The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-10-23

Zensh1p and the highest use OF the
ballot. Are we not hoping too, for
better way to observe our national
birthday? Is not our present way
about outgrown? 1t seems to me the
danger and destruction of life and
faculties savors of barbarism.
Child labor has claimed the atten-
ton of the nation, but it needs our
thinking still. / confess there is only
one problem forcing itself upon the
American people for immediate So
luton, which, to me, presents no ray
of hope, but my faith still looks to
the God Of nations to show us the
way. #Fs
We have been wont to feel that
the South must find a way out of the
difficulty, but anyone who has lis
tened to the increasing bitterness and
hatred shown by the white people Of
the North, / am ashamed to say, even
in our churches, must know that the
question is now a national one.
Lynchings were confined almost who'll
ly to the South, but the recent race
riots in Springfield, ILL., bring the
disgrace almost as far north as Salt
Lake City There were so lynchings
in the first seven months of 908, and
many of them almost led to a race
war. Expressions Of loathing Of col
ored people are heard with shocking
frequency from the lips of all clas-
SEES, and even the little children are
taught to hate the negro.
If we do not stem this tide of ha-
tired where will it lead us to-think
you, in the next decade?
plead not for social equality or
social mingling of the white and col
ored races, but we ought to enter
tain in our hearts and instill into the
hearts Of our children the kindliest
feelings for an unfortunate people
who are here by no will or wish of
their own, and whatever the solution
of this perplexing problem, only Gods
love translated into human action can
avail.
In the last number of the Literary
Digest, several remedies are suggest
ed, such as 1.-THE remedy for race an
tagonism is the distribution and diff
fusion of the negroes fairly and i'm
partially throughout the Union and
Eliminate the negro from the po-
litical horizon ETC., but in none OF
them can we find panacea for our
trouble. We know we'll the danger of
a large disfranchised class of people
in any country.
Hopeless as is this problem of So
luton, it demands our earnest study,
prayer and action, for ii we fail to
find the way to a permanent relation
of absolute justice, horror will ov-
erwhelm the next generation such
as the world has never witnessed. We
may all, at least, teach and inspire
our children to feel a kindness for
the colored race, that shall make
mob violence impossible.
/ wanted to speak of the church
and question why it is not reaching
the masses in larger numbers. Wit
ness today the hungering and thirst
ing of the multitudes who are find
ing meat and bread for their souls
outside the organized church. Can
it be that humanity is tired of reach
ing after far-away God in the Heav-
ems, when we may know and feel His
presence filling all. If we were
"practicing the presence Of God" our
lives could not be spent in triies.
Oh, that we would hunger for that
true spiritual vision that sweeps the
universe and sees things in their
right proportion.
There is something in the little
poem, "The Call of the Open Sea, "
which voices longing of my soul:
I'm tired of sailing my little boat
Far inside of the harbOr bar;
/ want to be out where the big ships
float,
Out on the deep where the great
ones are.
Z can't be ever content to bide
Where only ripples come and go;
must mount the crests of the waves
outside
And breathless plunge to the trough
below.
And should my frail craft prove too
slight
For storms that sweep those vide
seas DER,
Better go down in the stirring fight
rhan browse to death by the shell
tered shore!
!. 4. !.
A Montpelier Club.
The new officers of the Kymry
,lub of Montpelier, are: President,
Mrs. M. /. whitman; first vice-pres-