Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-20
Toledo's Famous Mayor Talks to
Municipal League on Golden
Rule Government.
Partisan Politics and Beast Ethics
Menace the Happiness Of the
People.
President Black Makes Annual Ad.
dress and Tells Of thu Conven.
tion's Objects.

League OF American municipalities ls
considered very encouraging. A recep-
ton was given the visiting delegates
last evening at the Yates hotel.
In his annual report President Black
said:
We are not here to lose ourselves in
abstruse and abstract speculations. Our
purpose ia sternly practical one. We
deal with human lite; we seek to pro-
long ito suffer it to run its natural
course unchecked and unhampered by
disease. We aim to work this out by
disposng of such severely practical
questions as garbage disposal, water
supply, civil service reform, saloon reg
ulations and similar measures. Neither
the physicians nor the minister of the
gospel go before us as the humanitari-
an.
IF we and others working along this
line can increase the general average of
the health and happiness of the millions
who dwell in cities, we have gained a
victory compared to which the destruc-
ton of fleet or an army is as to moth
ing. Since the last meeting of the league
our people have been called upon to un-
dertake or at least to regulate the gov
eminent of cities in new countries, and
in Havana, Santiago. Manila and other
cities of the East and West Indies our
vigorous soldiers and administrators
are enforcing the first principles of our
municipal systems-cleanliness and or
| der. Whatever plans are proposed and
whatever hopes we indulge the bulk of
our voters are not educated upon NUM-
| cipal affairs and are not informed of
l. ~ =,
proper exercise of their suffrages. The
| voter should be taught what he can se-
cure by intelligent voting. This must
| be done by the object lesson and exam
| Pile of other cities where so much has
been done for the public at large. Tell
the voters what to vote for and put
your examples in the concrete.
| At the afternoon session President
Black made change in the program
and introduced Mayor Jones of Toledo,
who was to speak today, but who was
| compelled to leave last night for Ohio.
/ Manor Jones spoke on THE New Pat
/ riotism--A Golden Rule Government
| He said:
i LAS it stands today. 1t is simple cam
dor to say that the word patriotism is
to most people a meaningless jingle, the
one conception they have of the thing
4 being associated with red fire, bunting.
4 flags, firecrackers and Fourth of July.
4 The new patriotism, however, is the
old patriotism. The flag, the Stars and
Stripes, still represents the love of mil
lions but we have been SO busy in the
chase after wealth that any just con-
5 Iception of patriotism is we'll nigh lost
in the hurry burly of the scramble.
I'VE have reached the point where we
ARE discovering that wild beast ethics
lare not good enough upon which TO base
Il permanent and enduring republic.
The ethics of the wild beast the sur
vival of the strongest, shrewdest and
1.-The mcanest have been the inspiration
If our materalistic lives during the last
quarter of a century. This fact in our
s. natural history, has brought us today
face to face with the inevitable result.
We have nation in which a few are
wealthy. a few are in what may be
! called comfortable circumstances, vast
numbers are propertyless, and millions
. are in pauperism and crime. Certainly
! no reasonable person will contend that
this is the goal that we have beer
struggling for; that the inequalities
that characterize our rich and poor rep
. resent the ideas that the founders oil
! this republic saw when they wrote thai
All men are created equal and the new
: patriotism is the love of the millions
that s already planning for and open.
!, ing the way to better things, to a con
70 sideration of life under this government
% when every child born in it will have
!. equal opportunity with every othe
10 child to live the best possible kind o
IF life that he or she can live.
,e THE steps most likely to contribut
to bringing about the better days, an
m better times, for which we all long. ar
ii Ito my mind those things that will unit
as the people. that will serve to weld then
it together into one common mass; thos
things that Will help them to under
stand the oneness, or solidarity, of so
: ciety; and the things that are tn
greatest hindrance to this sort of de
k, velopnient are all those agencies tina
n serve to separate the people into frag
rs ments. that keep alive the fires of ha
or tired within their bosoms and tend t
make them hate rather than to low
n each other All these agencies are TIL
ne enemies OF progress and liberty. an
is stand directly athwart the path of free
re dom. Chief among them and the on
v, agency above all others that the patrie
co pality, the state and the nation. is part
san politics"
r. Following Mayor Jones. the secretar
WI and treasurer made their annual RI
ports, after which the question box we
opened for the receipt of queries on sui
DIS jects pertaining to municipal govern
y ment.
Secretary GilSison stated in his al
nual report that, although the Leag,
he |of American Municipalities was but tv
at years of age on Aug. l, 1898. the leagl
ay had membership of seventy-tv
les cities; since then fifty-two cities ha'
is been added to the membership list. II
he bureau received during the year 7s2 SD
Use cial letters of inquiry relative to m
VS.. nicipal affairs
lly The remainder of the afternoon sc
en- sion was given up to papers and ID
it'll cussions on the collection and Disp
sal of Garbage" j. j. Williams, may
of Memphis. Tenn; III. ]. Gonden. y
tor of City Government, New Yor
lgs DR.. William C.. Woodward, health OF
'ay Ger of Washington, ID. c., presented p
399 pers on that subject.
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