Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-01

took twenty bushels to buy a calico
dress. Now when wheat and corn are
neck and neck in the race for the
kingship of the cereal world and rivals
in making this middlewest land of
harvest-gold, one bushel of wheat buys
two calico dresses, or one dress and a
merry widow hat and an ice cream
soda besides. The old relationship
antidated the age of machinery was
prior to American industrial triumph,
was before the instrumentality Of cor
porations led to the trumphs that
make US what we are.
Still Reward for Merit.
And the corporation neither para
lyze individual strength nor diyerts
the reward Of merit. Nine great rail.
way presidents in ten are promoted
from the ranks Of trainmen, yardmen
or telegraph operators, and the great
industrial corporation heads and men
in high position in the great institu;
tons of finance are village OF country
boys who began on the farm or the
humblest places in the shops.
They Make Cities.
Corporations make cities of com.
munities. and make them cities of in.
comparable thrift and advancement
In every one the children OF the toll
ing forces go to the public schools
side by side with the children of the
corporate owners, clad In the same
raiment and rollicking in the same
laughter, and walking in the paths
of the same opportunity. The work
men of today are invariably the EN-
ployers Of tomorrow. With brain, in
dustry, honestly and grit, the hum
blest American boy may stride to the
very heights of all that Is good III
American success"
A Trip to Europe.
Thus the speaker ran on, EN-
phasizing with illuminations from his
observations on trip to Europe. Oul
people ought to go abroad to come
back better satisfied with home. He
painted ours as the land Of opportun
ity, freedoms spring Of refreshing
hope. We need only to preserve the
needed conscience, to demand honesty
and Danish hatred and jealousy, t.
stride into the fulfillments of highes
American destiny.
For graft in public service and The
maintenance Of truly representative
government to preach the gospel o
good, old-fashioned honesty. It sus
tains the conscience, strengthens tn,
moral fibre and is the bond Of publ,
fidelity. He quotes Hamiltons ad
monition of religion and morality al
the flrmest foundations Of the dutiel
of citizens and men," and declares w,
need more good Christian men les'
concerned with the hereafter and NOR,
eagerly interested in the great prob
lens of the living moment Less o
envy and jealousy and more of con
fidence and encouragement.
Nation Only Begun.
Our nation has only begun It i
only sunrise in the morn of thi
matchless republic. Financially an,
industrially supreme, leading in civil
ization, growing in education, dc
veloping In art, maintaining the need
ed conscience and continuing our vi
lifting influence in the world, no ma
can say, in quaffing the cup of opt
mism, what the future will unfold
But we must move ever on, for destin
leads the way, and the millions Q
patriotic Americans of today will b
the myriads, only the myriads Of pc
triotic Americans Of tomorrow an
their transcendant chorus of Amer
can triumph will echo to the heaven
GLORY to God in the Highest, o
Earth, Peace, Good Will to Men"