Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-01
Grinnell Professor Addresses
Large Audience Of Men With
Introduction to Lectures
TOUCHED ON RUSSIAN CRISIS
Dr.. Steiner Said Wide Spread Unrest.
Due to Present Social Evils, Pres
ages a Tearing Down and Building
Up Of Our Social Structure = Public
Demand for "a Square Deal" In.
creasing.
creasing.

Goodly attendance and healthful in
terest last evening marked the lrsl
meeting of the series scheduled by the
Searchlight Club for the coming sea-
son at the Y NJ. C. A. rooms. About
sixty five members sat down to the
excellent dinner provided by the Y.
NJ. c. A. auxiliary, and enjoyed the
social half hour succeeding it and pre-
ceding the lecture by DR.. E. A. Steiner,
Of Grinnell, beginning his series on
"Old Faiths and Modern Problems"
The auditorium chairs were fairly we'll
filled, perhaps 125 being in attend
ance upon the lecture.
DR.. Steiner had every reason to be
pleased with his reception last even
ing. The club welcomed him back with
tumultous applause, and every possible
evidence of the intense appreciation
Marshalltown audiences have Of the
cosmopolitan preacher professor soci-
ologist 1t was scarcely the welcome
of an audience to a favorite lecturer,
but more the greeting of friends to a
friend, and the professor, showing In
the expression of voice and manner
his recognition of the personal nature
of the greeting, came half way to meet
his audience with the assurance that
he had found no rostrum so homelike
as that OF the Searchlight Club.
His remarks were informal and
PREDATORY to the series to come. He
spoke of the recent changes in Russia
with modest reminder that he told
the club So last winter. He had not
expected the change so soon, but events
come with the stroke of a sledgeham-
mer when conditions are ripe, and he
was surprised at the suddenness, not
at the result. DR.. Steiner predictel
further tumult, uncertainty and trou-
BILE in Russia. The unrest of the Rus
sian people. stimulated by the wild
schemes Of Missionaries Whispered into
the ears OF the ignorant by agitators
and published by secret presses Is not
to be Immediately allayed. Out, of his
knowledge of Russia and Russian
autocracy, DR.. Steiner doubted the
car and is inclined to await develop
ments.
Turning from Russia TO- America
he noted the evidences of great and
widespread discomfort in this country,
growing unrest, that while not RUS
sian, is alarming. ,rhe agricultural
districts he told us do not hear or see
or heed it, but 1t exists. In the greater
cities men are preaching dispos-
session Of property. In New York
women CLEAN from garbage cans the
food for starving children and thou
sands freeze and starve while others
eat twelve-c course dinners Graft ,ex-
lists and flourishes Railroads and COR
porations control legislation. He had
been at Hartford, Connecticut, during
the summer months and watched a
venal and corporation owned legisla-
ture. 1t refused to pass bill provid-
ing for the protection Of the public
against a third rail OF a powerful cleo
trio line. The exposed rail Is in eff
fect live wire. Seventeen persons
had been electrocuted by 1t. The leg
islature refused to pass the BILL In
these conditions the speaker found the
reasons for a coming change and read
warming to the American people
The social solvent DR.. Steiner found
in religion. All the seeking and search
comes back in its circle to Christiani-