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Show THE, CITIZEN 4 and who possesses a gun or other deadly instrument, shall be guilty of murder of the first degree. Such a law will work a great good citizens, and it will put fear upon all those who are into the hearts of all criminals. All violators should be punished within ten days of the crime. If it is law, justice and good order that the police really want, let us all take a hand in the matter and do the thing up right. But let us not make laws which will make citizen a criminal in order to carry but the fanatical the ideas of some clique which goes off United States Senator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho takes the utilities commission to task for high freight rates which have practically crippled the Idaho markets, according to the Senator. Senator Gooding proposes to organize all the forces of the state and declare an open fight against the railroads in order to secure a living freight rate. The Union Pacific is asking for the right to increase the freight rates on wool 10 cents per 100 pounds on Idaho wool and to be permitted to put in a rate of $1.35 per 100 pounds on wool from rate Portland to Boston. At the present time the Portland-Bosto- n is $2 per hundred on sacked wool, $1.67 on baled wool, while Idaho-Bosto- n wool rates, with a shorter haul, are $2.52 to $1.81 per hun- agreement which would mean perpetual sovereignty of the United States over the Philippine people; and Whereas, the American people, through their Congress, declared repeatedly that they would not take territory as a result of the war with Spain, and repeatedly stated that as soon as the people of the Philippine islands were able to establish a stable government that would protect life and property, that the people of the United States would grant them independence; and Whereas, more than twenty years ago President McKinley stated that the Philippine islands are not ours to exploit, but to train in the science of now would practically be an .admission that the United States had failed in training them in the science of and Whereas, President Roosevelt said more than ten years ago that he hoped the time wrould arrive when the Filipinos can decide for themselves whether it is well for them to become independent ; and Whereas, it is now known by the American people that a stable government has been established in the Philippines; and Whereas, the American people have made untold sacrifices in the late war in the interest of and to further refuse independence to the Philippines is not only an abandonment of the promises made at the time we took possession of the Philippine islands, but is a violation of our highest ideals; therefore, dred. be law-abidi- ng . law-abidi- ng half-cocke- d. FREIGHT RATES. self-governme- self-governme- nt, nt; self-determinati- : on, it After attacking the freight rates of the Union Pacific generally, Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate conSenator Gooding says in his statement, as published in the Salt curring), that the people of the Philippine islands are hereby declared to be free and independent, and the Congress of the United Lake Tribune: It is estimated that the increase in freight rates on farm and States hereby recognizes the Philippine Republic as prayed for in range products has cost the farmers and livestock growers of Idaho their memorial, and requests the President of the United States to between four and five million dollars a year. So it is not hard to negotiate and submit to the Senate of the United States such understand what judgment these excessive freight rates are responpolitical and commercial treaties as may be necessary to secure for and a free, sible for the hardships and privations that the farmers have suffered the people of the Philippine islands the last three years. independent government. Shall the United States grant this request for independence and We have had something more than forty bank failures in of the weaker nations? Shall Idaho, and there can be little doubt but what those high freight pave the way for rates, are responsible for many, if not all, of our bank failures. As the United States lead the world in showing the way to righteous a member of the agricultural committee of the senate I1 listened to a government? Can we blame a race of people like the Filipinos, so great many sad stories told of the hardships and privations of the different from our own in color, customs and religion, pleading, for farmers in many of the western states. The story was told of 168 freedom to exercise and perpetuate their own civilization in their suicides on the farms in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and own way? Think of the great rejoicing freedom would bring. Yes, it is as our beloved presidents, McKinley and Roosevelt, have deMontana last year. I have been criticised some here in Idaho for speaking of our clared! those people should be allowed to work out their own bank failures and telling of the great losses to our farmers from destinies. the excessive freight rates. I do not know how to make a great WHAT NEXT? wrong right other than by telling the truth about it and presenting the facts to the people; this I propose to continue to do until the Now comes Ernest H. Cherrington, secretary of the World agricultural interests of this country are given relief by Congress from great injustices forced upon them by their own governLeague against alcholism, and says th'at prohibition cannot be enforced in the United States without international assistance. It has ment. always been thus. At first cities went dry, and Carrie Nation tried to close the wet ones with her little hatchet. The politicians seekPHILIPPINES. ing votes of the dries then said the only remedy was in state proThe Press Bulletin of Washington, D. C., is making an heroic hibition. It would be easy for any state to control the liquor. That failed. We then were told that if the nation went dry it would be appeal, for the independence of the Philippine inhabitants, and acthe government could surely control it. Not only that. cording to substantial facts submitted there is just cause in the a success and Crime, all of which had been laid at the door of the saloon, would request. In a resolution which is to be submitted to the Sixty-eight- h could be sold or Congress the situation is summed up unanswerable and the Filipinos be nearly eliminated and jails and penitentiaries turned into factories. We have heard it all and we have seen more make their plea known in the following language: Whereas, all just powers of government are derived from the than we have wanted to. consent of the governed ; and Any one who says that prohibition is effectual in this country Whereas, the people of the Philippine islands, including all does not mingle with the people. If a correct check could be made classes and all political parties, are petitioning the United States to upon all booze sold it would be found that there is more consumed at present than during any past. like period. grant them a free and independent government ; and the bootleggers President Harding has threatened to shoot-u- p Whereas, the right (if any) to govern them was acquired' by the United States in the war with Spain and by conquest of the on the coasts who are plying their nefarious trade from large merlimit he may chant ships. If he catches them within the three-mil- e Filipino people ; and Whereas, President McKinley in his first letter of instruction have a case, but should he happen to peg a foreign ship aiid its crew limit we would probably have a big damage suit to the. peace commissioners, instructed them not to enter into any out of the three-mil- e self-determinat- self-determinat- ion . ! . . . ion |