Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-16
MASTERLY ADDRESS
BY HARRY WATKINS
Feature of Armistice Day Program
at Standard Theatre-Large
Audience Attends

Mountain Home citizens who at
tended the Armistice Day services
! at the Standard Hall last Sunday
evening heard Harry Watkins de-
liver one of the best addresses ever
given anywhere.
While it was impossible to get
this address in full, the reporter did
get the substance of his tribute to
Idaho, as follows:
The war is over, we hope forever,
and the world is now celebrating
the blessings of peace. Blessed are
the peacemakers for they shall be
called the children of God. We pray
Gods blessings upon all nations. We
invite all good people from all
countries, who can support our con-
stitution and honor our flag to visit
idaho.
There was a time when we could
not do this.
There was a time when this was
a waste and uninhabited land save
only by the savage wild. There was
time when the stalwart pioneer
shouldered his ak, and walked into
the woodland, while the tender part
ner of his bosom rocked her new
born baby and complained not.
But, no longer do we live in
frontier country, with the hardships
of a pioneer country to endure, but
in the very center of refined society.
We live in land so cosmopolitan in
it's character, its people having come
from all parts of the union and the
nations that none is asked aught
of his religion, his politics or his
ancestral blood. We live in land
where churches and school house
spire the country road, and where
law and order go in joint co-partner-
ship, to promote the general peace
and prosperity, and we thank God
that we can welcome the good peo-
pie of all nations to visit the great
state of Idaho.
We invite you to the Gem of the
state imperial in her
aomain. Infinite in the vastness and
variety of her attractions, she is
truly the wonderland of wealth. The
Eden for the farmer, the Eldorado |
for the miner, the veritable Goshen
,or the grasier, the feast of happy
surprise for the tourist, and the in
Urinary for the invalid. Thus the
story of her resources reads like like
Persian poem in and Eastern epoch.
We invite you to the state of un-
old delights, to the garden of the
tates and paradise of the universe.
Famed by the balmy zephyrs OF
eternal spring, and clothed in the
gorgeous sheen of ever blooming
lowers, no clearer and bluer sky
,ver spread over the fair land of
tally than is canopied over the Gem
# the Mountains, and with hearts of
,ratitude. we thank God, that we
an now welcome you to the great
tate of Idaho.
We welcome the good people of
II nations to the favored spot, to the
lace where innocence is equity, and
alent is triumph, and where the ex-
e from every land can find home
yhere his youth may be crowned
nth unmolested hope of a glorious
We have no czars, no kaisers, no {
ings, no queens. We do not believe
l the divine right of human king; z
ut we do believe in the American
constitution and the democracy OF c
UT own state. We do believe that t
there is any place on earth where p
ne human mind unfettered by ty- ]
annical institutions can rise to the l
1mmit of intellectual grandeur, it C
here, and with hearts of joy and a
we can welcome you to the il
EN- of the Mountains, the home of C
le brave, the land of the free, the v
ate of Idaho. r
One feature of the evening was Fl
le excellent music rendered by the t.
,uble male quartette, consisting of
E. Norell, A. F. Anderson, w. D. 81
ayville, C. M. Piekrell, A. A ses- n
ons, VIM. D. Talley, and Rev. Tay- n
r, with Mrs. Otto Hendricks at the b
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The complete program of the II
.ening was as follows: Il
song-Praise God From Whom all p
essings Flow.
Song-America the Beautiful. Il
Scripture, 91st Psalm-Rev. Ma IL
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Song-Ameriea ii
Prayer-Rev Taylor p
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