Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-29
Rev. Core, Just Returned From
Long Residence In India, An ]
Ardent Expansionist. !
Practical Ideas Gained From Ex.
perience With Oriental People
Force is Necessary.
Ex-Governor Larrabee Talks Of
Iowa's Manufacturing 0ppor-
tunities.

! Des Moines, Aug. 29.-The Rev. L. A.
Gore, missionary of the Methodist Epis-
copal church in India, for eight or ten
years, is visiting in Des Moines. Mr.
Core married the daughter of DR.. j. F..
| Kennedy, of this city, in India, Miss
Kennedy having gone there as a mis-
sionary. They We're married there and
came home recently to visit at the Ken
nedy home. Mr.. Core has lived in many
parts of India, and has studied the ori-
entail peoples carefully. He declares
that for the United States to withdraw
| from the Philippines at this time would
islands. Mr.. Core, who has some prac-
tical ideas, gained from actual expert
ence, about the treatment that should
be accorded to oriental peoples, is not
worried by the squeamish notions of
people who sarcasticaly refer to
"Christianizing the heathens at the
point of thirteen-inch guns On the
other hand he is of the opinion that
sometimes the thirteen-inch gun is a
very useful adjunct to missionary la
bors.
Mr.. Core bases his conclusions on his
knowledge of the changed conditions
that have been wrought in India as a
result of English rule. He declares that
the people are immeasurably better
there for having been brought under
the influence of western Institutions
civilization and religion. He says the
same would be true in the Philippines.
These oriental peoples have, through
thousands of years of stagnation,
proved that they are not capable of
uplifting themselves and improving
their condition. They need the strong
hand and guiding influence of a west
ern power over them; and providence
has Imposed on the American nation
the responsibility of doing for the Phil
Iippines what Britain has done for the
Hindoos. He adds that the changed
attitude of the British toward Ameri-
leans abroad. since the war with Spain
lis a decided satisfaction to Americans
who have become accustomed to seeing
4 their own country set down as a third
Erate power. Nowadays the British and
for that matter all other classes of Eu-
Iropeans. take off their hats to Brother
Jonathan and salute him as full
grown member of the family of powers.
Governor Larrabee, whose anti
Iimperialistic views have been criticised
la good many times recently, but who
has never been accused of being a nov
lice in business or failure as bust
ness man, declares that the time has
leone when Iowa ought to begin to de-
velop a line of manufacturing indus
tries of its own. There is no reason
Iwhy we can't make things out of iron
/ just as successfully and just as profita-
! bly, In Iowa as they can in Illinois" he
declared. :" l know what / am talking
about, for nave been a manufacturer
4 iri Iowa, and have made t pay. A good
lmany years ago now, l found Il man up
lat my home town in northeastern Iowa
lwho could make good plows. l furnished
him money to start a little factory and
before long he was making thousands
1of plows every year. and making them
at u profit. He made good ones, and he
KNEW how to make them cheaply
lenough to compete with other nanufac-
lturers. A practical man can do the
same thing at any other good point in
jIowa. But after while our manufac-
lturer got prosperous, and saloon
lstarted up across the way from his fac
Itory. He got to dividing his time be-
tween the factory and the saloon and
1.-The men he left to do the work didn |
| temper his plows so we'll as when he
was watching them. The plows lost
Their good reputation, and at last the
business was lost. But that wasn't the
lfault of the state of Iowa, except in that
the state permits saloons within its
lborders. l tell you that | can go into
1.-THE manufacture of agricultural imple-
ments in Iowa today and make money
at 1t. All it needs is business manage
ment and careful attention to details
| A good deal of attention is being
lgiYen by the politicians to the an
nouncement that Hon. Henry Nollmer,
of Davenport. late idol of the democra-
/ Icy of Scott county, and erstwhile vic
tim OF the ultra-silver sentiment of
| the Iowa democracy, is TO practically
open the democratic campaign in Iowa.
| 1t will be recalled that MIR. Nollmer in
| 1895. as a delegate from Scott county,
tried to address the democratic conven-
| tion and was howled and hissed by the
! Isilyerites till a less determined man
would have given up the effort to make
himself heard. Mr.. Nollmer had his
say but it didn't prevent his being
practically thrown out of the party the
next year.
| But Mr.. Vollmer is back in line again
| He has discovered that the democratic
party, spite of its weakness for silver,
suits him better than any other. So he
is to make speech at the lSeokuk
county convention in Sigourney on Aug.
g. MIR. Nollmer, it is announced, was in
vited by Mr.. White himself to make this
address His speech will be awaited
with good deal of interest. 1t would
be hard to pick two men in the whole
state of Iowa who represent more dia-
metrically opposing positions on politi-
cal matters than Mr.. White and Mr..
| Vollmer have been supposed to repre-
sent during the last four years. Their
efforts to sleep comfortably In the same
political bed will be noted with inter-
est.
The democratic state committee will
: rcof f0roor,.Cxu 20 y,1on