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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1901
Wonder what the subsidized press
of Idaho thinks about fusion in New
York City,
man's opinion.
Let ns have the States
This from the Oregonian:"
If Schier had lost at Santiago it would
have been Schley's defeat, not any other's;
but since Schley won whose victory was
it? Maybe we shall know in a few days,
once for all.
The soldiers now stationed at Boise
barracks are ordered to sail from
San Francisco for the Philippines on
November 30th as a practical illustra
tion to Idaho that the war with Spain
is over.
The Times Democrat of Moscow
fires off the following bit of delicious
sarcasm:
"Look at the success of this adminis
tration," said a seedy looking individual.
"Look at the balance of trade, $999,
990,999.99 more than ever before"—and
as his democratic listener turned away
he lowered his voice and suggested",
"Could yoU lend a poor fellow a quarter
to get something to eat?" "You'd oetter
take a silver dollar." said the unfeeling
democrat. "You'll need that much to
keep you alive until you cash y ;ur share
of the balance of trade."
Says the Chicago Chronicle regard
ing the change which took Goodwin
—its very spirit and soul—from the
Salt Lake Tribune:
Perry 8. Heath, secretary of the re
publican national committee and brother
of Fletcher Heath, who was implicated
among the wreckers of
national bank in New York City,
has bought a newspaper in Salt
Lake City and aspires to become the boss
of Utah politics with a view to ulti
mately reaching the United States
senaie. If he can conciliate Mormon in
fluences be may be elected senator as
soon as he becomes eligible by residing
long enough ip the stale.
great
The St James Gazette, London,
says of the New York election:
"It is the greatest blow yet struck
at a most nefarious system of organ
ized, triumphant villainy ever foist
ed on a civilized community by a
gang of corrupt blackmailers."
Rather strong expression to come
from anything but a democratic or
anarchist sheet. Wonder if the
English journal would have made
the same expression if last year or
live years ago we had downed the
fastening of a ruinous English finan
cial policy upon this country.
The Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo, New York, closed on the
2nd i d st., and |;he summary state
ment of its financial affairs, shows
deficit of about three million dollars
This showing is somewhat remark
able in view of tlte alleged decree of
national prosperity that is the curr.-ni
stock in the trade phrase of republi
can journals. The fact is that the
able
spare the money needed to visit the
grand exposition, and it may he well
to remember that this same people
as a mass will remain too poor for
any recreation, so long as a robber
tariff and exorbitant transportation
charges are in order.
it replaced each share with two
yabares of one-half value, so that
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It ikholder bad a double number of
The great republican Oregonian
—quite democratic at all times when
no election is on—cannot stomach
Hannah and Morgan's plan to squeeze
the country for a few more millions
through the ship subsidy graft.
Hear it:
Will anybodv say why men who build
ships should have subsidies, or granls cd
money from the Treasury? Such sub
sidies or grants will all go to men who
are already rich; for none except rich
men have shipyards, or are in lhe ship
building buisness The farmer or the
wage-worker will build no ships. Why
should they be taxed to increase the
wealth of those who do build them, or
may build them—if the Treasury can be
tapped for the money ?
In 1904 the Oregonian will stand
for the election of men, the success
of a party which has drawn behind
it all the concentrated gain and bru
tal greed of the country because its
policies let down the bars to high
handed robbery of a wilfully pillaged
people._
We all remember that, at the be
ginning of the year, the Standard
Oil company—seeing its profits
growing too large to be presentable
before a public that, dull and slow
its comprehension might lie,
would finally note the magnitude of
trust margins—called iu its capital
stock and doubled the issue, that is,
shares without putting up any more
We now read the following
money.
dispatch in the press reports:
New York. Nov. 0 —The Standard
Oil company has declared a dividend of
$8 per share, payable December 10, mak
ing $49 per share for calendar year,
which is same amount as last year.
How nice that reads! "Same
amount (per share) as last year."
Trust hasn't increased its graft, see!
But the opulent farmer, who holds
stock, draws $98 on his two shares
which replaced the one share pre
viously held—doubles his profit on
same old capital and yet the dividends
per share ate only the same as lust
year!
