Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-07-10
IDAHO MEMBER Of CONGRESS
DELIVERS ADDRESS At NORTH.
&SOUTHK|GHWAY DEDICATION.
Moscow Man Speaks at Ceremonies
Sponsored by Idaho State
Editorial Association

Two of the worlds most powerful
agencies for enlightenment and civil
ization, the press and good roads
were brought together at the semi
annual meeting of the Idaho Stat
Editorial association and the celebra
ton marking the opening TO continu
Gus traffic of the North and Soutl
highway, Congressman Burton L
French, of Moscow, declared in hii
address ut the North and South high
way ceremonies, in Grangeville, Wed
nesday.
Congressman French Spoke as fol
lows:
Mr.. Chairman:
Nothing could have been more fit
ting than that the Idaho State Edi-
tOrial association and the dedication
of the North and South highway
should be held at the same time and
the same place. Here are brought
together two of the worlds most pow
erful agencies for enlightenment and
civilization-good roads and a free
press.
1t is not an accident that well-built
hlShNdS MAIN lnt VI tnt
foremost peoples of the world. Nor
can it be said that highways follow
after civilizations have been esta-
blished; rather should it be said that
civilization and highways go hand in
hand. Highways are the avenues-up-
on which pass the influences that
mean for the betterment of the hui
man race. 1t cannot be said that
the old Roman people were great and
therefore built the Appian Way,
Rather the Roman people were great
and continued great for centuries
largely because of the roadways which
they constructed. l was in France
a few years ago and there 1 Saw and
travelled over roads that Caesar had
constructed and it was easy for me
then TO understand how the majesty
of the Roman empire could project
itself over western Europe and for
centuries maintain supremacy. |
When our fathers laid the foundation
of civilization on the western contin- |
emit, one of their first concerns was
the building of roadways from !
colony to colony. Then after we be-
came a nation, among the first mon
eys appropriated by the congress. were
the funds set apart for the building of
the great national highway from
to the Ohio Territory,
hen called the Northwest. The first
money appropriated by the federal
government for use in northern Ida
10, after the appropriation in sup
'ort of the Lewis and Clark expedi-
ion, was that which was made avail
bile for Captain Stevens to build a |
highway from a point on the Mis-
ouri river in Montana, to the west
Yard through the Occur d'Alene dist I
riot and then south to Fort Walla '
Valla. The story of the building of /
he west is the story of trails, and /
Dads, and fords, and bridges; the b
tory in short of avenues upon which S
lie builders of the west could keep in S
'uch with each other and could keep f
! touch with the people in the home e
nds in the east, and the south, and
le middle west, from which came the p
oneers of our western states. n
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION II
In this world of our most of the d
'ople want to do the square thing. n,
hey want to do that which is alb -
lutely right. When they differ. y,
morally they differ because they do so
It have common facts before them. ",
hey do not all have the same ele- en-