The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-07-21
While Latter UphOlds The
Indians Ballot Right
COIIGgian Male Quartet And
KiCkbuSh.Reuter Co.
Please With Music

America will either be the saliva.
tion or damnation of the world" stat
ed DR.. Edward A. Steiner to record
breaking Chautauqua crowd Saturday
evening towards the close of his lee
ture on "The Trail of the Immigrant"
Contrary to expectations, DR.. Steiner
did not plead for looser immigration
rules. He even stated that these
might be made more restrictive. He
humanized the generally despised i'm
migrant, stated that he represented
the bone and sinew of his country and
demonstrated that, in the majority of
cases, he returned to his native heath,
MANNED, crippled and helpless because
of the dirty work" to which he was
| assigned in the United States. He
mentioned one Hungarian village, in
which there were 130 widows and over
400 orphans merely because of the
| fact that Americans were prone to
regard immigrants as the "scum of the
earth" and send them down into the
mines to be killed or injured If this
hate and prejudice were to be forgot
| ten, If an earnest attempt at assimila'
tion were made, a new and vigorous
race would be distilled from this
melting pot" and the world would be
redeemed, stated DIR. Steiner
DR.. Steiner's lecture was in nc
sense socialistic. He did not ask fol
higher wages for the immigrants
That more charity and kind-hearted
ness be displayed toward our foreign
friends was the burden of his plea.
The Colleglan Male Quartet scored
tremendously in their two concerts
Serious numbers with a dose of light
comedy kept their offering varied ant
administered to the tastes of all il
attendance.
Mary Agnes Doyle, charming Irisl
lass, was in her very element Satur
day afternoon in an interpretive re
cital of j. Hartley Manners delightful
comedy Peg o. My Heart" which haG
a record-breaking run at the Cor
Theatre in New York City last win
ter. Laurette Taylor, who played the
lead in the original production coulC
not have been more winsome thar
dainty Miss Doyle. The two extremes
OF Irish character, pathos and humor
were delightfully."- merged in Miss
Doyle's Interpretation of Peg" Hel
characterization OF the other roles was
most excellent because of the "faI
cry" from titled Englishwoman to {
native Irish girl. Enthusiastic com
mendations of Miss Doyle's work pre-
vail in all corners.
Sundays Entertainments
In all the picturesque language o
his native people, Tahan (Rev. Josepl
*. Grims) presented to the Sunda.
afternoon Chautauqua audience lif
story teeming with excitement, humo
and sadness. The address was no
merely interesting, but contained
large amount of educative material
Few Mt Vernon people have eve
heard the Indians side" of the stor
of pioneer and later-day conquest o
America on the part of the white me
"a conquest which has finally result
ed in the Indians being herded int
the reservation in Oklahoma Supple
menting Dr. Steiner's remarks of Sal
urday, Tahan urged that the surylN
ing Indians-the native Americans
, be taken from the reservation and as
simulated into the race. He foreefull
, presented their rights to the ballot i
convincing fashion, Initiative, refer
endum, recall and even womans SUI