The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-08-03
cririciscs the Graduates.

We reproduce herewith letter which
We received some time ago. We spell
and punctutate it just as the writer did
and our comments follow.
! Blackfoot
To the Editor Of the Idaho Repnblicans
/ A few weeks back there was d speech
edited in your paper by H. kirkpatrick
ain which he said that America was the
most powerful Nation on earth i wish
through the medium Of your paper you
would tell him q the city a large that
there is an Empire upon which the Sun
never sets u that although America
may be a great Nation, he must not for
got that she owes most Of her greatness
u stands among the other nations of the
world-to that Empire.
There were several other speeches de-
llivered by different authorities on differ.
ent subjects, but it would take deal oi
writing to put them on the right track
am afraid 50 will be much oblige to you
II you would insert my remarks on r..
kirkpatrick;& 4 lot the others go till
some future time.
And to Orr Chapman BE patriotic, but
why not be broad minded as we'll
[ Yrs Truly
| Cecil =. Berry
Byrd Trego
Editor Of Idaho Republican
July 10th 06.
We are sending marked copies Of this
issue to the pupils, and no doubt they
will be glad to learn something about
the British Empire. We are sure it will
be somthing new to them to find that
America owes any considerable part of
OF hergreatness to the nation that would
not premit US to buy goods Of anybody but
British merchantsor have them carried to
us in anything but British ships or sell our
products in any but British market until
We tiguratively .licked the stuifin' out or
them
Had the writer of the above letter been
educated by the free school system Of
America and been attentive to lessons
he would have known that the British
government was built up on such poll.
cies as kidnapping human beings and
selling them into slavery, and aimpres-
sing American seamen' until we took
the trouble to teach them better ethics
BY fair fight on their own element
the sea. They have further developed
their greatness BY placing yoke on the
teaming millions Of India, keeping them
in such desperate poverty that q failure
OF one crop left nearly as many subjects
absolutely starving as live in America
today. Worst Of all, that great empire
left them to starye until il was goaded
to action by the American press and
shamed BY the American people sending
millions In relief to those whom the
British Empire had robbed even of their
living, and il took the united efforts of
all the civilized nations 10 save ! bare
majority of them. This happened with
in tho last decade, and cannot be charg
ed to the things Of the Dark Ages except
as far az this agreat empirev perpetuates
the things Of those days.
We concede that graduating orations
are generally theoretical, often imprac.
tical, and sometimes disgusting BY their
patriotic bigotry, but equally As con
ceited Is the line in the above letter,
|"but it would take deal 81 writing ID
Iput them On the right track This
leaves out the American idea that there
are others, that they and their ideas axe
entitled to recognition The communi-
cation seems presumption to us, as We
cannot find the writer's name on our sub
scription list. and the courteous Ameri-
can reader seldom asks for space IA 4
paper that he does not help alsintain..
There are several things the author oi
the letter should bear in mind while ho
continues bis residence in America
We Americans deny that We havoever
received anything from England FREQ,
except her criminals, paupsrs, and poor
tworkingmen.
| American patriotism IS respons ble TOR
the birth Of liberty, and its rapid spread
in the western world, and Amesicans
resent the action u anyone who makes
1 light of il. ~ n y
/ Anyone who would rather hear aGod
save the king than "Husrah Or 0ld
GLORY. can lind = number u frank linesI
leading across tbe 9k1tes ~ lgeW York -
Boston, and fs6a tkere, dteaznez. I'M
seulafly " EIvsrp1o n0t casipx VIls
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