Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-06-10
BORAH SOUNDS
THE KEY NOTE
LAYS DOWN PRINCIPLES UPON
WHICH REPUBLICANS MUST
ENTER NEXT FIGHT.
(Fron the Portland oregonian)

Senator Borah has written to the
San Francisco Argonaut letter il
which he lays down in remarkably
forcible terms the principles upoI
which he believes the Republican
party should enter upon the next
campaign. His letter was prompted
by reading an article in the Argo-
naut, from which he quotes with
approval the following passage:
I Revived Republicanism, if it is to
win and retain its advantages, must
not be precisely the Republicanism
of four, much less of 10 years ago.
There has come new era. There
has arisen new conscience in re-
iation to things both governmental
and social. New ideas and new
standards possess the mind and
stand fixed in universal judgment.
Republicanism in the form and
shape of a few years back is ne
longer workable scheme. Old ways
Of looking at things and doing things
are no longer feasible"
Expressing his gratitude for this
statement Mr.. Borah says: THAT
We have moved on, that We have
left behind some of the practices
which long exercise of power, mix
ed with the arrogance of success,
gave US, ought to be apparent to all.
mat We do not propose to return
to those practices nor own again
some of the political precepts of
the past ought to be equally ap-
parent" He then states the basic
principle of that conservative pro-
gressiyism which should guide the
Republican party:
The vital principle of liberalism,
or OF progressiveism, is that the
people are entitled to better, clean
or government and to a more whole
some system of politics today than
yesterday, and this is brought about
and assured to the people by that
open-minded leadership which care
fully preserves the principles
wrought out of past experiences and
With equal care and open mindedness
undertakes to weld them onto the
present with its multitude of new
and unsettled questions"
Danger from change, he says,
comes from a lack of due regard
Tor the experiences of the past. a
desire to tear down, to destroy abb
solutely and build anew, rather than
TO push old wisdom into the present
and build for the future upon the
sure foundations of the past. We
should seek only to make the wis
iom of experience "mortice into
he prop and strengthen the obliga-
Ions of the present" The liberal ,
elements of the Republican party a,
loes not propose anything other l
han the application of the great |
fundamental principles of Anglo /
saxon government to new problems t
nd obligations The constitution
mould be our guide and our insti- /
uuons should be our faith, but we v
annot preserve the one and main r
ain the other Except We meet e
nth openmindedness, with candor b
nd courage, the problems of this s
our. And we are going to do it." g
avs Mr.. Borah; ''and whether we S
o IT In calmness and In harmony Iii
In turmoil and strife, we are 60 IL
lg to do It," v
Mr.. Borah depreciates business b
Ian's campaign as being ON too mar W
Nv basis and opposes "a cam d.
alen Tor or In behalf of or by in
ny class" as IAN affront to the
teligence OF the American voters. c.
Q says the campaign will be up F.
broad lines" and will involve H
lr foreign policy, the question of 70
efficient national defense, the bu
st and proper protection of the an
shts and lives of American cfti-
ms, as well as the readjustment of da
g tariff and other questions of M
'mestic concern" He hopes the 10
mpaign may afford the American 7 m,
opie an opportunity to re-ex-
nine some fundamental questions. In;
drive from their minds and w
arts that spirit of distrust in of
cir institutions, lately so prevalent be
At tendency TO suppose that there Blu
something In our system of gov lit,
nment which prevents our ac- les
mpilshing what as people we grs
ould accomplish" ere
william kincaid, a resident of the SUI
idwell section since 1863. was In. tw,
'ntly killed at noon, Friday last hel
ar the Canyon county court house bir