Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-06-03

tics his nomination means his election.
Julia McGrew, noted as temperance
lecturer, and Eta Miller, now married
lady, are co-workers in raising the con
dition of the poor of the Chicago slums.
Hilda Wall is miniature artist of con
siderable fame and Miss Bailey herself |
is teaching at the home High School
q task made much easier since the in
vention of Edison's electrical thinking
apparatus by which painless ENGRAVING
the pupil may learn in twenty minutes
what once took at least two hours of
hard mental labor to understand. Miss
Bailey's literary style made this one of
the most entertaining numbers on the
program.
The debate "Resolved, That the signs
of the Times Indicate that the Human
Race is Advancing" was opened by
Ruth Sletson who for the Affirmative
summed up this evidence: the growth
of religion all over the world, the adj
vance of education, the better class of
immigrants, the increasing friendship
between labor and capital, the numet
Gus inventions, and the many public
instances Of the gift spirit; each point
of which Miss Stetson sustained well by
argument and illustration. Fred Tunis
for the negative summed up his well
made contentious, thus: To sum up i
believe that the signs of the times indi-
cate that we are not advancing, first,
because of the condition of the laboring
class; second, because of the action of
monopolies and trusts; third, because
of the growth of intemperance and re-
pealing of prohibition laws; fourth, be
cause of the class of immigrants al
lowed to come to our country; and fifth,
because of the corruption in municipal
government and politics in general.
Francis Durham was more optimistic
than his successor. He confined his
discussion to the general advancement
of the human race to be more indepen-
dent, intelligent and humane than ever
before. His illustrations were apt and
his points as we'll taken as to re-
main unanswerable. Miss Madge
Elder IN closing the debate and in sup
port of the negative made very cred
liable impression by her strength of
expression and effective delivery She
deplored the greed and dissipation of
today, the incorrect home teaching of
the young to the end that money get
ting is the paramount passion in every
stage of life, she compared the litera-
ture, art and music of today with that
of yesterday. And in closing she
mourned the dissertation of the Sabbath
by the ball game, horse race and the
general good time. In spite of che
almost convincing arguments to the
contrary, the judges, Rev Futile, Rev.
Kirkwood and Percy Lsngridge, voted
two for the affirmative and one for the
negative.
The first and second grades gave two
chorus selections which showed tile
careful training of their instructor,
Miss Glissendorf, and which were
thoroughly enjoyed.
Tenement Life" by Miss Eta Mil
Ter was very thorough resume of this
interesting subject es seen in the city
of New York. Miss Miller's presence
before the audience was particularly
pleasant. The entire production shonld
be printed as it is particularly difficult
to dissect. She not only spoke of th'
lowller conditions of tenement life 5ut
also gave short history of the philan
thropio movements which have done SO
much for the benefit of these tenement
jewellers.
4 Miss Young, the class poet, yer!
charmingly recited the following orig
inal class poem.