Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-07-18

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wealth, the chief energy of the
government will be expended upon
these lines, which will furnish the
greatest opportunities for the ac-
cumulation of wealth. Hence the
q, sire Of the government to open
Mp new fields for the occupation
Of is people. This mad aud in
ordinate scramble for wealth will
soon have run it's course. Men
will learn that competency which
frees them from want and gives a
noble and dignifed independence
without entailing the cares Of ex-
ces. i've wealth, is the normal and
happy station in life.
We have faith in the American
people learning all that is good and
ber;. The time will come when
the possessions of abnormal and
xcessive wealth will be considered
ar base and ignoble az extreme
poverty. Then will come another
golden age when men Of learn
ing travel the roads to Instruction;
then will philosophy and letters
Fit in peace around the hearts,ones
Of people; then will the energies OF
our nation be expended in foster
ing and building up the industries
OF the people, and in the canal
OF education and morality. Then
will we assume among the nations
Of the earth that exalted promi-
hence assured to us from the
foundation Of the world
Our unique position as the
purveyance Of a better civilization
than the world has ever known
burdens us with great RESPONSE
bilities than other nations have
born.
1t was once said it was nobler
to be Roman than a King: it
may now be said that it is nobler
to be an American conscious OF
American responsibility than to be
either King or Roman.
When the shepherds on the
plains of Bethlehem saw the star
Of hope, they turned away to seek
the personiication of that hope.
They found the realization of
their hope in the person of the
humble Nazarene, and he turned
them not away. The islands of
the sea behold in the constellation Of
nations d star of. hope; they are
turning to us as personification
OF that hope and we can never turn
them away. We are a beacon
light inviting the world to come
up and 60 with us into a perfect
civilization. l see before me those
who are mere pioneers in the
boundless west. Your struggles
with nature and natures man re-
quired energy, strength and per-
severance. But now the rough
exterior of the natural i, adorned
and beautified with the touch and
skill of civilization and natures is
clothed with all the rights and
immunities of citizenship. To
appropriate the natural resources
to the use of civilization is no small
task. Your part in laying the
foundation of magnificent com
nom wealth has been nobly done.
in privation and sacrifice. You
have placed the foundation upon
universal education, universal
suffrage, the individuality of the
citizen, and equal rights and OPP
portunities to all. You have
taken part in the development OF
this common wealth from it's very
infancy; and if we may measure
the future by the past the future
of this state cannot be measured
by the most prolific imagination.
We may in vision see our popu-
latian and wealth increased a
thousand fold, but this will not
measure our future greatness.
Our greatest development will
be along the lines Of education and
morality, III the arts and sciences.
Among the notable events of your
lives we cannot omit to mention
the elevation of the red man. The
step from ignorance and savagery
to intelligence and civilization
SCANS the extremes of our race;
but it has been made within the
short period of your sojourn in
the west.
Your efforts relating to the ma
terial interests Of our state will
continue to develop and expand
our wonderful resources through
all coming time. Your efforts in
life touching the immaterial will
not cease with you, they will still
be busy in Gods and natures i'm
material workshop wearing out the
elevation and salvation of our race.
Not single force since the dawn
of creation has run its course nor
will until God shall call it from
labor to reward, nor then until
eternity has grown old with age
and passed into oblivion. And
now as you pioneers are passing
from the cleaning Of life's twilight
into the deeper shadow from
whence no pioneer returns to
view The scenes of his tolls and
triumphs, you may cherish the
hope that upon the foundation you
have made there will rise a state