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Show Sen. Moss Addresses Montana Jefferson-Jackson Dinner pV . . . . . f ' , , I l ' t , . ' ' . V i t t v J hi 1 1h , v, 5 ' '',11 tot J opportunity of talking to a Republican Re-publican Lincoln Day audience. They might not like what they heard, but I could tell them some things they don't hear often enough and that they ought to know. For one thing, I could quote them words of Lincoln that the Republicans don't use very often. For example, Lincoln said, "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present ... as our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." How many Republican Lincoln Day speakers quoted that this year? Or were they talking about the balanced budget and that alone? Our revered Civil War President also said: "There are already among us those who, if the Union be preserved, will live to see it contain two hundred hun-dred and fifty millions of population. popu-lation. The struggle of today is not altogether for today; it is for a vast future also." Lincoln ' thought and planned not only FRANK E. MOSS U. S. Senator In a speech delivered at the : Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in : Conrad, Montana, this week, Utah's Democratic Sen. Frank E. (Ted) Moss reminded Republicans Repub-licans of some of the things which Lincoln said but which never are brought up at the GOP Lincoln Day dinners. i In his address Mr. Moss said: For a new Senator, Washington Washing-ton has many surprises, most of them pleasant. My biggest sur-I sur-I prise, however, and I think I can claim as exclusive on this one fcr the present but for the great ...... future which he saw for this country. And it is no accident that those we honor today predate Lincoln by many years; and no accident that our party is so much older than the Republican party. For, 1 if there is one thing that is necessary neces-sary to the survival of any organization or-ganization or institution, it is just this ability to "think anew and act anew" when conditions reauire it. was to be asked to address Lincoln Lin-coln Day, as well as Jefferson-Jackson Jefferson-Jackson dinners. One of the first pieces of mail I opened was from Republican National Chairman Mead Alcorn, requesting my preferences as to places to deliver de-liver Lincoln Day speeches. And actually, I should like the I object to conservatives wrapping wrap-ping themselves in the mantle of Jefferson as much as I do the mantle of Lincoln. The conservatives conserva-tives of Jefferson's day were not those who signed the Declaration 1 of Independence or helped con- (Continued on Page 8) Sen. Moss Addresses Montana Jefferson-Jackson Dinner also wish to acknowledge his personal friendship and encouragement. encou-ragement. Before the session, when I visited Washington to make plans for the beginning, it was Senator Murray who made my task much easier by making available the use of his office and facilities. And we are all aware of the outstanding contribution to the leadership of the United States Senate made by Mike Mansfield, and of the meaning to the West of that leadership. Senator Mansfield Mans-field is the Democratic Party whip, or assistant leader. He is a leader on the Foreign Affairs Committee. I point out further that the policy of Mansfield, that all Senators must have membership member-ship on important committees, has greatly benefited but section (Continued from Page 1) struct and obtain ratification of the Constitution. Let the standpatters read this, inscribed on a panel of the Memorial Me-morial Room of the Jefferson Memorial. I quote: "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, enlight-ened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change; with the change of circumstances institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times." What conservative standpat Republican of that day or this day would have had the courage and vision to obtain the Louisiana Louisi-ana Purchase and secure to this country in her infancy the great State of Montana and all of her sister states down river to the Gulf? ' Jefferson was a man of action and at the same time increased the contribution that new members mem-bers can make to the work of the Senate. So successful has been this policy in fact, that public pub-lic approval plus the nudge given by the electorate last fall, has forced the Republican leadership to adopt a similar one. And wouldn't the growing political po-litical power of the west have delighted Andrew Jackson. Old Hickory was the first Western President, coming from what and courage; but, above all, a man of vision. Because of these, I am happy, to count myself a Jeffersonion Democrat and to point to the distinguisned senators sena-tors from Montana as worthy ( successors to the Jeffersonian tradition. As the experienced and respected re-spected chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular In-sular Affairs, James E. Murray stands today as the most powerful power-ful individual in America influencing influ-encing the development of water resources. I am most grateful for the opportunity of serving with him on the committee. I was to easterners the frontier Tennessee. And however different differ-ent the backgrounds of Jefferson, Jeffer-son, the' Virginia intellectual, and Jackson, the Tennessee warrior, war-rior, may have been, their basic political philosophy was in agree ment one one most important point that the Government of this Republic belonged to all the people. |