The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-05-28

takes rush or whether it does not.
But want to say to you that ! live
within the confines OF the State Of
Idaho. ! believe in her lofty noun
tains, believe in her magnificent
water courses, / believe In her broad
and fertile acres, believe In her
people. (Applause). And as long
as | live in this state, and as long as
/ have strength to stand up and voice
my sentiments, propose to do 1t. 4
don't care whether they like my poll
tics or religion, or the cut OF my
clothes.
have suffered on the plains OF
Idaho. Not only suffered hardships,
but disappointment, and bitter dis
appointment at that. But like the
ships returning from long voyage,
with the storm torn sails it will arrive
at that harbor which insures safety
and rest, when the winds drive 1t
away, ii that crew has any nerve what
will they do? They will square those
sails and head for that harbor again.
The world is full of kickers, and
we need people OF character and in
dividuality. know men and women
in this plendid state of Idaho who
have offered up everything they pos
sessed that the name of Idaho may
be made good. And now people from
thirty or forty states are coming to
our state. Some OF them never saw
horse hitched up. They don't know
about going for water eight or ten
miles and hauling 1t across the desert.
Those were the things put up to the
pioneers, and as | see them all pass
ing away, one by one, like the Grand
Army OF the Republic the scythe OF
time cuts them down one by one,
know 1t is but few years before
the stage coach, the Indian, the herds
OF cattle, and the cowbow all will be-
come obsolete.
1t is not difficult to use all these
broad acres, it does not take money
for you to boom Blackfoot, not in the
sense of trying to get something for
nothing, but getting out the energy
that should be in the frame OF every
man in this state to do hard days
work.
My company has the services of
the lecture bureau in the city of Chi
cago. We have one of the most
thorough, practical, and most polish
ed and entertaining lecturers in the
country. He lectures with stereopti-
can views in churches, and to large
audiences all through the east, and
they come out to the Twin Falls
northside project.
/ know people who come to my
Office every day and say Major Reed
do you believe in this?" They have
left their homes, and | am in SYM
pathy with them.
! remember the first Thanksgiving
that spent away from my home.
was born and raised in New York.
was in the Black Hills Thanksgiv-
ing day, took my lunch, l was cut
ting trees to make cabin, and cut
several before found one that was
weak enough to fall down, / opened
my lunch and it had three pieces of
bacon in it and some bread, cooked
the bread, and 1t would have knocked
you down. (Laughter). ! sat down
and looked at that, and my heart
went back to my home in New York,
and saw my vacant chair at the
table, and | heard my father asking
God to bless and protect his wander
ing boy. And saw that big turkey,
and the cranberries, and all that din
ner, and finally got up and took one
kick at that lunch, and sent it roll
ing down he hill, and took that ak
and went to work right there and
worked until six o'clock. know
what 1t means to be. lonely and de-
jected.
have been in foreign country,
fiat on my back in hospital, and
have seen my ship with the American
flag pass by. the only. thing dear to
me was leaving, and the people there
didn't care whether lived or died.
And we are being good to them. We
have trained men to look after them.
Men who know how to irrigate, how
to buy horses, how to build bitches,
how to plow. A great school of agri-
culture, and all at the expense of the
Tin Falls Northside company, at the
expense of $4,000 a year, school
of instruction. And you would be
surprised to see how readily they
grasp the situation. | would rather
take a lawyer, or doctor, or a pro-
fessional man who had never seen
a farm and teach him how to irri-
gate than one of these old hide bound
boys that know 1t all and that you
couldn't get an idea through their
heads with a spike maui.
Few people in this country under
stand the great resources of this
country. We should all know this
and every person should have an in
terest in the upbuilding of this state.
! know an old man, he has plenty,
and has three girls growing up to
young womanhood, who were not be-
ing properly educated, and couple
of boys, who we're using cigarettes,
and hunting up fiddles and going to
dances and riding cayuses, and said,
why don't you educate these chill
dren?" He said, IL never had any
education and had to work for what
/ got" / said You must remember
that you are to some extent RESPONSE
BILE for their coming into this world,
they have no mother, why don't you
put those girls into a good school,
and put those boys where they can
acquire the first rudiments of bust
ness education. You have acquired
$4,000. What whould happen If