American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-01-15
TRIBUTE TO SHOUP.
Congressman Hamer Delivers Inter-
esting EuIogistic Address.


On the acceptance by congress, of
the gift of the state of Idaho of
statue of former senator George L.
Shoup, Idaho's grand old man, many
addresses were made. To Congress-
man Hamer fell the honor of making
the principal address which was as fol-
lows:
In an age when brute forced ruled all
Europe, the Anglo-Saxon established
in England the first enlightened gov
ernment known to man. From that
day to this the conquest of the wilder
ness and the fabrication of like gov
ernments, each an improvement upon
the one before, has been the predomin-
ating characteristic of that mighty
race. And, as a result, wherever the
Anglo-Saxon foot has trod, civilization
has followed; wherever the Anglo
Saxon voice has called, enlightened gov
ernment has come.
The intrepidity of Columbus had
hardly established the existence of a
new continent to the westward until
the prov of an English ship was di-
rected toward its shores. And from
the decks of the historic "Mayfower, +"
with the Magma Charta in one hand
and the Holy Bible in the other, stepped
the first American pioneer. He was a
composite of the best blood and intel
ligence of the wide, wide world, the
heir of countless ages of honest polit-
ical endeavor-the inheritor of all the
social good that has ever been.
For centuries before, he and his pro-
genitors had dreamed of form of gov
ernment as yet unknown to man, "a
government in which religious and
civil liberty, peace, prosperity, law, or
der and political preferment should be
alike the heritage of all. Intuitively
they felt that the time had come to
try the great experiment. And de-
voutly kneeling in thanksgiving and
prayer upon the bleak and wind-swept
coast, he solemnly and sincerely dedi-
Gated his fortune and his life to the
last and grand and perfect elimination
of his first and fondest dream.
That full and complete success has
crowned his efforts, history duly re-
cords and the nations of the earth bear
willing witness, for in little more than
century the restless energy of sue
ceeding generations has here builded in
true accord with the teaching of the
fathers the greatest nation, the only
true republic, the only government of,
by and for the governed the world has
ever known. And yet, Mr.. Speaker,
strange to say, there are those today,
living under the protection of that gov
ernment and processing allegiance to
its flag, who seem to doubt it, those
who proclaim through public print and
from stump and rostrum that ours has
ceased to be representative govern
ment, that with US liberty is dead and
even-handed justice is unknown.
And when one of these itinerant pes
simists takes his nightly stand on the
street corners of our large cities; gath
ers as his audience the army of dis
content that seems to wax and thrive
upon professional agitation even in the
face of national peace and prosper
ity, unprecedented and before un-
known, admonishes those assembled
that the great corporations and the
much advertised ti-millionaires are
about to deprive them and generations
yet unborn of ancient liberties and
make them labor's slaves, declares that
our courts are convened to decree JUS
tice only to the rich, and our national
congress is captained band of free
hooters, are ready to scuttle the ship
of state and organized for public plum