The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-05-01
SENATOR DOLuVER
ARKANSAS CITY
Iowa Statesman Makes a Great
Hit Before the Knife
and Fork Club.
GETS A DEMONSTRATION
At the Close of His Lecture on "a Poor
Mans Government and a Poor
Mans Country" the Guests
Rose and Cheered.

Mans Country" the Guests
Rose and Cheered.
Kansas City, April 27.-United States
Senator Jonathan p. Dolliver Of Iowa
and Congressman Philip P. Campbell of
Kansas City were the speakers at the
banquet of the Knife and Fork club.
Senator Dolliver gave his lecture or "a
Poor Mans Government and a Poor
Boys Country which he is delivering
this year under the direction of the
Central Lyceum bureau Of Kansas
City.
The Knife and Fork club has enter
tanned many distinguished guests, but
1t is safe to say that it never listened
to a finer orator than the junior senator
from Iowa. But Senator Dolliver is
more than an orator and q statesman.
he is a philosopher, a humorist and a
patriot, who represents sound American
doctrine in a way that entertains, while
1t strikes conviction to the hearts Of
MS hearers and causes men, Instructive
~, to entertain greater love for their
flag and better appreciation Of the re-
sponsibillties Of life n citizenship.
The lecture aboundS in epigrams full
OF deep, impressive meaning.
When Senator Dolliver had conclud-
ed the ~banqueters rose to their feet and
gave him such a demonstration as is
seldom witnessed at a dinner Of this
character. The applause was prolonged.
The dinner was held in the ''ordin-
ary' at the Coates house. Seated at
the head table, besides the speakers and
Clarence S. Palmer, the president of the
club, were: Congressman w. G. Cow
herd, United States District Attorney
William Warner, eX-Congressman John
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B. Longan, DR.. E. F. Robinson and the
Rev. Father Smith.
Mckinley His Model.
Senator Dolliver has built bis lecture
about the life and work of William Nc
Kinley. II am especially drawn to this
subject" he said, because I think we
ought to make everything possible out
Of such a life as his. Some lives seem
to have been strangely lifted up SO that
all men and generations might see
them. Mr.. Mckinley was a defender of
ideas, an advocate of principle, a pro-
FOUNDER of doctrine.
Every president, not even excepting
Washington, has lived In a storm of
calumny. Some of our presidents
notably Cleveland, ave suffered the
double misfortune Of being lied about,
first by n party and then by another.
But grievous as have been the afflic-
@AoAAo ASi Sol cl Lit abuse OIL Tree
speech and a free press, infinitely worse
would be their infringement, even in the
slightest degree.
Mckinley showed a lifelong devotion
to the everyday duties Of citizenship.
When he was president he always went
home to Canton on election day to vote.
In his own words, he never permitted
the cares-ef business or the fatigue of
travel to nullify his citizenship
want to make every man here a mis-
sionary Of good citizenship. Our form
of government demands everybody's
attention. Had we a government ruled
by a car, everybody could afford to
neglect 1t. Our institutions stand to
take more damage from a failure to
vote right than a failure to vote at all
that is, your failure to vote as I do.
The Mckinley ideal will one day, per-
meate the best heart and brain of
America, when no man will take office
In any precinct where every vote has
not been freely cast and honestly
counted. l said in Chicago ten years
ago, n the national tragedy two years
did not change my opinion, that
the whole creed of anarchy in America
belongs to the boards of health instead
of the police force. Mckinley, I am
glad to say, was not born in abject
poverty. He was born on the average
level, which has given to the world
every important personal factor. He
attended a small college, like so many
of these in Kansas and Missouri, which
IN my opinion, are doing more good
than all the large colleges put to-
gether.
Boys Who Struggle Win.
II could not read many pages Of Ma
poleon's life without discovering that
he was a prodigy. When / read OF
Lincoln I cannot help but think Of him
as a superb automatic figure in the
hands OF an infinite power. But Nc
Kinley "a human. He was not a re-
markable student or soldier. He died
as he lived, shoulder to shoulder with
millions of men. He was not a great
lawyer and there Is no tradition In
congress to connect him with any re-
markable service there. He secured a
great position in the house by dint OF
long, continuous service. The best ad-
vice I can give the constituency Of such
q congressman as o have here is tc
give him c good. long term.
Because Mckinley lived an average
life l use his life to refute the humbue
philosophers of life. The longer I liye
he less sympathy I have for the poor
The Lord arranged the world so thai
only the poor boys have a chance. He
arranged things SO that nobody does
things unless he has to. Give a DO,
$4,000 to start with ana he doesn',
start. Instead of that. give your for.
tune to some institution Of philan.
thropy or learning and let your boy
fight he battles of life just as ycl
have.
The world is getting uncomfortabl,
crowded with morbid schools of socia
science. | am not here to sneer at ap.
piled Christianity. l am growing more
convinced that such questions as thu
labor question and the race question
will be solved at last in the practica
application in the daily life of tn.
world as Christ applied 1t. But Iowa!
Professor Heron taught that this prin.
ciple could not be applied to this gen,
GRAFTON at all. He taught that we ar,
all mixed up IN a complex social Grim,
and proposed that everybody make
general assignment and turn severy
thing over to the state. Then every