The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-11-03

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lana In the northern part of old Virginia
| lylhs upon the banks of the beautiful
Potomac river. there is the old home in
whicn washington and his wife. Martha,
hVed-a typical southern home. airv
well ilgnted ana roomy. The old house
and the buildings that about IL stand
are preserved today and well guarded,
that we OF today might see the homo
ana surroundings OF the man who had
SO much to do with the establishing NJ
our great nation. noticed many pieces
ot FURNITURE there and odd implements.
strange TO us In one of the old out
buildings Is the coach-of the coach in
iour. you KNOWN which the father
VI ms country. and Martha, travelled I'd
20 the capitol of the nation or down to
oio virginia or maybe over to Mary
iAno. or Philadelphia. where liberty's
yell was nrst sounded. I went down to
me river very short distance and no.
ueeo wall that had been built there:
l 90 not know whether 1t was there in
.he Gays or Washington, or not, but ]
thought or the old rowboat or sailboat
tney used to push up to that same bank.
IN which Washington and his good wife
would step and be taken up the river to |
Inc beautiful mountain country, or down
the river maybe. to the broad Atlantic: |
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; a piece of steel hit the flint. |
and as 1t 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 1t a stool or
seat. and ! thought that maybe Martha
washington had sat there-you remem-
Der her beautiful old face, with white
halr 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
~ hand-the cotton jimmy was not in
'ented until shortly before her death:
thought she had probably spun this ,
cotton into cloth for the children of the !
leighborhood. I looked upon these
hlngs. and l looked upon many more. :
nd as 1 did. I thought OF the age. one /
hundred years ago, and thought of the I
&c In which we live. There was the 7
Id coach, the best means of travel so 6
ew decades ago. and looked about our I
and and saw the tremendous network y
railroads that binds us together. You t
tep upon the cars at Golden Gate har- n
or and In scarcely more than half a a
eek you have crossed the continent q
nd looked upon the waters lighted by
'e Statue Of Liberty. r.
A Wonderful Age. =
There was the old sail boat pushed n
. TO the shore. and saw the beauti- p,
II modern launch waiting to carry WIS., Il
ors TO that old home back to Washing CT
n. saw again a magnificent ship W
ldlng peacefully upon the bosom of | Ii
9 ocean and carrying her hundreds of de
ousands of tons of American goods to he
ints In foreign lands. I saw another
ately ship gliding there ladened, not D,
tn merchandise, but with human souls q,
tied and furnished like a palace it tr
Is, with all Of the conveniences and to
xuries of life. And thought that If dc
ath should come to one Of their num- | ST,
while en- route 1t would not be neces-
ry TO wait until the ship landed that ca
SAD news could be conveyed to loved co
es at home, and 1t would not be neces- tn
ry 10 depend upon the telegraph or by
ephone. but the news could be con- mr.
yed TO those at home by means of go
reless communication. I looked about de
again, and saw thousands of other | 90
nforts and conveniences surrounding Id
r people at the dawn of the twentieth II,
ltury. wonderful age It Is in which st,
live. and yet with the splendor and ST,
lgnihcence of the age In which we Co
e, conditions have changed from the Ills
days. No one man possesses the TIL
alth sufficient to enable him to build i'm
mighty and stately ships, erect the VIC
lis and factories or to develop our pa
sat mines. No man lives of such great ha
attn TO enable him TO supply the oy
rios people with the comforts of TO
'dern life. and I thought to supply tn;
Use comforts 1t Is necessary that De
alth be combined in order that these to
nat industries might be establish, 81.
4 the Laws Of today, in state an1 In No
lion. must meet this condition. &c
Republican Laws. ma
There was time when competition fer
8 the controlling factor In the rates to
be charged between different places GU,
'wn so great that competition has del
sed to be a factor. and sirs, 1 believe fer
t as competition as a factor in the ash
ustment of trade conditions shall be old
finished. that It Is the duty of the an,
te and the nation to step in and by hal
per legislation do that which will W.T.
lrantee to the people right prices at Ida
hands OF great concerns. (Applause.) SUI
Republican party stands for this Tn
Icy. William Mckinley nearly TWEEN der
years ago drafted the first plank that anC
ever placed In any platform look SUI
to this end. A Republican congress- TIL
sed the first bill upon this subject. hea
bears the name OF a great Republican pre-
tesman. John Sherman, was signed aga
Republican President and Republi- mex
administrations have endeavored 10 ma
I've good therefrom. The law was ma
'erfect. 1t could not have been 9TH as
ise 1t was not a question that had sta
fronted us before. The trail had dec
been blazed- The road was not SUI
N. The peoples OF our land or other sta
Is had never aolved mr. attarontad - tho