Senator Clark of Montana, nn ex
pert on copper movements, says:
I do not believe there will be any cut
in the price of copper, und I do not see
any necessity in lor it. I will
that a consumer cannot buy 500 tons of
spot copper in the New York market
w Hirer
tomorrow, By spot copper 1 mean
copper ready for immediate deliv
ery, suitable for manufacturing pur
poses What surplus there is now is in
process of manufacture or refining and
cannot be drawn upon for several weeks
With such a condition what call is
there for the closing down of mines
and smelters in Montana and com
mission of wholesale crime against
miners with families to keep. In
the face of an empty market we can
riot open new mines and build needed
railways except by the most discour
aging, dragged-out and toilsome
struggle against dissenting trust
dictation. Our resources are of no
avail to ns and are almost worthless
assets. Our efforts do indeed draw
nectar in a sieve and our "hopes
have a precarious life that are oft
blighted, withered, snapped sheer
off in vigorous growth and turned to
rottenness." It is astonishing what
the American people will submit to
and even support.
THE LAW OF RETIREMENT.
A recent press dispatch from' St.
Petersburg states:
Tlte czar has sent report officers into
Lite interior districts of Russia to buy all
the available stocks of grain By some
tiiis action is taken lo indicate a fear of
international complications The Turk
ish ambassador here has been making
alarming Inquiries as to the exact mean
ing of tlte czar's purch se. The sultan
evidently fears that they presage a hos
tile m,ove on the part of Russia.
That immediately calls to mind a
bit of French history, when Louis
XV manipulated a little grain deal
that was the equal of John Sherman's
money deal of 1873 It. is developed
masterfully by Dumas when Uagltos
tro interviews the king's agent:
"Since you know so well who I am,sir,
you are aware of my mission in France.
Sent by his majesty the great Frederick,
1 am more or less secretly tile ambassador
of his Prussian Majesty Now. by am
bassador is understood
an inquirer; in
my quality of inquirer I am ignorant of
nothing that happens,and a subject upon
which I am particularly well inlormed is
the monopoly of grain "
However unpretendingly Balsamo ut
tered these last words, they neverthless
produced more effect upon the lieutenant
of police than all the others, for they
made him attentive. Be slowly raised
his head.
"What is this affair about corn?" said
he, affecting as much assurance as Bal
samo himself had displayed at the com
mencement of the interview. "Be good
enough, in your turn.lo instruct me, sir."
"Willingly, sir." said Balsamo. "This
is the whole matter—"
■ "I am all attention "
"Oh ! you do not need to tell that Some
very clever speculators have persuaded
his majesty the king of France that he
ought to construct granaries for his peo
ple in case of scarcity. These granaries
therefore have been constructed. While
they were doing it, they thought it as
well to make them large. Nothing was
spared, neither stone nor brick, aud they
were made very large."
"Well?"
"Well, they hud then to be filled.
Empty granaries were useless, therefore
they were filled. "
"Well ! sir," said M de Sartines,
seeing very clearly as yet what Balsamo
was driving at
"Well ! }ou may steadily conceive that
to fill these very large granaries, a great
quantity of grain was required. Is that
not evident?"
"Yes."
"To continue, then. A large quantity
of grain withdrawn from circulation is
one way of starving the people; for,mark
this: any amount taken Irom the circula
tion is equivalent to a failure in the pro
duction. A thousand sacks of corn less
in tlte market-place. If y ou only multiply
these thousand s/icks by ten, the corn will
rise considerably."
M. de Sartines was seized with an ir
ritating cough. Balsamo paused, aud
waited quietly till the cough was gone.
"You see, then." continued he, as soon
as the lieutenant of police would permit
him, "you see that the speculator in these
granaries is enriched by the amount of
the rise in value. Is that clear to you?"
"Perfectly clear, sir," said M de Bar
lines; "but, as far as I can understand,
it seems that you have the presumption
to denounce to me a conspiracy or a crime
of which his majesty is the author?"
"Exactly," said Balsamo; "you under
stand me perfectly."
"That is a bold step, si'; and I confess
that I am rather curious to see how his
majesty will lake jour accusation; I fear
much the result will be precisely the same
that I proposed to myself on looking over
the papers in this box belore your arrival,
Take care, sir; your destination in either
C:i f. e A ^ 1 { 1 be lhe u " slille . . .
Ah ! now you do not understand me
at all."
not
••How so?"
"God heavens! how incorrect tin opin
ion you form of me, mid how deeply you
wrong mo,sir, in taking me for a fool !
What! you imagine I intend to attack
the king—I, an ambassador, an inquirer!
