Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-10-07
GOVERNOR JOHNSON

Dead? Yesl His widow weeps |
alone-no, not alone. If the tears
that have fallen from the eyes of the
people of this nation for the same
reason that she weeps, could have
been used in giving life to the flow
ers that are scattered over his grave,
along with the sunshine of life as he
scattered it wherever he went, we
would have new creation in the
aower-the eternal one that never
droops or dies.
To the sister state of Minnesota,
every state in this nation weeps for
thee in thy hour Of loss of your fa-
vorite son. They can't weep with
because your pain is too great.
There are sorrows so painful that
tears cannot now-none but the
mother state of your favorite son
could feel those pains-you are
heartbroken. If your tears could put
flow what a relief it would be to you
He was loved best by those who
knew nlm utotf anu tph~ Nv"AN w
better judges Of his worth and mis-
past actions than those who We're the
nearest to him-his neighbors. There
he was loved, and to be loved at
home means that the people Will love
him wherever they meet and under
stand him. Human nature doesn't
change show me man who has
kind feelings for the birds of the air
and for the animals who are unable
to help themselves and I will point to
you a man who will help suffering
humanity whenever it lies in his pow
er to do so-such was Governor
Johnson.
He was indeed a great man, espec-
tally when it is considered the lowly
depths from which he arose. He
started at the bottom of the ladder
and the burdens he had upon his
shoulders as he reached up to get
one rung after the other in his climb
ing the ladder of life and the heights
to which he attained-the hands Of
death alone was all that stopped him
from receiving the highest honor
within the gift of the peOple-the
Presidency of the United States.
Where did he get his education?
In the colleges? No. not therefor
people who get their education there
are always looking up, forgetting
sometimes, not knowing of the suffer-
ing humanity at the bottom.
There are few exceptions-Jeffer-
son was the greatest Of them all
Johnson was a Jeffersonian student
he believed in Jefferson and tried to
carry out in his official life the prin-
ciples that he hae learned from JEFF
ferson, in trying to relieve those who
have the heaviest burdens to carry
and are the least able to bear them
the poor He had a father who
was hayward and weak when it
came to mental and physical control
Did he love him? He did, for what
ever faults he could see in his father
he forgave and tried to relieve him
of such burdens as it was in his pow
er to do-both by mind and hands
He got his education from the school
of hard knocks. graduated with a
diploma of common sense-as he
watched his mother scrubbing the
dirty linen of others upon the wash
board so that his father and the rest
of the family could eat the bread
that had been earned by the sweat
that fell from her brow
We see the coffin that is being low
cred into mother earth-we see them
as they are placing the dirt on the
last remains. Buried? The remains
are, but his memory will live for the
beterment of future humanity
The state of Minnesota will build a
monument to your memory-but
however high they build. they should
build one higher in the remembrance
of the mother who could raise to
manhood such a boy