The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-22

ENGLAND.
The growth of the cO-operatiy
stores In England has been somethin
I marvellous. Starting with PRACTICAL
nothing In the way Of capital, in
{ comparatively few years they hav
built up business aggregating mi
, lions Of dollars a year.
But they began right.
2 They began at the small end.
H. They began with the acorn and the,
i gradually developed the tree until
, has become great strong oak.
i II they had begun at the big end
and subscribed capital stock as larg
as their present capital, and gone gu
into the highways anC byways to hir'
men to transact their business, form
1 Ing great organization in which M
man was trained to his duties, the,
would have failed hopelessly anl
1 miserably failed.
4 And SO would any great business
enterprise started In that way.
Cooperation can be no exception tt
the law Of evolution.
You must begin with the seed and
let II grow gradually, as they did in
england With their cooperative stores,
| THE MAKING OF MEN.
The great central thought which
should be the pillar Of fire by night
and the pillar Of cloud by day to lead
the American people out Of the wilder
ness OF the corruptions and dangers
OF accumulated and aggregated wealth
should be great public movement In
the line OF making men" rather than
making money"
Our government Is upheld upon the
shoulders of its own people.
And as our citizenship is maintained
at high standard Of moral and physi-
cal strength on the part OF our mtn
ana our women, just to that extent
VII! the strength Of our nation be
maintained.
II we would be sure OF this. we
must. Keep our young men from flock
ing to the cities.
The way to do 1t Is to train them
through a system Of education whie1
Will equip them to solve the problems
or the country, and plant the idea In
their minds that the country after all
offers a greater stimulus for mental
activity than the city.
PROBLEMS OF THE COUNTRY.
The most attractive problems Of
this generation are in the country.
The building Of good roads, the build
Ing Of better farm homes, the engineer
Ing problems Of the farm, the applica-
ton OF power to the needs Of the farm
and the farm home, the lessening Of
domestic burdens through better
domestic arrangements, the construc-
ton Of rural electric railways and
rural telephones and farm irrigation
systems and the application Of machin-
cry to all the uses Of the farm, offer
a neld for effort and invention and the
application Of energy to the farmers
boy which no city can offer to him,
provided he has had the opportunities
OF education to qualify him to solve |
these problems.
There should be in every county In
this country a school where every |
farmers boy could, without going any
farther from home than the county
seat, learn to do all the things which /
have mentioned.
AGRICULTURE AND MANUAL
TRAINING.
We have schools where a part Of
this training may be obtained. The
Throop Polytechnic Institute at Pas
adena, California, and the Stout Man
ual Training School at Menominee,
are of this class. But,
coupled with them should be the agri-
cultural training which a boy gets at
The Doylestown National Farm School,
Dr. in part at the summer school of the
Wisconsin State University at Mad
son.
And every girl should have an equal
opportunity to fit herself for her.duties
Is the mistress of farm home.
Out of such homes will come gem
grafton Of strong, conservative and in
elligent men who " i'll solve the great
problems of this people, and will solve
hem SO gradually and steadily that no
adical methods will ever need to be
ldopted.
They will put out Of business the
politician who wants to ride in blood
Up to his bride bits, like an erstwhile
governor of Colorado, or the present ,
lay politician who seeks to ride into
public office on wave Of prejudice ,
md champion the peoples rights with ,,
lis voice, while his hand, like as not, ,
s in the pocket of some corporation. ,
"Put not your faith in princes .
or in politicians.
"The Lord helps those who help
So long as the people depend for re-
eff upon politics, just that long will
hey be disappointed.
THE LARK IN THE MEADOW.
When they learn the lesson Of the
able Of the lark in the meadow, and
o to work to do things for them !.
elves, talk politics less, and train :,
themselves to do things by cO-opera-
on more, they will be surprised at =
he progress they will make In the :
ght direction.
Politics, and a dependence on the =
art Of the people upon politics, are .
le hope and the salvation Of the cor
lptionists and the trusts, and of !,
very combination of capital which y
YES by skimming the cream from =.
re industries of the people. r
II you want the cream yourself you a,
ust do your own skimming. :.
You must not imagine for moment =