Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-28
Governor Delivers Address at
Oelwein This Afternoon.
THE BENEFIT OF CAPITAL
Great Western Railroad shops at Del.
wein Opened with Much Ceremony
Shaw Thinks State Benefited
by Having Large Capital

Oelwein. Sept. 2s.-(Special.) Since
early morning Oelwein has been a
scene of continual excitement over the
opening of the Chicago Great Western
railroad shops in this city. The rail-
road company spared no expense to
make The affair success, and as evil
dence that its purpose did not fail, it
is estimated that 5000 visitors are in
the city. The shops surpass the most
sanguine expectations and We're all day
thronged with people.
Governor Shaw said in part:
at a time when the sentiment OF the
country is so generally opposed to large
aggregations of capital, it was some
what unexpected pleasure TO receive
an invitation TO participate in ceremon-
les and exercises commemorative of a
conspicuous triumph of combined
wealth. Iowa has been much benefit
ed by the construction of the Chicago
Great Western railway. II affords the
metropolis of the west and the Twin
Cities of our sister commonwealth on
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Kansas City, the gateway of the south
and west, and connects all by trunk
Lines across our own state via our cap
ital city. And Oelwein is particularly
fortunate that in. this great enterprise
She has been selected as the center
from which radiates the several
branches of the system, and that here
has been erected. and is this day form
ALLY opened, the shops of the company,
the completion of which alone requires
the expenditure OF clean million dol
lars.
The Chicago Great Western railway
appears to be very prosperous. Its rec
ord is most enviable. Its success has
been phenomenal. Suppose we study
the laws under which all this has beer
accomplished First. the road has met
q Want hand he who furnishes the
world with what the world asks. and ut
n reasonable price, will always find a
market. If you were to build factory
in Oelwein for the manufacture of
spinning wheels. it would not matter
how much capital was back of it, the
enterprise would fail. The world now
has no use for spinning wheels. II did
once. He who succeeds must keep
abreast of the times. Any man who
anticipates what the. world will need
next wear and prepares himself to fur
nish itsf will be called lucky; blft he
will be wise. He who pays no atten-
tion TO the. wants of the world. and
prepares himself to supply no need,
will be called unl1,cky. but he will be a
fool. The Chicago Great Western has
succeeded by conforming to the laws
|of success. All over this county and in
adjoining counties. and throughout the
STATE are hundreds of men who have
accumulated competency, and who
are looking for pleasant homes in pros
porous localities, under good influences,
with churches, and schools. and amid
industrial activities. Make Oelwein
conform to these conditions, and while
You will have in Iowa very intense COM
petition. you will be able to sell your
product. n
You have in your midst large num-
ber of children. | wish you had nore,
notwithstanding the fact that the world
is fn. of children. full of Young men.
and full of young women, and he mar
ket seems to be overstocked with them:
but it is not. There is a market vet.
and there never was so good a market
for young men and young women who
can do something that the world de-
sires done But those who can do
nothing. and whoprefer to do nothing.
We're never before SO much a drug on
the market. Prepare your children for
the market the same as you prepare
your horses and Your cattle. and YOUR
wheat and your corn. When Il load of
grain goes over this great line of road
into Chicago. no one inquiries on whose
land it grew: but it is examined by an
expert, and sells for what it is worth.
When load of cattle goes to the mar
ket there is no certificate or letter of
recommendation accompanying them.
They go into the yards with cattle from
score of other states, and from a
hundred other feeding pens, and they
sell on their merits. 1t is a mere bust
ness proposition and not matter of
friendship. The man who shall in the
future furnish employment for your
boy, whether it be the sick man who
EMPLOYS him as his physician, or the
man in the prisoners dock who en-
ploys him as his attorney, or the eco
nomical saver of his earnings who em-
plovs him as his banker. or whether ii
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be the state at large which calls him
to serve in some official position, will
never inquire into the conditions under
which he was reared, except as he may
seek to estimate the effect of these con
ditions upon his life. The supreme in
quiry will be, Does your son meet the
requirements of the market? Is he the
man needed?''
The board of control mt Des AIoines
the other day discharged i fellow from
their Office. not for political reasons,
nor because he did not have good rec
concentrations, nut because he was be-
low the standard. And these three men
composing that board, each of whom
had begun life without penny. and
had climbed to their present exalted no.
sitions along the common highway of
human TOLL. sought for a Young man
to take his place. Where do you sup
pose they looked? They had in their