Show J I IOWA CITIZENS LISTEN TO FOLK Missouri Governor Addresses Hawk Hawkeye Hawkeye Hawkeye eye Democrats Upon the Subject of Good Government PUBLIC CONSCIENCE C AWAKE DEMOCRACY THE PARTY OF i EQUAL RIGHTS Des Moines Ia la April 2 Governor Folk Folh of ot Missouri was the time chief speaker at the Jefferson banquet banQuot tonight under the aus auspices L I pieCeS of the Iowa Democratic club Dem Dora Democrats Democrats of prominence from all all parts of the state attended and the gathering was one ona of the most moat notable ever held in iii inthe the th state under the auspices of this timis party part The banquet was presided by b an in meeting of the members of or the Democratic state central committee but it was decided to take tahe no action until af at ter ret the Republican state convention Governor Folk responding Ito to the sub Good Government spoke in part purt as follows Future Is Bright Ve We are in the midst of one of the most democratic periods of American history the period In which the peoples rights are to t be defined and amid observed as they the i never ncY r been before There are j are ar some who I I aee Bee danger dan r to our institutions In the agi ai i resulting from the exposures in I official and business life I do not share C I I this view few To ro 1 0 my mind the time hope for the th C perpetuity pt of this government by the th 1 people Cople was never brighter than now The Thc 1 I fact that this I awakening has come at a time of unusual prosperity shows that it ml I II I I does not miot proceed from a spirit of discon di con I tent but springs from the time moral sense of ol the people It is simply a determination I to stamp out the things that dishonor in hi L public life and the things that oppress In ir I private life a firm resolve that the time gov government go shall shull be representative of the good not of the bad 0 Conscience nce Awakened The Th energies en ries of this public conscience have ve been extended from the domain of ol I th public wrongdoer to that of the private vate wrongdoer and probing into the of grafters of every eer kind It is not insurance companies the complain of but hut abuses of trust on Oct the tb part of some of those running the insurance insurance Insurance ance companies the people understand these things anti and know that while some som I insurance urance people and some bankers are an n crooked cr just as 83 some officials are crook crooked ed it does not follow that all insurance I men or all bankers and officials are arc without honor The Th people are I lasting between th thi good and the bad I Tiis against i graft is not mt a j crusade against wealth but against the thu I abuses whereby somei obtain great wealth I Honesty Demanded I It is a demand for common honesty in ii t I public life and private business XO NO man ma mathat that Is doing an honest business need fear team from the of the conscience of ol the people against wrongs The distin distinguishing characteristic of this crusade for foe higher ideals i eals is the conservatism of the th people They do not oppose riches hon etly acquired but they ther do object to U special ial privileges les out of ot which tainted I riches grow gro The Time agitation against ill gotten gains does not m mi mean an a rabid so socialism I or the destruction of the vested ested i i rights of anyone The Time cry is not for so socialism s I or anarchy but that the time corpora corporation corporation corporation tion magnate respect the law that gus gov governs go I eras erns the conduct of the time corporation as ashe a t I the he asks others to respect the law that tha t I protects the property of or the corporation I This government nt does not rest either up upon I on the idle rich or the Idle poor but upon upI I the energy ener and patriotism of the middle J I i classes This is the class that suffers suffer under the reign of the special privilege I Room for Two Parties Only The Time elimination of special S 1 cial privileges es j I is the great question before the people of oC i this country the railroad rebate special I privilege the tariff so arranged as to special privilege and create monopoly and und I every special privilege founded on graft grafL There is room in hi this country for only two great political parties Our form of I government makes one the party of special special special cial privilege and to the other party of equal rights No Xo grander mission can I be in store for the time Democratic party than to continue the fight for the rule of the thep people p ople against graft gran Clothed In the ar armor armor armor mor of a righteous cause the attack of Democracy upon the citadel of graft an and monopoly If aggressive enough must triumph in the time end for the time principles of true Democracy are enduring because they the are ae just lust and invincible because they the theare are right |