Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-18
Secretary Of Interior Tells in
New York Address Sights He
Would Exhibit in Showing
United States.
FOR AMERlC ANIMATION
nliterate and Non English
Speaking Population Out
number All People in Fifteen
States, Including Idaho.

40 AAAo auuIcSO ON AIuerlCaulSIn
delivered a few days ago at the hotel
Astor. New York, Franklin X. Lane,
secretary Of the interior, remarked
among other things that when show
ing America to those who reside in
ats borders or who are coming here
from other countries, he would ex-
htbit. among other things, the highest
dam In the world, the Arrowrock, To-
Gated % miles northeast of this city.
The secretary of the interior pointed
out that the illiterates and nom Eng
Iish speaking in this country outnum-
Der all the people that live in Is
states-Nevada, Wyoming, Delaware,
Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi, Vermont,
Rhode Island, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Oregon, Maine, Florida, Con-
necticut and Washington combined.
All told there are 100000 Of them.
They outvote the combined popula-
lions of greater New York, Phila-
delphia and Chicago.
Secretary Lane. a copy Of whose ad-
dress has been received by the state
council of defense, said in part:
What Is America? There Is a
physical America and there Is q
spiritual America. And, they are so
interviewer that you can not tell where
the one ends and the other begins.
Sometime ago met a man who is
one of the advisors of the president of
China and he told me Of novel sug-
gestion which he thought might be
adopted in that new republic-that
they should have qualifying exami-
nation for members of congress; that
every man who announced himself as
a candidate should prove that he knew
what his country was, who its people
were, what resources it had, what its
prospects were and what it's relations
with foreign countries had been.
IF I could have my way l would
say to the man in New York, Come
with me and will show you America,
and / would say to the man in San
Francisco, Come with me and / will
show you America
WOULD SHOW HIGHEST DAM.
Il would give to the man whom I
wished to Americanize (after he had
learned the language Of this land) a
knowledge of the physical America, so
as to get an admiration, not only of
its strength, of it's resources of what
1t could do against the world but that
he might have pride in this as a lan1
OF hope and q land in which men had
won out. / would take him across the
continent I would show him the s.
100000 farms which went to feed Eu-
rope in her hour of need. would
take him out into Utah and show
that mountain Of copper they are tear
Ing down at the rate of $4,000 tons
per day. I would take him to. the
highest dam in the world, in Idaho.
And / would let him see the water
come tumbling down and being trans
formed into power, and that power
being used to pump water again that
spread over the fields and made great
gardens out Of what 10 years ago was
the driest of deserts.
Il would take this man down south
and would show him some of it's
schools. I would take him up north
and would show him the cut lover
lands of Wisconsin and Michigan,
which are waste and idle. I would
take him into New York and show him
the slums and the tenements. /. would
show him the kind of sanitation that
exists in some of our cities. / would
show him the good and the bad. /
would show him the struggle that we
are making to improve the bad condi-
lions. I would tell him not that AM
erica is perfect, that America is a fin
ished country, but I would say to him,
America is an unfinished land. It's
possibilities shall never end and your
chance here and the chances of your
children shall always be in ratio to
your zeal and ambition
America, we dare believe, will ever
remain unfinished