Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-25
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Il oHc VIRTUE WHICH DISTINGUISHED
George Washington from other men
who have achieved greatness strikes
a vibrant cord i'm the hearts of mil
lions of his fellow countrymen this
week as they commemorate the 18th
anniversary of his birth. That was
his unselfishness.
In this age of commerciaMsm with
us lust for money, its greed for ma.
terhal power and social prestige, 1T is
dnflcuH to imagine man, so free
OF personal vanity and love of SELL
exaFatdon as to feel an honest sense
OF resentment I'm the suggestion of hi
admirers that he turned to his dndi
vldual advantage the triumphs of the
heroic httle army he did SO much to
Keep together and declare himself
King of the American colonies. To
many the servile, obsequient manner
assumed toward the nobility of other
countries nowadays by many America
VINO DOW to the fetch of royalty like
the tories of old and who appear to
be ashamed of their democratic herit-
age must seem the survival of thai
snobbish spirit In the land to which
the decision of Washington to keep
rarth with the people, brought s1ch
keen disappointment.
by his waiver of all salary due
him for his eight years service AIS
COMMANDMENT Chief of the Continent
al army, his insist ence that he be AL
lowed to retire to private life at the
end OF his second term as president
and his refusal to accept for himself
or his collateral descendants any othe
honor than the abiding confidence and
esteem OF his appreciate vive country
men he set his fellow countrymen
an example i'm unselfishness which
they might contemplate with profit
to themselves and their country on
this anniversary.
10 him the respect of his fellow
man was worth more than the flimsv
splendor OF a crown or the emolu-
ments of an office for the establish
ment OF which his countrymen pour
ed forth their blood and offered up
their lives ON hundred battlefieds
from Lexington to Yorktown. Studi-
ously avoiding all entangling alliance
with foreign nations against which
he warned us. we have left them to
sap their vitality preparing for war
while we have assiduously cultivated
the arts of peace. With our hands
outstretched across the seas we have
invited the healthy and the strong
OF the old world to make their home
with It's and help us develop and
make fruitful the vast heritage he
bequeathed us. Winding our own
business and untroubled by the con-
Germs OF our neighbors with a pleas
ant word and a friendly smile for all
we have kept steadfastly to the task
to which Washington enjoned us to
stick and have reared the greatest
and most prosperous industrial empir
upon which the sum has ever shown.
We feed the world with our corn.
keep 1t In profitable employment with
our machinery, and clothe 1t with our
cotton. thanks to Eli Whitney's cot
ton gin, the only great labor saving
invention of his countrymen he lived
to see applied to use. We surpass
Germany in the production of steel,
excel France i'm the value and volume
OF manufactured products and through
the use of the secret Oxford process
es, Uncle Sans newest monopoly
which accomplishes here In from one
to two days what 1t requires thirty
weeks to do abroad we have begun
to wrest from England its centuries
old predominance In linen, one of
our most promising infant industries.
In our peaceful commercial conquest
Of the earth we follow the trail of
civilization into the most remote cor
ners OF the universe annd open its
doors to the output of our farmers
md our factories.
Jealus Of our honor abroad and
proud of our achievements at home.
rs a nation we have kept without
Flemish the faith he gave us. To
lay as ever he lis enshrned i'm our
memories as the one American who
vas First In War, First In Peace.
Ind First i'm the Hearts of His Coun-
rymen. ,
Il.