Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-20
YOUNG PLEASED
R0ADlW0RKERS
CANDIDATE FOR U.
8. SENATOR ADDRESSED THE
ROAD MEETING. c..
TALK WAS VARIED.
Discussion of Good Roads Was But
One Of the Matters Discoursed
Numerically to the State
Was Urged. /

| was OF9So.
A speech that was full of yariet.
and as full of genuine interests as |
is possible to crowd into a discourse
was delivered yesterday afternoon b.
Hon. LATE Young Of Des Moines, can
d1date for United States senator at thu
coming primaries, at the meeting o
the county supervisors and township
trustees who with other good road!
boosters filled the large room OF tht
Commercial association and heard The
address with visible pleasure. While
primarily the discourse was on roads
good, bad and Indifferent, the speaker
in his wide range of knowledge. found
time 10 say variety of things not In
cluded in the road question, but which
found ready listeners and appreciation
| if generous and wholesome applause
| is a criterion.
The regard for ones county, loyal
ly to the government, the fidelity OF
Iowa as home, self Improvement, the
launching into affairs Of business
community welfare and good of state
and country by the young men, and
finally good roads or road improve.
ment were some of the things alluded
to by the speaker. An unlimited fund
Of humor that brought an amusing
side to the most serious matter was
ever on tap and given Of literally with
the result that all were in happy and
receptive mood All were waiting for
more when after an hour and q half
the speaker finally concluded.
Favors Dirt Roads
The road improvements brought out
the experiences Of Mr.. Young in his
efforts to demonstrate that good dirt
road is the best road that can be built
for the amount that Iowans have to
spend on roads, and that their real
worth are not known until possessed
for time and made use Of. The
history of the river to river road that
was made possible largely by the ef-
forts Of the speaker who sank $1,000
Of his own money in the cause, sent
out his own solicitors and at his own
cost had a portion of the road marked,
was told by the speaker. He said,
however, that he had satisfaction now
in knowing that the work began to as
sumo an air of business and the road
the towns along the line. /
~ Told Of Roads. "-&s 4
He predicted for the River to River
road. the Blue Grass road, and other
roads across the state that in 1915 the
travel over these roads would make
a continuous chain of automobiles on
their way to the Panama exposition,
and that the people in these cars
would be rich with money to burn and
willing to burn it. He cited an In
stance in small town along the
River to River road where the travel
along the route by autoists greatly
enhanced the hotel business. He pic.
tured the good road work and the bad
or slipshod method of doing the work
aud told Of the days Of old when he
road conventions over the
state. These he said would be attend.
ed by the makers Of every known
and grading device and
there would be talk and some more
talk and finally when no one could see
he way out, "a candidate for office
would arise to the occasion and tell
he meeting that if they sent him to
congress he would see that the United
States government would build the
'oad for they used it to deliver the
'ural mail This said he would salts
y the people present and they went
home feeling the road question was
settled. The folly Of this was shown
when the speaker told that the miles
If dirt roads in the United States to-
ais 100000. He urged the
county officials and the farmers to
ng that the dirt road is the best road
o be had with the taxes We have to
spend on them.
Save the Republic.
Mr.. Young humorously alluded to
lis experience during his sojourn in
he national capital as United States
enator and told Of the ambition Of
ach senator and member of congress
o save the country from going on the
ocks, but he added when it is brought
loWn to real facts, most of these re-
ublic savers have the one single pur-
ose of holding their job in Washing
on rather than saving the country.
"You see," said he, in picturing the
angers both real and fancied that the
epublic faces, "a republic Is like a
aft on the water. 1t zig-zags down ,
tream and tips enough to cause all
n it to get their feet wet but 1t can
ever sink Now monarchy, one Of
hese staid old rock-ribbed govern
lent organizations, just glides down
tream majestically compelling admir-
ton, but when it does happen to
trike rock, 1t goes to pieces and
inks.
Not Dream.
when l got down to Washington
he newspaper boys learned I was a {
ripter and had come up on country
eMspaper and they built castles in
he air on how easy picking it would
e to get anything out of me that their
title hearts desired. had not been
here long until I was surrounded by ]
number of them and one Of the !
unch began something like this:
Well, l suppose Mr.. Young, that you {
ave attained to the ambition of your S
fe. In reaching the honorable post +
T Tinted States senator Won have !