The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-10-26

A few months ago ii was my privilege
to Visit the old home Of the father Of
his country-Mt. vernon-beautiful ole
home it is. something like coo acres OF
land in the northern part Of old Virginia
lying upon the banks of the beautiful
Potomac river, there Is the old home In
which Washington and his wife, Martha
lived--a typical southern home, airy
well lighted and roomy, The old house
and the buildings that about it stand
are preserved today and we'll guarded,
that we of today might see the home
and surroundings of the man who had
so much to do with the establishing Of
our great nation. noticed many pieces
Of furniture there and odd implements,
strange to us. In one of the old out
buildings lis the coach-of the coach in
four, you Known which the father
Of his country, and Martha, travelled UP
l to the capitol Of the nation or down to
| old Virginia, or maybe over to Mary
land, or Philadelphia, where liberty's
| bell was first sounded. I went down to
| the river a very short distance and no.
| ticed wall that had been built there;
do not know whether 1t was there in
the days of Washington, or not, but
thought of the old rowboat or sailboat
they used to push up to that same bank
in which Washington and his good wife
would step and be taken up the river to
the beautiful mountain country or down
the river maybe, to the broad Atlantic;
l noted the inside of the house; there
upon the wall was a glass case; within
the case was an old gun--the old flint
lock gun; piece of steel hit the flint,
and as it struck the flint a spark was
produced which fell into a pan Of pow
der, and the explosion occurred. A poor |
old gun 1t was, and yet that was the |
gun with which our fathers fought the |
revolution and made our great country |
possible. In another room was the old |
spinning wheel and beside it stool or
seat, and I thought that maybe Martha
Washington had sat there-you remem-
Der her beautiful old face, with white
hair down to her shoulders,
cent woman she was-I thought she
probably had sat there and spun cotton
which had been separated from the seed
by hand-the cotton jimmy was not in
vented until shortly before her DEATH
thought she had probably spun this
cotton into cloth for the children of the
I looked upon these
things, and / looked upon many more, l..
md as did, thought of the age, one
years ago, and l thought of the
lge in which we live. There was the
I'D coach, the best means Of travel so {
Few decades ago, and looked about our
and and saw the tremendous network ,
If railroads that binds us together. You I
step upon the cars at Golden Gate liar- I
,or and in scarcely more than half a d
week you have crossed the continent I
md looked upon the waters lighted by
he Statue of Liberty. r
Wonderful Age. =
There was the old sail boat pushed n
p to the shore, and l saw the beauti-
III modern launch waiting to carry WIS., I
.ors to that old home back to Washing c.
On l saw again a magnificent ship "
liding peacefully upon the bosom of Il
ne ocean and carrying her hundreds Of d.
of tons of American goods to HI
1Ihto III loiCibh saw uHolhcI
ately ship gliding there ladened, not D,
18th merchandise but with human souls g,
tilted and furnished like a palace, 1t tr
as, with all Of the conveniences and to
xuries Of life. And / thought that If d,
cath should come to one of their num- | 81
,r while en- route it would not be neces- a
Try to wait until the ship landed that ca
10 sad news could be conveyed to loved c,
les at home, and it would not be neces- til
Try TO depend upon the telegraph or by
lephone, but the news could be con- pl
Eyed to those at home by means of &c
ireless communication. looked about de
e again, and saw thousands Of other &C
mforts and conveniences surrounding I'd
If people at the dawn of the twentieth it,
injury. A wonderful age 1t is in which st
Q live, and yet with the splendor and ST.
agnifcence Of the age in which we CO
1e, conditions have changed from the II;
d days. No one man possesses the III
ealth sufficient to enable him to build i'm
e mighty and stately ships, erect the W.
ills and factories or to develop our pa
eat mines. No man lives of suc.. great ha
ealth to enable him TO supply the ov
orld's people with the comforts of to
odern life, and I thought to supply tn
ese comforts it Is necessary that pc
ealth be combined in order that these to
eat industries might be establish Ell,
I'd the laws of today, in state ana in no
tion, must meet this condition. as
Republican Laws. ,'a
There was time when competition fel
rs the controlling factor in the rates to
be charged between different places Gu
lat time has passed. Industries have Gel
own so great that competition has del
ased to be factor and sirs, believe fer
at as competition as factor III the asl
justment of trade conditions shall be Ole
that it is the duty of the an
ate and the nation to step in and BY ha
oper legislation do that which will wr
arantee to the people right prices at Ida
9 hands of great concerns. (Applause.) Su
lie Republican party stands for this TIL
Icy William Mckinley nearly TWEEN del
years ago drafted the first plank that ant
is ever placed in any platform look Su
: to this end. A Republican congress TIL
ssed the first bill upon this subject. hei
bears the name of great Republican pre-