Show IN THE NEW STATE I j a The Grand Celebration at Mountain Q Moun-tain Home THEORATION BY H W SAYIDGE I f a I Do Not Believe in the Aristocracy of Wealth Blotting Oat the Sunshine a of Our Lives r MOUTATN HOME Idaho July 31 I Special correspondence to THE HEKALD With a patriotism characteristic of the I people of this section Mountain Home yesterday yes-terday celebrated the admission of Idaho in manner that will always live in the memory of Its participants Special trains began to arrive early in the morning bringing people from the east as far as I I Pocatello and from the west at the Idaho i line Among the notables arriving were Hon H W Weir who beyond a doubt will be a candidate for the supreme oench on the Democaatic ticket and who if nominated will stand ah excellent chance for election as his friends are legion and his record unsullied Fred T Dubois making mak-ing an early campaign Hon Geo L Shoup Fremont Wood W H Savidge U P attorney at Pocatello C C Glenn aspirant as-pirant for auditor and recorder of Elmoro county on the Republican platform W H Dial a staunch Democrat irom Glenns Ferry Green White Of Rocky Bar who is old Democracy himself and the probable I state senator from this district the inimitable Tom Cahalan Isaac Gulp Elmore countys probate judge and politicians and office seekers galore ga-lore They were all welcomed with the r courtesy none can so well show as the people I peo-ple of Mountain Home which is itself an aspirant for the county seat at the coming election At one oclock the bandwhich is an organization or-ganization any town can well be proud of 4 played Annie Rooney and the festivities began A procession was formed and headed by the baud was followed in the fol lowing order Marshal Hon J S White Aide Gco Bell Fully MJ citizens in line Carriages In the lolloping oder F T Du bois W IL Savjdgc Hon H W Weir Thos D Cahalan C C Green Pre sJ E Kounscvllle Boise Statesman S D Taylor Idaho Mail H 13 Schciter SALT LAKE HEKALD Marching to Odd Fellows hull a brilliant scene net our astonished eyes Fuliy four hundred people present bedecked in holiday attire and the hall decorated in a manner far beyond our wildest dreams The entire room was festooned with the colors of our country at thehead of the hall was a banner Idaho surrounded by fortythree stars and banners around the room reading Weir Shoup Dubois Savidge Stevenson and Calahau The prettiest piece of work was that of an eagle with outstretched wings holding in its talons the American flag and under it the legend Idaho the Gem of the Mountains After announcing the object of the meeting Chairman J S White introduced Fred T Dubois who said in substance that he desired de-sired to congratulate the people of Idaho that they had secured statehood He thought he had strained a measure in urg ing statehood but the happy faces before him only a little of Freddys taffy fully reconciled him He spoke of the difficulty in securing statehood but confessed that during all the struggle he was ably sup ported by the Democracy Idaho without whose assistance his efforts would have been without avail Another sop To Judge Weir particularly did he teel the people of Idaho owed a debt of gratitude for his earnest efforts in Washington in assisting to secure statehood for Idaho After this the choir composed of Annie Elliott Ida Fitzwater rizzie Fitzwater Mabel Payne Charlotte Buzzelle Inez Lunt Mrs Wilkens Mrs Chas Howarth Mrs E C Helfrich Isaac Gulp Marion House John Bledsoe and H C Mallison sang America Mrs Naomi McDonald Phelps read an original poem entitled Idaho which vas well received Judge Weirs remarks were received with unbounded enthusiasm and he was frequently interrupted by hearty applause Every word was closely followed by his audience who cheered him repeatedly at its conclusion He too dwelt upon the fact that the victory in gaining the blessing of statehood was as much due to the efforts of the democrats Of Idaho as to any other tart Next Star Spangled Banner by the choir Hon H W Savidge was next introduced in-troduced and I append his speech in full It was well received and the applause he secured was well deserved Ladies and gentlemen and friends The occasion upon which we are met here to day is an exceedingly happy one not only is the common cause which invites us here love of home and country but it is to cele brate as well the close of twentyseven years of political vassalage similar in many respects that in which the American colonies were held to Great Britain and we meet today us one family upon one common platform with the satisfaction of hoping believing and knowing that the new star of Idaho will add luster and bril liancy to the emblem of peace On the third day of the present month Idaho became a state of the union In area resources and capabilities