The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-07-28

er in this city turned out to hear
Governor Alexander Wednesday
evening Every seat in the
Grand Theatre was occupied and
many, unable to obtain seats,
stood for the two hours which
the meeting lasted. Ed. Kol-
man acted as master of cere-
monies and introduced the Rev.
A. r. Griggs, who welcomed the
governor and told why st. Maries
was glad to extend a welcoming
hand to him.
George f. Weeks of COeur d.
Alene, chairman of the Demo-
cratic committee of KOotenai
county, who is accompanying the
governor on his trip through the
north, was the next speaker and
talked for a few minutes i'm his
usual happy vein. He only made
la short speech as he said the peo-
pie were inpatient to hear the
governor but promised to visit
the city again later.
Governor Alexander made one
of the best addresses ever given
here, speaking for an hour and
a half and interesting his audi
ence for the entire time. The
speech was in no sense political
and was intensely patriotic. There
has been a graf change, he said,
in the past two years. We are
not just citizens of a particular
county, or of particular section
of the state, or of Idaho, but we
are first, last, and all the time,
Americans, citizens of the Repub-
lie of the United States of Ameri-
ca, the greatest nation in the
world, and the one which stands
for peace on Earth; Good VIII
to Men" He called attention to
the thousand young men of Ida
no, given to the nation by the
mothers of Idaho and now on the
Mexican border and stated that
they were not there to take foot
lOl Mexican territory, but to assist
that country, torn by revolution
and strife, to attain that great
blessing of peace ON Earth; Good
Will to Men"
He referred to the great place
which this nation has attained
during the past two years among
the nations of the earth and told
how the Federal Reserve Banking
Law had not only prevented a
panic in our own country at the
start of the European war but
had made this country the fnan-
cial center Of the world. He
stated that with this law the
.ountry is no longer at the mercy
of Wall street, that a panic is
impossible and cOntrasted the
conditions of the codntry now anC
the conditions in 1907, when Z
panic burst out of a clear sky
and when men asked for their OWL
money, which they had on depos-
it, were given instead a piece o.
paper, printed in a newspaper Of
flee and backed by no one.
The governor told of the pros
porous condition of the country a
the present time, stating that tn
only cheap thing now is money
and said that the stale has owe
4 a million dollars on hand whic
it would be glad TO loan to citi
zens of the state on six per cen
d interest. He called attention t
d the Farm Credit law which re
o Gently passed Congress and wa
a signed by the president. by whic
n farmers can obtain loans from th
- government on a small intere:
s and for a long term of years an
o predicted great benefits to Idah
e and the entire west from its pass
ID age, stating that it meant tf
y clearing up and making of farm
= out of our cut over lands.
s. This was the only referenC
l. made to national politics, if pol
N tics it could be callea, and veI
xt little was said aboaState pol
tics except to call ention