Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-04
Total Attendance at Iowa State
College, Ames, Will Be
Near 1000
DIR. STEINER GIVES ADDRESS
Charms Audience and Holds Closest
Attention, With Vivid Description Of
.Russian AsricuIture"-Pitiful Con-
ditions Duo to Social Inequalities and
Great injustice Worked by the Rich.
to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Ames. Jan. 4.-The short course work
at the Iowa State College continues TO
be a source Of attraction, and the at
tendance is now over 700, with only
four days gone. This is almost equal
to last years attendance and by the
end OF next week the total will near
the 1000 mark.
Sir Horace Plunkett, of England,
spoke on ..Boys and the Country
Home wednesday evening. and Hon.
~ NJ. wentworth, Of State Center, de-
livered an address on General Agr-
culture"
Last night Hon. e. NJ. Wentworth In
troduced Hon. A. G. Shellenberger, of
Nebraska. Mr.. Shellenbergef Is an
Impressive and enthusiastic speaker,
and the audience cheered him very
warmly. His remarks were for the
most part on alfalfa and shorthorn
cattle.
mr.. Shellenberger spoke in general
in opening his speech, on the cond1-
rtfons of agriculture prevailing In Iowa.
He easily gave Iowa first rank and be-
speaks still greater advancement and
further studies ii Iowa will grow al
falfa as Nebraska has done.
Speaking of shorthorn cattle, MT
shellenberger expressed the opinion
that fads and fancies had led many
breeders astray. The specific faults he
mentioned were the color and pedigree.
He abhors the idea that .. pedigree
must simply be . seller of an individ-
ual
Or. stsinsr's Address.
BY far the most pleasing address OF
the evening was that of DR.. e. A.
Steiner. Of Grinnell, on Russian Agr!-
culture DR.. Steiner Is an earnest
speaker and uses illustrations with I'M
usual effect. He spoke for about an
hour upon his subject, with his usual
fervor. He considers the Russian as
working under great yoke. caused by
the social conditions of the nation. The
agricultural methods are the most
crude, and the life Of the peasants is
one OF abject poverty. The conditions
were as bad as could well be imagined
when DR.. Steiner visited Russia In 1908,
hut they were infinitely worse in 1906.
The slavery Of the Russian is many
times worse than American black
slavery ever was, in the mind OF DR..
Steiner.
Land is given out to Russian peas
ants in two and one-half acre lots.
Sixty million farm these patches in a
vain endeavor to make a livelihood.
Their average yearly income is about
S126.50, and of this they must pay $4S
in taxes. Ale these conditions as DR..
Steiner sees them, are due to the social
inequalities and to the great injustices
worked by the extravagant greed OF
men in the cities.
DR.. Steiner closed with q eulogy on
the state Of Iowa, and q statement that
the greatest drama of all the ages was
to be enacted in the Mississippi valley.
Justice and fair dealing between strong
and weak and rich and poor, must be
instilled into the American youth in
order to overcome the terrible vice OF
men and nations.
A grave danger exists, Dr. Steiner
thinks, in the steady stream Of Rus
sian and anarchistic immigration. 1t
is q question Of great dimensions and
the close will be funeral dirge or q
joyful march. Only the future can tell,
says this great Russian and social stu