The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-02-16
LECTURER POINTS
LESSON IN PATIENCE
Omitted last week. J

Ceum system, preraced his halk II
Blackfoot people Tuesday eveninf
with an expression of faith in the
people Of small towns. He said we
OF the outlying districts follow ma.
tional issues more closely than they
do in the big eastern cities, that In 8
measure what we miss Of musical
dramatic. artistic opportunity thru
our situation, they lose for lack OF
taste for such things, preferring the
most ordinary vaudeville and photo.
play amusements. His whole lecture
was an eulogy on the spirit Of mid.
die ground, the golden mean that
neither suffers privation in anything
nor surfeits on too much. His audi
ence filled the high school auditorium
to capacity, and it was a quiet, at
tentive body of folks.
Mr.. Bede Is a pleasing speaker,
makes his points by emphasis of con-
trasted ideas rather than by force
Of oratory. He comes from Mime
sofa, but he carries with him an
Irish wit that keeps an audience in
a state of open-ear attention. He
gets Eat home" with folks, talks
kindly and sanely, breaches optimism
and restraint.
One Of the great problems of to-
day, said Mr.. Bede, is that of dis
tribution of wealth. A hundred mil
lion people, all wanting many more
things than the world ever dreamed
of SO years ago, make it possible for
man with something to sell them
to become a millionaire. New ma
chinery is invented for the farm;
somebody manufactures It, and altho
the ubyers get value for their money
yet they make the manufactur rich.
The question is how he ought to dis
tribute what the commonwealth pays
him for his article. Make a penny of
profit from every person in the
United States, and you are million
aire. The money is legitimately
earned and our law protects you in
its possession. The people are begin
ming to demand a regulation of it's
There are thousands of
necessary machines that make their |
makers rich, but shall we consider |
doing without them in order to settle |
the question of wealth distribution? |
Mr.. Bede urges us to meet the prob |
lem as an inevitable outcome of ad-
vancement. We can't go back and |
we must hew our path forward.
There is solution for every prob
EN-, and it usually comes out with
he passing of time. It's much easier
% look backward and moralize than
% look forward and advise. mas
much as there Is some solution, moth
ng but our ignorance prevents our
solving it. Admit that, and quit COM
blaming; dig out the answer.
Mr.. Bede has been a member of
congress. His points on legislation
we're particularly choice. He made
lear how mistaken is the thought
hat our lawmakers set up rules of
onduct for us. The laws, he de-
Jared, are nothing but the statement
f our level of civilization. Our
legislators declare the standard to
1hich we, the people, have attained.
hey can no more make a law that
he people do not support in majority
han they can dictate to a foreign
Ountry. The majority of the people
lust be above the law to make it !!
success.
The three most important lessons {
[r. Bede would teach young persons
re: Know the rights of others; re-
oect the rights of others, and i'm
rove opportunities"
The world is getting better. We .
D longer need to hate our political
)ponents in order to have an cleo q
on. Our government is light to
! the world, demonstrating the eter-
II truths of self government, and =.
10 effects are seen in democratic "
forms in other countries. Shun the !,
tremes-a stopper is usually more
eded than starter.
In regard to our present entangle- U
ents with Germany the speaker put :.
few words of sage advice. We &c
all not be fighting the German peo- U
2 If we go to war, but fighting the ~
inciples their governors maintain .,
ntrary to our own. ~
keep your friendships in repair" IL
quotation from burly old DR.. John =
4. embodied one of the evenings
sons. Friendship, said Mr.. Bede, at
the most precious accomplishment ha
life. If you can hold your friends a
i may lose everything else and re- lei
in rich. tn
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