Why, that would be the work of a sim
pletion! Listen to the end, pray."
M. de Sartines bowed.
'•The persons who have discovered this
conspiracy against the French people—
(forgive me for taking up your valu
able lime, sir, bul l ou will see directly
that it is not lost)—they who have dis
covered this conspiracy against the French
people are economists—laborious and
minute men, who by their careful inves
tigation of this underhand game have dis
covered that the king does not play alone.
They know well that his majesty keeps
an exact register of the rate of corn in the
different markets; they know that his
majesty rubs his hands with glee when
the rise has produced him eight or ten
thousand crowns; but they know also
that beside his majesty there stands a
man whose position .facilitates the sales,
a man who naturally, thanks to certain
functions (he is a functionary, you must
kuow). superintends the purchases, tlte
arrivals, the packing—a man, in short,
who manages for the king. Now these
economists—the microscopic observers,
for of course they are not mad, but they
will attack, my dear sir, the man, the
functionary, the agent, who thus haggles
for his majesty."
M. de Sartines endeavored in vain to
restore the equilibrium of his wig.
"Now," continued Balsamo, "I am
coming to the poiut. Just as you, who
have a police, knew that I was the Cpunt
de Feuix, so I know that you are M. de
Sartines "
"Well, what then?" said the embar
rassed magistrate. "Yes, I am M. de
Sartines. What a discovery !"
"Ah ! but cannot you understand that
that M. de Sartines is precisely the man
of the price list, of the underhand deal
ings, of the stowing away—he who.either
with or without the king's cognizance,
traffics with the food of twenty-seven
millions of French people, whom his of
fice requires him to feed on the best pos
sible terms Now just imagine the effect
of such a discovery. You are not much
beloved by the people; the king is not a
very considerate man: as soon as the cries
of the famishing millions demand your
head, the king—to avert all suspicion of
connivance with you. if there is conni
vance, to do justice—will cause you to
be hanged upon a gibbet, like Engurraud
de Marigny.
Whether the Czar of Russia is
imitating King Louis or not is unim
portant. The point that attracts at
tention is the fact that the same law
of retirement which operates on grain
operates also on money, and when
Sherman, the M. de Sartines of this
country, at the behest of English
cunning,accomplished the retirement
of silver in this country, a plan was
consummated in every way similar to
the French grain deal, only a thousand
times worse. By the same law that
made grain rise when loqked up in
French granaries, money rose in
value when one half was thrown
away, and ns it took more of the
Frenchman's other property to pro
cure grain from the royal warehouses
so it took more of our property to
get money after silver's destruction.
Had a new and unexpected crop of
volunteer grain sprung up in France
in a night it would no more have
made the grain deal less odious than
has a recent slightly increased pro
duction of gold in the world removed
the necessity of persistent opposition
to the Sherman outrage on constitu
money upon
every industry and every purchaser
of money in the United States. The
supporters of the crime delight to
assume that the increase of ' gold
production has removed the silver
cause, and by such assumption
acknowledge every argument for sil
ver. While gôld production has in
creased, the increase has no more
than equaled the increase in business,
and it has not covered the destroyed
silver by three billion six hundred
million dollars, so that the relative
position of money and property are
the same as ever, barring a few tem
porary and special conditions. But
the financial manipulators, were the
increase actually as they would have
it appear, have wiped tt out, or, as
Balsamo say s above, "a thousand
sacks of corn more in the granary are
a thousand sacks less in the market
place." The increase in gold has
been a little over $500,000,000 since
f896, and just this amount of golden
grain is sacked and locked securely
in the granary of the United States
treasury department and thus remov
ed from the market. It is kept there
where the financiers who run the
country can place their hands upon
it in emergency, always imminent,
just as the French king could go to
his granaries for a supply of corn
with famine all around. Secretary
Gage has seven times already taken
from this store and loaued it tem
porarily without interest to divers
great banking institutions to save
rhem from collapse. When the cry
comes from any financial quarter
that is next, "save me, Cassius, or I
sink" the life preserver is handy. It
is only a matter of time until the
disease of '93 breaks out with re
doubled fury. „
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WEISER THE HUB.
Favorable geographical location is
always admitted to be a strong point
in the commercial, ''advancement of
any locality, and this is so in spite
of any physical disadvantage—for
instance Chicago, New Orleans and
Galveston. The location determines
the business importance of the place.
