The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-07-28

piopnctS was OHCc upOu d tlIue COIn
manded to go upon a journey. H
didn't want to make that particula
trip, SO he undertook another way O
lodging. He slipped quietly over t.
Joppa and found there a ship jus
ready to sail for Tarshish. Tarshisl
looked good to him, and. according tt
the chronicler, He paid the far
thereof and went down into the ship
Kindly note that he paid his fare
Perhaps cash valuation. This is just
the first instance | have been able tC
find, after a diligent search, of the
payment of fare. OF course, it was
a bad precedent to establish, as sub
sequent events will prove. For, when
the storm arose and the waves rolled
high, the sailors began to look around
for an offering to the god of the
tempest. What more natural than
the selection of the man who had paid
his fare? So oversize Mr., Jonah was
tossed, and straightway the sea be-
came calm.
For manv years prior to my advent
into the railroad business | wondered
how Jonah haDnened to be ~selcetet.
ont of all the ships passengers, as the
goat The problem is simple
enough now. He was a natural born
goat because he paid his fare. The
The record does not show whether OF
not Jonah v e secured a refund on
his unused transportation. | am i'm.
cllned to think he applied to the gen.
eral passenger agent of the Joppa-
Ta"shish Navigation company for it
End that some clerk is still trying to
figure out what per cent of the Jour
new the Sol of Amittal made in the
ship and what part in the whale. He
didn't last so very long in either of
them.
A little farther along in the history
of this vale Of tears, /tind abundant
justification for this Issuance of any
and all TRANSFORMATION to members of
the Western Idaho Prsss association.
Fer, does not old Zechariah say, ris-
ing in his place: Behold, I have
caused the wicked to pass" Humbly
Following his example, I stand ready
to pass 0 wicked anywhere. any
time-within. of course. some limits
that didn't bind Re hariah, because
he lived in the good old days before
the interstate commerce commission
was created.
And vet there must have been some
.premoniticn ever in those early days
an interstate commerce commits
sion would be created. Did not our
old friend Jerimiah. of whose pustly
lamentations some of you,
perhaps may have heard, have in mind
territory between Parma and Pay
cite when he spoke of 1.-THE land
which no man passeth." But
condition may not always pre-
vail. At the earnest solicitation OF
your highly esteemed president. Mr..
Hackney. am planning to annex to
all that portion of Oregon O
reached by the Oregon Short Line
railroad. If that plan falls through
will be glad to move the tracks over
the east side of the Snake river and
accomplish the same result.
1t would be a work of superogation
me to urge you gentlemen of the
Western Idaho Press association not
% make Jonahs out of yourselves by
paying fare, except when it is abso-
utely necessary. There isn't the
slightest chance for you to do it, as
ong as there are passes for anybody
n this world-or in the next. You
nay depend upon getting your share
" any that | can control. And IL +
should keep the presses busy day
nd night printing passes for your
S you could not get any
nore than you'd have coming to YOU.
With your kind permission | would
ike to talk seriously to you for just a
No field of human endeavor
.olds more unselfsh workers for the
ommon good than does the newspa-
er profession. An. none is more
arsimoniously regarded. The boost
rs committee come along and ex- T
'ects the editor TO print columns or
about the town. And perhaps
alf the members of that committee
NY their job work from an outside
rint shop.
You print two or three columns OF
rec reading matter for a local pro-
uction. The outside promoter gets
0 per cent of the gross receipts. The
ditor gets two tickets-perhaps-
assed out with the intimation that n
reat favor is being conferred upon
i'm. They actually call those free
Why, you've paid for them.
fly times over and then some. !
ave had a good deal of newspaper
experience and ] believe know wnat
am talking about when ] say you
i've more and get less than any peo-
lie on earth. /,
I want to express again to You NV
leasure at being with yOu. With
ractically all of You | enjoy a per-
Onal acquaintance. Some of you are
Of many years standing. E,
new Mark Bates, for instance, when
9th Of us were poor. but compare
.vely honest, newspaper men The
urn of the wheel has thrown me
own some rungs in the ladder OF
sefulness and importance. Marx
eeps on climbing, and so the resi-
+ you may never re"over my lost
round. I look back upon my twenty
ears of service in the newspaper pro-