Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-06
GOLDSMITH LONG
ON ACHIEVEMENT
LECTURER At CHAUTAUQUA YES
TERDAY AFTERNOON TOLD
OF GREAT THINGS DONE
SEES A NEW ERA
Phophesied An Umpire for Distribu-
ton Of Labor's Products Between
Capital and Labor; Free
dom for Women.

+; Drawing his illustrations from such
! characters as Napoleon, Disraeli, Lin
coin and even down to the present day
when he cited the editor of Golfers,
Norman Hapgood, Robert Goldsmith
at the chautauqua Sunday afternoon
used his best powers to show achieve
ments made by men of the past and
present, and prophesied even greater
achievements in the future. His lee
ture "The Evangel of Efficiency" was
said to have been formerly called the
Romance of Achievement The wide
latitude with which persons treated
the romance led him to alter his sub
ject title. He interspersed few
stories that were we'll received and
toward the close of his lecture made
himself plain on social questions to
the extent that some would class him
socialist to no little degree. His at
titude toward the question Of woman's
suffrage was in need of no further ex-
PLANTATION for he certainly reached the
| weak spot Of the women who seek an
equal suffrage and said many things
to please them.
Some Noted Examples.
Dwelling on some Of the achieve.
ments Of mankind in the days past he
f, referred to Napoleon from his humble
beginning in Corsica and followed the
renowned empire maker and breaker
to the end He graphically told Of the
voyage that Napoleon thought would
end among friends, but terminated on
the island of St. Helena The various
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Moscow, Elba, and finally the end
Of the great warrior on the lonely isle
In the sea were referred to. He quoted
the famous general in saying, what
a romance my life has BEEN" After a
brief reference to Benjamin Disraeli,
the noted Jew who rose SO high in
political life in England, he referred
to Abraham Lincoln and classed
America as the land Of opportunity. A
present day instance cited was that OF
Norman Hapgood. who rose from an
humble reporter on a Chicago paper to
the post of editor Of Golfers at a
salary of $4,000 per year.
Scientific Management.
The effects Of achievement In Great
Ing new conditions was alluded to by
the lecturer who said that great
achievement might be compared to the
addition Of syllable to Greek word
in that the addition changes the mean
ing Of the word and in like manner the
adding of syllable to the word Of
time changes the conditions. Louis
Pasteur, the noted French scientist
was lauded as a greater man than
Napoleon, and the lecturer stated that
the French people today class Pasteur
as the greatest Frenchman, rank
ing Napoleon as an also ran.
Scientific achievement was classed as
the greater by the lecturer in that 1t
more often had q greater effect for
good to mankind than other achieve
ments. He alluded especially to Pas
teur because Of the saving effect on
human life that resulted from this
noted scientists achievement in the
field Of science. He prophesied that in
the coming years social achievem ent
to be accomplished would be the scfen-
tific management of the government
by stopping leaks such as war debts,
the social evil, diseases, ETC., and he
also foretold of wider freedom for
woman, the correction of child labor
problem and the ultimate justice for
labor. In the latter he saw a future
umpire such as used for deciding !,
games of sport, whose duty it will be
to decide upon more just and equal |
distribution Of labor's products. 1T is
not a plan to control products, but |
rather control Of Che distribution of |
Them said he. Abiding to the
spiritual achievement. he said that
new spiritual era Is visible to his mind |
and its beginning was said to depend |
upon the giving up of fatalism by man.
"A great social achievement will be
said he, when man
gets away from the fatalism that says
that we must always be sick, always
be poor, ETC., and when we realize our
social necessities national, state and
local.
A pleasing concert by Thaviu's band
and his grand opera singers opened
the afternoon program at the chau-
tauqua and prepared the large audi
ence for the lectur that followed.