The enactment of a bill exempting beer would give the people of our country a better conception of the stranglehold the brewer has on government, and be a victory for the kaiser.—The American Issue.

Honest "finders" are not "keepers." Ninety-five percent of the people are honest. Your property in almost every instance will recover. It is more insiduous and deadly that the poisonous gases used by the Germans in the trenches of Belgium and France ranks in the same category. France.

Idaho can take care of the situation within her own borders if her neighbors will keep their venom on their side. The chief difficulty is that when the reptiles are routed from the mines, the woods and the farms of Idaho, they drink across the line and find a haven of refuge in Spokane, and there they are beyond the reach of Idaho, and where they plot new devilry.

This is why every sentiment that appeals to the good in men should induce Spokane to take vigorous action now. 