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

trlotlsm. Our progress in the greater
things of life must be proportiona-e
10 our material prosperity, else we are
beginning now to seal the doom of the
republic. The Measure of a man en-
gagged and engrossed in commercial
activities is whether he is over or
under the dollar. The measure of his
manhood is whether he is insisting on
his rights and his neighbours duty, or
regarding his own duty from the
standpoint of his neighbours rights.
ihere is an old book which says
The love of money is the root of all
kinds of evil. When you leave the
glitter and glamour of this world for
the glory or .,are of the next, your
glory will be, not that you have
amassed so many dimes and dollars
and left them as a legacy to your i'm
mediate kith and kin, but your glory
Will be that you were man of char
acter pronounced and positive, and
that you in your sphere built charac-
ter into the republic and into the life
of your community, remembering with
al that there is no line of demarka-
tation between sacred and secular.
So much for our philosophy of life
In Its relation to commercialism and
patriotism in their INTERROGATION. But
philosophy that is not practical, or
does not point out the manner and
mode Of its application to life, is d
FOOLS philosophy The first point to
be made and maintained in the appli
cation of the above philosophy refers
to the self-hood of the individual him
self; absolute integrity OF character.
1t Is from this lofty watch-tower that
we can make some observations that
may be worth while.
There are evolutionary processes
So evident in the progress of the race.
that the mere mention of them is al
most proof positive of the participa-
ton of Providence in the things and
thinkings of men, These evolution
airy processes are not incidental. nor
accidental not circumstantial, but
piosiucuIidi. we are more sane ana
sensible, and sound than we used to
be. We are coming up more nearly to
golden standard. There is an old
adage, still current, which says, an
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure. And this ratio of sixteen to
one, as practical proposition in deal
ing with the varied problems in and
of society, has proven true over and
over, and is still in process of more
positive proof Methods and measures
preventive rather than curative are
the means that are making for the
larger progress in the various and
age, or frorl the view-uont of a
mighty social reform.
We make the following citations as
exemplifications of the transition
from processes curative to preventive
In other years we gave our atten
tion in relation to the flood situation
of the lower Mississippi to an endeav
or to cure these floods by means OF
bikes, embankments and jettes. To
day we have gone up stream to the
sources of the rivers, and of the trou
BILE. We are checking the denunda
ton of our watersheds and the de
struction OF our forests Hencefortf
the emphasis of our food treatment is
to be preventive rather than cura
tive.
In the practice of medicine there
has been such a transition and trans
formation, that the practice is a!
much beyond the bonds Of mere name
as are the system of many OF oul
great railways beyond the termino
! logy of their titles. 1t Is no Longer
merely the practice of medicine, tot
often alas the establishment of nina
/ ture drug stores within the human
/ frame. Evolution here is nightly ii
evidence. From mere medicine tt
/ hygiene and sanitation and sanity
/ From practicing on the effect to tn,
illumination of the acuse From
sixteen to one. From curative to pre-
ventive; so that the white plague Il
showing the white feather; so tina
ifeverbreeding pests and places Civ,
up their blood, so that a Cuban plague
spot becomes health resort.
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former days, court proceedings wer