Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-16
GOVERNOR LoWpEN SAYS RE.
ADJUSTMENT SHOULD BE.
GIN IN CAPITAL.
GET RID OF VAST ARMY
OF USELESS EMPLOYEES
Government Will Not Endure Unless
Citizenship Oevotes Itself to lts
intsrssts-Lowdsn Addresses Iowa
Business Congrsss-contrasts Con-
ditions in Mexico With America.
Special to Times- Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 16.-"Our gov
eminent will not endure forever I'M
less we have citizenship willing to
Of peace just as it does in time OF
war"
Thus did Governor Frank o. Low
den, of Illinois, in an address before
the Iowa Business Congress at the
auditorium last night, exhort his
hearers to take an active part in the
affairs Of the state and nation and in
government declaring that no gov
eminent ever has or ever will sur
vive unless it's people place the well
fare Of the nation first.
Inasmuch as he was addressing a
body of business men here attending
a business convention. he did not so
into the present campaign. But his
talk was on the affairs of state as
viewed from his wide experience in
state and national affairs.
He criticised especially the main
tenance of large army Of employees
at Washington. brought there during
the war; but still retained in some
sort OF public service aithO the war
has long since ceased.
Should Begin at Warrington.
I'VE have talked a great deal about
readjustment and reconstruction
since the war was over" he said. 81
want to tell you, my friends, that the
place to begin that readjustment is
in Washington. the capital of our
country. Let us go back to some Of
the simple principles of government
let us begin to get rid of this vast
army of employees that overrun the
country. let us Apply business princi-
pies to Washington and the influence
there will radiate into the remotest
corners of our republic and we will
begin to retrace the path towards
normal better times"
Governor Lowden referred to the
superb spirit shown by the entire
citizenship Of this country during the
war and then contrasted it with the
attitude toward public affairs now
that peace has come.
I'VE are magnificent, we are SUI
perb, in times Of national peril he
said "but we are likely when that
national peril is over to become al
together too Indifferent to our obi.
cations as citizens in the no less ex-
acting times Of peace. Much of that
cd spirit has disappeared. temporar-
lily, let us hope. and again men are
devoting their efforts to their own
private affairs, to the neglect of their
public duties, and again we hear
men say, I haven't any time for
politics. l haven't any time even for
the primary or election. My own af-
fairs absorb me too much We have
to get away from that spirit my
friends. l don't care how important
your business is you haven't any
business as important as the business
Of your government and that busi-
ness must take precedence over your
private affairs.
we gu VII lioiii ySoi w ySe~A go
tho this government of ours would
endure forever whether we give it
any thought or. not. This is not the
lesson of history. History teaches
that nations. on the average, are not
long Lived in uninterrupted. contin-
nous growth. We are one Of the
oldest today of the great civilized
nations of the world so far as con-
tinuous uninterrupted national life Is
concerned and yet We are young as
compared to the cycles by which his
tory Is measured.
Government does not go on Tor
ever without human Intervention. 1t
is like all other mundane things.
France, certainly she has an enlight-
ened citizenship. and yet France has
had kingdom and empire and repub-
lie succeed one another so rapidly
without our own national life as al
most to bewilder the human mind.
Map Of World Revised.
"Think for a moment. The map Of
the world has been rewritten twice
since our constitution became the
fundamental law Of the land, once
after the Napoleonic wars and now
again it is being rewritten since the
great war.
I'VE 40 not realize what govern
ment means to us" he continued. 1T
Is invisible like the air we breathe
and 80 we do not fully realize its
significance"
The speaker contrasted conditions
in Mexico with those in America and
said that the "only difference In the
world between yonder side Of that
shadowy line and this Is that on this
side all the sky is filled with that
flag, the flag Of America, the, stars
and stripes" IT.
He closed by saying that unless IN
times Of peace. we make the affairs
of our government our first concern
and make the business of govern
ment take precedence over all our
personal affairs, history warns us
that this nation, too, will be i'm
mortal"
4 HAMPTON GIRL TO INDIA.