The Idaho Republican., 1914-06-05

say to you tonight that the republi-
can party never reached a higher
point of efficiency, of strength, of
capacity for great and beneticent leg
islation, than in did under the leader
ship of that same young man. Had
he gone out with those who left the
party he would have passed with
them into an aimless, Intellectual,
fruitless wandering in the wilderness,
to be claimed at last by that remorse-
less glutton for the Intellectual in
politics-oblivion Had he followed
the course of those who denounced
him, those seven years of marvellous
administrative worth would not have
been written and his tremendous
place in history would have been a
different story.
Right Motives
My young friend, it is not enough
in this world, especially in the world
of politics, that you be right yourself,
that you have right motives and high
ideals. 1t is equally important and
even of greater moment to society
that you choose the efficient and ef-
fectual method for doing something
for your country and your country
men. You are just as much under
fobligation to choose that method by
which your great youthful powers
shall be of service to your fellows as
you are to acquire and possess those
powers. Do not hide your talents
either through accident or design.
Now, turn back the pages of his
tory which have been written, per
manently written, since Schurz and
Curtis and that class of we'll meaning
and able men so misjudged the eff
fective forces of politics that they
bolted the republican convention
and pronounced the republican party
as boss ridden and corrupt-declared
that the great party of Lincoln had
come and performed it's task and
was no more. What has that party
done since then? What evidence have
we before us of its remarkable capa-
city for constructive and beneficent
legislation? | could indulge here in
general eulogy, but plain unvarnished
facts are far more eloquent than any
general encomiums which l coult
give you.
Some Enactments
1t has since then enacted the in
terstate commerce law, creating the
interstate commerce commission, the
anti-rebate law, the Sherman anti
trust law, the employers liability act
the law providing for compensation
for injuries to government employees
the postal savings bank law, the par
GELS post law, the standard equipment
act for railroads, the law requiring
railroads to report all accidents, thu
eight hour provision for all publ,
works and all work done under publ,
contracts, the law compelling publcit,
Iof campaign contributions, the Law
providing for the physical valuation
of railroads, the amendment to thu
constitution providing for the elec
tion OF senator's by popular vote, the
law providing for the establishment
of the bureau of commerce and labor
and finally for the erection of the de
lpartment of labor, making it's heat
a cabinet officer-a more remarkable
sanely progressive policy of legisla
tion you will not find anywhere out
side of the great fruitful period whel
our government itself was formet
Since that time it has given to thu
world as leaders and benefactors sucl
men as Harrison and John Jay ant
William Mckinley and that class O
men whose craftsmanship in the eye
of Christian nation because of thei
exalted and spotless moral strength
and grandeur.
| Furthermore, the republican part,
in 1897, after we had had the ex
lperience which came as a result O
l,.
THAT split, took three million laborinj
men-I quote the figures of Samue
Gompers, the veteran president of tn
American Federation of Labor-oi
of the highway, honest men anxiou
to work and unable to find it, and pu
them back at their jobs, and mad
their homes, where there had beel
want and misery and parched an,
faded lips begging for the fooo whicl
was not to be had again the scene
of contentment and school-books an,
music and family life. Since that tim
the foreign and domestic trade o
this country has increased beyon
anything paralleled in the history O
the world.
Will go ON
These men in 1884 seemed to for
; get that a party never dies until tn
rank and file have surrendered, o
until the principles for which !