River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-25

When Paul wrote these words,
wild beasts were tearing human be-
inqs to pieces in the Coliseum at
Rome. This Coliseum now stands
rnin. its walls crumbled; trees,
vines and rubbish now hover over
where once emperors, senators and
women. with screams of delight,
watched the blood flow. 1t is
mere monument, a glorious monu-
ment, for it reminds every visitor
and child of the fact that humanity
has progressed beyond voluntary
brutality, deliberate torture and
horror as the amusement of the
greatest city of the civilized race.
paul was great man, a brave
Christian and an inspired man. He
did not say to men that they must
believe without understanding, or
accept without questioning things
as they are. But he said, Prove all
things, and after these things are
proven, hold fast that which is
good" But the trouble, however,
with nine out of ten is their narrow
mindedness, their lack of capacity
to accept new truths or at least to
consider them fairly. Every man
who has a plan to help his fellows
knows what it is to have his spirit
uuenched. Every man who has
been able to look into the future to
see better conditions and to urge
their realization, knows how much
humanity is in need of good things.
The first men that talked against
slavery had their spirits quenched
with a vengeance. Often they were
beaten and Tilted and their prophecy
despised, but slavery is gone. Ev-
ery man who was capable of seeing
the worlds future development and
who has told about them in advance
has been prosecuted for his pains.
In the old days he was prosecuted
vigorously with sticks, stones and
the rack of fire.
Modernism is the plan. The days
have passed when the superstitious,
the wide-mouthed jealous hypocrite
and the pretended adviser is of con-
sequence. Lawyers, doctors, mer-
chants and all have advanced along
new lines and have brought forth
new ideas. They venture into the
world to assert their effectiveness
and to prove things, and to hold
fast that which is good. The doc
tor with a speciality, announcing to
the world a cure for this, a remedy
for that, or a plan by which he has
mastered a certain disease and has
proven to the world this fact and
has held fast to this fact, who has
discarded the old fogy ideas and
laid aside the old-time code of med
ical ethics, is the doctor TO wear a
crown and reap the reward. The
Jealous adversary is jealous be.
cause some other doctor stands
higher or knows more perhaps than
he does. One hundred years ago
we had no railroads, we had no
electric lights, we had no automo-
biles, we had no fast transatlantic
liners running from continent to
continent within six days, we had
no flying machines, we had no ma
chine that would weave cloth that
one woman could operate and do as
much as ten thousand women. We
had no modern law of chemistry,
we had no doctors to perform oper-
atoms for appendicitis, for ovariot-
omy, abdominal sections, appara-
fuses for artificial breathing, and a
thousand and one other things. Do
you realize what has been done in
the past? Can you realize what
will be done in the future? Perhaps
more wonders to follow than has
been in the past.
A few years ago there appeared
in the northwestern dailies an
nouncements of comparatively un-
known physician-DF. .Rea.. These
aHnounoesnents Set forth the names