Des Moines Daily Leader (Newspaper) - September 27, 1901, Des Moines, Iowa YEAR NO 227 MOINES IOWA FRIDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 27 1001 PRICE THREE CENTS COLUMBIA IN THE LEAD MAS THE BETTER OF THE ROCK JN FIRST TRIAL Vail to Go Coane Declared OX New York Sept of the gest crowds that ever put to sea went to Sandy Hook today Sir Thomas ond challenger Shamrock H and the flyer Columbia which fully defended the old America's cup first trophy hunter two years ago struggle for the yachting of the world in the first of the cup races of But the sion fleet returned disappointed The great single stickers out thia morning fresh for battle but the eea refused them a field of conflict The wind never ccore than nine and times as low as three knots was too light and shifty to carry the tants over the thirty-mile course in the time alloted by the rules At the five and a half hours the prescribed time the race was of- ofi and the yachts were towed back to berths inside Sandy Hook When the gun the committee boat wae fired to call attention to the signal de- claring the race off the American yacht several miles from the finish line The Englishman hull down astern of toer the experts estimating her behind the Columbia at of a mile Americans will have reason to con- gratulate themselves upon the result of the first trial The yacht P Morgan's private signal a pennant with -a yellow maltese cross to years ago was headed but once in the covered and then the Englishman the way for only five minutes In windward work the Columbia beat the several 15 seconds to the outer mark and in- creased Her lead somewhat in the broad While the test was unsatisfactory the yachting sharps who have been skeptical up to this time ability of the Columbia ta successfully defend the cup are more that it will remain on of the Atlantic yet a while longer Certainly Columbia's in airs appears to have been Shamrock H dM not in fact make as good a showing as did Upton's first challenger in the half dozen flukes that preceded the tual two years ago What be able to do in heavy fe of course problematical but Columbia has been tried and all her admirers insist that she is distinctively a heavy weather boat Two years ago Sir Thomas predicted result if he got a good breeze but when he got a smashing gaie in the Columbia's victory was even more decisive than in first Since then Columbia's heavy weather has been proven again and again The harder it faster she goes better It is not strange therefore that the patriotic and spectators went down to this morning with ings 4 returned tonight assured and strongly disposed to wager that the pretty wreath of white heather the in which Sir Thomas of his champion the rules the unfinished race be on and the course will again be fifteen miles to leeward and return When seen on board the Erin after Lipton saldi It was satisfactory race be- cause the was so erratic I hope ishall have better luck next time A race salted on such a day if it can be finished at all depends upon the lucky position as to wind ot one the I was never more hopeful the Shamrock than I am now I am confident I shall get cup have never seta any more ful handling of a boat than was shown by Captain the Columbia day The Shamrock too was welt aged I said early this morning that it was not a- Shamrock day the heavy sea and light wind were not favorable Captain Charles Barr of the bia was When asked what he thought race he I had And when asked if the Columbia did as well as expected he I have her Details of the liace The Columbia was first to reach the scene ot the start toeing towed from her out to the Sandy Hook lightship Her main sail set but it took her skipper some time to de- cide what sized gaff topsail to send aloft At last It decided to set the biggest club topsail aboard and a very pretty sail it was headed and sheeted The Columbia made several tacks round the lightship before her rival appeared on the ecene Shamrock with her mainsail and big club topsail hoisted and her head in stops passed out by the the Hook in tow About way out to Sandy Hook lightship the tow line was cast off and her head sails were out Her set admirably Never was a finer suit of sails seen cup challenger The ocean tug Navigator which ried S N Kane Chester Griswold and IX Lawton the regatta com- anchored to the southward of the making the extremity of the line and soon a string of signals was displayed signifying that tKe course would be fifteen miles to windward and return The preparatory gun was fired at and from that moment the yachts were amenable to the rules of the New York Yacht club The wind was eight knots The er was cool and the atmosphere clear Ten minutes later the warning gun was fired and it wag then that the two racers first came into close proximity and began to jockey for the booth at the start Baby jib topsails were hoisted in stops on both craft Captain Sycamore held the tiller of the Shamrock with William Jameson be- side him Barr