Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-06
is A HIGH ENDORSEMENT
His Address is Enthusiastically
Received.
WORDS WIN MANY FRIENDS FOR HIM
Points Out the Fact That the Boys of
the Present Are the Voters of the
Future and Should Be Well
Trained.
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Governor A. B. Cummins was the
guest of honor at the Young Mems
Christian association banquet in this
city last evening. He was introduced
to the assemblage by Major Samue
Mahon, who acted as POSTMASTER, and
who voiced the sentiments of the
whole city when he greeted Mr.. Cum.
minis and extended to him a hearty
welcome to what he termed the "reser
vation.''
Governor Cummins made an address
last evening that pleased everyone
who heard him and added to his al
ready long list of warm friends in this
city. His sincere endorsement as a
business man and a public official, of
the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton will long be cherished by the
members of the organization, and his
words of encouragement will aid them
much in their great undertaking which
lies before them now-the raising of
$4,000 among the citizens of Ottum-
wa Tor the purpose of defraying the
expenses necessary to improve the as
ISOLATION building, and also to nav off
nm existing debt.
The Governors Speech.
Governor Cummins, as he rose to
his feet, was greeted with loud ap-
plause. He spoke as follows:
Mr.. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen-It
could accept the version of this mat
ter so gracefully put before you by
my friend at my right and could be-
lleve myself one of the condemned |
should exercise executive clemency on
myself at once. | would pardon my.
self within two minutes, and thus es,
cape what would be for me mourn
full quarter of an hour
However, | am not at all sensible
to being condemned to anything else
than an evening of genuine pleasure
among you gentlemen. | am not here
to make speech because | have spok-
en- so much recently that have grown
tired of the sound of my own voice
and expect that you will share the
same feeling. l am here to show you
that | sympathize with the association.
l have the keenest concern in the
growth and the prosperity of the
Young Mems Christian association of
Ottumwa-nay, throughout the United
States and the entire world
They have several phases. One of
these is too high and too holy for me.
| shall not look upon the subject from
the point of the effect the Y. NJ. C. A.
has for salvation in the next world.
My interest is with it's potency in the
salvation of men in this world Sec
ond, to the schools it is the greatest
influence for good in the nation.
Il can but view the association as
a factor in the problem of good gov
eminent. We are all greatly interest
ed in this phase. There is not one of
us that does not desire peace justice
and good government, and it is from
that point that look upon the asso-
citation.
Power of People.
Here are 75,000,000 or 76 900 900 peo-
pie, with society growing more and
more complex every year. Problems
come up every day. Relations be.
tween men are growing more difficult
to ascertain, define and preserve
What do we demand? We must have
in the future, as in the past, a great
proportion of the people well disposed
toward good government Everyone
is interested in the good of society.
Government is impossible unless the
people COVE implicit obedience to the
rules. Did you ever think how little
a part of the world the government
really is? Sometimes l think that
people magnify the authority of the
governmental officials. There are
books of laws, but these include only
an infinitesimal part of the obliga-
tons men owe each other. And it is to
this instructive obedience on the part
of the great multitudes of people that
We owe the progress of this govern
ment.
Justice is administered in the
courts, but little of the justice of the
world ever gets into the courts. The
real court is the conscience, the real
sheriff is the strong right arm of an
honest man rendering to his neighbor
that to which the nsighbor is entitled
Each does more jastice than all the
courts in Christendom. He who de-
ponds on the courts and laws for safe
ty always has lost a great bulwark.
'9The churches, schools, etc, consti-
tute great safety of the people, and
when we are supporting the Y. M. c..
A. we are protecting ourselves with a
mighty bulwark against danger to the