Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-01-31
"CATCHALL, ON SEGREGATION
Good words for s'The Gem.-


HORSESHOE BEND, Boise Co., Idaho.
ED. WoRLD: Seated here at home,
shut in by storm and cold (40 de-
grees below zero) l can't help but
think of the many changes of the sea-
sons, and the different things it takes
to make the world as it is. 1t seems
as if there were the same in political
and social life as in the atmospheric
al. To-day we hear all around us the
sound of strife and change. That
which affects us most is the deliber-
ate determination to rend asunder
the ties and boundaries that have held
our Seem of the Mountains" togeth-
er. But Idaho will stand. With her
mighty resources es-her almost limit.
less wealth of minerals, her beautiful
and fertile valleys, her vast herds, her
superior fruits and cerials, her beauti-
full and healthful climate, will make
for her soon place in the sisterhood
OF States, and already she is the en-
We'd one of the Territories, and the
greedy maws of played out and bar
rem neighbors are seeking to take up
her young life-blood. Hardly week
passes that some one does not write
me, asking why l like Idaho, and
what advantages Idaho offers to set
tiers and capital. One is now before
me. l like Idaho because, 1st, / be-
lieve it to be the healthiest place on
earth. Again--no place affords bet
ter opportunities to the man, rich or
poor, who will try to overcome the
obstacles that are everywhere found
In new country; but we have no
new country, really, here. Our school
system is second to none in the Ter
rltorles; our productions are in most
cases sufficient for the wants of our
people; our soil is productive; our
people generous and intelligent, and
above all, for the good of State, are
progressive. The class of people that
are always pushing ahead after they
break the way for future generations
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are going on. Their places are being
filed with men with means and with
families-men who take an active
part in advancing the interests oi
civilization, education, and the arts
and sciences. l like Idaho for this
Her streams are the purest of water
Her varied resources are unapproach
able. Her press and pulpit progress
sive and free. She has thousands ot
hearty, healthy, intelligent children
muturing to robust manhood and wo
manhood, that will soon take an &C
tive part in her government. All hel
valleys and plains are dotted with
farms, her mountains with mines, heI
hills with cattle and horses, railroad.
and telegraphs are putting us in di
rect communication with the world
our markets are among the best. II
fact | like Idaho because she has al
the advantages of any, and the disad
vantages of none that will not b,
overcome. | stay here because a
sure as day Idaho is growing bette
and better, her farms are as sure t.
advance, and to hold farm is to in
sure a competence. Because he
mines are exhaustless her capital i
assured. Here to begin is the plac
for me. Step by step, block upo
block, as the years roll by, will sh
build up and grow better. As tn
stars sink one by one in the west, an
d. new stars rise in the east, to be sue
ceeded by the dawn and then tn
day, so through the night of the pas
will sink crude forms and unhol
= strife, to be succeeded by the nev
: approaching nearer to the dawn {
e that glad day in whose morning Id,
e no now lives CATCHALL.