Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-22

when blood flowed like rivers and
tears have been too cheap to count.
You will have to fight to keep your
advanced position, once you obtain it,
we are told. If you do clean up the
town will get dirty again. Some peo-
pie are willing to take a bath every
week. If you kepe clean bath will
have to follow bath; therefore don't
take a bath.
"Let No Harm Come to tho Golden
Calf"
"Another class of misrepresentation
is made of those, who like Aaron, i'm
agine that any old god will do When
Aaron found that the children of
Israel had tired of his commandership
because he was not big enough to
lead, he thought to win their favor by
Sitting up a golden calf The people
didn't want a golden calf They wanted
real leader; one was big enough to
interpret their best life to them; one
whom they dared to follow Aaron
thought that calf would do The de-
mand of today is for real leader
one who is willing to go forward and
is not so stupid as to imagine that If
his commercial accounts are increas-
ing there is nothing more that people
can desire. Discovering that they had
discovered him, his incapacity for
leadership, his lack of true represen-
tative ability, Aaron desperately
struggled to turn the attention of the
people from himself as the real issue.
to the consideration of the idol of
gold. Look, look he cried, see what
L have set before you; let no harm
come to the golden calf Aaron did
not set UP this call because he wanted
to help the children of Israel, but be-
cause he wanted to save his own hide.
He wanted to be around when pay day
came. He preferred settling with Moses
to giving the Israelites a chance to
settle with him. When Moses ap-
peared the calf had to go. Vice, I'M
cleanness. crime-all that appeals to
the baser motives of man has to go
when a city is made of voters who
keep the ten commandments.
Others Arc towards.
Another class of representatives
because they are sheer
towards. What spectacle is that OF
the army of Isreal terrified by the big
language of Goliath of the Philstfnes!
Why. that army had been brought to-
gether tor represent the pride and
strength and courage and fighting
spirit and faith in God of the Israel
itish race. But what a gross misrepre-
sentation of it all! In their terror Of
that Philistine swaggerer they forgot
that they represented anything; forgot
the brave hearts at home; forgot hon
or; forgot God. They were sent out to
mothers whom all the COL
iaths in the universe could not have
Sisters that would have
laughed to scorn the Philistine army
if every soldier in it had been
Goliath. Wives that would have rath-
er died thousand deaths than stink
to cover when the glory of Isreal was
at stake. But how about the courage
of the modern representatives OF the
wives and mothers and sisters and
daughters? Righteousness will never
triumph until every man who thinks
that it ought to triumph takes 1t upon
as David did-to defend
it. All that it requires is a little
coureg. He is thrice armed whose
quarrel is just In the battle that is
now on we must either lie back
supinely like the army of Israel. or
rouse ourselves, stir the sluggish blood
until it boils, and go forth to drive
vice and shame and crime of every
sort to cover, This above all, to thine
ownself be true. and 1t must follow
as the night the day, thou can'st not
then be false to any man..