Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-09
NEW YEAR SYMPOSIUM
Prominent Men Give Sage Ad-
vice OIL What Good People
Should Do In 1906
HIGHER IDEALS IN PUBLIC LIFE
Governor Hoch Of Kansas Says There
Is Demand for Civic Righteousness
in Every Department of Government
Bishop Leighton Pleads for San
or and Simpler Life.

"What IL the one thing above all otL
ers that the American people shout"
strive for in 1862
Such was the timely question submit
ted by the Christian Herald to num-
Der Of prominent and active workers
In various fields of endeavor through
out the United States. Answers were
received from twenty-five or more well
known Americans. Special effort was
made to secure the opinions and advice
of the presidents Of universities in
widely separated parts of the land,
with view to helping especially young
men and young women. The efforts in
this particular field were highly sue
cessful, ard we are sure that in the let
tiers from the heads of universities
printed herewith young people will find
much that will aid them in making the
year 1906 a happy one.
SOCIAL AMI POLITICAL REFORMS NEEDED.
DR.. Alfred NJ. Haggard, dean of the
Bible college, Drake university, at Des
Moines, Ia:
I am Interested in social reform. better
political conditions. better care for the
poor and more justice for the laborer: in
arbitration and peace among all nations,
in the rights Of women IN better divorce
laws, in Lbolishing the saloon and in
spreading the gospel to the ends Of the
earth. II read the signs Of the times cor
rectly, there is constantly widening and
deepening tide involving all these inter-
ests and bearing US into a better age.
This conviction enables me to answer
your question. The one thing for Amer
icans to do is to widen and deepen this
tide and give It greater momentum than
ever before. Individually each one of US
should make ourselves count more than
ever toward this end. by voice. by pen,
by contributions, by ballot and by splen-
did personal example. The channels
which are especially inviting for COM
bined effort are those Of education, es.
pecially higher; our great reform move
ments, such as the w. C. T. u, the Anti
saloon league. with many others; mission
work at home and abroad and, lastly,
better and more practical application of
the gospel of Christ, for 1t is the heart
and circumference Of all real progress.
FOR HIGHER IDEALS IN PUBLIC LIFE.
Governor e. w. Hoch Of Kansas:
In the great movement that is coming
up from the hearts Of the people the de-
mand is for higher ideals in politics, for
greater official integrity, for greater re-
spect for lawn word, for civic right
e0usness in every department of govern
ment. Christianity is the basis and In
SEPARATION OF this movement. as It is the
hope OF tn e world.
FOR Il RETURN TO OLD IDEALS.
Congressman Marshall Van Wrinkle
1t New Jersey:
Simple living and high thinking-a re-
turn to the old ideals. The American
people have now struck twelve" in ma
-terial things. Their chief concern and
the thing they should strive most for
above all others is to avoid decline and
to preserve their poise, and to that end
they should pray daily during the whole
round, year of 1906:
s'Iord, let not my head grow dizzy: IL
my foot beginneth to slip. may thy mercy
hold me up"
HALT THE MAD RACE FOR WEALTH.
Congressman Hiram r. Burton Of
Delaware:
The greatest evil with which the Amer
lean people have to contend today Is the
keverish desire for wealth. This evil, like
q canker, is rapidly eating its way into
the very heart Of our American institu-
tons. Wherein Hes the solution? I can
not 00y, OOI II SSGILS 70 me llldS 4SOO
should dnl the American people working
shoulder to shoulder to check this evil,
which sooner or later. If left alone, will
prove a menace to the very foundation of
our government.
DRIVE OUT RULE OF COED AND BRING IN
GOLDEN RULE
Congressman James Francis Burke
of Pennsylvania:
y 3I,I, 81 no h,,sf
and political life OF this country. Every
honest political organization should ban
ish from Its counsels the Individual who
dons the rarty uniform to pilfer the pub
lie purse and every commercial body in
the land should put the ban upon him
who dons the gnrb OF the business man
Ito cheat h. s competitor by -conspiring with
sconfederates or to rob widows and Or
phans of their rights by betraying the
trust imposed in him by the silent inmates
OF the grave. Repeal and reject the rule
of Eold and re-enact ana re-enforce the
golden rule, -and the moral house clean
ing which our country is just witnessing
viii be enduring in tn results
MAKE WAR IMPOSSIBLE
Congressman G. n. Grosvenor Of Ohio:
I am In favor of the widest and most
effective ,.oe1ditions which will tend to
make wnI less probable and. as far as
may be. impossible. nave no line OIL
operation marked out differing from the
preeent plan Of arbitration and concilia-
fion. I.befeye that tte-recent war in the
east was a great promoter OF peace. for
i believe it.ayin SO impress the people OF
the world with the horrors OF war that
war will ,stlortly become almost in1possi-
BILE.
REsTRICg. DETRIMENTAL nfMGRAT1oN.
United States Senator A. j. McLau-
rin Of Mississippi:
Surprising that you mean to ask me,
American people should strive for In
1867" answer that, in my judgment the
most important thing Is a restriction OF
detrimental immigration.
EDUCATION IN UNsELFIsH LIVING.
Rev. Asher Anderson Of Boston, sec
rotary National Council Congregational
churches:
The problem lies in thistle education
of men in unselash lives. Se!fishness
makes for materialisrn. love OF gain, lack
OF brotherhood. These are evils with
which we all have to contend. The selfish
man In iniustsy, politics. trade home and
church Is q corrupt and corruptins eie-
neat. We heed not less denunciation OF
evil but more discipline of evil men.
who sit In the pews and under the gntse
of religion rob the widow, cheat their fel-
lows and ,all the week with iniaufty> It Is
the ,,nselfsh man Who seeks his fellows
good
woAHsHoR DUMB ANIMALS.
Sarah X. Bolton OF Cleveland, O.: