Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-20

| SOuTl Is OuS VI IlS greatest SUdCSS anu
noted with odd Kentucy' for it's hos
pitality, fine horses, manly men and
beautiful women. And another fact;
that there has been million of dol
lars taken out of the state of Iowa in
the last two years to buy lands for
some of the most intelligent farmers,
who with their families have turned
their backs on Iowa and gone to this
! so-called wilderness to make their flu
ture homes. Having been a resident
of both states should be able to make
some fair comparisons but you know
it is hard to depart from your rails
4 in and if l should not eulogize old
Missouri little, my family would
never forgive me, for they were all
born in the wilderness and taught to
at all times to stand up for old Mis-
souri,.
AS to the commercial enterprise, Ga
subject in which this organization of
successful and energetic business men
are deeply interested) in my opinion,
there is no question as to Iowa's supe-
riority, as in nearly every country and
town within its borders are to be
!, found either large or small factories
or jobbing interest, while in Missouri
there are only about seven cities or
towns in which you can find this same
condition existing, and four of these
are located on its borders and there
fore depend great deal on the COM
mercial enterprise and advantages of
neighboring states for commercial
support. While Kansas City, Mo-, dis
tributes more agricultural implements
and farm machinery than any other
city in the world, it is yet dependent
on them to show that it can be sue
cessful point at which to manufacture
this same line of goods. While in Iowa
there are several large manufacturing
concerns and probably twenty times
as many in numbers as can be found
in the state of Missouri; this being
brought about by the fact that Iowa's
business men lend their efforts to-
, ward the upbuilding of commercial
and manufacturing enterprises and
having the faculty of being able to
! lend any worthy enterprise that is
| trying to improve it's conditions, by
moving out OF other states into the
: state of Iowa.
''It has been found by the managers
/ of the Dain Manufacturing Co. since
5 locating in Ottumwa that in going to
; the trade in the east. west and north
' it has been a great help in getting
business and has given them great
| deal of prestige by being able to let
. the user of their goods understand
, that they were made in Iowa, which is
D only a Just reward to it's many COM
: mercial organizations which have been
striving, working and undertaking to
= show the people all over the country
q what a glorious and magnificent state
INF C
, of the city of Ottumwa, whose progress
r sive citizens have been found at all
t times ready to lend financial aid and
Y give their valuable time to the up
4 building of the commercial interests
4 of this, the most enterprising city OF
S Iowa. Its large packing house, its
e railroads and it's jobbing interests
n public buildings, library and its many
Y manufacturing plants are all evidences
y of its push and enterprise. These
facts, taken together with the many
J. other advantages found in Ottumwe
n were accountable for me having made
@ the decision to come Out OF the vii
v derness, or from Missouri to Iowa
Il F. w. Simmons.
t. f. w Simmons. in responding to tn
e toast which had been allotted to him
e snrhe Business Man in Politics." spok
= in part as follows:
s. Mr.. Simmons said that when h
p first received the information as t
Y the subject of his toast, he thought !
$ was an easy one, and that olmast any
one ought to be able to say somethin!
on it. The more he reflected, he said
the more serious it became, and h
1t then realized that he would not b
IS able to respond with the usual wit tina
s is anticipated.
s He said, seriously, he never like
the common definition of cuisines
!. man." as applied to politics. Ever
e man, from a political standpoint is
d business man. from the humblest vol
S, er to the greatest financier, and tn
S responsibility which rests with tn
d right of franchise in this particular
e greater than any other.
II Every voter is not only a bushes
e man. but he is a small king in re
publican form of government. Bust
Is ness men, therefore, as applied to pol
Is tics in a republican form of govern
!, ment are not only the merchants
" bankers, money changers, ETC., bu
u, they include all who have the rigt
- to vote.
- With this understanding of what
- business man is what is politics?
An eminent French writer (and
~ am glad to say French and Not Anne
- ican), in describing his idea of pol
~ ~ tics, says: Politics, like religion,
is matter of faith in which reason
,s allowed to say as little as possible"
,r Now, | rather think this is compli
1s mentary to the science of religion
n. and, indeed, is a very clever stroke {
"a defining what politics is.
Il OF course he speaks from unive
X sal standpoint and perhaps not wit
Of out full knowledge of what polite
I'd means in a form Of government liz
Id ours.
~ The blindness of faith is too ofte
of not good thing in American polite
1t Not enough of reason is employee
ne Not enough of our so-called bushes
ed men are found at the o'clock cal
ne cuses of our political parties. NJ
at enough attention is paid at the star
it ing point where the personnel of ca
ne didates is crystalized. The respons
bility is too often laid upon the fe
who have been guided merely by Il