Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-18
SPEAKERS PRAISE
CONSTITUTION AND
MENWHO FRAMED It
Pinney Theatre Filled With
Patriotic Citizens Who Ap-
plause Addresses on Notable
Document.
UNREST THREATENS
Judge G. P. Mccarthy and
Henry z. Johnson Point Out
the Value of Constitution
Score It's Defamers.
UNREST THREATENS

CltlZenS OIL BOISE demonstrated tHeiT
patriotism, interest and reverence for
the constitution of the United States
by filling the Pinney theater Wednes-
day night in observance of the one
hundred and thirty second anniversary
OF the framing of that famous docu-
ment. The pages of history were
turned back and light thrown upon the
value of the constitution as national
safeguard by the speakers of the even
ing, Judge c. p. Mccarthy and Henry
| z. johnson.
JUDGE BULGE PRESlDES.
Judge Alfred Bulge presided. He
called the assembly to order at $50
and the audience rose enmasse at the
call of Professor Smith of the Boise
high school and sang America. Judge
Mccarthy was the first speaker of the
evening. He opened his address with
a statement that on Sept. II, 1887, at
Independence hall, Philadelphia, the
constitutional convention finished its
labors and gave to the United States
and the world the constitution by
which the citizens of this country en-
joyed a government of laws, not of
men. He stated it was high time that
the people of America stopped to pay
their greatest law.
INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
Holding the constitution up in the
light of present-day conditions, Judge
Mccarthy cited the Chicago race riot,
the Boston police riot and declared
that if this country was not governed
by strong and rigid constitution, such
| affairs as occurred in those two cities
| pth ho
He pointed out that license in the
worlds history has too often been mis-
taken for liberty and further declared
that the constitution was menaced by
the present industrial problem. With
considerable feeling, the speaker con-
demned that class of agitators who
were going about the country declar-
ing that working men could not OBJ
tain their rights unless the constitu-
ton was destroyed. He announced his
belief in unions, that working men had
the right and should have voice in
saying under what conditions they
F should work and he declared they
should be loyal to their union, but
should be more loyal to their govern
ment and their flag.
Judge Mccarthy stated the class of
foreign-b born citizens in this country
which were agitators should not be al
lowed to increase, also that the
preaching of revolutionary doctrine
should be stopped as 1t was as much
| of q crime in peace as it was in war.
| The speaker closed by urging loyalty to
the constitution and for keeping it
intact, declaring that Justice and
safety Law in that direction while
chaos and disaster in the other.
CONSTITUTION AND TRAINERS.
One of the most scholarly addresses
ever heard in Boise dealing with his
tory sparkline with epigrams and
sharply rapping the "crab scavengers
of history, who belittled the great
leaders of the constitutional conven-
tion. was the address of Henry 2.
johnson. He said in part:
an 1887 there was celebrated in the
city of Philadelphia, the city of its
birth. the one hundredth anniversary
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