The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-07

themselves and their parents and
friends Just what constructive plan
ming and intensive cultivation can
accomplish. Mr.. Gray's road wants
the rising generation to farm better
than does the present generation
those of us whose hair Is showing
basting threads to mark the age OF
slowing down, and II there Is any
body that he and his party would
like to see, after mentioning the
thoughtful leaders In good works, 1t
would be the boys and girls who are
the exclusive owaars of some well
brade cows, pigs. hens or sheep or
measu, ed tracts glowing fee. for
them under conditions that are bet
ter than father is making.
In centuries gone by, the rulers
OF some Of the rich areas OF southern
Asia levied upon their subjects for
men, money and materials to build
magnificent temples, and completed
the tasks but wrecked the empires.
Temples do not produce anything,
yet it takes something for upkeep.
Surrounded by people In poverty,
and farms that have relapsed into
deserts, those temples stand as mon
uments to mistaken enterprise. Just
a hundred years ago, Governor De-
witt Clinton of New York, leading
advocate of the Erie canal thru
state that was poor and loading it.
self down with bonded Indebtedness
to build 364 miles of ditch for COM
mercial purposes, visited the towns
along the line of the canal then In
the seventh year of construction
work, and assured people every
where that a canal on natural
trade route will build business and
create wealth, and that their under
taking was the very opposite OF the
kind that had impoverished the peo-
pies who had builded the temples.
He told them that the Erie canal
would build great warehouses, and
temples of commerce along the route,
and 1t did. New York became the
Empire State, with greatest wealth
along the route of traffic, and New
York City rose in century to first
place in the commercial world.
II they had used the money to|
build temples and public parks along
the line of the Mohawk instead OF
building an artery of trade, that
country would have remained will
derness for long period. And yet
with all these lessons Of history be-
fore us, some of our people are talk
ing about asking President Gray and
his associates to park some more OF
their right-of-way thru Blackfoot,
and to move the stock yards farther
out so we shall not catch the odor
of the shipping pens.
We hope that whoever takes up
those subjects with the visitors will
be people who have parked their own
real estate and in various ways
formed a clean, beautiful companion-l
piece for the new railroad parking
which they are going to ask for.
Most Of the. millions which the rail-
road company are expanding for
southern Idaho is for things that
will move freight faster, not for
temples and parks. They are spend
ing money for things that will build
business and pull the country out
If the hole-things which, when put
% operating will enable everybody
20 do well and to build parks of their
own and temple for each family.
The people of this valley are about
% build a great trade route-the
American Falls reservoir. They are
bout to build the great locks and
,orts-the FIT. Hall and the Greater
IT. Hall projects. They are organ
zed to invoke the hand Of science
O kill off the invader, the grass
loppers that are driving a wedgei
nto the heart of our irrigated areas. [
n the midst of money panic they .
ave stood firm and organized all
hese great constructive and defen- !
i've agencies-the one kind to Gre t