The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-24
ABOUT CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

When ever Echoes can grant the
space for Civil Service Reform mat
tiers something helpful will be print
ed with view of it's being of SER
vice to the members of the commit
tee, a source of information to all
club women and also of influencing
public sentiment toward Civil Ser
vice Reform.
especially desire the members
of my committee to preserve all that
Echoes has or will print on the sub
ject and to make study of the same
in order that effective work may be
done, following election this fall, for
the passage of Civil Service bill for
Idaho.
Yours for success,
MRS. HENRY SPIDELL,
Chair. c. S. R. Com. 1st Dis.
We are glad to have this week the
response to the welcome address of
Mrs. Wickershaw at the Third Dis
trict meet. The program says Mrs.
L. F. Henderson of Moscow was to
deliver the response. The address,
however, says she was absent and it
is not quite clear to us who filled
Mrs. Henderson's place, but we con-
clude it was our state vice president,
Mrs. Tourney. Also, there was an
erasure that was fully understood by
the writer, but not so clear to us, so
we print according to original copy
and tell you the erasure was in con-
nection with the paragraph beginning
ITO Wallace belongs the honor, be-
lieve," etc. 1t was, perhaps, not
clear to the writer that the Treble
Clef was the first club after, all.
Echoes does not know which of our
clubs deserves the honor but would
be glad to learn The following is
the address which we are told was
admirably delivered.
Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gen.
tlemen:
1t is our mutual loss that the lady
who should have responded on this
occasion is unable to be present on
account of the arrival of old friends
from across The Rockies whose stay
is too limited to allow of their being
either left OF brought.
1t is our loss, I say, because a
choppy sea separates the island
homes of our ancestors and her grace
and facility of speech are not a part
of my inheritance.
Personally, / an happy to be
accorded the privilege of voirjris"the
appreciation of the visiting ladies
for your cordial welcome and the
many pleasures your program prom
Uses us.
In common with many of your 9th
err guests, this is my first visit to your
beautiful little city, and although we
had all known that the wealth of the
mountains was yours and that your
streets were paved if not with pure
gold, at least with the wonderful
''tailings" from your mines-of
your well built business center, the
great enterprise and liberality of
your citizens and that your homes
were models of elegance and taste
still, | am sure we are all saying
''the half has never been told"
1t is my privilege to belong to that
constantly increasing army of wom-
en- who came to Idaho as brides for
''the girl | left behind me" is fac
tor in the development of the
young man of our country. I see
before me women whose coming was
colftemporaneous with my own, who
remember with me the famous rush
to the Couer d'Alenes a quarter of a
century, ago, when the message
flashed Sover the world that a. pew
EldoradS had been discovered.
The SLOWS of many winters have
whitenedto Jour heads as we have
watched ap empire building and hfs-
tory making.
Times have greatly changed since
the politicians could name the indi-
vidual voters in Idaho, Shoshone and
Kootenia counties. We have seen
many mistakes made, but never for
a moment have we lost faith in Ida
ho, for the glorious development
went right on Nand we felt that moth
ing could permanently interfere
with the great Nplan. God is in his
heavens. The rise of the women's
club movement has been particularly
rapid in the last decade
To Wallace belongs the honor, j
believe, of having{ the first woman's
club organized If the state--the
TrahJa Olaf and vt is not for ory