The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-02

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other cities in modern construction,
general safety and sanitation.
| All manner of stories and devices
have bsen invented to defeat the
proposition Of building the new school
houses proposed. Endeavors are made
to enrage ward against ward, one sec
ton OF the city against the other. but
with wavering success.
The school board has done its duty.
The members have unloaded their
consciences as citizens and official OF
any blame that might have come to
them from thu fearful shock OF q ter
rible holocaust that might occur from
neglect or a refusal to act in face OF
the menacing facts before them and
the people Of the city. They have no
legal authority to go farther In the
matter than they have gone. They
have gone their full lsngth in the
preliminaries. They have brought the
matter right up to the voters OF the
city and from the present point the
vot ers must act On them now rests
the safety OF the children Of the city.
1t seems a pity that little innocent
children should be forced to go to
school with fear and trembling, leav.
ing heart aching mothers at homo, ter
rorized at every fire alarm lest 1T be
summons to the fire department to
rush to the three story building where
her boy or girl is scholar, knowing
the danger OF the treacherous and in
sufficient fire escapes. or winding
stairway in the center of the building.
and just beneath 1t the red-hot fur
nacs in disease-producing basement.
II a humane nlen owned scrub
horse he would not permit livery
man to stall it in a barn SO dangerous.
Then have the children less consid
Grafton than a scrub horse: 1t seems
so.
itv to man makes countless thousands
mourn" That was written many years
ago and yet, 1t seems today that
worse condition exists when. mans
inhumanity to dear little children OF
his home city. not only endangsrs
their lives, but causes the most pain
full heartaches to hundreds OF moth
ers in the city whose darling little
children are thus imperilled.
The experts have told you about the
dangers lurking in some OF the build
ings. II you have not read them 1t
is on account OF your own careless
disinterestedness.
Don't rest in apparent security be-
cause Keokuk has never had f1re
calamity in her schools. The 1riquois
theatre never before had a FIRE like
that which came on that fateful night,
when the charred dead and the sad
means of the dying sent thrill OF
horror throughout the entire city OF
Chicago and all over the country as
the news flashed along the trembling
wires. Even Keokuk, so far away
felt the sorrowful effect OF the ter
rible holocaust. Do not wait for q
home demonstration of a school
house calamity to awaken you to tn.
horrors Of such an event. AN
ounce OF prevention is worth pound
OF cure"
After such calamity and the 1t
tie forms are laid out before you
charred and bleeding or moaning, q
still small voice will whisper IN you,
ear, TOO late, too late" and yo'
will feel In your breast heart-throf
and a conscience sigh, which VIII ad
Imonish you for your dalliance IN 81
serious a matter and you will eye1
feel afterward that this matter o
school house taxes to replace unsaf'
and dangerous buildings is not mat
ter OF cool, calculating economy
false economy in many cases. but II
a matter OF conscience and humanity
The fact Is the life and limb o: echoo
children cannot be weighed In tn
J scales OF economy. 1t cannot b.
, reckoned in dollars and cents.
In discussing this question in you
! mind and heart, leave off all petit.
Iiealousfes, neighborhood or sectiona
/ envy. You know, away down IN yor
, heart that the school houses propose
are needed and that is the onl
, juuestion to be considered
II n decided in the Affirmative It vi