Now to apply this to Weiser. Com
paratively speaking, distances from
here to Sacramento, Spokane, Salt
Lake and Butte are equal, and con
sidered as a question of time, com
puted by distance, the difference is
uot appreciated, and also looking to
the immediate connection with our
tributary country, we see the same
great advantages presented. The
coming prospects of possible wealth
in the alluring prospects of the
Thunder mountain regions is a mat
ter for present consideration, and the
most accessable route for transporta
tion purposes, a prime question for
consideration and presentation to
the public. Undoubtedly, as in
others, Weiser is at the front. As
a demonstration of this assertion,
let us have a little history. The
first wagon that was packed into the
Big Creek Meadows was a three-inch
lumber wagon and was taken from
Weiser to Warren, and then packed
to Vinegar Hill by Tom Neighbors
for Messrs Lew and Dan Caswell,
the route taken was down Big creek,
to the mouth of Monumental creek
t
and thence to Mule creek and the
mines now known as Thunder moun
tain. Since that time sixty miles of
railroad have been constructed and
put in daily operation. The Pacific
and Idaho Northern is in Council,
from there to Meadows is 30 miles,
Meadows to Warren is 55 miles and
from Warren to Thunder mountain
only 60 miles. The country travers
ed iu this last 60 miles is an easy
proposition for wagon road construc
and only two elevations, these
of minor importance to overcome,
and even with this out of the ques
tion, it gives Weiser the preference
as the most practicable route to the
coming great mining center of Idaho
and incidentally including many
other old established camps.
The further construction of the
P. & I. N.to Meadows, is a> consuma
tion devoutly to be wished, not for
t'uis connection alone but for the
incidental industries that will surely
follow—and this extension is being
arranged for. And iu connection
with Thunder mountain it is well to
note the publication in Boise papers
the other day of a rather misleading
summary of the routes to the great
new district. The distance from
Boise is given as 175 miles, from
Grangeville as 175 miles and from
Weiser 200 miles. Now the nearest
railroad point is the main question,
and the summary mentioned ignores
that 60 miles of the distance from
Weiser is covered by a railroad, leav
ing 140 miles of wagon haul, admit
ting the figures of the Boise paper to
be correct, whtle from Boise the
entire 175 miles is wagon haul, thus
giving the Weiser route 35 miles less
wagon haul by their own showing,
and of this distance eighty miles is
already completed and traveled. The
Grangeville figures are misleading
because Grangeville is.18 miles from
rail facilities which must be added
to the 175 given. The nearest rail
way point is the consideration that
governs the moving in of machinery.
Weiser now has 35 miles the best of
other points and when the rails reach
Meadows will have 65 miles the best
Weiser, by reason of a
of things,
most favorable geographical position,
Î3 today the Hub, from which radiates
the spokes that mark the lines of
future commerce, and also is Weiser
the open gate to the north with its
coming wealth and greatness
A SPLENDID ENDORSEMENT.
The Weiser Signal has received an
endorsement of which it is justly
proud. To be named in the Blue
Book of the United States Press
Clipping Bureau of Chicago as stand
ing at the head of all weekly papers
in Idaho is praise worth having. It is
praise of such character that the Salt
Lake Tribune rejoices at being nam
ed therein as the best daily in Utah.
The Blue Books names the leading
dailies in the six leading cities of
the cotiutry as follows: Times of
New York, the Tribune of Chicago,
the Public Ledger of Philadelphia,
the Herald of Boston, the Globe
Democrat of St. Louis and the
Chronicle of San Francisco. The
Blue Book of the United States Press
Clipping Bureau follows its lists of
daiiies with a list of "the best weekly
newspapers in each state and terri
tory, determined upon careful com
parison of press clipping results,"
and names one paper only in each
stute as the best. For Idaho, out of
the sixty odd in the state, it names
the Weiser Signal The Blue Book,
in its introductory says:
This directory is the result of ten years'
experience in supplying the customers of
modern Press Clipping Bureau with in
formation upon every conceivable subject
from the newspapers and periodicals of
the United States.
It gives not only a list of the best daily
and weekly newspapers in all the states
and territories, but also names the best
daily in each state, and likewise the best
weekly.
The selections are based upon careful
comparisons of the value of tiie different
papers to the patrons of a Press Clipping
Bureau and are the outgrowth of con
tinuous actual daily experience in clip
ping from them iu process of filling the
orders of an extensive clientele of business
and professional men of all classes.
