Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-07-05
CfiAUTAUQUA OPEN
Big Crowds and Excellent Programs
Very Promising Outlook

ance. The weather was all that
could be desired, and the crowd !
was good humored one. Five
hundred tents and one hundred
cottages are now on the grounds,
and visitors are pouring in hour
ly. The University band of
Grand Forks are in attendance,
and between them and the Ten
nessee jubilee singers, good and
enjoyable music will form an at
tractive feature of the present
session. Extensive improvements
in the buildings and grounds
have been made this year, the
athletic field having received a
thorough going over, a lawn ten
mis- court laid out, and additions
hotels, restaurants and barns.
Meals and provisions can be pro-
cured on the grounds at city
prices.
Saturday was Farmers day,
the, most Of the afternoon pro-
> gram being devoted to the inter-
ests of the agriculturalists. T.
A.. Hoversted, Prof. Thomas
Shaw and Andrew Elliot speak
ing exhaustively on subjects near
and dear to the farmer.
However, the principal speak
er was Hon. Albert B. Cummins,
governor of Iowa, who spoke on
"Reforms and Reformers." It is
a regrettable fact that time was
not allowed the executive to
speak at any length on the mo-
mentous subject which was his.
tits understood that the Midland
= Lyceum Bureau, of Dubuque,
Iowa, who have the supervision
of: the governors lecture tour,
:. had made provision for him to
speak at.tWoa different-pl that
day, making it necessity for
the speaker to leave on the 4
o'clock train. In consequence,
the lecture, which was scheduled
and advertised to occur at $50
took place at 2 o'clock. Half the
people on the grounds were not
aware of this change of program,
and many coming out from the
city missed the lecture entirely.
The action on the part of the
4yceum has not met with the ap-
proval of many, and words of
condemnation are expressed on
all sides.
d. The governor said, however,
in the limited time which he had
at his disposal that he had no in
tention of making his speech i'm
mortal, by making it eternal, but
IN his subsequent remarks he in
tended hitting the nail on the
head. He said that the few who
stood for upright men and prin-
cipals in this country were styled
@"demagogues" and "agitators. y
4 He had observed that the man
who generally termed his adver-
>Y z sary a demagogue was the man
who was unable to answer his
opponent in argument. Though
" his political views differed great
" from, William J. Bryan's, he
spoke words Of praise for the
. democratic leader, and said that
in his opinion he had done
much to awaken in the minds Of
S the people the love of justice
Roosevelt, he said, has seriously
+. disturbed the mind of Wal
street, and under his command
the forces of reform are march
@ Ing confidently against the mon
& opolies. The epithaph which
should be inscribed on his tomt
after he quits this mortal life
D S Should read, 1.-THE world was bet
# ter because he lived init The
* speaker maintained that it was
S= no reproach to any man to bt
termed an agitator, and that W.
& al should be such.
The railroads, he said, had il
81. use, at the close of the year 1906
2I6, 900 miles of maintrackage
. The man who is hostile to thi'
magnificent system is a traitor t
b his country, his fellow man ant
our future progress. The speak
n er stood for complete, adequat'
and full protection Of these en-
terprises. AT the close of 190l
The railroads had issued bonds +
The extent Of 81, ,250, ,701. 10 AMI
stock amounting to Sc, ,555,
655. 81, which stock, the goyerno
maintains, is pure unadu ulturate'