Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-23
Cooperative Concern at Gowrie
Celebrates Grain Growers
Day In Happy Manner
ADDRESS BY W. M. sTIcKNEY
Benefits of Organization and Cooper
alton Among the Farmers Are
Pointed out-The Day EnIivened
With Ball Game and Other Sports
News of State.
Special to Times-Repubilcan:

Gowrle, June 23-The grain growers
had their annual outing here Wednes-
day, under the auspices of the Farm
ers' Elevator Company. For weeks
the people of Gowrie and the sur
rounding country have been looking
forward to the event with "a great deal
of interest. The weather was trifle
cool, but the enthusiasm more than
made UP for the chilly atmosphere
The Dayton band arrived early in the
day and morning trains brought large
delegations from Dayton, Stanhope,
Lanyon, Rinard and other nearby
towns. BY ten O'clock the streets
We're filled with people and the town
presented a holiday appearance.
The program of the days doings
commenced at IL a. m. at the city
park, which is located near the center
of the town. The Dayton band, which
is a credit to the city from which 1t
halls, furnished inspiring instrumental
music, and the Gowrie Male Chorus
delighted the big crowd, which made
the old grove echo with applause.
Address Of Mr.. Stickney.
Mr.. Sell, president of the Gowrie
Farmers Elevator Company, made a
few remarks and introduced Mr.. w.
M. Stlckney. the speaker of the day.
Mr.. Stickney has spoken many times
in this part OF Iowa and his address
today was especially pleasing and In
structive. He complimented the peo-
pie of Gowrie on the success of their
cooperative grain company, scathing-
ly denounced the grain grower who
would not line up with his neighbor
and help to fight the battle for indus
trial liberty. This" he said, us a
meeting OF farmers and others inter-
ested in the farmers success. This
morning we will discuss ways and
means to better the conditions of the
grain grower right here at Gowrle.
and in larger sense to better the
conditions of the whole people of the
republic. Every farmer who markets
his grain at this town should be here,
and If he is not here, then he is not
doing his duty to his family, his coun-
try or his friends. The farmer in
your immediate vicinity who wills not
line up shoulder to shoulder with you,
and keep step to the music of the
bands that play while the battle for
square deal is on, that farmer ! say Is
sadly lacking in his constitutional
make UP and Is hardly entitled to a,
full measure of respect from his fellow
townsmen."
Mr.. Stickney painted word picture
of the crimes and viciousness of the
great combinations of wealth, how
some men and some trusts had grown
to wealth and power "by murder, by
plumber, by ifobbing the widow and the
orphan, by driving good men ana
women to insane asylums and to sui
eide, by bribing juries and corrupting
courts, insultingly defying congress
and legislatures when they could not
seduce them. by debauching railroads
and bullying a nation" and to prove
what he had said, he sketched the
course of the Standard OH in Pennsyl-
yania and of the beef trust In the
great Missouri Valley States. He
warned the grain growers of the grain
belt states that they would have to
hustle, watch and work to prevent the
same great combines from getting the