The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-05-28
You owe it to the community in which

You owe 1t to the community in which
you live" HE thought for a little
while and said, Where is good
SCHOOL," And they are all In school
today and they will all have an OPP
portunity to make something of them
selves. ,- Z
We are too near the old time GUS
toms. Away with, them, with all
honor to your time. There was never
any great accomplishment coming
from the history of the past, the only
victories ever won are where the men
charged the enemy. We must view
the present, not the past, that is the
hope of the human family. We meet
people occasionally upon the way side
who say II have been failure" not
many, but some, and you find out
what you can do to help them.
j never belonged to any church.
but / believe that it is the most that
a person can do to help his brother,
and made one rule sixteen years ago
that has been one OF the brightest
jewels in my life, and that was to
never let the sun set one day without
doing some act of kindness by help
ing some member of The human FAM
lily, and it will stand the trial.
didn't have churches where i lived.
We are getting them now. An old
COW boy told me the other day that
the country was no good, asked
him why, and he said why you
can't get a cow-horse started without
running into barb-wire fence or
church" (Laughter) Like the boy
who looked out OF the window, and
told his mother that he saw a lion
outside, his mother looked out and
saw large ST. Barnard dog. but the
boy insisted that it was lion, and
finally his mother told him to go in
to the closet and pray to the Lord
to forgive him. The boy went in and
in few minutes returned wreathed
in smiles, and his mother asked If
the Lord had forgiven him, and he
said, 1.-THE Lord said forget it !
thought it was a lion myself when |
first saw IT," (Renewed and con-
tinued laughter).
am not paid orator, | am a
plain every day business man, and
people who work for our company
have to do long days work. But
when Mr.. Brown asked me II l would
come up and talk along the same
lines that / did to the Press club at
their meeting l said Yes"
know that organization, that con-
centration to fixed purpose, and
then live efforts. / know that if we
had stopped when We were promoting
these enterprises, and as we did, |
have been down east and seen our
little bank roll grow smaller and
smaller, and in city among strang-
ers, it is pretty shaky. And | have
looked through the window and seen
the flash of bright eyes, and heard
the flash of the champagne corks and
seen long cuts of roast beef, but
not for me. But it was the principle
involved, and that my cause was just
and honest, and that / had just as
good a right to go to the money CEN
tiers and ask the fellows to come to
Idaho and spend their money, and |
went there, and, unless you have ever
tried to get an audience with any
capitalists, you don't know thing
about it. have had to go week after
week, and doing my best, and every
day my little roll of bank notes grow.
ing less, have been in places where
1t was pretty bad. But we had a
cause, and we believed that if we
would just hang out long enough we
would win. And am proud to stand
before you and tell you that the vic
tory has been won. (Applause). Not
through my individual efforts, but 1t
has been won. This is not one
man country.
AS | said before, this is the age of
combinations, the age of efforts, and
that is the reason these young towns
are coming to the front. People are
all strangers To each other. And
everybody is putting forth the best
foot and the best hand, always the
"Glad hand" they don't have these
little petty neighborhood gossips that
come up in old towns.
have often wondered why, in
towns under the very shadow of the
church, built to teach the precepts of
that lowly and meek Nazarine, why
people walk out and say those cruel
bitter things. know that many of
my friends have some times been
wounded deeply because somebody
had said some particularly unkind
thing about them.
want to tell you that have lived
in towns where there was cordial
hatred, in one town where 1t became
so bitter that business men told their
families not to visit other families.
That is the most deplorable thing.
We can put up with knocker, but
people should have charity in their
hearts. / know of an instance that
will tell. There was gentleman. in
a town who had been looked upon
as a good citizen, it was an old town
and he had a suite of rooms and pres
emily a lady appeared there with two
children, and few ladies of the COM,
munity got busy, and ripped him up
the back, and said they never heard
of such thing, they finally organized
posse and went to his quarters and
called him to task, and said they were
surprised and astonished that he
should do what he had done, to bring
woman to his house, and he said,
II have not been able to say anything
before, but am ready to do business
about now, this Woman you have talk
ed about is my ply sister, and the