The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-10-13

ELK republican newspapers, lts ono
hundred seventy.six thousand farms,
and its great number of homes, 1t being
exceeded in the number of the latter
by five states only. The issues of the
next campaign, said the speaker, turn
ing towards the future, will be different
from those of the past. The four hun
bred eighty.six millions of dollars
increase in the currency of the country
since the incoming of President McKin-
leys administration ensures that. The
question of trusts must be discussed
and if there is truly a menace in them
the republican party can be relied
on to take the right ground. In touch
ing on the Philippine question he ex-
pressed the conviction that where the
American flag had gone up there it
should stay, and affirmed that the
United States had been in the land
business ever since, if not before, Jeffer-
son himself was responsible for the
Louisiana purchase. Returning then
to the response to the address of wei.
come more particularly, he assured his
listeners that his memory of visits to
Owosso were all pleasant ones and he
was glad to be permitted to respond
to an address welcoming the republi-
can editors to Owosso again.
The Hon. Perry F. Powers was
called on for an address on the "Duty
and Destiny of the Nation" and as
usual acquitted himself with credit be-
coming the editor of one of Michigan's
best country weeklies, the Cadillac
News and Express, and member of
the state board of education. The des-
tiny of the nation he felt was never
fully perceived by all its citizens at any
one time, and, in fact, was interpreted
in widely different ways by different
communities and sets of men in the
nation. The men who landed at
Plymouth Rock, for instance, and those
who settled jamestown hardly had SIM
liar ideas of the destiny they were help
ing to carve out. But destiny is found
in duty. Take care of the duties of
today and the destinies of tomorrow
will be determined and fulfilled, and
rightly too. There have always been
predictions that American institutions
would never be able to withstand the
dead weight of the stream of emigrants
entering at Castle Garden, but duty
was done in the schools and the destiny
of the nation was not changed by the
incoming flood. No one clearly per-
ceived the destiny the schools were to
fulfill, but Horace Mann made their
duties so high and so apparent that they
have had the wonderful part which all
now see in working out the countrys
destiny. 1t is in the American school
and in the ranks of the American army
that we see the things which give the
lie to the assertion that the country is
to be broken up by great class and
factional strife. In both those institu.
tons we see sons of poverty and sons of
wealth working and enduring hardships
side by side, and if the thought of the
drum beat following the rising sun on
its journey around the world is an in
spring one, the thought of the tones of
its school bells also encircling the
world every twenty-four hours is a still
more inspiring one.
There is not another country on earth
where the needs of one man are so care
fully watched and cared for by his fell
low men, and when people say we are
in danger of losing our individuality by
expansion they forget that as long as it
is matter of our taking something to
these people instead of from them we
need have no fears of losing our own
individuality. See, for instance, what
we are doing for Cuba and Porto Rico,
taking the new civilization and enlight-
eminent there. So long as that is our
aim there can be no danger from with
out. In closing, Mr.. Powers congratu-
lated his hearers on being associated
with a party which has so uniformly
held up the best ideals before the
country and so successfully performed
the duties which have worked and are
still working out the high destiny to
which it is called
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The work of the association on We'd
nesday began early with the perform
ance of the somewhat personal and in
dividual duties of being entertained and
driven about the city. The reception
committee and other prominent citizens
were out in full force with traps and
Surveys as soon as the visitors began
emerging from the breakfast rooms of
the various hotels of the city. The
morning was little cool but the fact
that shower had laid the dust during
the night more than made up for any
fancied lack of warmth, and the visitors
were driven past the factories over the
bridges and paved streets, across other