The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-13

finance a tendency to launch larger If
not better schemes of trade than
ever before This is world in which
. the individual has become mere
factor, only the necessary part of a
whole as combinations and monopolies
are evident on every hand. This is
: become day of great effort and OF
greater achievement from the fact
that no one is satisfied with existing
conditions but each is striving for
! more knowledge and thereby greater
supremacy and power.
In the mad rush illegitimate meth
DDS are liable to creep in where men
are hard pressed and fear a business
Il defeat greater than the grim reaper
OF destiny.
Men only possessed of iron wills are
able to meet and cope with the
I financial situation today.
4 Wild finance is responsible for the
4 downfall of many of our citizens and
lis grossly criminal when certain
methods extant are used for the pur-
pose of gain Men who are thus guilty
4 are branded felons and worse for the
innocent trusting and unsuspecting
are often their helpless and unwilling
! victims.
/ Men who resort to intrigue, bride
and graft are in their class and should
not complain when prison chains clank
and when prison damp chill to the
marrow of their bones, for long since
the warning notes were sounded, Let
him who thinketh he standeth take
heed lest he fall and The wicked
shall be cut of from the earth and
the transgressors shall be rooted out
of it. AS righteousness tendeth to
life so he that pursueth evil pursueth
| it to his own DEATH
England today is watching India
from a financial point OF view. She
has few regiments of soldiers assist
| ing in the process. The result is that
the poor people of that country are
compelled to pay exorbitant taxes to
an exacting parent beside being forced
to support large army there to
properly handle the people in the
event of any objection to these same
taxes. The money thus collected goes
/ into England's Golfers.
| The United States taking another
point of view equips missionaries and
sends them to far off India to look
after the souls of the natives who,
because OF the privileges accorded
them by their parent country are il
literate, immoral and ignorant of Gus
toms. institutions or laws which en-
tighten and are IMMERSED in the scrip
lures and knowledge of God.
/ Who shall say that China is content
today and at peace with her own and
/ her great graveyard of dead? Who
1 can say that China today is content
with her traditions. her ancient Gus
items and Confucius' teachings? China
is disrupted. Western civilization has
been brought to bear on China and
TALL is chaos.
What of Turkey today and the
I Moslems? While they are piercing
out Italians eyes and sewing down
their eyelids as exquisite torture, are
they fiends or are their very souls
afire with thirst for conquest. Is II
thus the Moslem's God is satisfied
! Victims CT dIsillusioned tradition
Shall we from our estate criticise Oh
pity most of allo
/ In our world of art today where are
! the Raphaels and the Rembrandts? In
the literature of the period where are
the Chaucers, the Sponsors, the Popes.
! Where are the SCOTS and Charles
Dickens?
Gone with only their works remain
ing. Shall we grow discouraged be
cause we have no great artists today
or no great literature Or shall We
encourage those conditions which vii
bring to future generations master
minds excelled by none.
In the field of discovery whether We
credit or discredit the assertions Of
Cook or Peary we find the study al
the more alluring because of the ex
periences they relate and explorers
more determined than ever toward
reaching the goal of northern limit
Our national geogra phical society i.
doing much to forward work along thi:
line and will accomplish much more
The Wizard of America" Thoma:
A Edison reigns today as monarch O
modern invention. When he passe.
hence let US not mourn his master
mind. His works will live long aftel
he shall claim the right to a contin
uance OF research in another worlt
where resources are unlimited ant
supplies are inexhaustible.
Hundreds of young men are striv
ling to emulate Edison. Marconi o.
wireless fame and the aviation knights
OF the period: and the combined eff
forts OF the hundreds are bound t.
produce undreamed results in thu
future.
The theologian is ever seeking new
truths from his field of vision, BishoI
Fallows Of Chicago claims wonderful
results in his church through the treat
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