, 234;
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BOISE, IDAHO, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1*14.
PLAIN SPEAKING.
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mortal theme, and life
I tried to show 1
I used to say Just what I thought, on every
• was hectic then and hot, and every day a scream,
a had no fears of ah y human foes; and people often pulled my ears,
e else they punched my nose. But I was not dismayed, thereat, nor hum
• hied vet, by heck! And people often Jammed my hat clear down around
• mv neck My head was bloody but unbowed, as said some martial toff,
l and'everv Urne I met a crowd they'd kick my coattails off. "A soul un
• daunted still I have," I often would declaim; and then 1 d bu frh s^rkTe
• of salve to spread upon my frame. In time one weariesi of such strl e.
• however bold his soul, and so, to gain a peaceful life I canned myrlg
• marole. Instead of shooting off my bile at every time and place.
• bought a large elastic smile, and wore It on my face. And though l stl
• had burning thoughts. 1 kept the blamed things down, and no one heard
• the caustic shots for which I'd won renown. And now all day I dance
• and sing, and people like me much; my head's no
• longer In a sling, I do not need a crutch.
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• Copyright 1314, by
• Ths Adams Newspaper Service.
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WHY SOME MEN GROW FRANTIC.
soon as any man gets a dollar ahead, the politicians and the aglta
club and try to knock his brains out. That'B it;
There are too many people who
Just OS
tons get after him with a
that's what's the matter with this country. .
can't stand to see anybody else succeed, and as soon os they see that they are
getting a little money ahead they begin to attack them.
This in substance, even if not in exact words, was the
heated tirade the writer listened to a few days ago from a
man possessed of considerable capital resident in another
state. He was most bitter, and his predictions of dire dis
tress were as heartily expressed as are those poured forth
in their daily prayers by Republican politicians the nar
tion over.
We were interested in knowing just what the especial
grievance of this man was, so we encouraged him to talk
and he unbosomed himself.
He is interested, we found, in the manufacture of sugar
from beets, and he is convinced that the promised removal
of the tariff is going to put that industry out of business,
hence, his general accusation that those who are demand
ing reforms are antagonistic toward capital.
This unfair and wholly harmful attitude toward re
formatory measures is the attitude generally taken by the
advocates and supporters of special privilege. It is the
attitude always taken by violators of the law when called
to account for their violations and it is also the attitude
always taken by those who have enjoyed special privilege
at the expense of the general public whenever it is pro
posed to discontinue such special privilege.
Liquor men used to cry out that prohibition advocates
were antagonistic to capital because they demanded a ces
sation of the privileges given to liquor and to demand that
its sale cease, and brewers and wholesalers and retailers
declaimed loudly against the proposed "confiscation of
their property." Now, however, there is little heard of
that kind of talk because it is pretty generally understood
that the liquor business has always been an outlaw, toler
ated merely as a special privilege concession and that those
engaged in it have no just cause for complaint whenever
the people demand that the special privilege granted in
allowing its manufacture and sale shall cease.
The demand that the special privilege granted the beet
sugar industry through the tariff on sugar be discon
tinued does not justify in the least the conclusion of our
eastern capitalist that the demand comes from antagonism
to capital. There is room for argument as to whether it is
advisable to withdraw the special privilege granted this
industry, but there is no room for the belief that the de
mand for its removal comes from hostility to capital in
general.
The people might deliberately make up their minds
that they would prefer to see that particular industry
perish in this country than to continue longer payment of
a bonus to it through the tariff laws of the nation. We
can see that there would be room for argument both in
favor of such a demand and against it, but even if such a
demand were to be made, it would not in the leastwise in
dicate any hostility to capital.
Children arrive at the period of life when their parents
no longer feel justified in contributing to their support out
of their own finances and they say to those children, either
in words or in accordance with the custom of the world,
We believe it is better for you now to look out for your
selves; we have done all for you that we think it best for us
to do; you must get out now and show your ability to take
care of yourselves.
It is just as reasonable to suppose that parents who do
this are enemies of young men and young women gen
erally, or enemies of their own sons and daughters espe
cially, as to charge that the people who are seeking to
remedy evils that have grown up through special privilege
legislation enacted and enforced for so many years, are
antagonistic to capital in general or the industry in
especial where the evil is found to exist.
The truth of the matter is that the man referred to
above has been the recipient of special advantage at the
expense of the entire public and he is frantic because that
special advantage is to be withdrawn and like the angry
snake he is just as apt to strike his own kind or his own
friends, as to strike his foes.
