The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-07
NATIVE LAND

IuGUT5SSlOu duu WYNN INV ~
comes it is liable to cloud all their
sky We have friend in th?. class.
Meeting him on the street tho talk
turned to the situation N Mexico,
i whereupon the friend delivered
little speech which in substance was
rs follows:
"Our government is assuming to
direct Mexico into the paths OF
peace. Mexico will have the laugh
upon us enc of these days. The VIOLA
Lille Mexicans have kept their country
in a trumoil fer three years past.
They have burned tons AID tons OF
explosives, good many people have
been killed and thousands have been
despoiled.
"But what has all that Ecen to
what will come to us when our revo-
lutions start and the Anglo-Saxon
goes out to get even?' If Monmoth
was right when he told Percy that
two stars keep not their motion in
one sphere what will come when our
country contains two hundred mir
lions of people, all sovereigns?
Wealth is accommodating at tre-
mendous pace and as with birds SO
with men, the hawks and eagles are
free to prey upon the noncombatant
birds and the result must be sharp
er and sharper separation into classes
and by and by the birds Of prey will
begin to strive among themselves for
mastery and then the regin of real
anarchy will come and finally on the
wreck of the republic a monarchy or
despOtism will rear its throne. AS
I look around | am glad | am grow
ing old but l grieve for my children. y
We do not take so gloomy view
but by the signs our belief is that
our government should at once place
Itself in accord with the republics
of South American and put the forces
in motion to divert the hosts that
annually flock to our cuntry, to the
vacant lands there and in those lands
: find places for such of the graduates
from our schools as want places TO
go and help build the roads, the
bridges, the cities, to subdue the wild
: lands and open and work the mines.
+ 1t is hard to dam great flood,
but if it can be turned aside and
: directed into proper channels what
was a menace becomes in hundred
ways blessing.
In the meantime the people should
not leave everything to be done tc
5 the government, but each city ant
, community should see that justice
shall be done at home; the destitute
provided for, work given those who
want work; and depraved sought on
and restrained and no wrong per
mitted to tester, until blood poison
:, ing sets in. When each eommunit,
is thus protected, the work OF the
y general government will be easy
And the one thing that should b.
: most emphasized should be that our
/ lis the only free land, the great hop
: of the world and that it must b.
! preserved
Indeed, nothing else is so import
=, ant as to impress upon the people t.
i the fullest extent what our countr
}, really stands for, for millions of PEG
It pie are but as parrots when they tall
q of liberty The love of it is witt
! them but a subordinate attribute
= With some of them here worship /
& stronger than love of country. Coul'
n the vote for Theodore Roosevelt Il
q 1912 be analysed it would be foun
y THAT four-fifths of it came from tn
:, cowboy and rough rider clamor an
} the rough rider magnetism of tn
man, and the welfare of the countr
n was not in their thoughts.
Ie Then party discipline is anothe
/ great danger. Quite half Of congres
today fail to realize that congress
~ the real law making power and Wa
u intended as check upon executiV
n ambition, and we see the member
n tumbling over each other to vote
IN the executive directs.
Then while the fathers believed the
y had eliminated the religious ordel
Il, from interference with the stat
l. several Of them are insidiously ell
ID lcroaching upon the civil government
- The fifteen hundred years Of 80
row and degradation which tn
% caused in Europe counts for nothir
IN with them. The more intense the
Y. ffanaticism the more anxious are thu
to have the world saved, which the
fondly imagine must be through the
! particular creed, and when men rea'
~ that point it is but one more ST.
10 for them to want to fight to accor
ne plish their desire. A school of /
he tense patriotism is the greatest net
T. of the republic. Goodwin's Week.