Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-25

| in his Grafton The first lesson Mr. Dol
liver had learned from the life of Nc
| Kinley was the duty of citizenship. The
| president had never missed a vote since
| the year of his coming of age, and had
once told Mr.. Dolliver that he would
never anlful his citizenship by absence
from the polls so long as he had
strength to carry himself to the voting
place. Then followed a vigorous eNhor-
| tation upon the duties of citizenship
and the great evils due to the neglect
to vote on the part of our better citizens
in the great cities.
Senator Dolliver saw in the life of
Mckinley an inspiration to great work
seldom contained in the biographies of
great men. He had become discouraged
in reading biogra phies of such men as
Napoleon, Cromwell and others, be-
cause, before he had progressed ten
pages he was overcome by the convic-
ton that these characters were extra
ordinary, almost superhuman from
their very infancy, and an ordinary
man could never hope to reach their
class. Mckinley. however was merely
an average man. There was nothing
miraculous about his boyhood, young
manhood, or even his military or con-
gressonal career. He had all the ele-
ments of sterling character, was
deep student and simply grew and grew
among his fellow average men until he
ssacame one of the greatest statesmen
the world ever knew.
This boyhood of McKinleys gave
Dolliver the greatest lesson of the
whole life. and he dwelt upon 1t for
NJ ,,lv Y nj
tunity to rap the morbid school of So
cial science, and particularly Heron
ISM 1t was to the effect that this coun-
try and this government was essentially
poor boys country and would always
remain poor boys government. He
went over the list of innumerable great
men of the day. in public life, business
world, art and letters, and every one of
them, with the single remarkable ex-
ception of President Roosevelt, had
walked into New York from the rural
districts had been poor boys forced
to do things from the first years of their
lives
Delivers philosophy Is essentially a |
healthy, we'll fed. optimistic philosophy. |
He can see no great danger in the con-
tentions between capital and labor or
in the growth of trusts, for the lives of /
such men as Mckinley had taught him |
that no one but the poor boy had any
chance in this country, that the chill
dren of the rich We're doomed to OBJ
security from birth, and that within
twenty years every great railroad pres
ident, every great bank president, and /
every great trust magnate of today
would be either dead or a physical
wreck because of his cares, and panic
stricken boards of directors from one
end of the world to the other would
be securing America for men of action
capable of taking up the burdens of
great responsibility.
The lecture was two hours and half
ong, yet the audience was entertained
every minute of the time, and at 10
o'clock. when he looked at his watch
md commented upon the lateness of
The hour with the observation that he
ought to stop, but was not going to.
he applause was deafening. Senator
Dolliver loses none of his entertaining
ways in his lecture role, and happily
,elieves any fatigue in the audience by
! judioious sprinkiing of funny stories,
many of them heard before in hts cam
,aigning. but all of them funny and no
ess amusing when newly applied The
was one of the best on ;
his years Y. M. G. A. course,