Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-06
"THE AMERICAN KING" suBJEo1l
OF ELOQUENT ADDRESS RY
JOSEPH q CAMP.
INTELLIGENT VOTING
Closing Concert Last Evening by Fifty
fourth Regiment Band and ottumwa
Choral Society Was a Most Delight.
full one-Larsest Attendance Of AZ.
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From Wednesdays Daily.
The first Ottumwa Chautauuua
closed last evening with the splendid
concert given by the Ottumwa Choral
society and the Fifth-fourth Regiment
band. The program yesterday after
noon included chorus singing under
the direction of Prof j. H. Rheem, q
piano recital by Jean P. DutIield and a
lecture by Hon. Joseph G. Camp Of
Georgia
The attendance for the closing day
was the largest of the assembly, the
large canvas pavilion being packed
with people, both afternoon and even
ing. Besides those holding season
tickets there were over 1900 single adj .
missions yesterday. The entertain- I
ments met with the heartiest apprecia-
ton Of the large crowds in attendance
as was manifested by the enthusiast
tic applause.
Mr. Duffield gave splendid rendi-i
tion Of several selections, proving him.l
self a master performer on the pianoi
and was compelled to respond to sew,
eral encores. The lecture of Mr.. Camp. i
the noted Georgia orator, charmed ALL
who heard 1t and was, in the opinions
| of many, one of the best features Of
the Chautauqua.
| The closing concert last evening de.
| lighted the thousands of people who
crowded the tent. The Choral society.
under the direction of Prof. James
4 Swirles, and the Fifty-fourth Regiment
band underline direction of Prof B. o.
| Worrell, gave several selections that
4 We're heartily encored. A soprano solo
by Miss Sadie Robertson and bari
| tone by John Lunk1ey were enjoyable
features of the entertainment.
"The American King"
Mr.. Camp is one of the most elo-
4 quent lecturers ever heard In Ottum-
wa and in his splendid address on.
"The American King" held the clos,
est attention Of the large audience and,
was frequently interrupted with
hearty laughter and prolonged ap-
plause He spoke in part as follows: q
j "In studying the rise and fall Of
nations, in tracing the finger of Prov
idence in the affairs of man and in
reaching the Almighty's plan in the
historic page, the conclusion is inevi-
table and irresistible that God has in.
tended from the beginning that in this
marvellous country of ours. an en-.
J, nobled manhood should come into q
) position of influence in this world, that
1T never had in any other period or in
any other nation, that the highest per-
fection Of the race should appear in
the United States of America to ulti-
mately rule the world and lead all ma
tions Of the earth into the paths of
righteousness and of peace. But we
should not glorify ourselves to the
point, Of forgetting the source whence
came the elements of our strength.
We owe much to Europe, her poets, or.
ators, sages, philosophers, heroes and
statesmen and to the best elements OF
strength in all her people, When ex.
ulting over the products of our brain
and the fruits of the industry of our
\ victories in war and still more glor.
ious victories in peace, we should not
be unmindful of the fact that we are
!. descended from the peoples beyond
the sea.
= "That the tireless energies that riot
: In every artery of our Industrial life
= and the genius that gilds our name
e with glory, that the royal blood that
i pulses in the veins of Columbia's i'm
: perial sons and the marvellous beauty
: with which her fair daughters are
lowered, were nurtured for over /, ,00(
years at white bosoms beyond the
oceans wave.
d Crowned American Citizen.
But sure it is, that God in his wis
g dom and mercy has raised this natior
up as the worlds salvation to ushel
in the age of gold Away back in tht
dim and shadowy east the first fain
light of civilization dawned and west
ward ever since the star Of empire ha.
? taken its course, and every natior
that has successfully risen in the lum
inous paths of progress has reached
o higher plane and wrought out
grand destiny, but yet perished fo
lack of some element of completeness
The star that has kept its course fo
forty centuries, now blazes In the ex
treme west and is poised over thi,
= youngest of nations and here we ma,
e expect the millennium dawn that proph
g cts have foretold, of which poets hay,
y sung and philanthropists prayed.
1--WE have shattered the scepter O
}; tyranny, we have torn the diaden
J, from the brow of royalty and crowne,
= the American citizen. Our constitu
: ton was the first ever framed tha
k completely recognized the rights o
the individual man. Throughout th,
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