The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
QUOTES FROM BIBLE
JOE CANNON REFERS TO PAUL IN
TALK ON INSURGENTS.
The Speaker Proposes to Make Hay
While the Sun Shines; Will Not
Wear Dress Suit at the Congress
SIGNAL Banquet; the Scar" In
dulges in Some Characteristic Ex-
pressions in St. Louis.

st. Louis, Mo-, Oct 26.-Speaker
Cannon has quoted the bible as the
best means. of expressing his attitude
towards the house insurgents" VINO
have waged valiant war against him.
If the speaker is alarmed by the ac-
tiyity of these members of the house
he managed to conceal such emotion
upon his arrival at the Jefferson hotel
last night.
| "Wnat about the insurgents, Mr..
Speaker was a question directed at
him.
"What about the insurgents?" he re-
piled. 'What are they up to? Go
and ask the insurgents.
IF you turn to the journeys of old
Paul, you will find that he struck an
attitude and said: 4 have been i'm
poverished with strifes. l have met
robbers on land. I have been snip
wrecked at sea. I have fought with
the beasts at Ephesus. Yet none OF
these things have moved me-" The
expression was given to indicate the
attitude of the speaker ON the eff
forts of house members to obtain a
revision of the rules.
Making Hay While Sun Shines.
That the speaker proposes to make
hay while the sun shines was indi-
Gated by the geniality he radiated to
all with whom he came in contact
He was taken to his room and imme-
diately afterwards disappeared with
Congressman Richard Bartholdt of
Missouri.
( Speaker Cannon and Congressman
BarthOldt, whatever their relationship
on matters political, may come to a
clash Wednesday night, it is said, when
a formal banquet is given to Presi-
dent Taft on board the Quincy.
| Congressman Batholdt has had al
most entire charge of the arrangements
for the banquet and is determined that
the affair will outshine all other
events.
Extremely formal" asserted the
Missouri congressman; "dress suits and
all. Sure, the dress suit. This is to
be great OCCASION"
Mr.. Cannon, however, is known to
possess an antagonism to dress suit
amounting almost to a passion. More.
over, he came to the waterways con-
gress CARRIED into perfectly new
broadcloth frock coat, the splendor of
which far outelasses the ordinary vari-
ETY. of dress suit.
Ready, But No Dress Suit.
care you ready for the congressional
banquet, Mr.. Speaker? Where's your
dress suit?" asked a fellow member
of congress on meeting the Danville
representative in the hotel lobby.
Dress suit?" he repeated vehement
ly. well, guess not" With this
he drew back SO the full attractiveness
! of the new long pearl gray might
abash the. questioner. 1t apparently
did, and all who heard the remark
were confident that however formal
might be the gathering on Wednesday
night, at least one not unimportant
member would be there, but without
!. the evening clothes so expressly desired
DE lHe MISSOURI UeluDeIS.
Baltimore, Nd, Oct. 26.-Good
friends are better than great riches, in
the opinion OF Cardinal Gibbons. All
would avail man nothing if he had
no one to stand by him and aid
him. I@
! II care not how rich man is"
said the cardinal 81 care not whether
he be Croesus, John Jacob AstOr, John
ID. Rockefeller, or Vanderbilt, what
will his wealth avail him if he has
no friend to help him, no servant to
minister to his wants, no one to
stand by him, no one to give him
solace in his sorrow? If they have no
friend, say, their wealth will avail
them nothing.
| ''The rich as well as the poor de-
clare, I am not my brothers keep
err This is the language of selfish
ness and misery. That man must
be miserable that says, L am not my
brothers keeper He is an iceberg
and curse to himself. Man is his
brothers keeper, and we would be in
a sad state were everybody to be-
lieve that he were not his brothers
keeper"
Cardinal Gibbons does not believe the
time ever will come when there will
be no poor men. He says the pres
ent charity work is doomed to fail
because it seeks to eliminate pow
erty. oi.
"The purpose of the American today
is not only to alleviate but to elimi
nate poverty" he said. 81 believe in
public spirit. l admire Americans for
/ endeavoring to relieve suffering. Suf
fering, however, cannot be eliminated.
As long as social relations exist be-
tween human beings there will be
poverty in the world"
God intended that there should be
inequality among mankind, and this
inequality we always have" he con-
tinued. "Christ's disciples were not
men of potent political influence or
high social positions; they were with
out any prestige at all in the sight
of men. But they were commanded
by Christ to preach the gospel, to
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