Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1889-04-22

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have anywhere in the Old World.
Great Britain aud Ireland with a
population of 100000 spend an
nually $95,ooo,ooo to maintain =.
standing army. France with popu-
lation of 100000 spends 1926, Ooo,-
600, while Germany with 100000
spends about $100,0OO,ooO annually
on her army. If these three great
powers can spend such vast sums to
maintain great military establishments
1t surely cannot cripple the Union Of
States which is richer by far than any
OF the Governments named to pay a
debt OF gratitude to the surviving
saviors Of the nation who are disap-
pearing from their midst at the rate
OF brigade yearly, and who will
soon disappear still more rapidly.
THE SOLDIER IN PEACE.
In the great battle of life we have
no little grounds to congratulate our
selves on the part we have played.
| When the war closed and the great
army turned its face homeward many
volunteer found the place he va
Gated when he shouldered his rifle
and marched to the front now occu-
pied by another. The avenues of en-
ployment he left were closed by Others
| who staid at home. The volunteer
had given bis three or four years to
his country and now he had to begin
at the bottom and commence again
the struggle for existence. Then it
was that so many of them turned
their faces to the westward, away
toward the land of the setting sun,
across the great plains, and amid the
mountains of the distant West he
resolved to seek another home, to
achieve other victories. The mystery,
the romance that hung over the can
yons, that was buried in the gulches
seemed to teckon him on. That is
why you find SO many of the old SOL
diets scattered everywhere through
these mountains. "Peace hath her
Victories no less renowned than war;"
and in the work he has performed in
retaining from a wilderness this
broad and rugged domain his part
has been no less noble than when
wreathed in battle-smoke he faced
his country's foes. You find our
comrades in every walk and avenue
of life. They have aided in making
our laws, they have aided in enforc-
ing them. They have aided in the
work of retaining and developing
the resources of this and the surround.
ing Territories, and wherever YOU
find an old soldier loyalty, respect and
veneration for his country's institu-
tons are his predominant character
istics.
THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT.
AS we in Idaho have arrived at that
period of out existence when we are
knocking at the doors of the national
capitol and asking admittance, it is
not out of place ON our part if we
inquire into a few of those principles
and theories of government on which
the nation rests, on which its present
prosperity is based, and on which our
future hope depends. In an address
of this kind where my time is so
limited it is impossible to enter into
details. I can only state established
facts. First, while the American
people are made up of the many and
diverse elements that enter into the
population of Europe, yet under the
influence of free government and
free schools and liberal institutions
they have blended them all with
perhaps solitary exception) into one
homogeneous race having now prac-
tically one object, one common mo.
tive-the welfare of the nation.
Second, we have endeavored to Sc
cure to each individual the greatest
possible freedom, to endow every cit
lzen down to the very humblestin the
land with the full prerogative of man,
hood, and to secure him in the exer-
else of his rights by full and ample
protection under the law.
Third, the public domain has been
thrown omen. emipration invited. and