Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-10


mand what we want. We can talk these
things among ourselves freely here to-
day, and when our next caucuses and
conventions are held, we will have a
voice that will be heard When Pres
ident Roosevelt urged Cuban reciproc-
ity as promised by Mckinley, it was
public opinion alone that won his fight
for him. The farmers of the country
can make some public opinion, espec-
tally in their political conventions, and
would like to have them looking after
the men who make the laws of our
country, which have to do with the
foreign outlet for our surplus products,
and the prices we get for the things
we raise on our farms.
LAS ola settlers we will talk about
everything under the sun. but when
your president asked me to say some
thing from a farmers viewpoint be-
thought me of a scheme to better our
prices in spite Of the trusts and COM
bines. have given good many years
careful thought to these things and
believe firmly with President McKin-
ley that with us farmers Our period of
exclusiveness is past Sensible trade
arrangements to extend the outlet for
our increasing surplus ought to be
made the main purpose OF our hlgn
priests in congress"
Another selection by the band fol-
lowed the governor address, after
which Rev. Isom p. Wooten spoke
briefly, bringing the forenoon pro-
gram to a close.
President Calhoun announced the
\ ,,,t.> ~ hon
earlier than usual, in order that
general season of handshaking and
visiting might be enjoyed before din
ner. The park presented pretty
sight with its abundance of snowy lin
en-, spread here and there on the green
lawn, surrounded by happy groups of
people who made the occasion reun-
ion of family and friends. Many from
the city went to the park to meet
friends and to enjoy their dinners.
The Afternoon Program.
Promptly at 1880 President Calhoun
called the assembly to order. The
first number on the program was a
band selection, and this was followed
by reading by Miss Mary Gilchrist.
DR.. Jones was then introduced, and
spoke for about thirty minutes. in his
usual entertaining manner. DR.. Jones
spoke in part as follows:
I'm our gathering today we must
make recognition of that Providence
which gave this western hemisphere
to a Christian people to colonize and
develop. In an elaborate review of the
historical data. Professor Fiske notes
the many who came hitherward before
Columbus had his birth. He affirms
that the Mohammedans in a very early
day, came near the American coast.
but a heavy sea swamped their boats,
preventing landing. Their fleet cross
ed the straits of Gibraltar in their
hunger for discovery, but their knowl-
edge of navigation could not overcome
the heavy sea. This occurred when
the Mohammedans had great men
among their leaders and centuries be-
fore Columbus was born. But America
was not to be given to the Mohammed-
an faith. A truer worship of Jehovah
must be planted here
1.-The Chinese, also, make claim to
the discovery of this country long
ante-dating the coming of Columbus
1t is written in their annals of voyage
that a Buddhist priest came from
Sulld WIFI d snip CiCW anu NouSASA
at New Mexico in 499 A. D.. quite one
thousand years before Columbus, foot
sore and jaded. was traversing the
country of Isabella and exclaiming to
those who would listen: There is land
there because there is land here For
some reason the Chinese made no set
tlement and, therefore, never had an
established heritagle here. That they
did come seems to be fact we'll at
tested. Professor Leland has also
written in support of the fact. But not
to the followers of Confucius was this
land to be given. They, too, must be
kept out. God has other uses for
America. 1t must be reserved until the
'fullness of time had come.
Losing, as well as Fiske, has we'll
developed the claim that the Morse
men were here about 1000 A. D., or
nearly 500 years before columbus was.
They came from the region we call
Norway. In Morse legends 1t is told
how $50 men made voyage to dis
tant land. In Bristol county, Massa-
chusetts, is an inscription on granite
boulder, and scholars think that the In
scription is, in Morse characters. It
is in no language now known by men.
But the Norsemen did not effect a
settlement and they had no claim
here Not to the Norseman with his
gods many, was this country to be
given. There was another purpose to
which it was destined.
"But there is another people called
the Mound Builders. They are as
puzzling in the remains found as some
of the Old Testament tribes. They
were numerous people, since their
mounds are found in fourteen states.
They possessed more than one-half of
the territory east of the Mississippi
river. There is evidence conclusive to
that they worked the cop
per mines of Lake Superior, the oil
wells of northwest Pennsylvania, and
the lead mines of Kentucky. Many of
these mounds have been opened and
images of the sun found, and we con-
clude that they were sun worshippers.
That race is gone. Not to race OF
sun worshippers was this continent to
be given.
cit is so manifest that this continent
must be given to people who knew
Jehovah and worshipped him. Column
bus was devoutly religious. When, af- +,
ter that perilous voyage, when mutiny
was rampant and hunger made men
crazy, he set foot upon land, his first
act was religious, act. Following
him there came men and women as
God selects for great occasions. They
We're men with the fear Of God in their
hearts