was at the wheel of the Columbia He placed the cup de- fender to the windward of the lenge r and kept her there in spite of opponent's efforts to get clear lumbia on the port tack crossed the bow of Shamrock and then tacked and stood for the line Both skippers such a that they crossed before the starting gun was tired They were Both then were round and immediately after the gun sounded Columbia on the starboard tack crossed the lumbia was to windward of the rock the official time Columbia Shamrock The challenger went on the port tack Just after crossing and the defender followed her example In order to get free from the back her an- was retarding her considerably the Shamrock was kept off the wind and she speedily worked clear of ber rival going through the water very fast The lumbia held her luff and it was noticed that when the two were close hauled the American yacht pointed higher Shamrock At the freshened a little The Shamrock went about on the starboard tack The Columbia also tacked The American boat is quicker in stays and gathers way faster than the Shamrock At the Columbia went on the port tack the bows of Shamrock a good 300 yards in the lead At yachts went on the board tack The little extra puft only lasted a few minutes and then if be- gan to die away At the yachts went on the port tack which they held until at which time the Columbia was almost becalmed Strange to say while this was rock seemed to have a nice little breeze of her own Both yachts then tacked and here may be said that when one boat went about the other followed its example except at when the Shamrock went on the starboard tack and failed to follow her in Barr probably did in the tion that the breeze must come from the southward But in- if a breeze fell into calm the Shamrock was enjoying the advantage of gentle air which bad a good deal of propulsive power Thus for the first and only time in the race the Shamrock was the leading boat At 1 o'clock both yachts were again port the Columbia a good eighth of a mile to leeward About this time the breeze a little merrier and under its influence the Columbia crawled up on her after a few tacks was more ahead of the built boat It wae a great piece of sea jockeying on the part of Barr to make up this leeway About the wind shifted east to north to east southeast which enabled the yachts to point up pretty nearly their due course to the outer mark which was about five miles south of Jones inlet near East Rockaway At both crafts took the hitch to starboard at they went on the port tack and again on the starboard at standing on this leg about twenty minutes when they about until they made sure of fetching the mark on the starboard tack At- 2 o'clock the Shamrock her jib top sail and set one slightly larger and of more stylish cut It was a cause of wonder to the yachting ex- perts why the splendid sails of the Shamrock with their greater area of surface were not more effective Tha canvas on the Columbia had con- spread but it did lent worK At the mark was in plain sight of the naked eye and the Columbia increasing her lead every minute was heading straight for it When close to it the little jib top sail was hauled down and a big sent up in stops to replace it At the Columbia around the stake boat and easing away her and breaking out her loon jib topsail was steadied on her homeward course for ship She made the best of the scanty wind and with sails trimmed steered for the goal The made a very good turn but was slow in setting her jib topsail which was one of the variety as reaching sails and not a It was excellent judgment on the part of experts on the Shamrock to set this sail for the wind headed the Columbia soon after making a rather close reach mark and ing it take In the and replace It with one similar to that on the Shamrock The official time at the outer mark Shamrock The continued so light and with no that it became concluded within of five and one- half lours ing occurred until the re- gatta committee declared the race off The Columbia was five miles distant from Sandy Hook lightship The Shamrock was a good three-quarters of a mile astern Disappointment In London London Sept failure of the yachts to cover the course in time to constitute a race has created general t in Great Britain but chagrin at the apparent poor showing of Shamrock II overshadows all other expressions of- feeling The great burban population of London was kept ot the progress of events by pyrotechnics at the Alexandra and Crystal palaces on the north and south sides The London crowds chiefly gathered on the and green electric lights making up the high tower on the surrey side in accordance with the varying positions of the yachts Steam launches carrying the colors and patrolling the Thames from London bridge to Westminster also served to keep the eager multitude in touch with the contest Thousands of persons gathered at these places while constant bulletins at the leading hotels supplied the news to hundreds of