MASTHEAD

The Gemstone is an independent outlet about Idaho. Well, it’s about much more than that.

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If the press is not free;

if speech is not independent and untrammeled;

if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear,

it makes no difference under what form of government you live,

you are a subject and not a citizen.

— U.S. Sen. William E. Borah, 1917

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