Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-30

! hest. The bravest men are those who
have the creates fear of doing wrong.
Politicians wish a country TO do some
| thing for them: true patriots wish TO
| DO something for their country.
The young man of today who is
! looking for an easy way to make money
| is making a mistake. The young man
| Of today whose whole ambition is to
| make money is making a mistake. The
| man who is looking for some graft to
| make money quickly and without toll
whether he succeeds temporarily or not
is making mistake. Those kind Of
men GO not help q community any.
They do not increase its wealth or ma
terial growth. They only sap the life.
Of others and take the unearned share
of the wealth which Is the result Of
the labor 81 others.
The proper gauge Of this life is not
how much money a man can make, or
how much wealth he can possess If
you men Of the grand army had been
actuated by any such motives You
, ould all have been suffers or commits
sary agents instead Of volunteer SOL
diers al s13 per month. Success in life
IS not measured by how much can be
accumulated. The successful life Is
measured by how much good a man
does for the community in which he
lives. His opportunities for doing good
may be great or small, but no matter
what his environment, or what his call
ing. he has the opportunity constantly
before him Of doing some good to the
community in which he lives. The man
whose life IS not Of some benefit TO the
community has not paid for the priv
ilega Of being in it. The man who lives
on the weaknesses and frailties Of his
brother men Is a parasite and deserves
not only the contempt Of his fellowmen
but deserves TO be weeded out Of the
community, just as we would weed out
parasite that was destroying our
garden. With US the will of the peo-
pie is the law of the land Then We
have a duty 10 see that the law Of the
land shall reflect the will Of the whole
people; that it shall reflect the will Of
the best OF the land. II is not possible
rule country and the cause OF liberty
be left secure"
Drive Whisky Out Of Politics.
Paying his respects TO trusts and
special interests as not tending TO pro-
mote the growth of the highest and
best citizenship the speaker also re-
ferred TO the saloon, and said: Sooner
| or later we are going to learn that the
saloon does not do any good 10 the
community: that it does not give men
| greater liberty. or help TO grow a
greater and better race OF men. Sooner
! or later we are going to drive the
whisky ring out Of politics and its in
| iUence out Of the legislative halls"
| Among other reforms that Mr. Cum
| nings Included in those that were
coming was the election of United
| States senators By direct vote Of the
people instead of by the legislatures
1T is not such hard job, you know,
/ to buy A working majority of a whole
| legislature. The Standard Oil or the
lumber trust. or the whisky trust, for q
! few thousand or a. few hundred thou
sand, car do that, but when it comes
80 buying a whole state full of people
we'll, figures fail to express how.
much il would take
| Freedom of Press Wise Provision.
One Of the greatest aids TO US in ali
US in all this" continued the
/ speaker. and which will continue
/ TO be, is the public press. 1t
was d most wise provision that our
/ focefathers made when they put the
| freedom Of the press beyond the reach
! Of even Legislation which might curtail
| Il. Surely, in no branch of our fast
/! developing civilization, has more pro-
grsss been shown than in the many
! able newspapers and periodicals that
| are today brought before the thinking
arc reading people. 1t has become the
| fashion for them to turn the full glare
! of public scrutiny upon all public
| transa ctions and upon every depart
/ ment of governmental service. If the
| newspapers and magazines would only
keep still and allow the people to be
lulled to repose. organized avarice
| could own this country in few years
Anything that pertains to the admin
| is.ration Of public affairs, or even
| quasi-public affairs. as the operation
| Of corporations whose greatest assets
J are the franchises granted them by the
public, should be open to the full glare
| of public scrutiny. This 10 what the
press is doing for us, and anything
within the domain of human achieve
ment will tend to protect and preserve
our liberties and maintain a govern
ment by the people, that will do it."
Deeds Appreciated.
! In Closing MT Cur9mlnSS salo: Men
| Of the Grand Army of the Republic, we
| thank you that the hands of time were
not turned back: that the river Of
progress was not stayed or stopped
We thank you and all defenders OF the
republic. living and dead. In the name
of humanity, in the name of progress
in the name Of freedom, in the name o,
America. in the name OF the oppressed
10 %Y,s L.
again and again.
I'VE thank you that. In the darkest
hour. you never despaired OF the union