The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-26


rhusiastic ovation was given GOV
Henry Mcbride when he appeared on
the platform TO address thousands
of Whitman county farmers at the
annual Elberton picnic. The governor
was in fine form and his address was
one of the best ever delivered by MIN
in eastern Washington.
His appearance on the PLATFORM
from which the address was delivered
was the signal for an enthusiastic
0utburst from the assembled crowd,
and his eloquent address was fire.
guentE punctuated with applause.
The governors address was entirely
free from politics. though good por-
ton of it was devoted to the discus
sion of the manly virtues Of good cit
iZenship.
The speaker referred several times
10 President Roosevelt and quoted
at length from the speeches delivered
by the president in this state. He re-
ferred briefly to the question of the
legislative control of railroad corpora
tiGns. all OF such references being
free from any spirit of rancOr. and
couched in dignified, though no less
emphatic terms. When he expressed
the opinion that the railroad corpora
+iOns should be made to obey the laws
OF the state. and should bear their
share OF the just burdens OF govern
ment. his expressions were roundly
cheered.
GOV. Mcbride said in part:
To build great state, III addition
10 natural resources and a population
sufficiently large to develop these re-
sources. and a high type Of citizenship
il is essential that the views Of that
citizenship be correctly detected in
the laws placed upon our statute
books and in the enforcement and just
administration of these laws.
people fail short Of their duty to
the state when they do not see to it
that this is the case The great ma
jOrity-yes. an overwhelming majOri-
ty-Of the people are honest, upright
and fearless. believing in fair and
open dealings and despising meanness
in all its forms. For the bribe- giver
or the bride Caker, for bOOdling in leg
her pubic place, or for grating in
ny Of its many forms. or for hypocri-
sy and double dealing, they have the
most wholesome contempt And yet,
Notwithstanding all this. the people
are occasionally startled and shock
ed by disclosures of bribery and cor
ruption in city government, as in
Minneapolis and ST. Louis, for in
stance or of boOdling and fraud in
the legislature. When We reflect that
these officials are chosen from among
the great body of the people them
selves. how can We account for their
corruption? For the fact that they
regard their official position not as a
public trust, but as a private graft
and use that position TO betray the
interests of the city, or Of the county
or OF the state, as the case may be?
In this connection use is sometimes
made of the remark that the stream
can rise no higher than its source
those using il intending to imply that
the mass of the people are no better
than these, their unfaithful and cor
rupt servants. This is a foul Islander
on the people, for the great majority
abhOr bribery, boOdling and grating
As they abhOr theft. burglary highway
'opoeI! Oh hohIcIue. II IS true ma
me stream cannot rise above It's
source Gul 1t may IAN peIoW H. aht
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Life Is Not Easy.
II would breach TO no man tbe
doctrines of easy life ! wouId nraac}
10 every man life of work for :