we might well be called annempire she contains one hun dred and txventyflve thojsand people she contains five million acres of land suitable for agriculture live million acres suitable for grazing purposes twelve hundred miles of railroad four hundred schools churches with their spires pointing heavenward in every city and village all her people fullof courace and hope determined to make her fortune great and may she always be a credit the unibu and keep bigIit the I gem that represents us in the red and the white and the blue with the fortyfour jewels For my own part I am in favor of liberty and eauality among nIl classes I believe that the inventor is the social equal of the bishop the farmer the mechanic the rancher and the miner arc the peers of I those whose opportunities have given them palaces and fine clothes I 1 i ao not oeiiuve in the aristocracy 01 wealth blotting out the sunshine of our 1 lives 1 was always taught that to labor with the hands was respectable and honorable 1 honor-able ableWe r I We need more labor more schools more I l teachers more churches more railroads t more home manufactures more wealth acquired ac-quired by labor more men not afraid of honest toil these will make us good citizens citi-zens and good citizens will see to it that I we have good government But deprive us of the class of people I have referred to and you will have broken up the home aC5ro ea tnc nresl1 and brought upon us that which is worse than slavery 1 We have just cause I think to rejoice in I our freedom In Independence and good government gov-ernment today the struggle for which began even with our Pilgrim fathers and the remembrance of their victorious conquests con-quests is not yet forgotten If you please while the Mayflower was preparing to leave England the slave ship was preparing to leave Africa side by side they sailed upon the same waters guided T by the same Providence bound for the same continent upon one there rested a I nations blessings upOn the other nations t curse in the cabin of one there was free 5 dom and plenty and songs of gladness in 4 the hold of the other there was the wail of FJ poverty and tho clank of chains l In all tho legends of the land and of I > the sea there is nothing more romantic i more strange than the contrast presented by those two ships within whom were r lodged the two hostile germs which were I I to fill the new world with sorrow and deso I lation but with the I n flight of years joy succeeded IL suc-ceeded sorrow ana prosperity desolation On the same day landed the Mayflower and t o the Slave ship one brought the charter the bible and the spirit of liberty tho other the whip chain and bondage one a came to plant freedom andlill this land < with light and Jove and liberty the other to plant slavery which threatened to destroy I de-stroy the home and thereby tsiko outof the great arch of American nationality its very keystone = In the language of Declaration l of In t 1 r u y LI I < 0 I l t 2 1 dependence it became necessary in the source of human events for this little colony col-ony of liberty loving people to dissolve the political bands which bound them to old England and to forever silence the clank of chaths which bound human beings in slavery They realized that all men were created equal that they were endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life liberty and the pursuit pur-suit of llnrmmoce finn In mnTntfUn this principle 014 freedom and independence which we enjoy today this land vas the scene of strife and confusion Patriot soil was soaked with patriot blood and coverep withpatriot dead But today this fair land is the land of liberty and the refuge of the oppressed from whatever shores they may come The original home for all the world is America It is most becoming thatwe celebrate this dai with joy and gladness and unfurl to a grateful world these starry emblems of peace surely the symbol of the noblest costliest sacrifices ever laidupon the altar of freedom And it is with pride remember today that there is J No Slave hunt in our borders No pirate onour strand No fetters in the newbtate f Not a slave uponour land I think it will be your shame and mine if the time ever comes that any man who honorably defended his country should become be-come an inmate of any almshouse or dependent de-pendent upon private charity The progress pro-gress of nations has always been measured by their patriotism Old Rome herself after maintaining her power for seven cen turies became the victim of treachery and disloyalty lost her proud name and received re-ceived the pity and shame of nations how mo a patriotic people and I will show you a people whose progress is onward on-ward and upward and whose laws are recognized rec-ognized by the whole world History tells us that imperial