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Newspaper
Wallace Miner
Location
Wallace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1922
Page
2
The Wallace Miner is circulated at the Wallace Idaho post office as second class mail matter. It is printed weekly by the Wallace Printing Company located in the Elks Temple Building at 606 Bank Street, Wallace Idaho.
On Thanksgiving Day 1922 the Coeur dAlenes region celebrates a contrast to last year’s downturn. Mines run at full capacity with rising metal prices, new mines opened, and wages up, boosting payrolls and trade. The Miner wishes readers peace and prosperity as workers and employers enjoy a hopeful future.
An editorial condemns Georges Clemenceau for seeking to sway U S policy on European affairs. It argues Americans decisively rejected joining the League of Nations two years earlier and warns his solo appeal risks souring Franco American ties by presenting himself as France's spokesman without official sanction.
The piece condemns Europe’s settlement plans and pro league propaganda aimed at dragging the United States into foreign disputes. It argues Americans oppose entangling alliances and criticizes a famed French figure whose mission is said to fail, leaving his reputation diminished in the West.
Undaunted by two defeats H F Samuels plans a third run for Idaho governor. He has bought the Nampa Record and renames it the Idaho Progressive to back radical aligned candidates, hoping publicity will boost his campaign while he faces the limits of newspaper power. He argues for debt moratorium and farmer protection, while referencing Hearst’s media empire as a cautionary tale.
A stale tale of the Hercules mine is repackaged around a district court suit over a 1/16 interest valued at 500000. The Anaconda Standard freights fiction into news by crediting Harry Orchard, jailed for Steunenberg murder, with discovering the Hercules lead during a drift before a noon breakthrough.
The group, including Orchard, worked a tunnel until it showed no pay ore. Orchard struck the tunnel wall with his pick and later vanished from the hill. The crew debated blasting the holes and quitting if no value appeared. A miner retrieved Orchard’s stuck pick and discovered the lead gleaming in candlelight.
Harvard Professor Albert Bushnell Hart argues that revision of early American history belittles founding figures. He says praise for Revolutionary leaders sustains patriotism, despite faults, and warns against undermining national heroes with constant criticism.
The New York Times reports Alfred E. Smith from New York is gaining national momentum as a Democratic presidential nominee. Smith's 1920 fight and his 1924 win in New York position him as a leading vote getter, with McAdoo rivaling for the nomination and an organized Tumulty-backed effort developing. The Smith boom will bear watching.
The Chicago Tribune argues that defending constitutional principles is essential as the nation faces ongoing attempts to erode or fragment the system. It warns of gradual encroachment shaped by special interests and calls for educating both long-time Americans and new arrivals about ordered liberty and its political institutions.
For more than half a century American intellect has absorbed European ideas. The stance calls for clear resistance to radical protest and subversion, affirming American principles of ordered liberty and the institutions that express them.
Idaho Senator Borah pushes direct primary as a remedy to revitalize the Republican Party amid calls for reform. He warns of a possible third party in 1924, while noting a political revolution reshaping party names and methods and praising Borah as a potential presidential candidate who could win.
A chart by Chemical National Bank of New York shows coal prices postwar boom and deflation. It notes coal, especially bituminous and anthracite, recovered unusually, held high, and argues miners' wage costs are now excessive by about 50 percent. The piece criticizes coal pricing as unfair and tied to United Mine Workers control.
National Republican notes Henry Cabot Lodge recalling John J Ingalls and his remarks on mountains. He praises their solitude and grandeur, contrasting them with ocean and prairie images and asserting mountains invite adoration rather than utility. The piece highlights Ingalls famed reverence for Pike's Peak, Sierra Blanca, and other peaks.
A Thanksgiving poem recalls pilgrim ancestry and family warmth centering on pumpkin pie. The speaker credits memory and gratitude for loved ones and shared harvest meals, praising a mother's baking as sweeter than any feast and praying lasting happiness and virtue.
Judge Rice of Caldwell held six years on the supreme bench and faced reelection. Canyon County voted 2562 for Rice, 1981 for Lee, and 4105 for Hall, praising Hall despite his brief legal practice and current small-scale Twin Falls grocery business. The county also backed a unfamiliar small grocer and rejected the juror list, a comment on popular will.
The Washington Post piece analyzes post election trends, noting mixed local outcomes. It argues that while Democrats show gains in some areas, Republicans gain elsewhere, leaving national effects hard to predict. It asserts Congress remains split and national policy unlikely to shift dramatically.
George Geer of Bozeman Montana, aged 83, reputedly the nation’s oldest active locomotive engineer, retires from railroading after 67 years in the field and 54 years aboard engines. He began his career in 1854 and remains sharp in sight and mind as he passes the torch to younger crews.
The reader entitles him to a pension from the Northern Pacific railway. Mr Geer served with high rank through exacting tests, resigning recently to retire. He started as a water boy in 1854 and rose to fireman, then served the Michigan Central, Union Pacific, and other lines before joining the Northern Pacific Montana division in 1884, remaining active until 1922.
The New York Evening Mail notes three consecutive months with tolls over 1,000,000 for the Panama Canal, September 1922 rising from 892,001 to 1,020,264. The piece credits Theodore Roosevelt's leadership and American effort for making the canal possible amid engineering, finance, and political strides.
The Norfolk Pilot quotes a viewpoint that America cannot prevent massacres abroad while lamenting domestic excesses. It argues possession enslaves people and stresses the value of noble memory over noble birth.
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