The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-05-01
SENATOR DOLuVER
AT KANSAS CITY
Iowa Statesman Makes a Great
Hit Before the Knife
and Fork Club.
GETS a DEMONSTRATION

-
Mans Government and a Paor
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 We're the speakers at the
banquet of the Knife and Fork club.
Senator Dolliver ave his lecture on "A
EPoor Mans Government Il 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 a statesman.
de is a philosopher, a humorist and a
patriot, who represents sound American
doctrine in a way that e~ntertains, while
1T strikes conviction to the hearts Of
his hearers and causes men, instructive
~, to entertain greater love for their
nag and better appreciation of the re-
sponsibilities Of life and citizenship.
The lecture abounds in epigrams full
OF deep, impressive meaning.
When Senator Dolliver had conclud-
ed the b~anqueters 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 Dime was held in the "ordin-
airy" at the Coates house. Seated at
the head table, besides the speakers and
Clarence s. Palmer, the president Of the
club. were: Congressman w. c. Cow
herd, United States District Attorney
1 NI1 a ~ n ~ o,,I -, p -
z. Tarsney, II. S. Hadley, Professor G.
q. Iongan, DR.. e. F. Robinson and the
Rev. Father Smith.
Mckinley His Model.
Senator D%olliver has built bis lecture
about the life and work of William Nc
Kinley. Il am especially drawn to his
subject" he said, because I think we
ought to make everything possible out
OF such a life as his. Some Ines 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, have suffered the
double misfortune of being lied about,
first by one party and then by another.
But grievous as have been the affiic-
lions arising out of the abuse Of free
speech and a free press, infinitely worse
would be their aoridgement, 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
h cares of business or the fatigue OF
travel to nullify his citizenship I
want to make every mar here a mis-
sionary Of good citizenship. Our form
OF government demands e~verybody's
attention. Had we a government ruled
by a czar, 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, our 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 AXE office
In any precinct where every vote has
not been freely cast and honestly
counted. I said in Chicago ten years
ago, and the national tragedy two years
ago 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, 1 am
glad to say, was not born in abject
poverty. He was born on the average
iCNSi, WHICH LIDS SlSeI 70 the WOTlu
every important personal factor. He
attended a small college, like SO many
of these in Kansas INC 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 I 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 was 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 q great
lawyer n there is no tradition in
congress to connect him with my re-
markable service there. He secured a
great position in the house by dint Of
long, continuous service. The best adj
vice I can give the constituency of such
a congressman as you have here is to
give him : good. long term.
Because Mckinley lived an average
life I use his life to refute the humbug
PHILOSOPHERS of life. The longer I live
the less sympathy I lave for the poor.
The Lord arranged the world so that
only the poor boys have a chance. He
arranged things so that nobody does
things unless he has to. Give a boy
$4,000 to start with ana he doesn't
start. Instead of that, give your for
tune to ONT institution of philan-
thropy or learning and let your boy
fight the battles of life just as you
lave.
The world is getting uncomfortably
crowded with morbid schools of social
science. I am not here to sheer at APP
piled Christianity. I am growing more
convinced that such questions as the
labor question and The race question
will be solved at last in the practical
application in the daily life of the
world as Christ applied It. But Iowa's
Professor Heron taught that this prin-
clple could not be applied to this gen
Grafton at all. He taught that we are
all mixed up in a complex social crime
and proposed that everybody make a
general assignment and turn every-
thing over to h state. Then every
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