Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-06
THE CITY OF LONDON
DR.. SAMUEL PARKEs cADMAN, OF
NEW YORK, DESCRIBES IT AS
THE "MoDERN BABYLON"
Brilliant Lecture Delivered at the OF
tumwa chautauqua Yesterday-lm-
portance of Cities In Progress of
Civilization.

The Importance of the city in the
progress of civilization was empha-
sized by Dr. Samuel Parks Cadman,
of New York, in his brilliant lecture
on "The Modern Babylon" at the OF
tumwa Chautauqua yesterday DR.. Cad
man was listened to with the lleenest
interest and pleasure Throughout his
discourse and many pronounced it one
Of the most marvellous lectures ever
heard in Ottumwa. He spoke in
part as follows:
Around the great cities centefs tbk
struggles of modern civilization and
the citizens of all states should be in
terested in the life in the city. New
York, with it's eight-flve per cent for
eign population and millions who never
attend church, having it's blocks where
thousands Of people are living, repre-
senting as high as eighteen different
nationalities. What an opportunity
you have in your cities of the west, if
you keep them free from municipal
corruption, to hand down to posterity
wonderful inheritance for all ages.
Christian or Pagan.
"The great question in New York to-
day is not whether the city will be
Roman or Protestant, but whether it
will be Christian or pagan. We well
come every man, Roman priest, pro-
testant preacher or missionary of
whatever kind, who recognizes the
spiritual principles as predominant
and all powerful in life. In the pres
ence of the common enemy we are
bound to presen. united front. Be-
fore all churches looms up the brazen
front of materialism.
'The church has been caught on
the hip by the strategic movement.
The tendency in all nations is toward
the cities. Men leave the country to
dwell in the city and many prefer to
be wrecks in the slums of the city
rather than lions on the broad
prairies of the west And in the cities
you find the same conditions existing
as in those cities Of ages ago.
Regarding immigration.
Some have suggested that it would
improve these conditions if we would
stop immigration for time. Coming
over on the Teutonic one day just
before reaching the shore, a Jewish
rabbi came on deck and about $50
Jews gathered around him. They were
for the most part, dirty, unkempt,
Russian Jews, indicating no inlmedi-
ate possibilities of American citizen
ship. And yet as he began to chant
God is our refuge and our help, the
tears ran down their faces and
boards. The dream of centuries was
about to be realized, they were about
the press to their lips the cup of bliss,
they were in sight of the land of hope
and freedom and behind them in the
faraway east was Russia with her
ignorance, oppression and gloom,
STUN bling onward to her doom. Who
shall say that it is best to keep peo-
pie like this from coming to our
shores? 1t is many sided question.
Seeks to Govern Cities.
Everybody seeks to govern the
city. The legislator realizes that if
he can control three or four of the
larger cities he can control the state.
Croker for years controlled the polit-
ical life of New York and at one time
came dangerously near controlling the
presidency. Through the control of
some Of the larger cities it is possible
that some one man may dictate who
shall be the chief magistrate of the
nation to rule its millions of people for
veal or woe. And so the moralist,
the socialist, the statesman, who shall
show our cities how to grow and grow
right that our children may be kept
clean, has in his grasp the history of
our civilization
ut has been said that while God
made the country man made the
towns. Who made the man? God
made the towns There is no great
movement in art, history or religion
that has not had it's birth in the city.
To neglect our cities means the neg
lect of the largest organizations of the
public body.
City of London.
81 wish to call your attention to the
largest city God ever permitted man
to live in, London, the modern Baby
Ion. The older city the oftener the
tides Of human life run through it's
channels. Florence, the city of beau
ty, Rome the city of art, Paris the city
Of modes, London the city of empire.
We can understand the history of man
when we can understand the cities he
has built. The first city was built
over the corpse Of Abel and we are
told of that final city Respondent in
all her glory and brightness which is
to be the crown and summit of human
effort. Man began in city with his
garments stained with the blood Of his
brother, and we shall end in city
with those garments made white by
the blood of Jesus Christ"
Dr. Cadman gave beautiful de.
scription CT the journey from New
York to England by sea. He said that
England owed great deal to Ireland
and that some of her greatest states.
men and soldiers were of Irish birth.
A mans nationality, he said, was not
always determined by his birthplace.
"Americanism is not made by being
born in the United States but by the
spirit which lived in George Washing
ton and Abraham Lincoln and without
II man was an alien thOuoh he bo