Rome gave law to the world because the fire patrlotism burned in the hearts of her citizens A Dutch republic few in numbers and poor in much that makesa nation yd sustained sus-tained by patriotic efforts was able for forty years to bid deriance to the world in arms against her Just s long as we are governed and inspired in-spired uy this passion and love of homo and country just so long will we have a proud and prosperous nationone government and one people A few days ago you paid tribute to the memory of fallen patriots by strewing their graves with flowers and you intuitively said Cover them over cover them over Father and husband and brother and lover Cover them over with beautiful flowers This is an occassion to be celebrated not alone by the gra headed or the middle aged but it is for the children as well We should teach them that this is an odcassion set apart for every one young and old woo love l > home country and liberty sacred to the memory of our independence We should teach them what they owe to their country government and nation remem bering that the child of today casts the ballot of tomorrow I am told that in a distant city the school children were asked to bring flowers upon decoration day to place upon the graves of dead soldiers and those children brought into i that cemetery ten wagon loads of j flowers Any patriotism in that Among j those flowers was a little cross rudely formed made of clover blossoms and evergreens ever-greens and bound together with a piece of grocers twine I call the devotion of that little child to the memory of the soldier father who died for the freedom which our fathers fought for should be maintained I say I call the devotion of child patriotism And as long as such feelings and affec tions may be found in the hearts of chil dren just so long will this land be rich in all that makes a people great Friends this heritage of freedom is ours and from the Atlantic to the Pacific echoes and reechoes the glad shout of union and liberty one and inseparable We the people ot the state of Idaho fair gem of the mountains though she be are truly grateful to the supreme judge of the world that we live in this land of light and love and liberty The great battles which havo been fought to secure this freedom and independence which we so much cherish today were not fought for conquest for glory or for na tion l honor but because that spirit of liberty and union which has made and preserved pre-served as a nation had been offended For the purpose of this celebration to day we have neither cast color politics or re ligion one people under one government and one flag we sit today at peace with all l the world in one of the fairest valleys upon earth prosperity upon every band grand old mountains bursting with the richest treasures of earth cattle in every valley and upon a thousand hills fountains of purest living water schoolhouses and churches everywhere peace progress and prosperity unnn every door nost This is our heritage for it let us strive and may the fires of patroitism now burn ing upon our hearthstones never die out If love of country and patriotism are taught in the home our law makers will be patriots and our progress will be upward and onward and the advancement that has been made in everything that makes a people peo-ple great during the time which even some of you have lived although unparalleled in the history of nations is but the introduction introduc-tion tb the possibilities of the free Intelligent intelli-gent and independent people The system of government under which we have lived for the past twentyseven years has come to a peaceful and quiet close Ought we not then today with grateful hearts as a liberty loving people thank an almighty God for this freedom prosperity and independence and forthis emblem of peace sprinkle with its starry light which covers our land and may our prayer ever be God of the universe shield us and guide us Trusting JJhee ever through shadow and Sun Thou hast united us who can divide us Keep us oh keep us the many in one Music by the band and the song by the choir Columbia and Tom Cahalan the wittiest speaker in Idaho kept the audience in good humor His speech was a shor one but was repeatedly applauded In speaking of Idaho he concluded his speech by saying let us always have a union of hearts a union of states and the flag of our country forever In the evening a hun dred couple assembled at the hall where free dance had been arranged for and right merrily did the hours while away Joy and pleasure reigned supreme till early in the morning The free ball supper was a surprise sur-prise to everybody It was laden with the good things of life prepared by the ladies of Mountain Home and wus thoroughly ap predated by all the participants including SKEEZICKS |