Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-10
Thirty-second Picnic of Mar
shall County Association a
Great Success
IN ATTENDANCE
Fine Program is Given at Cottage
Grove Park, the Annual Meeting
Place-Governor Packard Delivers
Annual Address This Morning, and
DR.. Jones the Afternoon Grafton.

at Cottage Grove park, Soldiers Home
Thousands were in attendance, ant
the number participating in the outins
is pronounced by the officers OF the
association to have been the larges
in the associations history. The morn
ing crowd was larger than usual, bu
not until this afternoon did the parl
become filled, as is always the case
owing to the fact that many who drive
in from the country do not reach tht
grounds until the forenoon program i:
over.
While the weather was warm there
was a refreshing breeze, and the shade
of the large oak trees of the park at
forded an ideal place for the outing
Governor S. B. Packard Delivered the
principal address of the forenoon ant
DR.. Elijah Brown Jones in the after
noon. The programs of both forenoon
and afternoon We're changed somewhat
from the original announcement, ow-
ing to the absence of some who had
been scheduled to take part.
President w. H. Calhoun called the
assembly to order at 1880, litter which
the Soldiers Home band, which fur
nished the days music, gave NUMBER
Rev. o. Long delivered the invocation
and was followed by Mr.. Calhoun, who
gave brief address on behalf of the
association. Quartermaster H. j. Ben
net, of the Soldiers Home, delivered
the address of welcome. After a SONG
by the Albion Glee Club Governor
Packard was presented to the assem-
bly, for the annual address.
Governor Packard began by saying
that as he had now been a resident OF
the county twenty years, he considered
that he might be numbered among the
"old settlers" Especially did he de-
sire eligibility, because he numbered
among the old settlers his closest
friends. He referred to the first old
settlers picnic, held on his land, al
which time he and his family were
given such a warm welcome to the
community. Incidentally Governor
Packard referred to the grand institu-
ton on whose grounds the reunion
was being held, paying a pretty trlpute
to Colonel Horton and the soldier
members of the institution. To the
latter he reissued the standing invi-
tation to fish in his ponds and shoot
quail on his land.
Governor Packard announced that
so long as he had been drafted into the
unusual task of making an address
instead of feeding steers, he would
speak to the old settlers from farm
ers standpoint He said in part:
The farmers, from the beginning of
time, have been the chosen people of
God-sow and reap and mind the
flocks and herds that supply the food
of breadstuffs and meats to feed the
world. So bountifully does this vest
ern country yield it's annual harvests
it would seem that farmers possessed
of this land could exact heavy toll
from the consuming public with which
to enrich themselves but as 1 have
studied our economic status it is not
SO ordered. Weare the chosen people
to SOW, and reap and feed the world
all right, but we are not the toll keep
ers. The farmer today delivers his
grains and his meats to great conbin-
ations of capital, which have closed to
him the doors for competitive buyers,
while much that he buys, his machin-
cry, tools, fuel, staple groceries and
numerous articles are trust made and
trust sold. Under his generous har-
vests he can scarcely thank nature for
her bounties until he finds that prices
are cut because the foreign outlet for
the nations surplus is choked and in
sufficient, and the freight rates upon
products going to glutted market,
absorb far to great share of what he
has raised. These combinations in
restraint of trade can be, and some Of
them are, being pursued by the courts,
but our shipments can't wait for the
action of courts. The crops must go to
market. A law that will restore to the
the authority it once had to substitute
a reasonable rate for ore found unfair
is demanded by the farming interests
and would like to see my neighbors
by President Roosevelt, or our
governor, or anybody else in public
life, who will raise his voice in demand
for what we want.
Then would like 20 see provision
made for our surplus products, to the
end that when our ha1vests are boun-
tiful, countries like Germany, whose
harvests are never equal to the needs
Of her home demand, could take what
we do not need and keep the price from
being governed by glutted market
This means reciprocal treaties. With
all the stimulation the German govern
ment gives to her agriculture, her con-
exceeds her production of
foodstuffs. Her people import per
cent of their rye, 20 per. cent of their
wheat, 80 per cent of their barley, per
cent of their oats, ard with popu-
lation increasing 100000 annually this
margin between what they eat and
what they can raise is going to grow
larger"
Governor Packard then presented
some statistics, showing the imports of
different products by Germany. He
also showed the over production of this
and explained what would be
The result if the United States did not
have other countries into which she
could send her products He appealed
10 the farmers among the old settlers
to contemplate facts. In concluding, he
said:
"You ask what can the farmers of
Marshall county do about it? We can
1T least encourage public men who
stand for what we want, and we can
make ourselves heard in county con-