The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-21

mean enough to say that it is because
I; We have had ten years OF uninter-
trupted political activity, although /
have had some sudh opinion as that
In my mind in the nighttime. Laugh
ster.)
But our farmers have sold their
farms at 500 to $500 an acre and
have gone to Wyoming, to Minnesota,
to the Dakotas. to the great North
west, and to Canada. Because they
bought farms at one time at SIS an
acre and kept them until they were
worth 5000 an acre they want to re-
peat the same operation. Thus they
sold their costly farms to go away
and buy cheap ones, later to sell at a
high figure.
| am not going to be cheap enough
here this afternoon to say that these
political doctrines, which call here
sizes, have had anything to do with
our loss of population; but l do say
that we are going to pay more atten-
ton TO business in Iowa in the next
, two years than to politics. notify
YOU of that. We are bidding for fac
tories: we are bidding for industries;
we want TO bring the factories still
closer to the corn producer.
heard southern man at ban
quet not many months ago describing
field of white cotton under the south
ern moonlight was a number or
two behind him, and described, as
/ wish now could, an Iowa cornfield
on the first of August of any year
with corn as high as a mans head,
creaking with all its yelvety green
ness in the ripening heat and over
the glowing earth of the fast-passing
summer. If there is any spectacle in
the world more beautiful to the man
from the corn country than acres of
corn thus waving in August, l have
not yet learned about it.
Old Dick Oglesby, one OF the princes
of the prairies from Illinois, de-
scribed our great product He said:
All, corn, the royal corn, within
whose yellow heart there is of
strength and health for ali nations.
Corn never put disease into an animal
or man. 1t 10 the cleanest food that
grows. 1t makes muscle, bone, and
blood,
So we hope for a continuance of an
undisturned home market for the pro-
ducts and the result of corn.
Awhile ago was saying-and | will
now conclude--that some Republicans
blush and apologize for their party.
do not do so. ! visited some. of the
public schools in the city of Manila
and / had my patriotic blood stirred
when | heard the little brown boys
and girls in English words telling the
story of William Tell and Gessler to
their teacher. I said Bless the coun-
try that can do a thing like this; that
has the money to do it. heard in an
other place little brown boys and girls
telling of the life of Lincoln as flat
boat man in Illinois. Who is not proud
of Lincoln? Every man is. Lincoln
typified in his strength the trees OF
Indiana that his boyhood knew; in
his breadth the prairies of Illinois
that gave him maturity and in his
soul the hest that ever lived They
were telling the story Of Lincoln, his
humble birth, his early struggles, his
manual labor What did that have to
do with the lives of those people?
They were learning that man could
be man and yet work with his hands,
something unknown in the Far East
They We're learning that caste could
be broken down or man could be "a
man or a that and they cited Lin
coin with RisaI, their own Washing
ton, a poet and a patriot, shot on the
swamp in the harbor, which is now a
park, called the Lunetta-Risal, who
wrote the night before he died an i'm
mortal poem. With this man they
classed Lincoln.
In the next lesson recited by thesa
little FilipinoS | heard the story OF
William Mckinley, of Ohio, whose IA
Their was foundryman. Mckinley,
who had been private soldier; Nc
kinney. who had come from the hum
Bile walks, was used as an object les
son to the boys and girls 10000 miles
away in another part of the worlo,
but under our flag. | said to myself,
No matter what men may say about
the Grand Old Party, it certainly did
great thing by giving this nation
Lincoln and Mckinley (without enum-
Grating intervening names, names
which will live in the memories of
Americans forever
Mr.. President, 1 recall that Septem.
Der day when we buried Mckinley.
was here in the rotunda Of this CAPT
tol when the body was lying there.
All was silence in that great rotunda.
Round about were evidences of the
progress OF American civilization COM
ing from the brush of the painter Ov-
er on the left were the representa-
tives; on the right were the senators;
in another place the supreme court;
In proper place the representatives
OF the Army and the Navy. The mem
bers Of the diplomatic corps, repre-.
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