The St. Louis Republic., 1904-09-25

dalE i1 lis municipal government career
that have ~ late hetl widely advertised
=" the world have. nu rh,. the other
hand, known something for years past OF
oiher phases of its municipal life. and
must assert that IL the main 1t stands
not only a. a cre.li;ahIe but as a brilliant
example OF modern municipal progress.
1T h.s. - least. managed Ia make n
comfortable and beautiful dwelling place
Tor its inna bit; MS. and yet provide for
them those facilities ti.aj contribute to
'hc safety ana enjoyment Of life
Here. as elsewhere IN America Just
row. as IN Chicss go. san Francisco. New
York. Boston. PhiladclDhia and many an
other city. the mos; important phase Of
municipal life is the struggle for 4 higher
type Of civic virtue This Is coming about
In the gradual detachment of what we
nay call municipal politics from the
domination OF rational and State politics.
which have no proper place in the direc-
tlon Of the corporate activity of towns and
cities
MISS ADDAMS'S ADDRESS.
Miss Jane adams Of Hull House. Chi
caCo. was the roxt speaker Her subject
was along the line of municipal faults and
the glowing opportunity for Improvement.
and TO 4 certain extent followed the lines
laid down by Doctor Shaw. \ new feature
of her address was the exemplification OF
the Chicago strike a demonstration of
what influence politics may have in set
Ting differences between capital and la
Dor. and denlorinS the failure of the gen
eral Government or the State government
or even the municipal government. TO in
still in the hearts Of the foreiEn-bora the
same feeling of respect and love which
they possess toward trades unions and
patriotic and fraternal organizations
In speaking OF politics in municipal af-
fairs and the later developments in re-
form movement. Miss Adams said that
under ordinary circumstances the politi-
cal reformer was merely in the business
for what could be gained thereby and that
the average reformer was no better than
those classes which he would drive from
political domination.
MOTIVES OF REFORM.
With respect TO the situation a. II has
been and is now In Missouri. Miss Ad-
dams. at the close OF her address to a
Republic representative said: '.My remark.
do not apply to the work of reform as
stated IN the press as having been IN prog
gress in st. Louis. While / am no. per-
sonally cognizant of the situation in this
city. / am well satisfied that the efforts
that have been made from the standpoint
of honesty and genuine desire for nnu-
nfcipal cleanliness and I give full credit
TO those who have been instrumental in
bringing abou. the present Improvement
in the situation"
PRIMITIVE MAN EXPERIENCED.
CONTRARY to the long accepted theory
that primitive man was a totally mex
perienced being il is my belief that he was
not unsophisticated. that he brought over
from his brute ancestors a social tend
ercy and a large knowiedge." said Pro-
fessor Frederick Starr the eminent eth
nologfst OF Chicago University. in his ad
dress in the section of anthropoloGy.
I'VE have been accustomed to regard
the history Of primitive man as a clean
page. on which anything might be writ
ten All recent research tends TO show
that this view is wrong and that in large
measure man had all the social tenden-
cies. much Of the experience and not 1T
tie of the wisdom he has now when he
was first man.
Starr excited the liveliest interest Of the
large audience that had gone TO Agricul-
ture Hail in anticipation Of his address.
After giving the reasons for his state
ments Doctor Starr gave an outline of an
other new thought that human distribu-
ton ccnformed. both in continental and
local way. to she distribution of fauna and
fora One OF the most important undeyeI-
oped fields in cthnology, the speaker said.
IS simian. or snthropoid. psychology. IT
is his opinion. he said. that research in
this field would in the future throw much
light on the origin of man.
II do not mean by that he said, that
even If we learn all that is to be known of
simian forms that exist to-day we shall
have filed the gap that exists between
man and the lower animals. / do not be-
ieye that the tendencies and characters
ties of the ape to-day are the same as
hose Of the ancestors of man.
Colonial administration and the prob
lens which confront the government OF
foreign peoples and territories was the
absorbing topic which attracted to the
Hall of Congresses yesterday morning
many OF the leaders of thought who are
attending the Congress OF Arts and Sci
ence.
Professor Paul s. Reinsch of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin at Madison. an ac-
authority on politics and po-
litical economy. was the principal speaker.
and In an address in which he took TO
task some prevailing methods and the
ories he gave rise to discussion which |
was taken UP by half n dozen of the po-
Iitical theorists who were in attendance.
Professor Reinsch treated the subject
from a scientific standpoint In part, he
said:
FASCINATING PROBLEMS.
MANY are the fascinating problems sug
eested by the meeting OF civilizations o:
a different degree of development. Socie-
ties have influenced each other from the
beginning OF history. and European civil
cation itself is a composite structure. de-
yeloped by no single race, but reared
slowly out of the contributions of many
societies. What constitutes
the distinguished features Of our own
era is that Western civilization now con-
sciopsly confronts all the other societies
OF the world. and treating them as more
or Isss backward and undeveloged. is en-
deavoriDg directly TO influence them ami
TO urge them TO greater conformity with
lts own methods and ideals Amazing anu
Is the thought OF such forces
and ali that our eartn contaiES-con-
fronting each other FOR 4 iral ADJUST
ment ,.,.
tion well founded and will IL be able 10
bring th, world TO its way OF thinking,
or will II have To- permit its own character
to he modified by the other forces. ana
viii this new synthesis be determined as
the result of military or ecenonic com
nefition? Into all those broader questions
h is not Ssre the place TO enter we IAN
hut consfder- some of the aspects OF me
,ac,inp of societies through colonial ex-