The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
DIR. Guy Carleton Lee Delivers
Second of His Lecture Series.
win Close Series With 1.-THE Nation
Triumphant" at Kentucky Ave-
nue. Church Tonight.
A BIG AUDIENCE HEARS HIM

The demagogue's favorite deadly
parallel" of the Roman republic was
employed last night. by DR.. Guy
Carleton Lee in the capacity of
analogy with the American republic,
which shows that DR.. Lee is an opti-
mist. DR.. Lee recognized where the
resemblance ends. and at that point
he began drawing the lesson for
Americans from the conditions.
when the People Wake" was the
subject OF his lecture at the Ken
lucky Avenue Presbyterian church
and a large audience greeted him
again. Tonight at $3.50 o'clock he
will conclude his series with his most
famous lecture, the grandest prophecy
Of the spiritual development OF a ma
ton, possibly ever spoken, "The
Nation Triumphant"
AS in his first lecture, DR.. Lee
traced the responsibility for the
awakening straight home to the
church-going. moral cement OF the
country. He said they are maintain
ing the country's ideals and making
possible the pleasant conditions under
which the non-church afiliating ele-
ment is enjoying life; but he said the
church element has been asleep to
the growing evils OF "sln and lust. -
He believes they viii awake because
the God that led the children of
Israel out OF the bondage of Egypt
will keep his people and the world
free from the shackles of corruption,
which are being forged for them.
The Roman Republic.
He quoted Aristotle's cycle OF gov
eminent: Democracy, Plutocracy.
Aristocracy, Tyranny. trevoIution) ;.
Democracy" He pictured Rome in.
her decline just before the fall. In
side the banquet halls the aristocrats
were dining and engaging in their
lustful pleasures. Outside a miser-
able rabble. that hated the diners for.
giving in charity 20 them, that which
should be theirs of right. But the
rabble was weakened and debauched
by its own vices and political corrup-
ton. II could not lift hand against
the tyranny that oppressed II. It
could only hate and murmur.
He said this country has narrowly
escaped a plutocracy. He said 1t is
rumored that America has in It the
making of an aristocracy-not an
aristocracy OF learning. not an aris-
tocraey of morals. but a lower sort.
He pictured a New York society
papers account of the death of an
asthmatic poodle in a Fifth avenue
mansion. and the account Of a woman
who froze TO death in a tenement
hall in a city OF million homes
He said there was not condition
existing in Rome that is not existing
in America today-but. the great ma
jority of the people are not de-
bauched and venal and corrupt. The
great body of American people today
are evincing by their unrest an
awakening to a knowledge OF the
facts. They are demanding to know
the truth. not to conceal II. 1--WE are
mot Romans" declared DR.. Lee. eve
are Americans"
He said he had talked with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, with Mr.. Bryan, with
Cardinal Gibbons and the heads of
the Protestant denominations and al
agreed that 1t is not too late If the
people awake.
He said IN all ages prophets have
been denounced. The president Is one
of the men, who has been warning
the people time. and time again
against the besetting sins of the ma
tion, and the dangers of It.
Four Causes of Complaint.
He pointed to greedy corporate in