Arizona republican., 1909-04-27
GYPSY SMITHS MESSAGE
 ID CITY OF ST. PAUL
The London Evangelist Creating Stir
 There.


 St Paul, Minn.. April 23.(Special Correspondence Of The Republican, Eighty thousand people, or the equiv alent of one-third of the entire popu- lation of St. Paul. have heard Gypsy Smith, the revivalist from London, within a week. Scenes we'll nigh un- believable have occurred at almost ev- cry meeting, eliminating Wednesday night, when the huge auditorium, seat ing 10000 people, was filled In less than fifteen minutes, and the police were called out to close the doors and prevent overcrowding.
 Seats and even standing room have been at a premium for several days. People attending the meetings have little chance of getting in now unless they jein the lines before the many entrances to the auditorium building, and enter with the first rush. The building fills in incredible time. and a detail of police then closes the doors. Hundreds and thousands have been turned away from the meetings be-
 
 the big municipal building is 1nsuffi- cient, and overflow meetings are being held at a dozen different churches.
 The visitors methods are not espe- cially sensational lie has spoken bluntly and from the shoulder at all his meetings and has impartially dealt condemnation to sinners without and hypocrites within the church. His lat est assault is upon women of the churches who frown with polite hor- TOT on the unfortunate of their kind, and cloak themselves with pious re- spectability and aloofness in the pres ence of the unfortunates of the under world To these he delivered this stinging blow:
 Doesn't anybody care? If a woman steps down, you never forgive her. You kick her for falling, and wouldn't help her even with a kind word. You wouldn't take her hand; you wouldn't ask her in for a cup of tea; you would not dare acknowledge even contact of the most trivial kind with her. But how about the man who did it? You play cards with him. He calls upon your daughter. You receive him in your home.
 Doesn't anybody care for the wo- man? And you--there's no coming back into decent society for you, until you lift that woman and bring her with you.'
 Thousands have listened to his message, which is vigorous and earnest, and thousands have passed through the heavy curtains and past the man on guard, into the peni tent room to pray and seek relief. And hundreds have found hopeSthere. One of the men who is working among the seekers after light came first to the meetings the worse for wear and with a quart flask in his pocket. The committee has the flask. The man is clean and sober. He has braced up. He has a respectable job and is working now with Gypsy to help others.
 Saint Paul takes Gypsy Smith se- riously There can be no doubt of that Hundreds of business men even, who have not been inside of church in years, are frequently in his meet ings. He seems to have reached rich and poor, high and low alike. His meetings are not over yet, but nothing new will surprise Saint Paul. It has seen policemen keeping men and women from attending religious services It has seen ten thousand people mad to fill the building where the evangelist speaks. It has seen five thousand wait patiently on the streets in the open air for a glimpse of the man who has so stirred up the religious emotions of the city. Nothing new can matter much.
 The Gatum Dam as Safe as the Hills.
 In his Answer to the Panama Canal Critics" in the May McClure's, Presi- dent Taft gives the conclusions arrived at by the board of engineers sent to investigate the reported sinking of the Gatun Dam, and continues:
 Not only has this board deter mined on the entire safety and prac ticability of the Gatun Dam, but the army engineers, Colonel Goethals and his assistants, who are in charge of the actual work. are perfectly certain thta the Gatun Dam can be and will be made safe as the adjoining hills in re- sisting the pressure of the water of the lake against it and in maintaining it there for purposes of navigation. These army engineers are not responsible for the type of the canal. They did not take hold of the work until after the | type had been settled by act of con- gross, and they had no preconceived notions in respect to the matter when they took charge and assumed that in