Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-12

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GEMS FROM SEC. HAYS SPEECH
Even Nebraska Populist who
reads his Lincoln is in the way of sal.
walton.
Then came the paying of our debts
To whom is the credit due for TINT
enormous task. that sublime effort of
common honesty, if not to the party
which against every assault of open
and covert reputation stood by the
country's honor and kept it free from
stain?
A country growing SO fast must
have elbowroom-must have it's share
of the sunshine. In the last seven
years, without aggression, without I'M
due self-assertion we have taken the
place that belonged to us
President Roosevelt has taken care
that our interests receives no detri-
ment in the Pacific; that while we
wish no harm to anyone else, we shall
see that no damage is done to our
people, no door is shut in our face.
The principles upon which our
party is built are so sound, they have
so irresistible an attraction to pa
triotic and fair-minded men, that
whenever time of crisis comes, when
the national welfare is clearly at
stake, when voters must decide
whether they shall follow their preju.
dices or their consciences, we draw
from other parties their best men by
thousands.
The republican national platform is
in line with all our platforms of the
0cyf ont xryhn 11
promise in those days have become
history in these. We stand by the
ancient ways which have proved good.
AS to money, our adversaries range
all the way from Bedlam to Belmont.
To every grade of lawbreakers,
high or low; to man who would rob
a till or ballot box; to the sneak or
the bully; to the hypocrite and the
humbug, Theodore Roosevelt is more
than unsafe; he is positively danger
Gus.
The laws in this country are made
to be obeyed, whether it is safe or
not 1t is always unsafe to disobey
them.
President Roosevelt struck while
the iron( in the Panama matter) was
white hot on the anvil of opportunity
and forged as perfect a bit of honest
statecraft as this generation has seen.
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ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH SER
VICES.
Professor Smaller Mathews, of Chi
cago, has been carrying on peculiar
investigation recently and has an
nounced that the number of college
graduates attending the churches of
that city is very small. According to
the professor, who gave a class in
the University of Chicago the benefit
of his researches, there are very few
college men or women who are regu.
lar attendants at any of the Baptist
churches. Speaking on this point he
said:
1t is pathetic to see how few col.
lege men were numbered among the
Baptist congregations of the city. Six
or seven were reported at some Of the
largest churches, and the maximum
was twenty, reported from a church
near an educational institution. It
seems-if present tendencies continue
as If men and women in course of
time would go to church as children
and then graduate from it to take up
activities in other fields.
Professor Mathews also believes
that the organization of women's
clubs decreases the attendance at the
churches. He gives it as his opinion
that the woman who belongs to a
philanthropic club let's this take the
place of the church and graduates, as
he terms it, from the church into
other fields of activities.
If this theory is correct and a true
statement of affairs the conditions
should be remedied at once. The par
ent who is not regular attendant at
church services cannot expect his or
her child to attend Sunday school.
The example the father and mother,
and especially the mother, sets for
the younger generation should be
carefully studied and an interest in
churches and church work should be
the object first of all.
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