Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-03
KANSAS FIRST PLACE
Her Representative in the Inter.
state Oratorical Contest
Wins the Medal.
Iowa Wesleyan University. Mt.
Pleasant. Announced VIM
ner by Mistake.
Two Thousand People Hear Col
lese Orators at Des Moines
Auditorium.

Auditorium.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 3.-The Kansas
man won first honors in the interstate
cratorical contest held in this city last
evening. The results were as follows:
First-R. Loot Bourrow. of Baker
University. Kansas; subject, The Ori-
ent and the Occident.''
second-w. r. Davis, of Ripon Col
lege. Wisconsin,; subject, Hamlet
Third-C. NJ. Cavanee, of Iowa Wcs-
leyan University; subject. True Repub-
licantsm"
The contest was held in the auditors
UNI and over 1000 people heard the ora
tors BY a mistake in the announcement
Of the Judges first place was given to
Iowa and third to Kansas, but the mis-
take was corrected at late hour ard
the correct ranking is as above stated.
THE True Repubilcanism was the
| subject of the Grafton delivered by Clark
NJ. Cavanee, of Iowa Wesleyan Univer-
| sity, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, who re-
ceived third honor. Mr. Cavanee first
spoke of the two opposing forces, ndI-
| viduality and organization, which he
said balanced and even checked unre-
| strained action of the other. The true
epublicanism, he said. was the main
tenance of individual freedom and social
order the coordination of rights and
duties. the establishment of the equi-
| llbrium between individuality and or
/ ganization'
He spoke of the many remedies pre-
scribed between capital and labor.
Continuing he said:
THE anarchist. demanding unre-.
strained individual power. would anni-
hilate government, plunge America into
1 a chaotic sea of contention, and bury
4 the civilization of the present and the
1 hopes for the future in one melancholy
I ruin. The socialists, voicing the other
1 extreme of reform. would abolish pri-
waite enterprise. erect a paternal govern
ment and surrender every form of in
Gustry and legitimate liberties of the in
/ soividual to an unduly exalted state. So
ciaism is unprogressive, unrepublican.
unjust. The abolition of private enter
prise would Inevitably bring stagnation
and disaster: for this magic force is the
motor of human progress. 1t has built
monuments greater than the time defy
| ing pyramids. filled the world with
/ blessings. woven the wondrous fabric
lof modern civilization and sends
streams of energy and advancement
gushing thru the huge arteries of the
1 present. Erase from history what indi-
svidual enterprise has accomplished and
nearly every great achievement will be
/ gone. Self-help generates strength; per-
sonal responsibility develops manhood.
The marvellous growth of this nation
Under the benign, vivifying influence of
iepublicanism has been the overshadow-
4 ing political fact of the nineteenth CEN
/ tury. This republic has been fountain
LOT light to those who sat in darkness.
Our grand opportunities imposed obl.-
1 cations; our ears We're not deaf to the
prayers of enslaved humanity. For,
when the perishing little army of Gu
4 bans invoked our aid, America, seeking
! Tot the pomp of a possessor. but the Of
1 flee of a redeemer, barred her arm to lift
/ up those despairing children of men. BY
4 elevating others we elevated ourselves,
enrobed our nation with moral grand
eur. made 1t greater, truer. nobler than
ever before, and thru all the vicissitudes
of war we have seen cleaning forth as
Il in line of fire the tracing of Gods fin
ger Today every pulsation of America S
4 heart reaches the finger tips of civiliza-
ton. We stretch our hands into the fu-
4 ture with power to mould the destinies
of unborn millions. Drawing inspiration
4 from the onward sweep of the nations
pl ogress. baptised with the spirit of lib
crty and law, let strong, courageous
America more fully embody In her gov
4 eminent the inviolabie principles of the
fepublcanism. plant these priceless
principles in the newly-freed islands oil
!. the sea-spread them like a girdls OF
light around the globe"
THE Orient and the Occident'' was
4 the subject of the winning Grafton de-
lsvered by Robert Loofbourrow, of
Baker University, Baldwin, Kas. Mr..
Loorbourrow gave a brief review of the
4 progress OF civilization from Tie end OF
4 the fifth century to the close of the fif-
teenth century. when the renaissance
4 and the reformation We're ushered in.
He then spoke of the discovery of Amer
lea as the first step taken by civilization
| in its onward march toward the west
q He compared the oriental and the occi-
4 dental civilizations in their various
j phases, representing the oriental as one
i living in the past, unprogressive, en-
4 numbered and chained down by religious
customs and precedents of their forefa-
theirs in the bygone ages. He presented
the civilizations of the two worlds as
forces conflicting with each other and
4 claimed that the world must choose be-
tween the two. Continuing he said
4 The unitication of the race demands
that there shall be but one civilization,
that the purposes of men harmonize and
4 the clements of antagonsm be elimi-
mated. Thus far the wodern world. has
triumphed. 1t must be 80. Accept the
basic principle of the old civilization
! and you would put away the annals of
1.-THE last 400 years. Superstition would
sIreturn and gone forever would be- the
age of humanity. No heroic deeds. no
proud victories would render immortal
an age or a people; unknown this nigh
,y humanity shrouded in dream--in a
4 night without star! Accept the basic
principle of the new civilization and the
race awakes to action. In 1t lies the
!, hope Of the world. Actuated by its spir-
it the patriot forever sacrifices himself
Ito the common good. Those who
checked the Turks advance against it;
those who won FOR 1t the sovereignty OF
the oceans: the conquerors at YORKTOWN
land Appomattox; the heroes who, upon
the heights of the Antilles, wrote in