Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-12-30

done and done now, else we be in
the rear of the procession instead of
at its head. Great work has already
been done. considering handicaps. but
future work should be married by
no handicaps. All parts of the state
should be represented in the very
near future in a general conference,
the first and last purpose of which
shall be to boost for Idaho. In this
great campaign there can be no di-
vision, no sectionalism, no antogon-
ism. All must boost, boost in con-
cert, boost in the same direction. Any
part of Idaho is good enough for any
person loking for a home, probably
better than he can find in any new
state outside our borders, but in the
struggle for individual gain some for
get and the hammer of the knocker
will in an unguarded moment do
damage that future years will never
repair
The first great meeting of the New
Year will be the State Horticultural
association at Nampa on January .,
1910. The very best and most broad
minded men from all over the state
should be sent as delegates to this
meeting, there to discuss and for
mulate plans for the advertising cam
paign for the year to come. A little
time spent now in making plans may
save a lot of money and time later
which may be easily wasted by in
/ juidcious and ill-considered advertis-
ing. If necessary. let a series of
preliminary meetings be held by the
business men in all parts of the state,
previous to the Nampa meeting, these
various assemblies to send delegates
to the latter place with full power to
act and to express the desire Of their
local constituency. and from this we
shall then have a strong central
body which viii prepare and then
carry out a well considered policy for
the future. which will make itself felt
for years to come
1t is an easy matter after a battle
is over to criticise those who have
participated in the conflict. and even
the actors themselves, at the end,
should suggest better means and ways
of doing the work. and especially as
in the present year, when absolutely
nothing had been previously done in
the way of preparation, but in teh
campaign to come. let the beforehand
effort be so well done that the just
cause for criticism at the end of the
next year shall be less than in this.
Let no part of the state be omitted
in this great work. At the present
time there is a strong association of
Southern Idaho Commercial clubs.
Let the next association be for all
Idaho The work of the old associa-
ton is good work, but that of the
new can be made better. 1t can be
broadened and deepened and made so
necessary for the welfare of all parts
of the state that no nook or corner
thereof can afford to be omitted.
am confident that if the facts could
be brought home to the business men
in all parts of the state they would
rise to one man to insist that the
association should include every part
of the state. Let the cry be, Idaho
to the forefront, and in the great
chorus of voices let all be singers.
Every man in the state can tune his
voice to this song and when we once
succeed in starting the song there
viii be no cessation until every foot
of land in the state capable of produc-
ing food for man or beast is in culti-
walton. until every mine in the hills
worth inning is running at full blast.
and until the busy hum of mills and
the music of the locomotive whistel
is heard in the remotest hamlet of
every county in the great state.
We are on the eve OF great railroad
development. The eyes of all Am
erica are turned upon our good state.
Let us get together in a broad and
deep and united effort that shall not
end tomorrow or next year, but which
shall continue until all the people
now looking for new homes are well
provided. and until Idaho occupies
the proud position which, by reason
of her wonderful natural resources,
she is entitled to occupy, the queen
of all the United States of America.