others Among the masses gathered on the embankment the keenest ment was evinced Evidently they had the challenger to outdo the defender under any conditions The sporting clubs announced veay small amount of wagers King Edward displayed great inter- est was kept posted as to every movement of the yachts London Sept morning pers express the keenest ment The Daily Mail and Daily the Morning Post and the Standard all contend that the weather conditions were too fluky to justify any verdict on the ances but even these journals are not very hopeful of the ability of the lenger to lift the cup ana they that the performance was very pointing The other papers virtually abandon hope If the Shamrock II cannot Improve on yesterday's says the Daily Chronicle we fear the cup is not ly to leave its half century home Dublin Sept crowds ed here tonight in a state of intense ex- for the bulletins editions of the evening papers giving the result of the yacht race N F Sept Peary Arctic club steamer Windward arrived here today after a stormy passage of twenty-eight days from Cape Parry North Greenland where she parted company the chartered steamship Erik which arrived at Sydney C B on the 13th inst The Windward left Sydney July 20 1900 and wintered at Tayer Harbor Grinnell LAnd with Mrs Peary and Miss Peary on board The Windward brings as passengers Robert Stein of Washington and Samuel Warmbath of Boston who were taken north by the Peary steamship Diana and landed near Cape Sabine in August 1899 The Windward will remain at Brigus ing the winter and return in the mer of 1902 with iMre and Miss Peary to Cape Sabine whence she is ex- to bring home Mr Peary re- turning from the pole Charges Against Chicago Sept to ex- the formal charges filed with the civil service commission against Chief of Detectives Luke P Colleran today contain four counts addition to his alleged neglect in of James bank O'Neill charges him with neglect and conduct unbecoming an of- ficer in the Featherstone McNicholas and Barry cases OIL TANK SIX SEVEN INJURED AT N j Sen Wm Crushed New York Sept Six men and possibly seven were killed and seven injured by the explosion today of an oil tank of the Essex Hudson Gas company at Newark N J The known dead KIRCH So years old em- Ployed in the works 40 years old OTTO NEWMAN ST years old fore- man at works said Chinese attempted to land on passports signed by Li Hung Chang the first it te said that ever been offered at port and which were riot considered sufficient by the local authorities VENEZUELA BER IBIT Will Send form of Mea ta Guard Colombian Island of Curacao Sept 26 via The Venezuelan gunboat formerly the American yacht Atlanta arrived here last night coaled and returned to today An emissary to President Castro from an influential Venezuelan at passed through here due at Caracas tonight The emissary is charged to persuade President Castro to refrain from HIS DOOM SENTENCED TO DEATH BY TICE WHITE Re Will October ta an m Special Gar Laet Buffalo N T Sept P Czolgosz the assassin of President Kinley was this afternoon sentenced to be electrocuted in Auburn state during the week beginning October 28 1901 Before sentence was passed the assassin evinced a desire to speak but he could not get his voice above a whisper and his words were to the court by his counsel There was no one else but the Jersey City NICHOLAS MILLER 45 years old man witnesses say there is a body in the river as they saw it hurled high in the air and thrown in that tion The tank which exploded was one of a number of immense steel reservoirs which undergoing its periodical cleaning it having been emptied i of oil in the morning was 20 feet deep and Kirch and Meyer entered through the manhole be- fore first-taking of ing- tied They were immediately overcome by the Foreman Newman saw this and started down after them after shouting a warning to the other workmen in the yard He too collapsed in the tank Nicholas Miller a grocer nearby had once been foreman of the works He was in the yards and at once assumed charge of the Summoning ers the men began with to cut a large ring in the tank It is supposed one of the chisels In striking the steel caused the emission of a spark for- in- stantly there an explosion like that a cannon and then a sheet of flame Ten men were on the top of the tank at the time They were swept away in all directions Miller Synder the un- identified man and the one supposed to be in the river seem to have borne the brunt of the terrific shock Not a bone in their frames was left unbroken The rent in twain and er all was over the bodies of three men in it were taken out The gas and other the yards were surrounded by flames for a short time but one exploded and the men had little to do Ambulances soon conveyed the injured to a hospital AGAINST TURKEY Paris Paper Says Visit to France Was Hostile Sultan's Country Paris Sept The Courier Du Soir which is usually well informed the following sensational One of the results of the