Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-24
PEOPLES PULPIT.
Welcome Missouri.
Editor Courier:

EQltOr courier:
For several months in 1862. was
helping to drive out of the great state
Of Missouri the rebel hordes and we
were successful with the exception of
some cowardly bushwhackers who
were too mean to show up except in
case they had the drop on us. For
several years have been engaged in
flooding her counties with good farm
ers to till her soils, raise her fruits
and mine her minerals, promising
them that soon the old state would
emerge from her corrupt rule and
join the procession of states that have
exceeded her in increase of new men
and new industries. could see that
the native democrats had had all of
the corrupt administration they could
hold and that something was going to
fall. 1t was no surprise to me that she
fell over at the last national election.
I had held her pulse and had dag
nosed her disease to be political cor
ruption and a bad case which re-
quired great physic. One democrat
who could see farther than the others,
commenced publication process and
bis name is Joseph w. Folk. You know
what he did. Today Missouri stands
redeemed and saved by the votes of
all the republicans and thousands Of
democrats. The days of Gum Shoe
Bill Stone, Champ Clark, John F. Lee,
Harry Halves Nesbit the despised
member who introduced the Nesbit
law which deprived citizens Of large
cities the right to appoint their police
men, and the members who voted for
the law. Jim Butler of st. Louis, who
was chief among the bawdy houses
and saloons. and who was elected to
| congress and was not allowed to have
! his seat. with others who claimed to
/ be democrats, but were not such, ex-
cept by name. Now the dawn of the
greatest day for poor old despised,
corrupt Missouri. has arisen and the
sun of prosperity is shining over her
broad land, entering into every part
of her great extent, until we can see
her as she arises out of her shame,
and shake off the garments which
were rotted with corruption, until they
1 fall in shreds at her feet.
Missouri We greet you with open
arms and loving hearts. into our great
army of republicanism and will prom
4 Use that as you have entrusted your
/ all with us, we will not betray the
4 trust Missouri, the land of fruits,
grains. grass, minerals, cotton, corn
grapes. Rocky Fords and thousands OF
other products; Missouri the state OF
the Worlds fair at st. Louis; Kansas
City and other great cities, and her
thousands of miles of railways; Mis-.
souri,. a state that could build a wall
around her borders and exist for all
time, by reason of the diversity of her
products Missouri last and greatest
Republican. God bless you Missouri
will be the prayer of all old veterans
who marched thousands of miles over
you and always hoped for your return
to them; full of fruits for their labors
4 For the last four years, immigration
to Missouri has been going on, and
they who went found the native as
good, clever, religious and kind as
here in Iowa, and the country pleas
ant to live in, besides it's climate, one
J not to be excelled and now that all OBJ
stacles have been torn away, look out
for the greatest rush ever expected
Iowa has done her part in this great
struggle. The First. Second, Third
and Fourth Cavalry and the First
Second, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, TWEEN
tieth Iowa infantry regiments were the
first to start the ball rolling, which
has eliminated in clear victory, after
the space of forty-two years. Still
Iowa sends her noted sons and daugh.
tiers all over this broad land. In nu
part have I ever failed to find an
Iowan. Iowa. the proudest state to
us Of all. sends greeting to her sons
every here, that shc has achieved
another victory for Col and humanity.
Iowa who has the greatest array of
grea. men of any state will never
!. stop while she raises surplus for
other conquests. Iowa. who will name
Shaw for president in 1908 Iowa
who has populated the states of
| Nebraska. Dakotas, Oklahoma, Colo
RADIO, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Wash.
ington, California, Oregon, New Mex
leo. Arizona and still has surplus,
stands today the proudest state of
them all. J, E. Houghland.