Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-07
MISSIONARIES VIEW.
Rev. Gore, Just Returned From In
dia. an Ardent Expansionist.
EXPERIENCE WITH ORIENTAL PEOPLE


Manufacturing Opportnnities-Date
Set for Celebration of Landing of
she Germans in This Country.
Des Moines, Sept. 1.-THE Rev. L. A.
Gore, missionary Of the Methodist
Episcopal church in India, for eight or
ten years, is visiting in Des Moines.
MIR. Gore married the daughter of DR..
y. +. Kennedy, of this city, in India,
I Miss Kennedy having gone there as a
1 missionary. They were married there
and came home recently to visit at the
Kennedy home. Mr.. Core has lived in
many parts of India, and has studied
the Oriental peoples carefully He de-
clares that for the United States to
withdraw from the Philippines at this
time would be a great wrong to the
people of these islands. Mr.. Core, who
has some practical ideas, gained from
actual experience, about the treatment
5 that should be accorded to Oriental
peoples, is not worried about the
saueamish notions OF people who sar-
llcathens at the point of thirteen-inch
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oninion that sometimes the thirteen
inch gun is very useful adjunct to
missionary labors.
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 UNNECESSARILY 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 west
ern power over them; and providence
has imposed on the American nation
the responsibility of doing for the Fill
ipinos what Britain has done for the
Hindoos. He adds that the changed at
titude of the British toward Ameri-
cans abroad, since the war with Spain,
is decided satisfaction to Americans
who have become accustomed to seeing
their own country set down as a third
rate power. Nowadays, the British,
and for that matter all other classes of
Europeans. take off their hats to
Brother Jonathan and salute him as a
full grown member of the family OF
i powers.
Governor Larrab bee, whose anti-im-
perialistic views have been criticised a
4guoa .rany times recently, but who
has never been accused of being a
novice in Business or a failure as a
business man, declares that the time
has come when Iowa ought to begin TO
develop line of manufacturing indus
tries of its own. "There is no reason
why we can't make things out of iron
just as successfully and just as protita-
bly, in Iowa as they can in Illinois"
he declared. 81 know what am talk
ing about, for have been manufac-
turer in Iowa, and have made it pay.
A good many years ago now, ! found
man up in my home town in north
eastern Iowa who could make good
plows | furnished him money to
start a little factory, and before long
he was making thousands of plows ev-
ery year, and making them at profit
He made good ones, and he knew how
to make them cheaply enough to COM
nete with other manufacturers. \
practical man can do the same thing
! a any other good point in Iowa. But
after a while our manufacturer got
prosperous, and a saloon started up
across the way from his factory He
got to dividing his time between the
factory and the saloon, and the men
he left to do the work didn't temper
his l,lows so well as when he was
watching them. The plows lost their
good reputation, and at last the bust
ness was lost. But that wasn't the
fault of the state of Iowa, except in
that the state permits saloons within
its borders. / tell you that ] can 20
into the manufacture Of agricultural
implements i'll Iowa today and make
money at it. All it needs is business
management and careful attention to
details.
A good deal of attention is being
given by the politicians to the an
nouncement that Hon. Henry Nollmer,
OF Davenport, late idol of the democ-
racv of Scott county, and erstwhile a
victim of the ult1a-slyer sentiment of
the Iowa democracy. is to practically
open the democratic campaign in
Iowa. 1t will be recalled that Mr..
Nollmer in 1895, as delegate from
Scott county, tried to address the
democratic convention and was howl
ed and Kissed by the silverites till a
less determined man would have given
4 UP the effort TO make himself heard.
Mr.. Vollmer had his say, but it didn't
prevent his being practically thrown
out of the party the next year.
But Mr.. Nollmer is back in line
again He has discovered that the
democratic party, in spite of its weak
! ness for silver, suits him better than
any other. So he is to make speech
at the Keokull county convention in
Sigonrney. Mr.. Vollmer, it is an
nounced. was invited 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 diametri-
cally opposing positions on political
matters than Mr.. White and Mr.. VoIl-
mer have supposed TO represent during
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