Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1906-12-20

one poison instead Of the right
prescription through ignorance, yon
hold him responsible for the result.
Therefore we are up against q bat
tie Of life in the social world.
When it is declared that life is D
battle, . statement is made that
appeals to everyone who has reach
ed adult life.
As our experience deepens we
realize the whole world is one vas
encampment, and that every man
and woman are soldiers. We
have not voluntary enlisted in this
service with any understanding Of
the privations or hardships Of war :
fare and an acceptance Of it's terms
and conditions, but have been
drafted into the conflict and we
cannot avoid taking part in it.
Death alone can discharge US.
We cannot furnish su3stitute
even though we are ss rich az q
Rockefeller.
We may prove deserters or trait
ors or struggle to the rear during
the conflict, or 60 over to the
enemy and fight on the wrong side,
but the fact remains that we must
take part in the battle on one side
or the other. We may waste our
energy in fighting battles in which
we are not concerned, such as the
great political battles Of the vari :
GUS state or the municipal battles
Of the large cities, where the same
amount Of thought, skill and energy
applied to our own social relations
at home would rebound to greater
good to US and our people,"
w. H. Casady on Community
Interests" said in part:
''In every community there are
certain public duties, public respon-
sibilities and public interests,
which concern all the people, and
in which every individual citizen
should bear his part. The average
citizen is too deeply absorbed in
attention to his own private bust |
ness to give much attention to
public affairs, unless he is urged
on to do 30 by some self interest.
If we are able through this club,
to arouse a good. healthy public
sentiment among our people, we
will have accomplished q great
work for the good of our town. We
are too apt to think when we have
elected our public officers, the
whole duty of looking after public
affair, devolves upon them, and the
duty left for the private citizen ID
to stand around and kick. Bad
city officials may retard the growth
Of good town, but the best Off I
cials cannot, without the help Of
the people, make good town; or
gsnization and pull together, are
recognized everywhere Is necessary
for the success of any town or com
munity or public business Of any
kind. In all enterprising towns
and cities in the country, are being
organized, chambers of commerce,
business mems club, $4,000 clubs
and Get Together clubs.
The purpose of this Get-Togeth-
or club is, as / understand it, to
have the people get together for the
upbuilding Of our town, and to
knock the knocker and kick the
kicker out of business. l believe
this club can accomplish a very
great deal of good in simply bring
ing our business men together and
let them exchange ideas and under
stand one another better. Hereto
fore there has been a great deal of
unnecessary prejudice Of one end
Of town against the other. II we
could only make our business men
see that any thing that is calculat-
ed to build up one end of the town
will benefit the other, we will have
accomplished much for the good Of
our town.
l have often thought that per-
haps the greatest agency in bring
ing together the north and south
after the war, and in healing the
wounds and in wiping out the pre-.
jndices and passions and bitterness
and in mitigating the SORROWS Of
that war, was the building Of rail-
roads to facilitate travel between
the two sections and causing the
people to mingle together more
freely than before. When men
from the south come north and
mingle with our people and learn
more Of the sincerity Of purpose
and honesty Of convictions OF she
northern people, they 90 back to
"Dixie" with less prejudice against
the yankee and when men from
the north 60 to the "sunny south
land" and miugle with that chival-
rous, and proverbislly hospitable