conferences between Emperor Nicholas and dent Loubet M Waldeck Rousseau and M Del Casse daring the czar's visit to France is an exchange of views be- tween European cabinets now ressing with object of arriving at an understanding as to action against Germany's concurrence is assured as Emperor William has consented imt Von raised objection to some of the of the action posed thus necessitating a further reference to the other governments be- fore a final decision can be reached Belgrade Sept It is reported Turkish and Albanian troops have come into collision at Old Servia with the result that fifty-four were killed and wounded Packing Plant for Omaha Neb Sept of tho Sulzberger Packing company of Kansas City who are in the city announce concern will locate a packing plant at South Omaha in the very near future B E Mitchell manager of the com- pany ia Kansas City with an expert from Chicago are over the plant Mr Mitchell said today that his company would either buy that plant which is a small one and make extensive additions or build an entirely new one and would also cate a large wholesale establishment in this city the whole cost of which is estimated at The firm will employ men Students Released San Francisco Sept nese students Fei Chi Ho and Kung Heing Hsla who arrived from their tive land on the Roric and have been held at the detention sheds owing to alleged irregularity in their passports have been released through telegraphic instructions from Washington pending final disposition of It Is Ing aggressive but to hold the troops on the side ready to repel a Colombian advance should any be made This plan is strongly endorsed by certain conservative Venezuelan officials at Maracaibo and where hopes are that President will be to adopt the gestions made It is reported here that Venezuela Is actively recruiting in the state of bobo and that the Venezuelan ties intend sending men with arms and ammunition to guard the frontier pn the peninsula details received from the Guajira engagements the effect that a battalion of Venezuelan troops forced to fight against will de- from the Venezuelans to the during the fight at September 14 and began fighting on the side of the The also says that Colombia men in the engagements Reports received here say that 300 Venezuelans and four cannon were- captured and that 600 were killed or wounded or are missing said also that a brother of President Castro was wounded Port of Spain Island of Trinidad Sept received here from Caracas say Venezuela probably will declare war on Colombia September 28 A financial crisis exists in Venezuela to the refusal of the Bank of Venezuela and the Bank of Commerce to comply with President Castro's de- mand that they subscribe to a loan DIES OF GRIEF FOR DEAD PRESIDENT An Old Resident of Porte Indiana Conies to an Unprecedented v End La Porte Ind Sept vey an old and wealthy resident of this city died here today as the direct re- sult of grieving over the assassination and death of President McKinley The who attended Mr Harvey say that he literally cried self to death He wept for hours con- from the afternoon the dent was shot and while in these of grief his suffering was in- tense was found impossible to control or assuage his grief and up to the hour of his dissolution he wailed constantly Mr Harvey was an ardent admirer of Mr McKinley The physicians er the case without precedent Chilean at Mexico New York Sept Alberto Blest Gana ana August Matte who will represent at the can congress held at Mexico City in October arrived here on the Kron Prinz from bourg Both men have held many high offices in the diplomatic service of their country SenOr Gana was for many years Chilean minister to the United States and later Chilean minister to Sendr Matte was also a ean minister to various countries Jumped From Steamer St Jospeh Mich Sept a short distance from this harbor at 5 p m an unknown man clad in a striped summer suit and brown leaped from the main deck ol the steamer City of Milwaukee and was drowned before assistance could reach him He had gray whiskers and was about 50 years of age When leaving Chicago he was heard to say to I may see St Jospeh and I the passengers knew him body has not been recovered In South Africa London Sept official returns just issued shows that the South rican concentration camps in August contained persons The deaths numbered of which number Were children prisoner said in a whisper one else told me to do it and no one paid me to do it I was nbt told anything about the crime and I anything about that until a couple of days before I committed the crime Czolgosz sat He was quite calm but it was his mind was flooded with of his own distress His eyes were dilated ing them appear very bright His cheeks were very pale and his out- stretched Jhand The guards put the handcuffs on hia wrists He looked at one of the officers There was an expression of the profoundest fear and helplessness in his eyes He glanced about at the people who