Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-03-16

weave the warp and wool of our So
cial and in dustrial fabric, and few
there be whose part has been a great
er one than yours. We were always
proud Of our governor; proud of
your leadership and of the great con-
strnctive work written indelibly on
the pages Of history and whose re-
suits will endure long after our nam
es are but memory.
I'VE want you to remember this
day long after the year 1911 has
become ancient in history Before .
you leave us we will all stand up
and cross hands and sing Aud Lang
syne; whenever you come back the
latchstring viii always be on the OUT
side Of the door; your place VIII al .
ways be kept for you at the board.
your seat by the fire. with the hand +
Of friendship and heart of welcome
And now on your taking leave Of
Us your friends and neighbors Will
not say farewell; our greeting is
rather the good 'Auf Weiderschen,
straight from the heart; and in no
formal words Of farewell do | give
you our message. but let me rather
On behalf of your fellow club mem
bers simply shake your hand and say
in the homely words Of our own
Hoosier poet, 'Goodby, Jim, take care
Of yourself
Mr. Brady said in part:
81 am deeply touched at this dem
onstration of good viii on the part Of
my friends ard neighbors. It. seems
to me that since / have come to
Boise the Beautiful / have found
more true friends than perhaps
had ever known in all my life before.
You have been so hospitable. you
have always received me so warmly
and kindly. that whatever / have
been able to do for you seems but
trine. leaving the obligation all on
my side 1t is true, as you have so
kindly said, that l have tried to help
those who have needed help, and
am glad to remember that ] have
never turned a hungry man away I
have always wanted my house to be
open to my friends and neighbors and
neighbors and constituents, and ev-
en- that old automobile of mine has
been sent trapseing about town to be
of use to those who needed it.
"Then you have spoken kinly of
the political fighting I have tried to
play the game as a true sportsman,
knd I want to say on returning
to private life there is no man-no,
not one in our whole state-for
{ whom / have any feeling of bitter
ness. On the principles and policies
{ many of US differ in opinion, but
think that on both sides we fight
{ for the things that we believe to be
= right and that on both sides we fight
E fair
when l came to this great state
: many years ago l thought that
! was a pioneer. 1 seemed to be on
t the frontier In all there years
5 have seen the course of development
= sweeping steadily onward; and
f want to say that on turning over the
t state administration there was no
no., ,,-b,r,, I ,,ro,,15 ro+bor bovo Turn
r ed it over than Governor Hawley,
one of our real pioneers, a man who
= has been part of the life and devel-
{ opment of our state.
! But whenever l am up in the
= north and look at those majestic
= mountains of evergreen and come in
t touch with the varied life and inter-
= ests of this great commonwealth of
, ours, l feel that we all owe a duty
D to each other, that we should all pull
e together for the whole state, and
s never think of our allegiance as due
to the southeast or the southwest or
S this position or that portion. Within
the boundaries of our fair safe there
e should be no north, no south, no east,
r no west, but only our own dear state.
g Mention has been made Of the
q Western Development league. Reilly
t Atkinson is the executive member
j, from Idaho, and we are shortly go
t ing to Salt Lake to attend an inpor-
r tant conference participated in by the
u ten trans-Rocky Mountain states to
K lay out the work of inducing immi-
S grafton into our own western states
rather than to Canada. 1t was re-
e Gently stated that from Omaha alone
s bank drafts had been sent aggregat-
t ing 100000 taken by Americans
e settling in Canada. All this money