The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-14
LET IMMIGRANTS
. CONE TO AM ERICA
Dr.. Lanham at Hamilton chautauqua
Points Out the Need for This
Raw Material for
Citizens.
CITES SOME SUCCESSES
Totten Annuses With Magic and Barn.
hard Orchestra Proves Ability
to Entertain With
Fine Program.
CITES SOME SUCCESSES
IBy a staff Correspondent.

lBy a Staff Correspondent
HAMILTON, ILL.,, Aug. 1.-THE pro-
gram at the Hamilton chautauqua to-
day is given by the Barnard orchestra,
splendid musical company, and by
Henry A. Adrian, who spoke at 800
O'Clock this afternoon on the subject:
With Burbank in Wonderland" Sat
urday will be farmers day, and on
SUNDAY afternoon Grace Wilbur
Trout will speak on Equal Suffrage
from an American woman's viewpoint.
Whatever ones belief may be on
the question, she will be worth hear
ing. She is president of the Equal
Suffrage league of Illinois, and was
head Of the committee which went to
Springfield in 1918, and succeeded in
having the bill passed by the Illinois
Legislature giving women the right to
vote in that state. A large company
of Keokuk women expect to go over
to hear the lecture The special car
leaves Sixth and Main streets at half
past one O'Clock every afternoon.
Many people who heard Maud Bal
lington Booth on Wednesday wonder
ed what amount the chautauqua assem-
blies pay her for an afternoons lee
ture. Mr.. Dadant said yesterday, that
she receives 5000 lecture and that
the lecture bureau makes no profit
from her lectures, that the full amount
goes to her for the maintenance of the
prison work
The program on Thursday afternoon
was half hours concert by the Bar
nard orchestra, musical company OF
a high order. The program included
the following numbers:
The Winning Fight.
Selection from 1.-The Prince OF
Pilsen."
Humoresque.
Intermezzo-The Morning Star.
National Spirit.
Dr.. Lanhan Lectures.
The lecture for the afternoon was
by the platform manager, DR.. e. w.
Lanhan, who spoke on The Land Of
Possibilities. He said in part: when
this land of America was peopled, the
truest and the best from Europe came
to its shores in that little band of pill
grims. When We think of our national
greatness we most often speak of it's
material achievements, but l say that
the greatest product of America is its
men. We are engaged in making men
from the thousands of immigrants
who come to our shores every year.
In the last one hundred years, twenty
five millions have come to our land
from foreign shores. Now and again
we hear a great cry and protest
against receiving this great influx.
but contend that we need every
man.
ITO stop immigration would hit
the industries of America a body blow
from which they would not soon re-
cover. Do you remember twenty-five
or thirty years ago one of the favorite
funny pictures was one of Pat on the
railroad shoveling dirt with a stump
of a pipe in his mouth. Why Is 1t
that you don't hear any more about
Paddy on the railroad?' I'll tell you
why, it's because Paddy owns the rail-
road. Run over the list Of railroad
owners and railroad presidents of the
last twenty years and nearly every
man is an Irishman, and many of them
began on the section.
Examples Who Made Good.
The state superintendent of public
instruction in Minneapolis, Superin-
tendent Oleson, was an immigrant
boy and in one generation became the
head of the schools in that great state.
The late. John A. Johnson, governor
of Minnesota. was an immigrant, rails.
ed in abject poverty. This is the land
of possibilities for accommodating for
tunes. The chief faint in Rockefeller's
money is that faint mine.
Gilbert Hubbard is responsible for
this story of James J. Hill and one or
his first financial successes, before he
built the Great Northern railroad. Four
Young men had been living at the same
boarding house and had been served
at meal time by the same waitress.
Young Hill had more than a passing
interest in her and unknown to the
others, he proposed to her and was
accerted The night before they
were married he said to them: Do
YOU know Annie is going to be mar
RED tomorrow? She's been mighty
kind to US and think we ought TO
make up a purse for her So he put
$50 down on the table and two Of the
others did the same, but the third one
said L don't have twenty dollars.
Young Hill said I'll loan it to you and
take your note for it And SO Annie
was presented with purse, and the