ed the room in efforts to get a look at him The prisoner's eyelids rose and fell tremulously and then he fixed hia gaze floor in front of him Bid Council At this point Judge Titus came over to the prisoner and bade him good-bye Czolgosz replied very faintly letting his eyes rest upon the man who had been his counsel he saidi weakly Czolgosz was then hurried down stairs and through the tunnel of sobs to the jail where he will remain until removed to Auburn to pay the penalty crime Although the time announced for the convening ot court was 2 o'clock seat and every foot of standing room were occupied before and were outside for admission The doors were locked and no more were admitted to the room The prisoner was brought into the room at five minutes to 2 Five minutes Justice White took his place upon as Justice White assumed the Crier Hess Pursuant to a recess this trial term of the supreme court is now open lor the transaction of business District Attorney Penney If your honor please I move sentence in he case of the people vs Leon gosz Stand up Czolgosz Clerk Fisher swore the prisoner and his record was taken by the district attorney as Age 28 years nativity Detroit dence Broadway Buffalo laborer married or single degree education common school and parochial religious tion Catholic parents father living mother dead temperate or ate temperate former conviction of crime none The clerk of the court then ta Speak Have you any legal cause to show now why the sentence of the court should not now be pronounced against I cannot hear replied the prisoner Clerk Fisher repeated his question and I'd rather have this gentleman here looking toward District Attorney Penney I can hear him better At this point Justice White told those in the court room that they must be quiet or they would be excluded from the room Penney then said to the Czolgosz the court wants to know if you have any reason to give why tence should not be pronounced against you Have you anything to say to the Say or no The prisoner did not reply and tice White addressing the prisoner In that behalf what you have a right to say relates explicitly to the subject in hand time and which the law provides why sentence should not be now pronounced against you arid is defined by statute The first Is that you may claim that you are Insane The next is that you have good cause to offer either in arrest of judgment about to be pronounced against you or for a new trial Those are the grounds specified by the statute in which you aright to sneak at this time and you are at perfect lib erty to do so it you The prisoner I have nothing to say about thai The court Are you Mr Penney yea Hare you anything to asked Justice White Yen replied the prisoner I think he should be permitted to make a statement in exculpation of hia act if court said Judge Titus The court will depend upon what his statement ie Justice White then Have you speaking to Titus anything to say ia behalf of the prisoner this I have nothing to say within the definition of what your honor has replied the attorney but it seems to me in order that the Innocent should not suffer by defendant's and the court should permit him to exculpate at least his father brother and sisters The if that is the object of any statement he wishes to make let him proceed The prisoner There was no ona roe No one else told roe to do it and no one paid me to do It Judge Titus repeated it as Owing to the prisoner's feeble voice he no one had anything to do with the commission of his crime but himself that his fattier mother and no one else had anything to do with and knew nothing about it The prisoner I wae not told anything about that crime and I never thought anything about murder until a couple of days before I ted the crime Judge Titus again repeated as He never told any one about the crime intended to commit it until a couple of days before its Sentence Pronounced Then Justice White passed sentence as In taking the life of our beloved president you committed a crime shocked and outraged the moral of the civilised worW You have con- fessed that guilt and after learning all that at this time can be learned the circumstances of the case good jurors have pronounced you guilty and have found you guilty of murder In the first You have said according to the timony of creditable witnesses and yourself that no other person aided or abetted you in the commission of this terrible act God grant It may be so The penalty tor the crime for which you stand convicted Is fixed by this statute and it now becomes my duty tb pronounce this against you The sentence of the court is that In the week October 28 1901 at the place in the manner and means prescribed by suffer the of death Remove the prisoner The crowd slowly filed out of the room and court adjourned at The death warrant signed by Justice White is addressed to the agent anil warden of Auburn state and di- rects him to execute the sentence of the court within the walls ot the prison on