Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-20

4 hardships of his native country, and
/ that he is likely to become public
charge; he is marked for deportation.
He will be sent back to Hamburg, and
| how he will find his way home l do not
| know"
What is to Be the Outcome?
There is one quaint and very effective
| feature about DR.. Edward A. Steiner's
new book Con- the Trail Of the Imrni-
grant 1t is addressed to my Lady
! of the First Cabin who has looked
down from the quarter deck onto, but
not into, the steerage. 1t Is in response
! to her questions that the book is writ
| ten and the final summing UP should
set America to thinking. In his eau
Revoir" he says:
"The people of the steerage are in
large mea sure what told you they
are-primitive urcultured, untutored
people; with all their virtues and vices
in the making. They are the best ma
teral with which to build a nation ma
terially; they are good stock to be used
in replenishing physical depletion; and
capable of taking on the highest intel
lectual and spiritual culture. They are
a serious problem in every respect;
whether you shut the gates Of Ellis
Island today or tomorrow, those that
are here are an equally serious prob
lem
Here are we, living at a time In
which the greatest phenomenon Of his
tory is taking place. Future genera
tons will wonder at the process and
will say: A new gigantic race was
being born between the Atlantic and
the Pacific; "a race born to build or to
destroy, to cry to the world Ground
Arms" or cast 1T into the hell of war;
a race in which are weldeii all kindreds
of the people of the earth, or a race
which will destroy itself by mutual
hate
MY lady, you and are here to work
at task which will outstrip all the
wonders of the world, and we cannot
do it in our own strength; we need to
call to each other, as we bend to our
task, the greeting which the Slovaks
sent after you when you left the ship:
"zBoghem, z'Boghem,
The Lord be with thee"
The Religious Problem.
1--WE shall soon be of one blood
sooner yet Of one speech; but how soon
we shall have one faith, and common
religious ideals, or how long we shall
be able to preserve those religious
ideals which are the guarantee Of our
greatness, as we'll as OF our perma-
hence as republic, are very large and
very serious questions
What concerns him most Is "the fact
that in nearly all the immigrants with
whom have dealt, forms and certain
blind faith obscure the ethical demands
of Christianity.
Essentially they are a religious peo-
pie, and even now there are taking
place among them great religious de-
velopments. 1 believe that in the crude
state in which the present immigrant
comes, he is ready for the best the
church can give him. No one church
is equal to the task, and antagonistic
as they may be towards one another,
believe the nation needs both the
Protestant and Catholic types: that
the field now is so large and the prob
lem so difficult, that they both need
to put forth their best efforts. Each
needs to prove Lessing's story Of the
Three Rings; each needs to prove that
it has the true. ring, the true message
Of redemption and it can prove that
best by living it's best, and by noblest
endeavor for these children Of men
who have brought to our doors the
problem of Christianizing the whole
world."-From "On the Trail OF the
Immigrant" Revell.