The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-12-03

10 ILLS City, was tldt Wy l. idtC - W.
i row, of Wallace, who responded
IS for his subject, "Shoshone County, II
e Needs and Resources" So full {
It logic and facts is the address and s
It applicable to the entire state that
g was ordered printed in circular form
e for distribution throughout the STATE
: Mr.. Morrow said
Mr.. President and Gentlemen:
In responding to the roll CALL rep
) resenting Shoshone County, ut
needs and resources" l am happil
fortunate in the latter and with cas-
. could tell you fabulous story o
wealth and romance story o
mountains, Of lead and silver, coppe
: and zinc, of creek bottoms, of gold
of vast enterprises, of deep shafts ant
long tunnels, of trains and factories
and of the hardihood of the early
prospectors unexcelled
I could tell you of the millions in
dollars of it's exports, of its swarms
of workmen and of it's future for Oul
country is but scratched as yet, but
in the telling of it's needs the ques-
ton approaches problem, not one OF
immigration or population, the tilling
Of the soil or the establishing OF in
dustries, but deeper, more funda-
mental thing; and after all the prob
lem which | feel is the greatest in
all our countries and which Babson
so aptly calls "The Spiritual Rena-
I issance of our People"
Unlike most of you, we do not need
immigration, tillers of the soil, the
clearing up of logged off land, dairy
ing, nor more doctors, lawyers, mer-
chants nor laborers The former we
cannot use, the latter come as bust
ness necessity permits. Nor indus
tries do we need. These we have
ready to function under return of
a demand for our products which will
come.
We do need what you again all
need-A reduction in our freight rates
and a reduction in our taxes, and in
telligent taxes so applied that they
will not throttle initiative, ability and
enterprise.
Isolated as we are, we need good
roads or perhaps improvements on
our now fair roads, these too are COM
ing, each year seeing great strides
made in this direction.
summers, and more sunshine and less
snow and winters. Some of the fore
going we cannot change, some we will
have but not before the rebirth of our
people referred to.
Prosperity is the reaction from in
dustry, thrift and service, and these
terial. The greatest thing in business
is not machinery, nor materials, nor
VIC No bo fbiI1O in
business is men and the greatest
Or mind, but rather soul. Prices,
wages. markets can all be adjusted,
but the soul of man which deter
mines his motives, his purposes, his
his energy, can only be
America, industrially and CONNER
tally, was born and raised in the
white spired churches, in the coun-
ry green's and in the little red school
louses by the cross roads.
The Couer d'Alenes need demand
or the products Of their mines, en-
'loyment a revival of business. What
S necessary to bring this revival in
omerce and business.
The difficulty today is that we have
tSu u ylu6 " Iuu luuuSJIy ny, IuC
yill of Congress, judges, bankers,
'oards of Directors, rather than by
he will of the universe We have
cen trying to make water run up
ill and prices remain fixed when
lese things would not come about.
7e all wanted the law of supply and
emand suspended in our individual
ase
Prosperity comes from three fac
,rs. Natural resources, labor and
lat intangible spiritual quality which
d the Pilgrim fathers to these
lores hundreds of years ago, which
retched the railroads across the
'airies fifty years ago and which
Tilt factories and dug deep into the
ard rock Of our hills during the
,ars Of the past decade.
We should not return to the prima
We, but we should most seriously
nsider the policies which have de-
Hoped successful breeding of men
ID women up to the present time.
We can breed prosperity, we can
eed stock, but we can't do it by
tempting to suspend the law of sup
Y and demand or the law of reward
d punishment. At the present time
, are developing race of ineffi-
,nts and almost industrial en-
Giles.
One great reason for unemployment
d business stagnation today, is the
It that so few people are giving
liar value for the dollar which
~ receive.
The grocer no longer adulterates
, sugar, but he and we are adulter-
ng our work. The farmer no
ger stovepipes the potatoes but
same principal of deception has
'meated to other lines Of labor, in
stry and commerce.
We are all trying to get along by =
wits and bluffing rather than by
d work, forgetting that the pros
'ity of the country is determined Z
our efficiency, our industry, thrift
| integrity. The return Of pros =
ity depends primarily today on