The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-03

We want to tell you gentlemen tina
Rexburg has glorious future A
though now Boosting population Q
little more than 5000 people we pre-
dict that in the next decade she vii
be a busy little metropolis of 1000
inhabitants. We want to continue tn
good will CT Idaho towards us, an,
know that you gentlemen, tho mould
ers Of public opinion, can do mucl
for us. Again bidding you heart.
welcome to cur midst, thank you.
EDITOR Isles RESPONSE
Mr. Chairman. Honorable Mayor La
dies and Gentlemen:
Within the past six weeks | hav,
had two eveiations--neither ecclesi
astical nor cclas!astical--and
know them to be true
The first was up In far north Idaho
where visited for the first time, SIX
weeks ago. It was up whore the
great pines grow; where | saw one
orchard of 1000 acres, filling the air
with heavy sweets, and where the
falling blossoms pile up under the
trees like drifts of SNOW; where the
hills have hearts of geld; and where
dwell doit-now. hustiing people, too
busy ordinarily to be even hospita.
BILE. but when they do take the time
to think of 1t are as free and un-
trameled In their hospitality as the
breeze from the tracklcss sea. This
was my first visit to this land Of
beauty and strength and prosperity
And now comes the second revela-
ton, In my first visit to this section
what marvels of water, and fresh
piney air. and horizon of mighty
show-clad peaks, and hills crowned
with the green of trees, and fresh
green fields with their myriads of
happy homes these two revelations
make the marvellous total of Idaho.
Almost a continent apart, yet bear
ing the same name; under the same
laws yet alike neither In products,
or climate, or habits of life-the mar.
vel Is that one state can have such
variety of resources, such varied and
multiplied prosperity.
But all this is Idaho. From sage
brush. from mine. from waving field,
from shop and store and office, come
the same class of men. A court in
the territory OF Idaho once found an
Indictment against Abraham Lincoln,
fhat gaunt, sad-faced giant who bore
a nation on his shoulders, through
bi'o ~ conflict. They don't do It now;
idaho sent TO the last war one of the
best regiments that ever marched
under Old Glory; ii might not be be-
c0mingly modest for me to say that
they were a close second to the iron
men Of my own regiment from Mon
tana, In some Of the conflicts where
both were engaged; If ever they were
second, 1t was because they we're
placed there by authority-and they
always obeyed orders. There were
times when we should have been
mighty glad to trail behind the men
from Idaho. You of this pastoral
country sent more than your quota
10 the front. Some of them never
came back; those who did, came with
the baptism of fire that knows no dis.
between millionaire and farm.
er boy. between white skin or black,
or brown, 30 long as the heart is
right. Idaho Is proud OF her men;
as prond, almost, as OF her fair and
women.
And here Venture to touch on q
lender point ! shall Illustrate 1t by
Z ilt!a story. A few years ago, there
. 4! \ violent agitation, mostly under
:Dssf. against the Catholic church.
i. nes known IS the A. p. A. move 1
aeat, snd 1t averred that 1t was time
i The paiyiots Of America to rouse,
,rm themselves end prepare to war
,gailst the overthrow OF their gov
:rnment by an ecclesiastical power
iradually all but the faintest memory
# the movement has died out. It was
'alled to my mind most strlkingly by