Evening journal., 1910-05-30
PARSON WOULD
SWEEP STREETS
R. L. Jackson Offers His Ser
vices With Tax Payers
to Keep Town Clean
STANDS FOR A
HEALTHY WILMINGTON

In a sermon in Hanover Presbyterian
Church on 1.-THE Moral Equivalent of
War; the Rev. r. L. Jackson empha-
sized the need Of cleaner and more
heaIthful Wilmington. After speaking
OF the condition of the streets as dis
grace to Wilmingtonians. Mr.. Jackson
the plea of mo money 10 clean
them by saying:
"Then let us do as the people OF some
cities are doing-go out and clean them
ourselves. l am not tax payer, but
am willing TO go out upon the streets
anl sweep with any body Of taxpayers.
We are spending money for our tubercu-
losis patients-and I would not see one
cent less spent for their recovery-but
what about the prevention of the awful
disease? Why not pass and enforce laws
that will compel owners of unsanitary
houses to keep them in livable condi-
tion, laws that call for the inspection OF
all meats offered for sale, by scientifically
trained men?"
Mr.. Jackson's text was from timothy
81 Have Fought Good Fight" His
sermon follows in part:
mo movement is making such headway
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movement for international arbitration.
In spite OF the fact that the great nations
are spending enormous sums OF money
for additional armaments the anti-war
movement grows apace. The peace prop
aganda is no longer the hobby Of a hand
ful Of dreamers. II is the sober sane pas
sion of men of poise and practicability.
Now ere are, many who, as much as
.F-t..
view such a contamination with anxiety
and apprehension. They fear that If
you abolish wars, you will abolish the
only opportunities the manhood of ma
ton possesses for the acquisition of those
qualities which insure it's viriity and in
trepidity. Eliminate militarism and what
win YOU have? they exclaim, but a race
of weaklings men of the molly codde
kind. This is the apprehension of Prof
William James. No man is more opposed
to war than he. No writer has so mercl-
lessly unmasked it and held it up to the
gaze of man with such scathing realism
as he but when It comes 10 the repro
duction of the old energies and hardi.
hoods upon which rests the unconquera.
bic state what Is to take the place oi
war be its horrors what they may, he
asks. Martial virtues, he says. must bc
the enduring cement: intrepidity con.
tempt OF softness, surrender OF private
interest. obedience to command must ctil
remain the rock upon which states are
built In passing from war to "A 7eacs
economy he contends that we must make
some especial provision for the develop
ment Of these militant qualities and sug
gests that we draft of 10 the coal anC
iron mines. to freight trains. TO FISHING
fleets. to dish washing and cloths wash
| ing. to foundries and stoke holes and thu
1 frames of sky scrapers. our gilded youth
Thus Would they get the childishnes.
knocked out of them and come back &
society with healthier sympathies and so
berer ideas This is his moral equivalen
Of war. What do you think OF n? ca
YOU imagine our gilded youth tumbln
over one another TO get themselve
drafted of to coal mining and mi
clothes washing? Can you see fond par
ents painting to put their boys TO work o
the frames of sky scrapers that they ma
develop toughness and valor? Prot
James is among the cleverest of Nh,
clever. but this time his cleverness Ia
suffered a change into something ric
and strange.
Now admitting. what is 10 my mind
most dubious that war is "A good training
school for valor and hardness. what :
to take its place when it is eliminated
How are we TO get virile. valorous men 4
what Prof James calls an ease econ
imy? The answer is not far to seek TIL
Apostle Paul suggests IL in the words q
the text 81 have fought a good fight
ST. Paul found n moral equivalent 70
war IN the battle with the forces Of evi
in his own heart. In the fight with hi
carnal nature he had warfare enough (
tougher the fibres Of his being. How h
struggled and strained to win the vic
tory Is recorded in his letter TO the Re
mans. But the fight with himself di
not suffice, he must fight with the force
of evil in tho world without How he ac
quilted himself as the Apostle Of Jesu
Christ is known and read Of all mer
and who viii deny that he came out a
IL with more vslor and hardness than a
Alexander or a Napoleon ever dreamed q
possessing. st. Paul did not have to ioi
an army ano slash and slay his brothe
men ON bloody battle fields in order Z
win the martial virtues. He won ther
standing before cruel voluptuaries, sate
cynics. degenerate princess anc untutor
ed barbarians reasoning with them a
righteousness temperance and iudgmeu
to come.
Here men and brethren Is our Gu,
Here is the secret of that toughness an
militancy which Prof James calls fol
We do not have to 60 off our own prem
ises in order to develop intrpiditv an