some day during the week ning October 28 next by causing to pass through the body of the saW Leon F Czolgosz a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death and that the application of the said current of electricity be until he the said Leon F Czolgosz be dead Removed Czolgosz was sneaked out entrance of the Elie county Jail rounded by the seventeen men and hustled into the special oar which had backed OR the terrace tracks a few rods In ot the jail a ute before Sheriff for the de- parture and were Kept so secret and were so cleverly managed that no one but the guards the road officials and the men who were on the watch knew tnat tha assassin was being smuggled out of the jail had stven orders to his most trustworthy deputies to pear singly at the jaU at different hours the evening and he also made arrangements with Superintendent Bradfield of the New Tork Central to have an engine and special car on the terrace tracks at Church street As soon as the car stopped but a few rods the rear entrance to the jail Czolgosz appeared handcuffed to Jailer George N Mitchell and rounded by the sheriff and his deputies and Chief McMaster of the Auburn police department The car containing the murderer was attached to the ond section of the train The news that a car containing the murderer was attached to a train was spread quickly and all the railroad men In the station left their work to clamber upon the platforms and get a look at the Finally at o'clock the word was given and the train pulled out the car will to a train running from here to Auburn which had orders to await the arrival of this train Just before the train pulled out a representative of the Press saw Czolgosz seated easily in a seat and smoking a cigar In the the seat with the prisoner was Jailer Mitchell and In the opposite seat ing them were the keeper of the and Deputy Sheriff Hugh Sloan the oldest and most experienced deputy sheriff in the County The other guards were seated In the front rear of him and on the other side of his car directly opposite his seat These precautions were taken be- cause the authorities received word from some source today that the iff might encounter considerable in getting the prisoner to Auburn Just what sort of trouble was feared could not be learned but great care was taken that news of the de- parture of the train was telegraphed along the line Notes Washington Sept Gage left Washington today for hia annual vacation He will go to cago and then to Colorado to visit his sister He expects to return soon after During his absence bonds purchases will continue as at present The war department is Informed by General Chaffee that the transport Sheridan arrived at Manila today Announcement Was made today that the marriage of Major C adjutant general of the army Miss Edyth E Patton will take place in this city at the residence of the bride on the 6th of November Minister Vienna Sept Francis Joseph today received in special the United States minister ert S who thanked his majesty for sending the court to represent him at the memorial service held here in honor of President McKinley Itinerary Berlin Sept Chun will leave this city Sunday and will embark on the German steamship Bayern at Genoa October 1 the vessel on which he came to Europe He will return to Berlin tomorrow and make his farewell visit to the foreign office WEATHER FORECAST Washington Sept fair southerly winds becoming CUMMINS MAKES REf STIRRING REJOINDER TO CHAIRMAN to ra fnt In Platform In Albla Sept his speech here this evening A B republican candidate for nor made a stinging rejoinder to recently addressed to him by Chairman Campbell of the state committee Mr mine said he did not think the ent time an opportune one for the chairman of the prohibition to question other people's motives In explanation he read the following from Use prohibition material adopted ut Chicago June 27 charge upon who was elected to bis high office by peals to Christian sentiment ana Ism almost unprecedented and by a com- bination of moral Influences never bo- rare seen In this country that by hia conspicuous example as a wlna drinker at public banquets und as ft wine host in the white ho has dona moro to the liquor business to demoralize the temperance habits of men and to bring Christian tices and requirements into disrepute than any other president this ever had Mr Cummins also read to his from the sows platform tiie We declare our solemn belief that the attorney general of tho United States in his Interpretation oE that law the canteen one and the tary of war in his acceptance of that Interpretation and his refusal to en- force the law were ana are guilty at treasonable nullification thereof that President through iila assent to ami that and refusal on tho part of the officials appointed by nnd ble to him shows responsibility in guilt and record our conviction that a new and peril our country In the fact that Us dent at the behest tha boor power dare and a law of