The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-01-31
ROUGH AND READY PROGRAM
VERSUS FINE MUSIC


would show people the way to live;
would show me the folly of crime;
would point the way to peace, pros
perity and happiness, and said that
II congress would enact this legislA-
ton whereby people would set aside
the means for q common school edu-
cation for all the youth Of the
country, they would avail them.
selves of the opportunities afforded
and in another generation there
would be almost no crime and i'm
morality, and the prisons and aims
houses would be practically empty.
That was good logic, and it was
given good try-out. The law was
enacted and for q hundred years
more laws and more provisions have
been made to carry that plan to
greater completion. Many different
kinds of schools. religious societies,
lodges and missionary organizations
have been busy concentrating on the
great talk of showing and teaching
people how to live. Unfortunately
a great deal of energy has been de-
voted to trying to make them drink
after leading them to water. Schools
have their press bureaus to look
&,
schools have their school wagons and
truant officers. Prisons have multi
piled faster than the population, and
almhouses, asylums and orphanages
have their flood of inmates, besides
the imbeciles, deaf mutes and all
the other wreckage for which there
is no hope or chance of salvage.
Webster's theory as to the value and
off 90 od1 a n
Grated on the reverse gear.
Fourteen years ago there was
great popular movement in civilized
countries to evangeliZe the world and
get the last ones converted before
the end of ten years. Blackfoot sent
a delegation to Boise to attend
state convention to help it along,
and the delegates returned from the
convention reporting that the thing
could be done, il.
In Bingham county things are just
about the same as in the rest of the
country, and two or three settle
ments in the county keep the prose,
cutting attorney pretty busy prosecut-
ing violators of the law, and it is
admitted that only mere fraction
of the violations are reported and
complaints filed. Things don't seem
to be improving so fast.
We guess that people are having
more fun than they used to, or at
least they are doing as they please
without much restraint. Drinking
and gambling have been legally and
theoretically stopped, but they
flourish under different environ |
ments If the so-called moral law
was ever disregarded any more than |
it is now 1t has probably not been |
recorded.
Last week there was very good
demonstration of what people are at
tracted to. There had been well ad
vertised a two-night wake called the
Elk's Circus, and a One-night must
cal program of the finest musical
in the county. 1t cost
$500 to get into the circus and more
than that to get out; it cost rs cents
to get into the musical and no chance
to spend any more money within.
A little over 800 people attended
he circus and spent upwards of So
apiece, totaling more than thou
sand dollars. 1t was advertised as a
of the saloons and
gambling houses of the frontier, and |
l
soft drinks instead of Scotch, and |
# the real thing staked on the +,
James. But the crowd of 800 or so
pent over $1,000 in two evenings,
md had thoroly good time. carry
ng home with them various trinkets d
Won in the joke-pots. They all had
perfectly good time and went home O
cry happy. II
Those who went to the concert r
we're 400 at 25 cents a head, and .
ONE who entered on compliment
ries because of help rendered in the
york. That made total of 800,
yhich the community put up to buy
fine musical program as against
1000 for a gathering where they \
Guild throw OF restraint and have
elluvatime. Two years ago the
club paid $500 for two o
ersons to put on musical program ]
OF quite SO good as the one that O
commanded only 800 last week, and t.
his one was given to raise funds to 9,
NY more music for the home band =
nd orchestra. The comparison is .
IN to one in favor of helluvatime. g
he one program refreshed the el
pirit, the other tickled the la:
iaphram, and more people can Ell
,cate the diaphram than can find 7,
le spirit.
We are not trying to tell people
here they should COVE went to
9TH places and both were good, but
le circus, like the dog races, would IL
ot be attractive as a repeat en- A
agement The point we make is o.
lat Daniel Webster and a good -
any others have not taken the true ID
easure of what people want and re
hat they are going to connect with pl
they are left as free agents. II w
lyone thinks he has formula for 9,
,hering in the millennium he has q
enty of material to use 1t on. II
thinks the world Is going to the
'gs he might get greatly fooled
,eping cases on these people who
e doing as they please. ca
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On tire Lunar Side IAl
A colored gentleman, named Joshua st
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