Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-11-13
BLAcKFoor. IDAHO, NOVEMBER ID, lss;
New Boise City.

New Boise and Old Boise are not the |
same city. They have the same name
and occupy the same place on the maps;
they cover the same territory and have
mainly the same population; they have
the same streets and the same alleys,
but they are different cities. 1t mat
tiers not how paradoxical this statement
may seem it is, nevertheless, true.
The picture OF Old Boise which the
honest old pioneer takes with him
everywhere in his pocket of memory,
and the picture of the new city which
he sees to-day, satisfy him without any
mental dispute that they are two dis
tinct cities. The old visitor who, ten
years ago, rode into the old city on the
top of stage coach from Kuna and
who rides into the new city to-day in a
Pullman palace car, knows they are
different cities. There has been no
great confagration destroying the old
and no phoenix rising from ashes to
make the new, for many of the old
landmarks of the one are to be seen in
the other, but a change, q metamorpho-
sis, almost as smooth and noiseless as
the revolutions of the earth on its axis,
has been going on within the city limits,
aud chiefly among the people, until
New Boise has grown out OF Old Boise
as distinct and marked as is the differ
ence OF appearance OF mountain top
in mid-winter and howery spring time.
THE NEWS has not the space to spare
TO tell of the improvements made in
business blocks, in residence portions
of the city, and in streets and alleys.
but to note only the great change, or
as the preacher would term it, con-
version, the regeneration of the peo-
pie. The time was when the people OF
Old Boise were clanish, If they were
not envious and jealous of neighboring
towns springing into life, enterprise
and rapid growth. They presumed
upon their long life in the state and
upon their home in the capital, from
whence, they believed, should emanate
the principles and policies Of all polit-
ical parties. They were unwilling to
brook opposition. If they disliked ar
ambitious leader in another city OF
town, they cherished dislike to tbs
town and its people. To them it wa
Boise and, largely, Boise people agains
the state and its people.
But conversion has taken place
not in shouting revival way, but a
smoothly as oil can run down the beard
''yea, Aaron's beard"
Boise sees the light as in the light
It has grown in size and population $
as to no longer fear the losing of tn
capital from its confines. Its patriot
ism has grown until it is proud Of a
honorable, worthy citizen, whether b
halls from Kootenai on the north 0
Bear Lake on the south. 1t has cure
its gangrene of preiudices. IL has n
unkind word for the aspiring youn
man from distant county, town Q
~ 0oOo NV 6hOCb blI oil e
within its gates with cruel and mali'
ious reports and criticisms of the of
cials in the state house. When it car
not speak well it refrains from speal
ing evil.
The Statesman, its only daily pape
and the leading daily of the state, {
for that, under the editorial control I
the affable, courteous and genial Ball
erston, takes no part in the cultivatio
of the small fields Of scandal, person;
hatred and malice. It harrows an
rakes in none OF the seeds OF sue
crops as sewn by other parties an,
where In the state. 1t is grateful I
the feelings OF New Boise that it do
not. Compared with the Old, Ne
Boise is mellow, sweet-tempered an
fast becoming model capital cit
May the New live long and prosper.