The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-25
Grand Theme for Statesmen

-, Gran0 Theme for Statesmen
4 With such able men as Idaho ha
In our national legislative bodies
with these facts standing out in boil
relief in favor of Idaho's resource
and her reclamation works, witt
such a grand theme for statesmen
to dwell upon in their speeches, will
the pressing demands for food pro
auction and for employment for dis
handing armies both militant ant
Industrial, with the great murmurin,
OF society to relieve congestion il
cities and get population out upo1
the land and close to nature, with thu
government anxious to supply EN-
ployment as an antidote for Boil
lshevism, with the people and theil
statesmen accustomed to thinking
and acting in big, comprehensive
figures and with full measure ol
promptness and decision, the master
! minds of Idaho come together tc
touch the springs of human energy
and opportunity and set them to their
tasks.
Idaho's Man of Unison
| Major Fred Reed, one of the
far-seeing men who helped to as
semble the men, women and money
that subdued the Twin Falls tract
and the Twin Falls North Side tract
and who has aided in Idaho develop
ment in hundred ways and by his
splendid courage said and did the
things that Influenced people to hold
ON to their undertakings thru the
dark days of dispair-the man who
advised people to invest, and then
saw them go down into the shadows
OF great losses and hold on because
they did not dare let 60, the man
who encouraged them thru it all
and then saw them come out victor.
ious in splendid achievement, spoke
for few moments on the great need
OF vision and courage to undertake
what to so many people seems the
unthinkable. He mentioned that one
day when he was driving his horse
and buggy down over the Twin Falls
North Side tract in its early days,
stopping to see each settler and to
advise and encourage them in their
work, he stopped at a house where
a woman came out, apparently watch
ing for chance to talk to him.
The Test Of Souls
A cold spring wind was blowing
a gale. Clouds of dust hung lihe
pail over the vast desert wastes as
far as one could see, and as this frail
woman came out of their shack and
trudged thru the sand and dust to-
ward the streak Of dust that marked
the roadway, her dress whipped
about her form and she had an apron
tied around her head. AS she ap-
preached the buggy she stretched
out her thin arm and said in a very
positive way, major Reed, 1 just
have this to say to you, that any man |
who will use his influence to get a |
family to leaye land Of plenty and |
come out and settle in such God
forsaken land as this ought to be
hung" nv
Reversed the Harsh, Judgment
Major Reed slapped the horse
with the line and said, sect up" and
rode away in a cloud eof dust, with
The pep Of the dust biting his skin.
As the season progressed and the
oalmy days of summer exerted their
oowers upon the plain, the breath Of
regetation impregnated the air and
harvest followed In, its time. Two
ears passed away and as he travelled I
hat way again in summer was again
JAILED by the slender woman, who
anne out with rose in her hair, and
Isked him in. She took pair Of
hears and went out about the yard
nd clipped lot Of roses and asked
i'm to accept them as a token Of the
steem in which she, held the man Of
ision who looked beyond the could
+ dust and the sea Of sage brush to :
ne dawn Of plenty, in, land where
ourage and character had met the
orces Of opposition and had won.
Prevent the Blush Of Shame
Judge w. b Strong of Dubois said
g wanted to inject something in be-
all OF the man in kakhi and to say
Dr. him that is not returning from
10 foreign lands and fields Of earn
ge to ask for any better fighting
nance in civil affairs than other
eople, and that those who speak Of
,curing legislation and opportunities
| reclamation for the soldiers might
lnvass themselves carefully to see
neither or not they were thinking
lat what was good for the soldier
ould also shower some favors upon
le others and to see also If they
'e not carelessly asking for legisla-
on in the name of the American
because that furnishes d
)pHlar excuse or reason for consid-
alton. II the'families on the dusty
ssert could bring roses and victory
1T Of the biting dust, If the men in
rance could bring victory by going
'er the top week after week and
onth after month, shall we who
aged at home look about us at the
implicated problems Of civil life
Id fail to meet courageously the
lestions that come up to us for solu-
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