Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-09-30
MEETING or JnE IDAHO COM
NERCfAL UiBs.

II The sixth annual convention Of
II The Isague OF southern Idaho Com
II mercial Clubs which will be held at
II ,b1oding, October Il ana ~, prom
Il ises to the most successful yet
4 held By that organization The
H League l. stronger IN a great many
\ ways This year Than AT any pre-
H vions time IN its history and the in
\ lerest taken IN II as one OF the live
4 de> elopmcnt organizations oi the
state has been growing steadily It's
membership now is nineteen, far
more than il had at the time Of its
last convention and within one OF
the highest NUMBER OF members II
has ever had. This alone will re-
suit in large attendance.
II is also said that election year is
always a good one for the League
c,r,ention. The politicians have
mace 1t a practice heretofore TO at
tend in large numbers to prevent |
any action detrimental to their in
terests. Whether this will be the
result this year or not can not be
! forecasted. The last convention
held during election year was that
al Nampa in 1908 and so little at
tenlion was paid to The profession
al politician and lobbyist that that
class became rather discouraged
which may result in their absent
Ing themselves this year. During
the first two years Of the League's
existence the railroads were entitl-
cd to send delegates who were al
lowed to vote on all questions COM
ing before tire convention. 1t soon
bccame apparent that such con-
dition of things could not be for the
best interests Of the commercial
clubs. that any matters coming be-
fore them should be considered in
tie light of their effect on The adj
Nancement OF the state and with no
thought for the desires Of special
interests. At the time of the reOr-
Ethlldil'ii ~ ilit iS'dHut th'''i'lO
this was done away with but il did
not prevent the Oregon short Line
from having its representatives at y
Nampa. They were not allowed a a
place in the convention and this ac g
ton on the part of the delegates d
may result IN no attention being
paid TO the convention by the rail-
T. ads.
"lhe most important matters to =.
rome before the convention this
year" writes Reilly Atkinson, sec
of the League is n
HAT which has been assigned to -
Governor Brady and Mr. Hawley as n
he subject OF their talks Monday a
Nening. namely The possibilities :,
IF the immigration Bureau as live -
actor in the development of the +,
state The big cities of The coast ~
IRE spending an aggregate Of over :,
100000 year in pulling people a,
rom the east through Idaho, to -
heir adjacent territories We can -
oi nope to compete with such eX- o..
Ienditures except through state aid -
lur commercial clubs have been "a
training their every energy for a i,
lumber of years TO induce the inn
Migrant to stop over long enough
, have good look at southern IA
iaho but the effect has been al 49,
l0st infiniteSmal our funds are ~
OF enough: The Portland CONNER ,h
al Club is able to take full pages ;n
Harper's Weekly and the Satur- ~
ny Evening Post while we must W.
intent ourselves with classified
Refreshments and some times can '"'
1t even go that far Under such IN
rcumstances 1t is silly to wonder
hy people so right through Idaho Ger
ID buy poorer land al higher price 10,
Oregon That land is advertised TN
ID advertising pays"
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