Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-17
IOWA DAY is BIG
DAY AT THE FAIR
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uence ana COulpeiS. tdCH SeiIet11ioii "
bear it's burdens. About 10 per cent OF
the total revenue of Iowa is eXpendei
in the maintenance of charitable, pellai
and educational institutions. NO state
gives better care or more sclentlHc
treatment to the defective and unfor-
tunate sheltered in the hospitals ana
other charitable institutions NO state
has a more rigid accountability eSactea
of the expenditure of its revenues. Inc
state institutions are entirely free OF
the blighting influence OF patronage
and partisan politics. 1t is cause Tor
discharge from the service of the state
10 nay an assessment for political pur-
noses Each of the thirteen hundred
EMPLOYEES of the state institutions is
there because he is competent and
without any reference to his politics.
No state in the management of its IN
stitutions has a better civil service or
merit system than that enforced III the
institutions of Iowa, which indicates
the advanced ground that Iowa taxes
in every movement and economical and
effective administration of its govern
ment.
Strong Against Slavery.
"The political history of our state is
an object lesson in prudence ana sell :
restraint. Iowa's record as a part OF
the federal union has added lustre 70
our nations history. Our people Naiued
the admission of the state in 1916, her
first breath was the inspiration OF I'D
erty, When the unity of our country
was i'm Jeopardy Iowa was courageous
~, aythitG in ana sac
rifices of her people are enshrined IN
the annals of the nation. over ~ per
cent of her population enlisted as hght-
ing men. Her dead who are sleeping
their lives away on southern pattie-
fields are not forgotten and our state
has in these days of prosperity, taken
from the public funds hundreds OF
thousands of dollars to commemorate
in marble and granite the deeds of her
SONS. In the language of the gifted
John Hay:
THE soldier boys who snatcheu
deaths starry prize,
With sweet life radiant In their rear
less eyes,
The creams of love upon their beard
less lips,
Rartaring dull age fol-. Immortality:
Their memories hold in deaths I'M
yielding fee
The youth that thrilled them to the nm
ger tips
"The election Of Governor Grimes III
1854. Immediately after the repeal o.
the Missouri compromise. indlcatea
that Iowa had already advanced
grounds in opposition to the extension
Of slavery. Iowa was then the young
est in the sisterhood Of states but TINS
circumstance did not prevent her from
speaking trumpet tongued on the all
absorbing issue. The question that had
distracted the, country from its incep-
ception. whether the government mlsh1
coerce a state, and whether slavery
could in the territories of the unltea
States be protected by the constltu-
.ion had become matters of construc-
tion and formed debating ground for
LAWYERS. 1t was foreseen that the IN
terests involved were too great to per-
init this intrinsically political question,
involving the supremacy of the slave
holding states to be determined by jul
dic;a) construction Or further legisla-
zion. The debate, wlerein Webster de-
termineJ to advise his countryineh
what the constitution of the United
states meant in 1880, rather than what
1t meant in 1889, was, measured by the
effects produced. the greatest forsenic
effort in history.
..rhe growth OF the constitution as
expounded by the constructive mind
of Marshall had made the union N
dissoluble Judicial construction and
the channels of the peoples Thought
made the constitution, when Webster
delivered his oration, something other
than. what it could be fairly said 70
have meant when adopted. The Iowa
soldier of 1851 in common with his
brothers in the north had been reared
Justly believing the.t Websters inspir-
ing periods idealizing the constitution
and union. were as sacred as any arti-
Gle of that organic law.
1--WE can understand the feeling in
1854 in this state, when Governor
Grimes. then recently elected, in re-
ferring in his first message to the pro-
posed extension OF slavery by the re-
peal of the Missouri compromise, SAID:
1T becomes the people of the free
states to meet that issue resoiutely,
calmly, and with a sense of the mo-
mentuous consequences that will flow
from its decision. To every elector, 4
view of that issue, might appropriately
be applied the injunction anciently adj
dressed to the Jewish king. "be strong
and show myself man" 1t be-
comes the state of Iowa, the only free
child of the Missouri compromise, to
let the world know that she values
the blessing that compromise has Sc
sured to her and that she will never
consent to become party to the ma
tionalization of slavery.
iowa's Pat in Conflict.
in the convention of 1860 which
nominated President Lincoln, Iowa
was tittingly represented on the COM
mittee which drafted the platform by
one of her distinguished sons. John
A. Kasson. 1t was he who moulded
the platform as finally adopted and
wrote into it the decisive declaration:
The normal condition of all the ter
ritory of the United States, is that OF
freedom The subsequent election OF
Lincoln on this platform was the reas-
on advanced for the withdrawing of the
confederate states from the union.
I'VE are prepared to find that Gov
ernor Kirkwood on April 20, 1861, a
few weeks after Sumpter was fired up
on, wrote to the secretary of war, fol-
Gods sake send us arms. Three regi-
ments waiting and 5000 guns required