The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-14

VI Hill WHO seek real truCn ana en-
deavor to lead the way to higher
ground, what more natural than that
he shall slip backward in his obliga-
lions which he assumed when he
pledged his abilities to the nobler
purposes of his profession If he
finds that his state, through its in
situations, is very willing to use his
medium of publication free of charge
but balks when the business courtesy
of the situation demands a return of
favors, what incentive has he to feel
otherwise than that his paper is a
doormat upon which the word "Wel-
come" is obliterated with the wiping
of many shoes?
Gentlemen, anarchy is abroad III
this world of ours. 1t has reached
our own shores. Many are apprehen
sive lest the great passions in flux
in Europe will extend to this country
and that the words engraved upon
the foundation stones of this great
union of states shall become the
f1outings of a rabble. Some believe
that truth is lost; that upheavals of
nations and of men have in the topsy
turvy mislaid her; that Lenines have
destroyed her; that the Hun buried
her at Louvaine. We have to confess
that while our boys fought in the
name of the great truth of democracy
and kept long night vigil while its
lamp grew dim on Flanders field,
profiteers at home gave the lie to
their battle cry and made mockery
of their standard. And SO we despair
even in our own land lest righteous
indignation take the form and livery
of unbridled passion, that to get at
the profaners of the temple we shall
cast down the walls of the temple.
But let US remember old weights
and old measures no longer register
truth. Somewhere over there in the
war we have been told to believe we
went with our boys to new system
of measurements and weights. If
the Hun destroyed the old we will
place back not only what he destroy
ed but new weights and measures
also We abhorred what German
culture did; we resolved there would |
come new dispensation when not |
only the wrong he committed but the |
wrongs we had committed should be
redeemed in a new measure of the
purposes and aims Of men. We called |
it democracy and shot hell out of the
Germans. But the Germans were
not all in Germany. You may pre-
pare that certain lines of American
kulture, quite in evidence during their
absence, will be as readily rended
when the boys come home. For the
boys are on the way to the half way
house, the Home of Truth They
know pretty we'll that Lenine is not
their leader; they know pretty we'll,
200, that the captains of industry who
in the nation's extremity Cleaned
Up" while they were otherwise busily
Who cried Liberty, Liberty!" and
put up the price Of bread. All those
Who called Lord, Lord shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
The /. w. W. and the new-made mil
ionaire from unclean government
contract or the abstractor of coin
rom the necessities of the hour will
lppear in the same pillory And in
hat hour of reckoning you will find
he editor at Pleasant Valley loading
Ip his corncob and leading the way t
Q the streets where the unclean live. /
hat will be the nearest we will come
Q a revolution in this country
When the program for this meeting
vas printed and it came over to my '
own of Pleasant Valley, / was en- g
arassed. / found a prefix to my :
anne. | hope l am rather modest in :
~ pretentions. I found names upon I
hat program of other men more de- a
crying of the prefix so often abused '
Hon, men who have been long :
the heat of the harvest of the day,
len whose names are household G
7ords where many cabin window v
'oks out nonplussed and half dis i
elleving that Messiah with golden .
lessage shall ever come to this state, 7
len with vision and with grasp and S
he inherent qualities of leadership. n
nd then | thought that it was from h
merit of mine that the prefix was !,
lere, that the state had for mo- =
ent selected me out among the Il
reater, the nobler and better men C
I'D had thus given concrete example a
the great lesson of democracy.
l thought of that great political s.
arty which in a great moral issue Il
ent up in the mountains of Tennessee D.
Id brought to Knoxville country
how another great political
arty, when its bosses were unable to ii
sree upon a candidate for governor, K
emit one night by telephone and ~
ught out at the little town of st.
GER, the son of a washwoman and W
aced him in the niche of imperish- re
lie fame; how only the hand of n.
ath kept from making different the -
ending perhaps the whole -
lie of our country's history, as he nj
ight have merged from the son of fl
e village drunkard to the greatest Jc
nor the world has to bestow. -
And as thought of Hooper and %
hnson, laying down their printers CT
ron and their stick of type to be- ar
me concrete embodiments of the al
pirations of their pens, l knew in
E struggle before us in the quest for
e House of Truth, the boy from si'
er there will find the country editor hu
his elbow, trudging along to higher tr;
ngs, his corncob pipe in his mouth, II,
; package of Bull Durham in his q
eeches pocket. -
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