The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-10
PRESIDENT OF THE SYNOD, DIR.
NoRDELIUs DELIVERED OPEN.
ING SERMON.
Won Shells LIBRARY
VIII Go to Augustana College on His
Death--Judge Grosscup Deliver
ed Address at College
Yesterday.

Rock island, June 9.--1he fiftieth
Jubilee celebration of the Augustana
Synod opened tonight with a sermon
by DR.. r. Norelus, of Va "a, Mimi.
its president
Bishop Won Sheel today announced
that at his death his library. said 10
be one of the most valuable in Swc-
( den, would be turned over to the COZ
lege to help stock the 100000 H.
brary sbulding given by the F. G. a,
Denkman heirs. President Gustav An.
dren, of the endownnet fund collect
ed during the last ewo year. 100000
crowns for the King Oscar Professor
ship, raised by the people of Swe-
den
Rock. Island, H., June 9.-In the
course of commencement address
at Augustana College and Theological
Seminary, today, Judge Grosscup, of
Chicago, said:
I'VE have not yet reached, here in
America, the supreme test of whether
government Of the people, by the
people, can endure. We have not yet
been put to the test of dealing with
great economic questions at the cost
or distinct disaster in case they are
wrongly dealt with Thus far, the
surplus of our soil sold to the world
each year, has made good our eco
nomic and political mstakes-a sur
plus so great that, no matter what,
during the year our mistakes may
have been, at the end Of the year the
bank account has been made good
again. Rlt the day is coming when
this insurance against logical couse-
quences will be cut off. Every census
shows that the growth of population
Is in the towns and cities-that the
men and women who bear no relation
to the soil and its products except
that Of consumers, are rapidly out
numbering those who till the soil. And
when that day fully comes-when we
are no lnoger people with a con
stantly recurring surplus, but have be
come people who each year eat up
what they produce-the consequences
Of political and economic mistakes
will make themselves felt.
The solving Of our problems by
spiral stairway will not last-every
increase of expenses bringing on in
crease of prices and wages every in
crease of prices and wages bringing
us back to increased expenses; the
entire movement incrcles at each
turn little higher up than we were
before There Is a limit to such a
structure. And it is when that limit
is reached and return to solid ground
solve political and economic ques-
tions that require the nice balance o.
one mans interest against another's,
and the interest of the whole, as dis
tlnguished from the interest of each
individual--th the supreme test Of
whether the people can govern them
selves will be upon us.
"Will that test be successfully met Z?
Are we capable of meeting and solv-
ing the complex questions of che fu-
ture as we have met and solved the
simpler moral questions of the past?
what will equip us to meet this test?
what power more than anything else,
will hold us to our course as a
people capable of self.government?
Without doubt there must be personal
honor and personal honesty in poll
tics, as personal honor and personal
honesty is affected by money; but
financial dishonesty Is always indi.
vidual, never general, and is quickly
overtaken and nnarmed Without
doubt the public conscience must be
kept auickened; but our American
conscience is not hard to reach and
quicken.
"The one force In this universe
without which the test cannot be sue
cessfully met--the one force more
than anything else. that as a nation
we must acquire before we are equip
ped to successfully meet the complies
problems before us is what | may cal
the spirit of intellectual honesty; the
spirit that hears before it decides
the spirit that yields itself to genuine
conference: the spirit that is mol
played upon by the total self-interes'
that SO often makes UP the atmos
phere through which we look at the In
terest of others, above all, the spirit
that will hold our leaders of public
opinion accountable, as men who give
out the money coin of the country
/ are held accountable, that though
\ given out ON public questions con
tains nothing In it that is not the rea