Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-06
WISCONSIN GOVERNOR SPEAKS
ON REPRESENTATIVE GOV.
EMINENT AND THE
"MAcHlNE..
THE RAILROAD ISSUE,
Audience Stirred by Intellect, Logic,
and Force Of the Address-speeches
v--eS Masterpieces Of EIoquence =
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Swayed to and fro by the eloquence
Of the speaker, completely magnitized
by the forceful sentiments expressed.
and enyeloped with interest and at
tention that was boundless, the audi
ence which heard Governor Robert M.
IaFollette yesterday afternoon and
evening at the Chautauqua grounds,
left the large tent debating with each
other various points of the brilliant
address on Representative Govern
men" as delivered by the learned re-
form giant of Wisconsin. Clothed in
convincing language, having easy COM
. troll Of the emphasis valve, and related
in clear, concise, business like man
ner, LaFollette astonished his audience
with his magnificent delivery and ora
torical force. Governor LaFollette is
an orator with a mission. He comes
to the lecture platform not to enter
tain, but to instruct.
Yesterday afternoon before an audi
ence that completely filled the, large
tent, Governor LaFollette told Of his
view OF representative government,
how at one time 1t prevailed, and how
at the present, it far from prevails.
His address yesterday afternoon is
given in part as follows:
II am right glad to appear before
the faces Of this assemblage this aft
ernoon and talk of our country, You
know we are today in the beginning of
the second century. AS we turn
in retrospective and look back
we wonder at our magnificent pro-
gress. We wonder at the large re-
sources and achievements. The whole
country transformed into fields of
grain, factories spring the very skies,
schools, universities. temples of art in
every community. We see the puff of
the first steam engine. we hear the
guns of Gettysburg and we look over
a country greater in extent than all
Europe.
I'm the. first years of our life. we
have come from nothing to greatness.
In agricultural pursuits, mining, man
ufactaring and every line Of commerce
we have alarmed the whole country
by our progress. But, fellow citizens,
we Are confronted by perils. Our
forefathers foresaw the perils of to-
day, but they risked 1t all Why did
Washington fight hatless, shoeless,
almost barehanded battle for. It was
to get a government where man would
be equal. And why members of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and peo-
pie of this country were previous bat
ties fought? TO preserve that govern
ment that men would be equal 1t
was the precious representative gov
eminent.
Basis Of Government.
"The basis of the government is the
ment was first made by me, was
gfercely attacked by the press of Wis
consin. was recorded with possess
ingta populistic view. Madison, the
man who penned the constitution said,
The people is the only legitimate
foundation of power Jefferson, Ham
ilton and others made similar re.
marks. And l say the basis of our
government is the will of the people.
can as it were, only touch the noun
tain peaks asaI cover the ground
II am here to ask you today, each
one Of you, If we have such a gov.
eminent as in the time Of Lincoln. Is
our government Of the same kind? Is
our national congress representative
Of the will Of the epople? believe that
representative government is in great
or peril today than 1t has ever known.
am here to say and to prove it, that
the public service corporation con-
trolls in. the national congress when
ever they undertake it. I tell you fell.
low citizens a tremendous change has
come to this country. Seventy years
ago, a man high in political science,
came to this country to study the gov
eminent and the people. He returned
to Paris and wrote book highly com.
mended these United States for their
representative form of government
That was seventy years ago. Fifteen
years ago, another great man came to
I this country, he studied the people and
the form of government, and returning
to his home, he wrote a book on the
graft and crookedness of the Ameri-
can government.
Fifteen years ago saw the begin
ming OF the system of government that
was not representative You can not
OuJ q poPCl IOudy IudI uOCS uOI COLI
tain something about graft in govern
ment. Now what has caused this
great change? said it began fifteen
years ago to get it's grip. Let me
trace it. 1t has grown out of E our
prosperity. Out Of business success
OF the country. During the first sixty
or seventy years, business was con-
Quoted by individuals or co-partner-
ships, the progress was remarkable IT
outgrew the capacity and then came
that new list of business operations.
In order to aggregate and bring to-
gether enough capital to operate.
private corporations were formed.
This move in advancement was one
OK the most fortunate. say that the
private corporations that followedsin-
dividual or co-partnership business
was good.
Now what was the next epoch in
business.In an evil moment it occurred
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