The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-24
new YEAR SYMPOSIUM
Prominent Men Tell What to
Strive For In 1906.

Governor Hoch of Kansas Says There
Is a Demand For Civic Righteous
ness In Every Department of Gov
eminent More Repose Needed In
American Life, Says Bishop Cole
man of Delaware.
what is the one thing above all 9th
ers that the American people should
strive for in 1902
Such was the timely question submit
ted by the Christian Herald to a num-
Der of prominent and active workers
in various fields of endeav0r 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 a view to helping especially young
men and young women The efforts in
this particular field were highly sue
cessful, and 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 AND POLITICAL REFORMS NEEDED.
Dr. Alfred NJ. Haggard, dean Of the
Bible college, Drake university, at Des
Moines, Ia:
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 aboishing the saloon and In
spreading the gospel to the ends Of the
earth. II 1 read the signs of the times cor
rectly, there is a constantly widening and
deepening tide involving all these inter
ests and bearing us into better age.
This conviction enables me to answer
your question. The one thing for Amer
leans 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 a splen-
did persona 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 d word, for civic right
eousness IN every department of govern
ment. Christianity is the basis and In
SEPARATION of this movement, as it is the
hope Of the world.
FOR RETURN TO OLD IDEALS.
Congressman Marshall Van Wrinkle
of 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:
Lord. let not my head grow dizzy; If
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
fever1sh desire for wealth. This evil, like
a canl5er, is rapidly eating It's way into
the very heart of our American lnSttu'
,tions. Wherein lies the solution? l can
not say, but ii seems to me that 1905
should find the American people working
shoulder to shoulder to check this evil
which sooner or later, If left alone. Will
our government.
DRIVE OUT RULE OF GOLD AND BRING IN
GOLDEN RULE.
Congressman James Francis Burke
of Pennsylvania:
Drive dishonesty out of the business
and political life of this country. Every
honest political organization should ban
fish from its counsels the individual VINO
dons the party uniform to pilfer the pub
lie purse, and every commercial body in
the land should put the ban upon him
who dons the garb of the business man
to cheat his competitor by consplring with
confederates 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 gold and re-enact and re-entorCe the
golden rule, and the moral house clean
tng which our country IS just witnessing
will be enduring in it's results
MAKE WAR IMPOSSIBLE.
Congressman c. II. Grosyenor of Ohio:
I am in favor of the widest and most
effective conditions which will tend TO
make war less probable and, as far as
may be, impossible I have no line Of
operation marked out differing from the
present plan of arbitration and concilia-
itiou. I believe that the recent var in the