, 1890-10-23

valley.
The especial pride of tho people of
Idaho is their public schools. The
cause OF education has Kept pace with
The state. over 500 public
and privatc schools, aiiordiug instrue-
tion TO q, 900 pupils Mt an expenditure
of $3.50, 900, with school property worth
5000, 900, supplemented by numerous
benevolent societies and thrifty enter
prising newspapers i'll every county,
speak volumes for tho virtue and intelii.
genoe of tho people More than 100
church editccs. valued Ni $4,000, with
n mem bership exceeding 200 souls, de-
clare that culture aud religion arc walk.
ing hand In hand. Two great trans
continental railways traverse tho state
from east to west, sending out
their branches ana feeders into
every section, and checsering Idaho
with untold commercial facilities.
Her thriving towns and cities are the
glory OF her people. A graphic writer
thus paints her capital-Bose the Beau
tiiul:
"The Rocky mountains of America
contain many valleys of marvellous
beauty; many hills with outlines of
grandeur past all words of praise. The
villages Of the mountains sit on shapely
slopes unriyaed in inir Switzerland, or
wales amidst the hills are threaded with
streams whose source is above the
clouds and whose resting place is not
found till wrapped In the warm heart of
the ocean. but Of all its sun. .girdlcd
mountains there are none to ldahoans
like the Boise range. OF all its sweet
waters there are none to compare with
the. sparkling ripples OF the Boise riyeri
and of all its happy hamlets there IL
none to rival with Us our beloved city OF
Boise. We are loyal to its name; we
glory in its history our hope Is In its
prosperity, and to Boise's people and to
Boses honor We give our united hearts
and hands"
Nesting like a gem of beauty
at the head of navigation, bet
ween the tortuous Snake and
tho sparkling Clearwater, stands
Lewiston, only $50 feet above the
level of the sea, sequestercd in a wealth
OF foliage, fruitage and flowers, and en- i.
wrapped In an atmosphere that Is almost
perpetual spring. Destined within Il
| twelve month to be the crossing of tn rec
great railroad systcms, and surrounded
by u vast country of varied and mex
| haustible resources, soon will she lit
her head as a modest but friendly rival
even of the great Spokane. Wallace, In
the center of the rich Cnur d Alones, is
sure to be tho Helena or Denver of the
Pacific slope. Moscow, marvel
Gus in growth, the seat OF the state uni
vcrsity and soon to become the Athens
of Idaho, Is surrounded by the greatest
agricultural country on this earth.
Time fails me to tell of Weiser, Cald-
well, Nampa, shoshone Bellevue, Hal
ley, Blackfoot, Pocatello, Cmur d Alene,
Montpelier and a score or more of thrv-
ins towns, rapidly developing into pros
porous cities.
The population of Idaho is composed of
the highest type OF American manhood.
In the proud Kingdom OF the old world
there met and mingled the cold granite
| saxon, the warllkc, hardy Dane, and the
proud, chivalrOus Norman, with his
feudal pomp and knightly courtesy,
forming the 'buc-eyed, fair-haired,
rosy. checked Anglo. Saxon race, so
tenacious OF individual and political
rights; intexibie of purpose, proud,
| stubborn, equally perscyering in enter
prlses of wisdom and folly, Justice and
| injustice, and which, with It's American
branch, l,as never been driven from any
soil on which 1t had once firmly planted
| ITSELF
| The descendents of that race founded
tho American rephblic in the wilds
of the New World, still lead the van
guard OF civilization ms the instructors
of mankind in the principles of civil
and religious liberty, and on their soil
no foreign foe, unrcvenged has pressed
his foot for 100 years. The children OF
that race sprung from New England,
| Southern and Western parentage, driv-
| ing the emigraiits train over the
trapper's trail, blazed the way for ciyili.
zation through the wilderness, erected an
empire in our mountain home and
set Idaho as one OF the brightest stars
on the American ilag,
ldaho's constitution, pronounced by
statesmen of the National congress- to
be the embodiment of advanced and
conservative fundamental law, starts at
the very acme of the enlightened iuris.
| prudence OF the nineteenth century
| Her pandect of statute law, originally
the product of the best legal thought OF
the empire state, as amended, improved
and construed by the imperial intel ects
of California, some OF whom have shed
luster ON the highest judicial tribunal OF
the country, by the wise revision OF her
own great lawyers, has been adapted to
the varying necessities of the rapid and
marvellous development of Idaho.
Mr.. President, our lines have indeed
fallen upon pleasant places in beautiful
fruitful Idaho. Ours is truly goodly
heritage. Like the Children of Prom
Use" we have been brought into a good
land; land of brooks of water. of
I
that spring out of valleys and
hills; land wherein we can
eat bread without scarceness and
lack nothing in II; land where stores
are iron, whose hills and mountains are
turgid with precious metals, aud whose
limpid streams roll seward over golden
SANDS as rich as those of Pactolus. And
the same Almighty power that gave
us this goodly land to possess it has
blessed the fruit of our soil, our corn,
our wine, our oil, and our hocks and
herds.
IL is land of rich and verdant valleys
and meadows, smiling under sunny
skies, with grain fields ripened for
harvests that till to the full its
groaning wains and bursting granarics /;
with orchards bending to tho earth with
russet and brown and golden fruitage--
land unvisi'ed by the wintry blasts of
the north, which crush the constitution
with their frosts and ice; secure fro IN
the overshadowing abundance of
material lie and the enervating heats
incidental to the equatorial belt, and in
accessible to the pestilence OF semi
tropical climes-from no portion of the
atmosphere that enwraps the
globe can human lungs extract
more of the stuF that feeds the
Promethean flame than from that
which fans the bosom of the Gem of
the Mountains In this glorious land
of hill and valley and mountain and
prairie, where the vernal sun has driven
the winter to the poles, and from the
portals of glory flooded the heavens
with his summer light, the solar beams
| fall upon the eye through an atmosphere
transparent as q sea of glass, while the
skies that bound the vision are as bril-
liant and beautiful as those that bend
| over sunny Italy.
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