The Kendrick gazette., 1916-02-18
Lincoln Day Banquet Moscow
Big Republican Ralley Over One Hundred and Fifty
Present

under the false promise of making
extensive public improvements and
constructing public utilities. In
almost every instance the state has
stood the loser.
1T seems to me that the processes
for the elimination of the evils
which now beset us must begin at
home and within ourselves. If we
would stand erect in the majesty of
our own integrity, refuse to tempo
rize or compromise with wrong and
questionable practices, if we would
turn an absolutely deaf ear to the
insidious suggestions that the ends
justify the means, we would effectu-
ally block the operations that have
discredited the republican party in
Idaho and tarnished the good name
of the state.
when some time ago Senator
Borah appealed to our state pride
and amonished us to be aroused over
the aspect Of things, he undoubtedly
had in mind something more than
the mere matter of our reputation
and good name abroad. He must
have been keenly alive to our condi-
tion and needs here at home and he
knew that our character at home is
the matter of prime Importance and
that when it is above reproach we
will have no need to fear for our
reputation abroad. think our need
is to acquire into the underlying
and procuring cause of this political
unrest, lay bare its idenity and ma
ture and then apply the remedy.
Judging from some of the things
that transpired nationally in 1912
this condition must have prevailed
in the republican party throughout
the country. We then even had
protracted debates and controversies
as to what really were the principles
teachings and doctrines of the great
emancipation.
Here in Idaho there is enough
of the red blood Of honesty and
courage to force the impurities to
the surface and free the body polite
Of them and we should not be
frightened by the responsiveness of
the operation. In some respects it
may take heroic treatment for moth
ing else will kill the the obnoxious
microbes but the sooner the life
giving germs get to working, the
sooner they will rid themselves of
the enemy.
We cannot avoid the self-evident
fact that we are in the path of pro.
gress means that we shall all move
forward together and those who re.
fuse to move are going to be moved
The state is the social and political
unit through which we act collecti,
vely and it is just as much the state
the duty of Idaho. if you please
to remove the handicaps and hind
RANGES and cause of wrong anC
corruption as it is its duty to ad
minister justice and punish crime
The Idaho character and the Idaho
reputation is going to be the aggre
gate results of the individual charac
ters and individual regulations Of
her cltizcns-the qualities of tn,
elements are going to determine tn,
qualities of the mass.
Let me appeal to you, my fellow
citizens of Idaho, to sound the cal
to duty and clear the camps of tn
Achans and Jonahs and restore t.
power and authority the time-hon
ored party that Lincoln led to it
first victory. Let the people Of Ida
. no and the country as we'll learl
that the republican party of thi
state can survive both a donkey
kick and a Caesarian operation an
come back chastened and purifie'
and administer economical an
honest and righteous government.
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