Tiiis is an unsolicited endorsement
of the Signal and one that money can
not buy from,that institution, which
gathers all the papers of the United
States and reads them carefully in
order to clip the various lines of in
formation ordered by its patrons.
The work of the bureau is detailed
in the book and is very interesting.
A large force of expert readers are
employed and each state is assigned
to the same readers the year around
and thus they become as familiar
with the papers of that state as do
the local readers themselves. While
the Signal is much gratified, our
regular size will suffice if any of our
friends desire to buy us a new hat
It drew
THE SHAME OF THE WORLD.
The cost of conquest is a stone
that is hanging on the neck of Brit
tania somewhat heavily,
the latin empires to ruin, destroyed
the glory of Spain, shattered some
idols in this country and it is not
surprising to see it bear heavily on
England's shoulders. The word is
now passed out that every available
infantryman is to be hurried to
South Africa, and the cold truth
comes out that there is but one regi
ment of cavalry left in the United
Kingdom. The cost of this last at
tempted conquest has been some
thing frightful to England and it is
staggering to humanity at large.
The situation is a striking one.
whole mighty force of England has
been exerted to its fullest and
an army of 300,000 men launched
against a struggling people defend
ing their homes, who never had but
35,000 fighting men at one time.
The
The Boer fighters have dwindled to
18,000, probably much less, and
England has drawn from eveiy
source to keep her army above the
quarter million mark. The war is
now in its third year, and England
has 18,000 dead and 75,000 out of
the fight through wounds and sick
ness. She has been supplying horses
at the rate of 10,000 a month
and supplies for 400,000 men. and
the cost in money has has reached
nearly a billion dollars. Some of
her military men say the war will
not be crushed within another year.
The most awful crimes of barbaric
war with a Mi revolting variations
have been felt by thq burghers, their
women, girls and children. Saddest
of all, the civilized world, bound
with the modern chains of gold and
greed, sits resignedly by and raises
not a protest against the destruction
of a free, Christian people; and our
own country, cradle of liberty, un
der the administration in power, has
not even its moral influence to lend
in behalf of the little martyred re
publics.
IS ROBUR REINCARNATED.
This old world is constantly doing
its best to prove that truth is stranger
than fiction, and even sometimes to
lend color to the reincarnation theo
ry. M. Santos-Dumont, after sail
ing about Eifel tower with his new
"•^air machine, now aspires to deeds
that are so limitless in their daring
that imagination suggests thatxliqbur~^>
has returned. It will be remembered
that when the great conqueror of the
air had distanced the balloon sent up
by the Weldon Club and afterwards
rescue« Phil Evans and Uncle Pru
dence from a frightful fall, the Al
batross hovered over Fairmount
Park while Robur addressed the sea
of people below him:
Citizens of the United States, my task
is for the present finished. My experi
ment is premature. Science should not
precede the mental capacity of the times.
There should be evolution not revolution.
I have come too soon and find that the
time is not yet ripe for my work. I there
fore take leave of you and I bear my se
cret witli me. But it will not be lost to
humanity. It will be found when the
world is wise enough to profit by it and
prudent enough never to abuse it Citi
izens of the United Stales, adieu!
Robur was the science of the fu
ture. Santos-Dumont now hints of
startling feats and intimates that
Hearst of the New York Journal,
Chicago American and San Fran
cisco Examiner will send him in his
machine on a trip to the north pole.
An attempt to circle the world at a
speed of 800 miles a day is also
mentioned by the French inventor.
The one feature of Robur's promise
which implies that successful air
navigation is not upon us is the ref
erence to the mental capacity of the
times. It is certain that, with every
achievement of science and state
craft being mercilessly abused in the
greatest nation of earth, when the
world is simply mad with greed of
i gain, the time has not yet come when
the world is "prudent enough never
to abuse it."
Little Tommy Nelson's liens must
be afflicted with cbiggers, or laying
bad eggs, to judge by his ruffled
humor. Clean the coop well, feed
them on burnt bones and dust the
chickabiddy's well with lime,Tommy,
and all will be well in the hennery.
Sulphur is a good thing to keep
around the chicken coop, it gives
cbiggers hallelujah every time.
Dipping the feet in kerosene and
greasiDg the head is good, too, and
in the meantime soak your head.
M. & R. gives special prices on
coal in carload lots.