The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-30
CLUM TALKS OF
HDWA'S NEEDS.
Davenport Committee Secretary
Speaks at Banquet in Des Moines
Before Editors Of
Tho state.
PUBLICITY CAMPAIGNS
Urges State to Aid in This-com-
pares Iowa With Some of West
crn Boosters-keokuk is
Interested
PUBLICITY CAMPAIGNS

The declaration OF Wood
worth Clum, secretary of the
Greater Davenport Committee,
that the legislature of Iowa /
ought to appropriate $4,000 annually
for period of not less than five years
to be used for the purpose OF advertis- |
ing Iowa at home and abroad, met |
with the enthusiastic approval of the |
representatives of the Iowa Asso-
ciated Dailies and the Iowa weekly
newspapers at a banquet held recently |
at the Chamberlain hotel Mr.. Clum
spoke on THE Needs Of Iowa" Ad-
hitting that he had become an Iowan
only two weeks ago, at the same time
he asserted that he had not been in
the state long enough to lose any OPP
timism which he had brought with
him, and what was more he did not
intend to lose his optimism for there
is no reason for losing it. Mr.. Clum
said:
! doubt if the people of any state
have ever theorized upon any subject
{ sso AiuSh no tnO PteOplS vi IOWd navy
theorized upon this subject during the
past two months. 1t has been debated
on the platform and by the Preside;
the doctors and the lawyers,-the
standpatters and the progressives
each have expressed their opinions,
and every one of the newspapers re-
presented by you gentlemen here to-
night 40 od ifa M ri q. u
cure-all for the sufferings of this great
commonwealth. My friends, became
an Iowan two weeks ago last Tues
day. For the past ten years l have
been doing what could to assist Tie
commercial and industrial growth OF
cities in the effete and slow-n1oying
east.-where there prevails an idea
that Iowa is one of the best states in
the Union; that Iowa is one of the es
sential pillars in agricultural founda
tions of this country, upon which de-
ponds our continued prosperity and
prestige as world-power We have
come to look upon Iowa craftsmanship
and the Iowa idea of government as
the saving grace in our national poll
tics. Within the past decade there
have been evidences of political rot
tenness in nearly every state which
borders upon Iowa;-a United States
senator from Kansas has been SEN
to the penitentiary and similar fate
befell many members of recent Mis-
souri, state legislature; Illinois at thii
very moment is endeavoring to ayoft
conviction upon the most serious in
dictment, but throughout this mael
strom Of crooKedness and graft-o
public and private dishonesty. lows
hsa kept it's record clear and its repu
tation untarnished.
Rem ember, / have been telling yol
what the rest of the country thinks o
Iowa,-not what Iowans think OF thei
own state Not until two weeks age
when ! began reading Iowa news
papers and talking with Iowa bushes
Tnen did | realize that someone ma
placed the skids under this grea
state, and that Iowa is moving rapid
down grade to demnition bow.wows
Everything seems to be the matte
with Iowa. Every newspaper ha
q
ment, and prescribed different re
medy. And yet you have the courag
to ask me, stranger not yet &C
climated, to talk to you on "Th
Needs of Iowa
Gentlemen, have not lived in low
long enough to become as discourage
as the rest of you seem to be-
brought with me a feeling of Optimism
and belief in the future; | brough
with me that good opinion of low
which prevails everywhere in til
country except in Iowa, and ] am e
ing TO hold that opinion until this sci
imposed Indictment is quashed an
Iowa, from the viewpoint of it's ow
citizenship, has reassumed it's pos
ton in the very front rank Of progre
sive American commemorative.
What is the cause OF all this di
cussion, anyway? The cold, calcl
lating unsympathetic statisticians {
the Census Department at Washing
ton announced to the world that du
ing the past ten years Iowa had faile
to make gain in population.
fact the figures showed slight loss.
but so slight that it should be COZ
sidered merely as no gain. You gel
tlemen know that any authentic stat
ment which is contrary to establisbe
opinion, is good news, from the pu