The bill provides for the purchase of several eastern canals, and their enlargement, for the improvement of certain rivers where the benefits will be entirely local, and for divers and sundry other expenditures of equally doubtful utility. Again has log-rolling prevailed over prudence.
That our senior senator should stand firm in such a crisis was to be expected. His action in this instance again stresses the need for just such men in our upper house of congress.—Wallace Press-Times.
Let Spokane Awake
If the I. W. W. is responsible for fires in northern Idaho, the whole organization must be branded as an outlaw, its officers arrested and every member given a chance to explain what part he represents in this program of property destruction. The public has given them a chance to talk sabotage, to preach arson and recruit men for the ranks of terror. It has withstood volley after volley of threats, if this be the result, then a madman truly is at large and the only right course is a stern warfare until the last agent of disorder and crime is behind the bars.—Spokane Chronicle.
Just Bound to Crow
The Republic doesn't claim that there is going to be an average crop in the Palouse country, but we feel pretty sure that there will be more than half a crop. 