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uphold as on the shoulders of the 

 populace the worthy laws of this 

 magnificent State of Idaho. (He 

 gathered breath) Idaho, the brightest 

 gem in our great nation's diadem. 



"What man among you what 

 man among you, I say, would be so 

 blind to the calls of our divine 

 Columbia to let for a single fraction 

 of time the shadow of suspicion, 

 after listening to the evidence here 

 shown to-day, that the stranger 

 at our doors could have been guilty 

 of such conduct as he has herewith 

 been charged. What man so lost 

 to the powers of reason, whereby 

 he shows his divine origin, and 

 supremacy over the lower animals" 

 his voice rose in crescendo and 

 with a grand action his right arm 

 shot up and sawed the air with the 

 gesture known as wind-mill, his left 

 flung back the flap of his ready 

 made coat revealing a label, so that 

 all might read "The Fair. $7.98." 



It was the finish touch for Sally. 

 "Oh look, didn't I tell you it came 

 from Chicago?" 



All oblivious of the real cause of 

 the very evident impression he was 