He would, if he could, along with all the others who are
enjoying special advantage which is in danger, or who
have enjoyed special advantages which have already been
withdrawn, intimidate the people of the nation into re
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he had been enjoying at the expense of the public.
It brings the issue squarely before the people whether |
they will assert their own power to govern themselves as
they collectively may believe to be best for them and the
country, or whether they will surrender to the fury, the
intimidations and the threats of special privilege and cor
rupt Big Business to bring ruin upon the country if their
privileges be withdrawn or their corruption be exposed
and punished.
The issue is squarely whether we are a free people cap*
able of self-government, or whether we are dominated and
controlled by the privileged classes that have been built
up during the last twenty years or so.
Every voter must decide the issue for himself or for
herself, and as he or she shall decide, so should he or she
cast the ballot at the coming and succeeding elections until
the fight shall be settled! one way or the other.
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MRS. CHARLES RUSSELL DAVIS.
(By Selene Armstrong Harmon)
Nine out of ten women would raise j
their hands In horror at thought of
being marooned on a desert island for
as lohg os 30 minutes, with only the
congressional record for reading matter.
Not so Mrs. Charles Russell Davis.
The wife of Representative Davis of
Minnesota reads the record with as !
much zest as the average woman fol— i
lows the fortunes of the heroine In the
latest novel. She can extract romance
from a printed speech on a tariff sched
ule. Other political subjects which are
to most feminine minds awful and lm
penetrable she finds limpid and trans
parent as a clear brook on a sunny
day. There are few women in public
life In Washington who have ns keen
political acumen as has Mrs. Davis.
She has a mind which, In its masculine
grasp of politics, statesmanship and
public questions. Is one of the best ar
guments anyone can conceive of In be
half of woman suffrage, yet she Is not
a suffragist.
"We all realize," she says, "that
equal suffrage Is Inevitable. There will
be no opposition In this country, at
least, formidable enough to stop It. But
for my part I own I do not see In wo
man's schem^of life any place for the
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hood m " s t always militate against her
activity and her usefulness In politics.
Her own home, her own problems, her
own work, she has not been able to or
ganize and to promote efficiently. Then,
too, women have not yet developed a
sense of proportion. The seriousness
with which they take the petty things
! 1U*: their atrtfe and bickerings over
i tHö unessentials, indicates that they
are n °t yet ready to cope with the large
problems of government."
Whatever may be the outcome of the
equal suffrage question, however. It
will hold no bitterness for Mrs. Davis.
She Is one. of those women whose phil
osophy will always keep her on the
sunny side of life. Her zest for poli
tics, and the ready comprehension
which she brings to any discussion of
national Issues are perhaps as much
the result of her childhood training as
of her 11 years of public life tji Wash
ington. Her father, Aaron Haven of
Chicago, was the close friend and ad
mirer of Stephen A. Douglas, and
spent a fortune trying to elect him
president. To this day Mrs, Davis ran
remember some of the hot debates be
tween Douglas and Lineoln. to whom
she listened as a little girl.
Mrs. Davis is an active member of
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Evening Chit-Chat
By Ruth Cameron
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NE of the most vicious kinds of
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gossip Is that which formulates
fallible opinions about the
causes of events in other peo
ple's lives, and then states these
opinions as facts.
For Instance, we were talking about
hot baths the other day, and someone
Bald: "I knew a girl who died from j
taking, too many hot baths." "Did you, |
really," we asked,
name was given. "Why, I knew her,"
said someone else, "and I never knew
that was what caused her death. I
thought It was the indirect result of
overwork." "Oh, no," said the first
woman positively, "she used to take
those terrible hot baths, and finally
she went into a decline. What did the
I don't know, but that
Why, she
"Who was it?'' The
doctor say?
was evidently the reason,
took a very hot bath almost every
night, and you know how weakening
they are."
It was perfectly evident that this
woman had no grounds for her state
ment beyond her own opinion. And
yet, instead of saying, "1 think so and
so," she stated boldly as a fact, giv
ing the Impression that she had defi
nite Information on the subject. *
Again, I once heard that a certain
girl had broken her engagement be- I
cause she discovered that her fiance
went around with other women. In
vestigation proved that the sole
grounds for the statement were that E.
was of a very Jealous disposition, that
her fiance liai been seen on ihe s'.reet
two or three times with another wo
man (who, by the way, afterwards
proved to be his sister-in-law) and
that the engagement had been broken
i ery suddenly.
On this e, humeral foundation some
kind friend had built the hypothesis
that the break must have been caused
by the discovery that the fiance went
around with other women.
