The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-07-30

such a doctrine was written. / have
give long years to its consideration
and to It's advocacy, and though the
people themselves should want to
be rid OF it | am SO convinced of its
Iuntimate benefit that will utilize all
the power ] have to put it back. !
am not willing to have great meas
lure, measure which enters vitality
into the moral fiber and intellectual
stature of a whole people judged by
its workings for day or for weeks
or for months-a great policy affect
ing the morals, the education and the
physical welfare of the whole people
can only be rightly judged as you
watch its owrkings through the long
sweep of the years.
No Back Tracking
II do not propose to retrace my
steps one inch. / want the people
of my state to know because they are
entitled to know, and the people else
where If they are at all concerned,
that am no part of the backward
movement and do not intend to be-
come so. do not change my direc-
tion until / change my mind and J
have not changed my mind If /
felt I had been wrong in any of these
matters feel sure / would change
but do not feel so and therefore |
take no backward step. believe
furthermore, that if we do take a
backward step upon such matters as
this we will travel all that weary road
over again, travel it at great cost in
every way to the people of the land.
Work to be Done
mo, my friends, let's go forward
after due elaboration and the best
investigation we can bring to the sub
ject, but nevertheless let us move for
ward. There is vast work before
us to be done, 1t can only be done
by and through the activity upon the
part of the average citizen. Leaders
men of special gift and power, have
their place in this republic, but the
great foundation upon which all
things substantial. all things of per-
manent worth in the cause of human
ity and better government must rest
at last is the sustained and individual
efforts, the sleepless vigilance of the
people. Without moral stature, with
out Intellectual height, without civic
and civic conscience
among the people, whatever else we
have in this country we cannot have
the blessed old republic which the
fathers gave us.
Forward for Idaho
1T is a great thing, my friends, to
achieve success in any line of life.
1t is great thing to write a grea,
poem and hold the admiration for
all time of the thinking world. 1t
is great thing like Webster or
Burke to speak through all time to
the hearts and minds of the uncount-
ed millions. 1t Is a marvellous thing
like Edison to draw forth with wiz
ard power the secret ag. ,cies from
the hidden recesses of l.ature and
compel them to administer to the
needs and comforts of tired and
weary men and women-it is a great
thing in way to gather through
ability and industry great wealth.
Greater than these and all of
these is the building of a great COM
monwealth-the adjusting of her
laws and the shaping of her institu-
lions to the end and purpose that
justice may be dealt out alike to the
rich and to the poor and that the
humblest may share in her prosperit-
and her glory. It is work in which
all of us may have a part. 1t is work
which ought to inspire the most in
different mind and it is work which
ought to shame into silence and eter-
nal seclusion the miserable, Shiny
who for few dollars in
the way of petty peculation would
mar the work of those engaged in
such an enterprise. Let us work for
Idaho. let us resolve to give her the
best there is in us, to establish her
permanently in the high place among
the other commemorative of the
Union to which she is so Justly en-
titled. Let's arouse ourselves to the
task and never weary however dis
couraging sometimes seems the out
look. The task and the glory if the
task be faithfully performed is
worthy of all the sacrifice mortal man
can make for an earthly cause"