The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-11-22

am great optimist, and l have n
faith in and no regard for the ma
who is not an optimist. The pessi
mist is an execration upon the fac
OF Gods green earth.
1T Is pleasant to indulge in tn,
Illusions of hope, we are told, AND
to me it is exceedingly pleasant t.
be able to indulge IN retrospection
and when / am blue, and when life
seems as though it was impossible
to forge ahead, l open the pages OF
history, and ! read the story of the
progress of mankind and l review
that enormous army of human be-
ings, the countless multitudes of
nations and peoples, stretching a.
long through the countless ages of
the world, and l know that the
march has always been onward.
Il know that 1t has been progress
from the beginning. believe if
there be anything that has been a
blessing in the sight of God since
we were cast forth into the world
to earn our bread by the sweat of
our brow, that one thing that is
most pleasing to Him has been the
act OF mans progress.
And this afternoon, ediors, | am
'olng to take you on ride. Oh
is glorious ride-we wont get
here, but we are going to hitch our
marriott to star, the exhiliration of
ne body is going to carry us on.
nd II that ride will just make you
link for one little moment I have
OF talked in vain.
That thought may be in your
lnctum, and it may be while Won
re running the press, or it may be
nile you are in the home, that
[orlous American institution
)me.
SO gentlemen of the pen, the
k and the scissors, come with me
ride. And those scissors.
ey are a mighty good thing, and
would be the last one in the world
take 1t out of the editorial sane {
m. 1t takes a big man to clip
I'm his brother and reproduce it. I
e small man Is afraid to do it. q
big man knows it is worth '
lie. =
What would we do without d
Use scissors? All history has
IN cut. Those great debates -
beginning of my friends profess tn
n In American history, when WI
SO master intillects Douglass and tn
coin at Freeport gave the world 20
If glorious debates, it was the tn
X OF the scissors, it was the fe'
K, click of the scissors that pass of
1t on to the multitudes and al of
ed you and / to read it TODAY. tbs
we will put in with the pen and go'
ink, the scissors. pet
Now gentlemen, my intention the
afternoon is to show you that Iii
are in the army of progress and LII
you cannot stand still, you uo'
L go on. You are the serge hoi
and the captains and the gene GUS
OF this army, and if you hest 'oi'
long we are lost. | know that tioi
army must hesitate. know ne
1t must break ranks and rest, per
for thousands of years in the HUI
Try Of the world there have "or
periods of rest, and in the pro- say
OF your profession, l am a. .ioil
that we are there at the rest 'ie'
am not afraid that we are LII
at the double bar, but we are sane
e rest, and there Is an obstacle 'hen
our progress. What is that PIC
Gle? Cal
hat obstacle is the advertising 49,
IN. That is your obstacle. 49,
may say to me, what do you 49,
i, d.. , q no"e grea
Aeu one' DO bility
And 1t failed. So would
you that the advertising col II
is not an insurmountable OBJ to Il
Let us analyze it. What in over
advertising to come to your and
ms? 1t is your circulation. colun
makes your circulation? It "V
people buying your paper, old s
0 they buy 1t for the adver- sachu
nts or do they buy it for the to I,
that you have in it. they
that there is no doubt that that