The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-17
CROSSED IOWA
THIS MORNING
chatted with his new friends. until
the train started.
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Ichatted with his new friends, until
the train started
4 A reception committee from Sioux
City boarded the car at Onawa and
WELCOMED Governor Wilson. When
the candidate stepped OF the train at
Sioux City large crowd cheered him
and struggled forward to shake his
hand. He was hustled into an auto
mobile and taken to Morningside Col
ilege, Methodist school in the su-
|burbs where the students were as
sembled on the campus to greet him.
Two candidates for governor plan
ned to meet Governor Wilson here
today, Edward G. Dunn, father of the
farmers cooperative grain elevator
movement, who has been nominated
for governor OF Iowa and E S. John
son, democratic nominee OF South
Dakota.
Governor Wilson was to meet the
democratic leaders Of Iowa, South
Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota,
which almost come together at Sioux
City and was to deliver his principal
address at the interstate live stock
fair this afternoon. He said he
would speak on pure food and pub
/ lie health.
At Sterling. H., at $3.50 last even
ing, large crowd stormed Governor
Wilson's car but the governor had re-
tired to rest after his tedious ride
through Ohio and Indiana, and he was
not disturbed Another crowd clam
ored for him at Clinton and at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, the latter turning out
nearly 1000 strong at midnight.
I'm mighty sorry you didn't wake
me up said the governor this morn
ing, Il would not have disappointed
them for any consideration II l had
known It."
At the College.
/ SIOUX CITY, Sept. 17.-At Morn
ingside college this morning, Governor
Wilson was greeted by college yells
and cheers from enthusiastic under
graduates and improved the occasion
to urge college students to take life
more seriously and do -.omething in
order to be Of service in helping to
solve the problems OF the country.
The governor said in part:
Il have never looked at group of
college students without thinking OF
my own disappointment as teacher.
The students would not take them
selves seriously enough to grow up
and think like American citizens. Our
college men take life too boyishly.
they graduate.
If you live until you are 60 or 70
and have not begun life when you are
81 you are a little late You have
lost running start. Isn't 1t singular
that nobody takes student opinion in
America seriously, but that every
body takes student opinion in Europe
seriously?
In my twenty years ss teacher,
1 tried to make young men think
themselves grown up. Isn't it about
time American graduates as thinking
men joined the ranks Of thinking stu
dents all over the rest OF the world?
4 My object Is to challenge you to join
the ranks of those who make open, de
ltermined opinion. Don't go to class
like birds with your mouths open to
4 get pre-digested food. Go there to d.
gest food yourselves.
| There is serious business in this
country, there is a task to be per-
formed which requires sound, dispas-
sionate courage and thinking. We
must have not passion of feeling but
passion of conviction. Somebody has
said we do not get excited enough
about thinking We see men do out
4 rageous things In public life and peo-
pie say well. that is only politics,
and part of the game People that
treat politics as a game should be
out OF business"