The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1920-08-19
Mr.. Borah, Stand Up.

dlu uOWu tIlS part OIL luanO
lprating his uncertain views OH
the League of Nations and other
j affairs being worked out by real
,lmen, Wallace B. Stanton, in Sun.
day S Lewiston Tribune, placed
the Idaho senator in the class to
which he belongs. Mr.. Stanton
knows Idaho and he also knows
! Borah. The following extracts
| from Mr.. Stainton's s article mer-
| it the careful consideration of ev-
cry citizen of this great state:
Borah has now delivered sew
eral speeches in Idaho. In not
one of them has there been an
utterance that is not duplicated
on page after page of the Con-
gressional Record. 1t is an ac-
cusation that the president leans
to treason; that George Washing
tons advice on keeping out of
foreign entanglements does not
apply to the Asiatics, or Mexico !;
he seems to like the Russians, in
cluding the soviets; he dislikes
the British and their brother Ca
nadians to the north and the
French-but he does not refer
to the latter, owing perhaps to
Georges friendship for Lafay-
cite; he doesn t like the Mexicans
and seems to have no friendship
for the Armenians or like races.
The study / have made of the
course of this little Americanism
convinces me that its ideal would
have been met if Wilson, Lloyd
George, Clemenceau, Orlando and
Hike mediocre miscreants, had
been left at home and a delega-
ton sent to Paris headed by Bo-
rah, with Lafollette, Trotsky,
Reed, Dcbs, Villa, Townley and
All Duck Sing, with Lodge as
special envoy to Bernstorff to
conclude separate peace with
Germany.
1T was noted that there SEEM
ed at one period a sincere feeling
Of exultation when he referred to
himself as being classed in the
east as "The Man from IDAHO"
Idaho is distinct state. There
are many things to make it so pro-
vided by nature: The great
mountains, chasms that rent
them; the majestic rivers, the
peaceful valleys, the evening
whispers when the sun sinks put
ting in the western skies castles
and cathedrals and mirrored
lakes and stately funeral corteg-
es and fairies at play and all in a
golden frame and myriad Of hues
the painter knows not, and all
bringing man to the knowledge
there is a God. Such environ
ment makes the Idahoan an up
standing man. AS his lights lead
him he walks the path, dropping
his eyes to no man, speaking his
mind and bearing blasphemy to-
ward none. Mr.. Borah may be
"The Man from Idaho.'' Is he
an Idahoan?
Perhaps so, but somehow ii
in harmony with those mountains
and rivers and valleys and those
skies, he would sing of the
achievements of those youths who
followed the Stars and Stripes
the flag of God and civilization
Ito other lands and crushed out
tyranny, who bivouacked and
charged and died with British
boy and French boy, it would
strike a truer Idaho note than to
breathe animus toward those rae
es whose mothers daily carry
flowers to America s fallen sons
and pray and murmer "My Boy
| because American mothers cam
mot be there. The world has not
moved forward, Senator Borah,
SO far, time has not developed SO
distinctly that Idahoans are moi
still living the tragedies Of the
war. The Idahoan is not yet cal
loused to the past. American
mothers are still teaching lisplne
children the lines Of the God-ln-
spired international .hymnal, writ
ten by the living dead, and, Sen
ator Borah, if you can accomplish
it without distress, you should
learn them too:
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from falling hands we
throw the torch.
| Be yours to hold it high,
If we break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep
Though poppies grow
| In Flanders Fields
School September 13.
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