The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-19
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PUBLIC OPINION
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rhe Home Run.

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By your permission l want to en-
courage the runners. Six men with
their toes on the white line. heads in
the air, smiles on their faces, grim
determination written across their
brow, leaped over the line yesterday
morning on the home run. Boys, 1t
does me lots OF good to see you run.
My, what a sight. Fat men, lean
men, big men and little Men. Preach
er, doctor, politician, business men,
all headed for the city hall. Bald
headed men and men with hair to
sell It's great! Coming at the time
of the year when we are not too busy
to watch the race. The little short
legged and broken winded fellows
who started In the race y rev weeks
ago are resting now, looking back
over the race and wondering that they
are so near the place they started.
Don't get discouraged, boy~, 1t wasn't
because you didn't run. The trouble
was you did not run faA: enough.
Some of you forget the rules of the
successful racer You forgot to lay
aside every weight and the sin that
beset you or upset you. 1t is not any
wonder you did not get to first base.
A giant couldn't run with your load,
much less an ordinary man. A good
runner, swift mean, can't carry much
heavy metal in his pockets, nor can
a near sighted man. he can't see the
goal A big-headed man can't make
a good 1t takes too much of his
time to balance himself to keep from
topping over. Some men did not run
well because they were too full. Now
any sensible man, any man who ever
saw race or that has any knowledge
Of running, ought to know that man
can get too full for the race as well
as for utterance.
Well, my friends, your race for
two years is over. Let me suggest
and this is just suggestion, that, if
you ever expect to run agai>., that you
begin this very hour to lay aside
every weight and the sins that upset
you in this race in the year of our
Lord 1914, and be in good clean trim
for 1916, and who knows but what
you might get there. So let US for
get the past and watch the home
runners. don't know how you take
these men, but admire them.
Say but it is interesting. Nothing
like It in the old city since it was
born.
A doctor Of medicine A doctor o.
theology! My, that beats the dam
not for light or power, but for rea
fun and we must have fun to mil
with our feed or our digestion woult
be slow II any of us get sick w
have a good doctor If any die, well
everything seems so handy, but In
; sure we would rather watch the rae,
than to have their services just now
So boys, on to the goal. You hav'
my prayers. I'm not obliged to tel
you how pray, which one I'm prayin,
may lose the way. Well, it's interest
ling just the same, and you both have
my best wishes. But do hope which
one reaches the goal first will not b,
SO exhausted that it will take hin
1.-TWO years to rest.
You are both serious, sober men
both of age and ought to know wha
troubles you are trying to take OF
yourselves.
| We are proud of both OF you, thinl
lots of you, and will give the one tina
gets there all the trouble we can
Just to make it interesting. It's
serious thing, gentlemen, to be mayo
Of Keokuk-hope you'll not be dis
appointed. hope we won't.
R. w. LILLEY.
/ Keokuk, Iowa. March II, 1914.