The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-06-21
The East Praises Senator Borah; Calls
Upon Him to Retain His Seat in Senate

Tor senator from Idaho has played a
great and wholesome part in the sem
atorial forum during this eventful de-
cade, and can i'll be spared from the
even more serious counsels fronting
his country now.
Statesmen of the Borah type
should be at a premium during the
progress of this gigantic conflict in
which clear heads and loyal spirits
and fearless tongues are needed In
challenge, in guidance and in direc-
ton of affairs.
Statesmen of the Borah type will
be fully as deeply in demand when
the great day comes at the conclu-
sion of this war to readjust the vast
power of government concentrated
and centralized in this war emergency,
so that the democratic ideals of Lin
coin and Jefferson shall be preserved.
Even with so great lover of pop
ular liberty as Lincoln, clothed with
extraordinary war authority in '61-'65,
students of government declare that
the original theories did not revert
easily and naturally to their normal
channels and that the republic has
never been as democratic as it was
before the civil war.
Powers infinitely more central and
far reaching have been granted I'M
grudgingly by this congress to Presi-
dent Wilson in this vast emergency,
and conceding to President Wilson a
wise spirit and unquestioned patrio-
tism, it will undoubtedly require able
and eloquent tribunes of the people
to- swing back these central powers
into the regular line without an abate-
ment of force or direction.
sane, sound and brave Americans
like William Il. Borah will be able to
render thes republic incalculable ser
vice in this great period of military
action, and in the great after period
Of readjustment.
There must be giants in those for
ensic battles, and no unskilled, undis-
ciplined craftsmanship or feeble force
should guide the lines of those event.
full battles in the senate. ..
80 deeply is the New York Ameri-
can impressed with these consdera-
tons, and so highly-after long public
acauaintance-does it esteem Senator
Borah, that it feels no hesitation In
asking him, for his country's sake,
and for, the good that he can do, to
reconsider his contemplated retire.
ment from the highest forum of ma
tional counsel and, instead, to recon,
secrate his talents and equipment to
greater service for the time when his
country shall need him most.
"The call of the tremendous hour to
proven statesmen and able counsel
ors is as high and clear as the bugle
that calls our young countrymen tc
arms in the nations defense. And nc
man Of Borah's type will fail in an
swer to that call.
"The intelligent commonwealth Of
Idaho can not afford to allow William
r. Borah to withdraw from a station
where, in the Judgment of all his
Icountrymen, he has served the repub.
lie so well, and in which he has re.
Elected such signal and national hon.
or upon his state.
Rather in this appeal to the separ
late commemorative by the genera
state will Idaho feel disposed to MAKE
her potent and distinguished contri
button by a unanimous renewal of thu
commission that will send William E
! Borah back to his place in the from
rank Of the national council at Wash
Ilngton."