The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-10
Doctors lnui Discussed One Of the
Most Important Questions of the
Day at Yesterdays
Assembly.
JOS w. FOLK TOMORROW
Crowds Continue at the Beautiful Wild
Cat Grounds and Weather is
Ideal For the chau-
tauqua.

The Hamilton chautauqua still con-
tinues to be the popular place of en-
tertalnment and the crowds in at
tendance at Wild Cat yesterday al
most equaled in size, those of Sunday.
when the large speakers tent was
filled to its capacity.
me morning hour devotional ser
vices, under the direction of Charles
h. Varney platform manager, assist
ed by his wife, proved helpful and in
teresting the session starting at nine
o'clock each morning. and the as
sembly tent being we'll filed.
The music for the assembly yester.
day and today will be furnished by
the Slayton Jubilee Singers. The
music furnished by the organization
is delightful and those who were per-
mitted to hear it yesterday afternoon
and last evening pronounce this fea-
ture as one of the most entertaining
of the program. Yesterday afternoon
a concert was given from o'clock UNI
til 2:30 by the famous singers. This
company has over five thousand con-
certs to its credit and is one of the
most celebrated of jubilee troups.
Something Of the Singers.
The ever changing environments
which comes with progress newt
ably throws into the foreground those
facts of national life which the people
wish to live and entombs those other
phases of life which have no warrant
of perpetuity. 1t is this force that
has built the folk lore of the nations
and saves from oblivion, by tradition.
much of the thought and purpose of
the past, as it was evolved in the
home-life of the common people. The
common people of the south were the
colored people, the slaves who wove
their homely experiences into the
songs Of their time and although the
slave has been freed and the colored
race uplifted in intelligence and cul-
ture. the generation of today clings
poetry of sentiment that meant SO
much to their fathers of two genera
tions ago And with them the coun-
try at large is glad to share the
wealth of harmony and sentiment that
is reproduced in the music of the
jubilee singers today.
There are eight members of the
troupe among whom are Miss Maud
Brown, soprano, Miss Ernestine
Helma. mezzo-soprano, Chas. H.
Downs. basso and William Hugh Ma
son, musical director
From 1880 until 500 o'clock last
evening, another concert was given
by the jubilee singers which delight
ed the large audience.
Inui.
Yesterday afternoon at 2:30. DR..
lnui. the learned Japanese lecturer.
delivered his famous lecture on THE
East VS.. the West The question is
one which is uppermost in the minds
of the people of the world and his
address was listened to with the
closest of attention, those hearing
him were given the treat of hearing
an important subject, dealt with in
masterful way by the man from the
Orient
The substance and weight of the
doctors address yesterday afternoon
was as follows:
vroN otnI 10,
encies are conservative, not to say
narrow. The great mass of mankind
are tied to traditional likes. Mar
rowness of vision breeds egotism. and
egotism breeds vanity, and vanity
breeds jealosuy, and jealousy breeds
hate. This is the order of develop |
ment in the individual and as individ
uals make nations, a similar order OF
development will mark the national
life unless the Individual tendency Is
broken or bent, or changed. To |
change the current thought of the in
dividual, newer information must be
provided, and II the great questions
arising out of universal progress, are |
to be answered correctly, then the in
dividual must acquire the viewpoint |
of the man with whom he may differ |
In the pending discussion, now al
most universal. of the development of
the east, we of the west will be call |
ed upon for answer. and if our an !
swer is to conform to a good con-
science and an enlightened zeal, we
must learn from first hand the i'm
pressions entertained by those who
will be affected by an unwise or sci
fish purpose on our part.
Ratio, the Entertainer.
Following the evening concert by
the Slayton Jubilee Singers. at 500
o'clock. John b. Ratio, who made an
immense hit with the chautauqua
goers at Hamilton last year. appegred