If she had stated this merely as a
hypothesis, It would have been bad
enough, but she didn't. She stated It
as a fact. In reality, the engagement
was broken because the girl had found
she no longer cared for hex fiance. And
the break, although sudden enough to
others, had been of gradual growth.
Next worse to foisting your own hy
pothesis on people as fact, is helping
to pass on other people's opinions In
the same way.
A says to B, "Mr. L. has left town
very suddenly. I wonder if there was
anything wrong with his business tran
sactions."
B says to C, "Did you know Mr. L.
had left town very suddenly? A thinks
there Is something wrong with his bus
iness transactions."'
C says to D, /'What do you think, L.
has left town unexpectedly. Everyone
says there's something wrong with his
business transactions."
D says to E, "Isn't It a shame about
L? You didn't know? Why, he left
town because there was something
shady he's been doing in a business
way.''
So a vague "wonder If" becomes
transforme^ into a definite statement
of fact.
Beware how you let yourself supply
even one link In the chain of such cruel
and wicked distortion of facts.
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When you SPOT '
a person
WHO IS SUCCEEDING
YOU WILL SPOT A PERSON
WHO HA8 BEEN SAVING.
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The Pacific National Bank
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
U. 8. DEPOSITORY
8AFE DEPOSIT BOXE8 $3.00 PER YEAR.
Are You a Saver ?
Do you lay aside a certain amount
E| weekly, for the rainy days that are
I sure to come? Or do you spend all,
I and trust that you will be able to
■ take your place and earn your sal
I ry every week? Suppose you were
■Ü to be idle for a time, would you be
prepared to meet the expense or
day find you slipping further into
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would each
debt?
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There Is no one to answer these questions for you. Each mass mo s»
decide for himself. The progress that each one makes must bs bp
his own Individual efforts. Suppose you start to save now. Seise«
a bank that is safe, one that has an Interest In you and your ac
count; one that you can depend upon at all times, and one that
helps you make saving easy. That is what wo do.
E8TABLI8HED EIGHTEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX
We Believe in
Reciprocity
When people borrow from us we
expect them to pay us interest.
When they deposit funds with us,
no matter whether on time certifi
cate or in checking account, we pay
them interest.
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A Bear Story
O NCE there was • Mg grizzly bear
who lived in a huge stone bear
pit in a big dty zoo.
Part of the time he stayed in his snug
little house in the back of his cage,
The rest of the day he spent walking
up and down, over and across, 'round
and 'round the edge of his cage, swing
ing his great grizzly head as ifhe would
like to hunt for game.
But in the afternoons of the warm
spring and summer days ha had hit
spring
beat fun.
For then the children came and threw
and popcorn, which he
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would gobble up in his indifferent, off
hand fashion.
He really loved the peanuta and liked
the fun of coaxing them from the in
terested children better than anything
he did ail the year. Bat it would never
do for a bear —a big, handsome may
grizzly bear—to appear to like anything
common as peanuts-—oh, not So he
i ust pretended he didn't care and that
ie ate the peanuts solely to oblige folks.
One bright spring day he sat Back
his hunches in the front end of hia
cage and eyed the crowd of interested
people in front of him.
Popcorn and peanuts came Ms way
just as easily! For everybody liked to
watch him snap his big jaws shut and
solemnly crunch the peanut he had
caught.
But sometimes the aim wasn't very
true, or sometimes the peanut hit the
bars of the cage and swerved to one
side, so he. couldn't catch it without
going after it
"I wonder what I'd better do about
the peanuts I miss," he said to himself
as he eyed the crowd thoughtfully. "I
can't afford to lose my dignity Mr run
ning after the ones I mlas, and 1 don't
like to lose them. Maybe I can reach
that one there with my paw," and he
located « nut carefully with a glance
from the comer of his eye.
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Copyright 1914 —Clara Ingram Judson.
(Read The Capital News
Just at that vary mtaale agtesay
blackbird lighted on the lop ol the iron
* en .S5. °*. tb , e C *K®\ „ _ .
"Oh, look at that fin« peanut" be
chirped, right down by that bear, and
he doesntsee It at alL I mean to got
it myaelf.'
Down he darted, grabbed B» peanut
in his bill just as the bear's huge cush
ioned paw reached out lor the nat.
But the bear wa* too dignified and
alow.
nut, flew to the high Iron fence and
the bear's paw descended—on nothing
at all.
Quick as a flash the bird grabbed the
"Futmy P he grunted,
I saw a peanut there."
Up on the fence the blackbird
crunched the peanut and laughed to
himself at hia joke on the bear,
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Ht tôt bock on hit hunchts and eytd
th* peoplt in front of him.
Tomorrow— Rainàrop Pairies.