The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

was the clients charge How many
| times have changed. Now it is the
primal business of the leading law.
yers, office-attorneys largely, so to
make contracts and close deals, so
that the business interests concerned
may be within the law rather than up
against the law. To win in, out of
court, at minimum cost-this is the
evolution that has taken place in the
clients charge. This is the evident
evolution that has taken place in the
business and professional world. 1t
is sixteen to one, from curative to pre-
ventive.
In the financial world similar evo-
luton is taking place. We are turn
ing our attention from the merely al
leviative treatment of panics and
other financial diseases to processes
preventative of the causes of these
diseases.
In the realm of religion, realm all
inclusive, and in the realm of moral
reform, the same evolutionary pro-
cesses have been in progress, and the
same proportionate betterment and
benefit have resulted. To say moth
ing about the other and larger phrases
of the proposition, it is financially adj
vantageous to the community and to
the state to keep the boy and girl
right, rather than to wait and attempt
to cure their wrong condition in later
years.
There is destiny that has shaped
these ends; that has led us up and in
to this better way. This idea of pre-
venting like leaven is permeating the
whole lump of society and civilization.
Therefore is it the duty of every citi-
zen of the Republic, it is the double
duty of you who occupy places of
prominence and power in your several
communities, to attend positively and
permanently to these three things.
To have and to hold a character
above and beyond reproach. To do
your part to make our government,
national, state, and local, representa-
tive of all that is best To do your
part to make and maintain citizen
ship positively patriotic. A good citi-
zenship makes a glorious nation. And
you, banker and business men, that
you are, by that quiet word of warn
ing, or counsel, or encouragement, to
th nj how mr. voupo mon whom yo,, cop
get next to as neighbor or friend, you.
say, by reason of what you are and
where you are, can do far more pro-
portionately for posterity and patriot
ism than can those whose profession
al business it is to see to these things.
And this, my brothers, is the sim
pie message that l bring you, mes
sage of duty, and privilege and oppor-
tunity For today, for ourselves and
for our nation. we can spell opportun-
ity with an o as big around as the
round world. And we, different from
most nations, we as yet have right
to build ships to patrol the seas. For
our building of ships Expresses no one
but the oppressor. And then our
Washington and his com-patriots start
ed movement which deepening and
widening with the years has made the
great American Republic the police
man of two hemispheres and the COM
mander-in-chief of the civilization of
the world We have our own prob
lens, and we will solve them. And
one of them is the money-problem. 1t
is for us to stand where other nations
have fallen; to show the world that
commercialism and patriotism are not
incompatible: to prove before high
heaven that wealth is simply means
to an end; to prove ourselves true by
showing to mankind thrt we can
maintain in universal friendship and
fellowship, first in the heart of him
who is Sovereign over all. And we can
do it. we are doing it. because already
we have entered the borderland OF the
time when commercialism is to be
but a stepDingstone to higher heights
of civilization, and character and
Christlikeness