Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-25

ldaho pluck is the goldsn kew
which unlocks the casket hat CON
tains the promise for the hand of
the ruling princess-wealth.
Our state has laid the proper
foundation for the fabric Of govern-
mental power. Her citizens are in
dustnous, moral, and well educated
At the foundation off our material
wealth. is Il educational system
early, In the very midst of our gar
den, we have planted the tree Of
knowledge. We have reversed the
lesson OF sacred history and urged
that the fruit of this tree means
the very opposite of ruin and desc
luton, and when the Idaho woman
with her uncomfortable CURIOSITY
which proves at least that we are
OF the chosen people, reaches forth
to pluck the fruit, angels are not in
dignant, neither are men driven into
endless exile by the flaming swords
of enraged cherubins. If women lost
us paradise, she has materially as
sisted in taking possession Of Idaho.
which has an advantage both i'm eli
mate and territory. Strange to say
that the Idaho legislature has kind
ly consented for women to help run
school affairs. What a great pity
that another wandering ray of in-
tellectual light did not fall upon that
famous assembly. If they had brush
ed from existence, buried beneath
contempt and derision, that infam-
GUS and damnable law of ours relat-
ing to the right of married ONE it
would have been the noblest piece
of legislation of the session. 1t is
an insult to modern civilization, q
relic of barbarism, and would dis
grace the statute books of the Ethio-
plans. The law which does not rec
ognize THE absolute equality of wo-
mar with man and is equally Jealous
of her rights as to property, in af-
fairs of state as we'll as socially and
Intellectually, is unworthy of the re-
spect of civilization of the evening
of the Nineteenth century.
1t was said by a most distinguished
visitor Of IL state some months ago,
after all the real and substantial
prosperity of our state depends upon
our agricultural resources. The vast
mines will in years bic exhausted. 1t
is for this reason that such achieve
ments and such preparations as you
are here making are OF momentous
Importance to the entire state. A
new state should be restless to plant
permanent homes and to utilize ev-
cry means to improve our farm lands.
They are after all the stability o.
power. The position of the Ameri-
IAN farmer in our civilization is as
imperious as autocracy, and as indis-
lensible to the life Of our vast stream
Of wealth as the fountain is to the
stream which it feeds. Casting aside
all unnecessary praise of fustian, the
cold fact is potent to THE most casual
observer that upon his prosperity de-
ponds the perpetuity of u financial
proves. Not alone of course, but
this is the prime power, the power
without which all other power is
powerless, without which business
~5tagnates, the looms hush their mus
lie, labor becomes a tramp, citizens
become sells, even a miners arm is
palsied, and prosperity is but an in
terrupted dream. This is the inter
est, this is the great industry, which
must be guarded and protected with
jealous and vigilant care. 1t makes
no difference how many commitable
features a financial policy has, II
1t hampers, Expresses, blights here
this is condemnation and condemna-
tion enough. So long as THE Roman
farmer was free and prosperous,
lwas imperious, ubiquitous
md as stable as the cornerstone OF
the pyramid. But when he was I'M
Justly taxed, plundered and robbed
when he geban to tire of the dirge OF
the farm, and seek solace in the
shade of the Roman booths, that
marked then the end and all of Ro-
man power. There was but the false
and brilliant glare of injustice and
plumber, the ephemeral glow of ex-
%grandure. Rotten, rotten,
strength, courage, manhood, patriot
ism gone with prosperity of the
farm, and soon the half-clad barbar-
IAN in his restless wanderings clam
bered down the side. of the Alps and
.leisurely took possession of this land
OF glitterng corruption and imbecil-
ity, this magnificent political lie.
This is the history which is writ
upon many pages of the worlds his !
tory. The home, the farm, plant
virtue and prosperity here, and this |
fabric of American civilization
VIII be as secure and lasting as the !
temple of justiee itself release in {