con- gress through subordinates removable at will by him and whoso acts become his and thua virtually confess laws are to be or to be nullified In tlie Intent oC a law defying business by an administration under mortgage to such business for port Mr Cummins said in tion to these utterances of the prohibition party he meant no tion on the many sincere members of the parly who believe In statutory In a separate political ns a means to attain it But rte thought the party should purge itself of he had quoted before again attempting through its responsible agents to bring into With Cummins paid particular tion to the taxation question BO much so indeed it raay be said to have been the main feature of bis address Preparatory or leading JUP to the tion of our state government and Us administration Mr Cummins referred to the blessings that had come from re- publican TUla and tribute to Iowa and Its people which baa rarely or never been approached in a political effort The text ot his remarks ttie taxation Question Is given fc Tho entire question ta handled ably and fearlessly and be read by every voter in the state Mr Cummins The republican party has guardian during substantially Its life In Nie union of it Is so a star Whatever Influence party government can exert we may expect to in tho body of MB groat stab We do not look for It in vain Our senators ana In congress have long ago at- the distinction and to be distinguished in Washington Is to sit in the seats of honor provided for but few the millions of the republic Our at Des has bean so In Its so In Its administrations and so frugal In Its ex- that Iowa has become tho synonym for Integrity Wie country over We may not always have bopn right but wo have been more times than any other political organization In the whole world around There 16 a final thought that is stirring my blood and I believe it will stir yours Whether accidental providential or tho result of our own genius North American territory held by the United States has no parallel upon the Not only ia it superior viewed miy standpoint to the territory embraced by any other nation oL tlie world civilized or uncivilized but It tional boundaries wore obliterated ami It were attempted to anywhere un tho face of tho globe an equal oua area us well for wants gress and growth of mankind the attempt would be The opulence of nature the degrees of latitude anil longitude which mark the limits of United States has not been bestowed upon any oilier cannot un- til our aoll shall been Invaded and our government displaced by another There Is no other land of yields so many of the things by modern life as our own It the of its riches and If it has a fault it lies in tbe j which It surrenders its But boundless as Is Its capacity as In Its ws shall iti crowning distinction not In the wants It but In the wants It creates It produces everything that men and women want but it produces men and women that want everything It Is this ble desire which fills thn air from tha soil rises from Uie echoes from tho of our ed country to get moro do and bit more that has lifted up the American nation so that It towers above Its lows and it is now Jf the new are courageous always will re- main the most conspicuous and most figure the ments of the world inspiring that vrt occupy the best portion of tho surface that it is to great men wealth than any national territory means thing if cause precedes effect To me it means that whatever the duties of a nation are the most important will de- scend to us It means that whatever tha responsibilities of a nation are the iest must be borne by us It means that whatever ft nation's are the brightest will Illuminate our f1 thought that you ara to carry for- ward tho work so well to fill your hearts with the glow of ries yet to be achieved and ought to In- spire your minds with tho loftiest that mortals can conceive to If however you are fortunate In be- born into tho citizenship of a country where citizenship commands more leges confers more blessings and enjoys more distinctions than citizenship In any other nation your good fortune is multi- plied In belnET citizens also of the best commonwealth of all the splendid band in tho sisterhood of states I have lived so long in Iowa that I have become in- tensely proud of everything that tends to mako her place more secure In the cession with which she moves and to brighten the star that shines for her in the blue field of Old Glory The ple of our state have much to excite their love and increase their affection territory upon which has been bestowed appropriate of all It Is indeed a beautiful land As I a ment ago remarked the territory of the States ia the best of tijo world and the territory of the state of Iowa Is the best of the United States I believe it to be true that in all our wide expanse of sovereignty no equal area can bo found produces so many of tho things necessary to meet the wants modern lite as our own There Is no Continued on Page 3
