The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-13
BROSNAN TALKS TO
lewiston FOLK
q. OF /. MAN GIVES IMPRESSIVE
ADDRESS AT ARMISTiCE DAY
EXERCISES.

A considerable number of Moscow
people drove to Lewiston on Armistice
day, following the exercises in the
morning here, to see the parade and
hear the program at that place, in
the afternoon. The day as impress
sfvely observed, and the parade was
one of the largest in the history of
the city, being over mile in length.
The address of the day was delivered
by Professor c. j. Brosnan, of the
American history department of the
University of Idaho, who spoke on
"a Heritage of Americanism from the
Western Pioneer" The talk dealt with
matters of Idaho and northwest his
tory which are especially interesting.
He said in part:
!" 1t is joy to be in this beautiful
and historic city of Lewiston, un-
doubtedly the most historic city in
the state. You have most appropri
ately named your new hotel Lewis
Clark. Here in Lewiston and vicinity
were many of the beginnings. Here
was published Idahos first newspaper
the Golden Age. 1t was a patriotic
newspaper and the flag flew over the
pioneer building that housed it was
fired upon when the Civil War broke |
out. Here was the meeting of the
first legislature, and here the distri-
buting point for Idahos first placer
camps. Near here Rev. H. II. Spald- |
ing established the first mission, and !
past here came Mrs. Whitman and |
her husband in 1887 to rejoice over
the birth of Idaho's first white child.
We are standing today on historic
ground
az am glad to welcome the last
remnant Of the GAR. 1t was their
work that made it possible for Ameri-
ca to present solid front in the late
war. We extend greetings also to the
veterans of the Spanish-American war.
The Spanish-American War Of. 1898 |
showed to the world that America was
a united nation. We are fortunate in
the heritage of good Americanism that
has come down to us.
August H. 1906, is day that should
be honored in our annals. On that Il
day Meriweather Lewis, who gave his
name to your city, made the first white
footprints on Idaho soil AS his
little party entered Lemhi Pass, they
carried with them the Stars and
Stripes. The first day in our recorded
history was flag day" AS their flag
greeted the eyes of the Shoshoni
Indians, it waved as an emblem of
peace and symbolized the dignity and
aspirations of the young republic
which it represented. Since that far
off August day of over a century ago,
the first of no other government has
waved over Idaho soil
In the years of the gold brushes
from 1860 to 1865, the mountain val
leys and gulches near here were often
filed with thousands of young Ameri-
cans over night. These young men
found themselves in a region of great
mineral wealth, but without laws,
courts, or any of the legal safeguards
and restaurants that surround the ord !
mary community. But they did not
resort to brute force or jungle law,
but established the mining camp, an
orderly institution of local self-govern-
ment. True to their instinct for the
exercise of liberty regulated by law
they evolved an institution of self
government whose democracy and all J.
around effectiveness rivalled the New
England town meeting.
The young ex-service men whom we
honor here were born in a great day
of the worlds history. The century l.
between 1900 and 1900 was so remark
able that it is often called 1.-The Won
uefIul century, historians tell US
that more first-rank events occurred
between 1900 and 1900 than in the
previous thousand years. But the
eight years from 1914 to 1922, in which
these ex-service men have had so STIR
ring and patriotic a part, have Y
changed the face of the world more
than did the one hundred years of the \
preceding century. In those years
100000 men were under arms
From 1914 to 1918 100000 human
lives and two hundred billion dollars y
of wealth were destroyed. Thanks to D
the gallantry of these ex-service men q
and their dead brothers who fought
at Belleau Wood" the Wood of the
Marines at Chateau Thierry, at
Saint Mihiel, at the Meuse-Argonne-
" Americas Greatest Battle over a
established thrones of
kings and emperors have tumbled, and -
over half-score of new republics
and democracies have been added to
The sisterhood of nations. Il
These boys fought and died to de- *
stroy the rule of classes and castles, r.
and to make the world fit for heroes " ~
md safe for democracy"
CUPID BUSY ARMISTICE DAY.
While Armistice day was otherwise f.
around the courthouse, Dan N3