The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-21
THERE WILL BE TROUBLE,
Says President Gates to Another
Large Audience,
If BROTHERLY LOVE IS WITHHELD

Between Man and Man on This Earth
MEch Longer-EHis Lecture on 'sSesus
I'm Politics." Last Night.
Before taking up his lecture on "Jesus
in Politics" at the Central Congreg ational
church last evening, President Gates of
the Iowa college made a few remarks in
line with his subject the evening before,
"Jesus in Business" to the large audi
ence which again greeted him.
I'VE are continuously hearing that Je-
sus' methods will not do in business"
said the speaker. "Take two merchants
and which will drive the other off the
street.-The Cheap John one who ia SELL
ing the least he can for the most money
| or the one who deals fairly and upright
ly? The one may win for a year. or two
years, but for all time the honest man
will drive the other eff the street.
"This reminds me of McDonald's ex-
quisite story about the Shop in Heaven
How everybody got what they wanted
and paid for nothing. But said the
skeptic, what if people want what they
shouldn't have?' Sir replied the angel,
this is heaven So may we have
heaven on earth when things will be free
| and we do not want what we shouldn't
have.
"Why, nothing used to be free. The
rivers were not free to travel on. But
soon Que could travel on them without
paying toll. Then private parties built
turnpikes and charged toll to drive
on them. But some one suggested
that they, too, should be free and
the towns should keep them up. What
| exclaimed few people. shall we have
to pay taxes who do not travel?' Ger
tainly, for if you do not want to travel. it
is TO your interest that your neig hbor,
| who does wish to. should be allowed to-
Now successfully rivers and turn
pixies have become free. l venture TO
say that if the government should run
the railroads-for passenger traf-
too fast wen get to freight
later-it would be better. You may
say that people would ride all the time,
but they would get very, very sick of it
in 46 hours. 1t is we'll known truth
that people do not care for what is easily
| attained.
Suppose I go home and say to my
wife that have found out here in Kan
sas from political economists that COM
petition is the thing that rules the uni
verse and Pm going to practise it. All
right she says, 1ll do 1t, toe Well,
hadn't thought of that. Then the chill
dren take it up and we all strive against
l
something that is not a heaven on earth.
It's hell on earth.
| "If family can live happily together,
each feeling that he would willingly lay
down his life for the other, why can't
three or, four families live to,
| for three or four families it's
good for a neighborhood; if it's good
for neighborho0d, it's good for Topeka;
if it's good for Topeka, it's good for Kan
sas; if it's good for Kansas, it's good for
the United States; if it's good for the
United States, it's good for the whole
world.
when we need true, radical, pro-
found socialism oh, you say,
he's an anarchist. He's a
socialist I don't mean those COM
monty called socialists; these people who
want everything divided up equally, for
the folly of that is apparent. And the
folly OF calling a man socialist and an
anarchist is also apparent. The common
socialist believe in the government own
ing everything, aud the anarchist don't
want any government. How can one
| man be both?
"But about dividing up the world q
| goods. How are we to know the value
Value ia what we think. What we think
is what makes diamonds valuable. l can
| Ldh0 you WnSE6 a DuSHSl HdCk IUIl OF Ol2-
monds wouldn't buy you dinner. Why:
| Because the people don't want the dia-
monds, but they do want the dinner. We
can make glass now which glitters as
finely as diamond, but it isn't nearly as
| valuable, because everyone wants a dia-
mond because some one else wants it.
Industrial reform must coWe through
politics. The state must become some
thing more than an organized police
force to keep people in order. Il must
govern itsalf like a family. 1t must be-
| come Christian state.
We need more of u democracy. We
aren't as democratic as England. Aus
trslia is more so than England. Ameri-
ca, the birthplace of democracy, is sim
| ply getting left in the race. In England
a member can be turned out of parlia-
| ment in two weeks if he doesn't suit the
| people. 1t takes us four years, provid-
| ing he does wrong things on the begin
ming of his term. Then, before that
time comes round, he has covered every
thing up aud we vote for him again.
| "Politics should come to be something
high, pure and lofty, that young man
might enter as an honorable career.
Politician should come to mean some
| thing great. Where are the Websters?
! The Calhouns? Men who made errors,
but were statesmanliks in the scope of
their judgment. l know not where we
| shall get them if not from the young
men. There's got to be a change, and
that soon, or there will be trouble on this
| earth"