The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-27

trestles. square miles OF corrugated iron roofs
the chtmneys belching black smoke; streets as
bright as midnight at noon. and
crowded. buildings So tall that they stag
gered belief and swayed in the wind; hos
pitfalls. hotels. banks. libraries, cathedrals,
great acreages of rock and gravel turned into
green outrageous Fairgrounds for free
people, He showed them department stores
teeminE with life vast terminal stations. tun-
nels passing under broad rivers. great IL
braries. free to rich and poor alike. The
waters of whole counties coaxed by one mir
acle after another into one city to keep It's
millions healthy and clean. And they stood
with him upon the bridge Of warshp and
passed from the worlds second ocean to Its
first. through the incredible ditch. which
capital was to build. and which men already
called the Panama Canal
And then he showed them some OF the fail
ures of capital-rnen and women starving in
hundreds. rotting of diseases perishing OF
sheer disappointment and despair. Bread
lines. SOUP kitchens he showed them: roof
less men dying OF exposure. And then in
swift dashes he showed them, standing upon
a soap box at the corner OF a slum. man in
tattered rags. with the forehead Of the first
Napoleon and the lion-roar voice of Mira
beau-a man who spoke to the wretched and
the unfortunate, and the idle and the mis-
chievous. and filed their hearts with fire and
passion and hate.
He showed those same men. armed with
guns. with poles. with hatchets. with ham
mers. stopping limousine on Fifth Avenue,
dragging out an old in fur-lined coat,
and hanging him. more dead than alive. to
the nearest lamp post. He showed them that
same crowd. ever growing in numbers and
anger. tearing a policeman to pieces; he
showed them banks and other strongholds
Of capital that rose suddenly heavenward in
puffs Of sordid-smelling gray smoke, and
were-not. He showed them short sieges. In
which for a while. rifles flashed from the win
dows OF Fifth avenue palaces. He showed
them these same palaces few minutes later.
turned inside out. half In ruins. the defenders
mangled upon the sidewalks. And. ever
growing in power and leadership. he kept
showing them the man with the head OF Ma
poleon and the lion-roar voice of Mirabeau.
He showed them a city OF pedestrians. q
city through which neither carriages nor au-
tomobiles could move. SO great was the ruin
in tits streets, above which crawled no ele-
waited trains. beneath which subways ran.
a city In which statues or things OF beauty
remained whole. a city given over at night
to darkness. to Dirt ukenness, to murder and
.rapine
And he showed them themselves fleeing by
night in disguise, a price upon them, dead or
alive; and he showed them the Napoleon
Mirabeau bringing order out Of chaos, and
preparing to hold what he had taken, now
begging. now commanding. now wheedling,
now killing. and then he showed them battles
raised over fortress. and themselves persoi..
ally all three in the uniform of generals lead
forth blind folded and bound and stood with
their backs against whitewashed wall
Finally sturtevant looked his friend and
master in the face and said: Wei, what's
the answer?
81 think" said Barclay. that have de-
vised remedy which shall serve us all. Mr.
Sti1Iiter."
AS Professor stilliter advanced. Mr.. Bar.
clay said to the others: THE worlds greatest
psychologist"
You do not have to tell US that" said
semmes. and they bowed to the Professor.
Well, said Barclay, Tets have look at
her"
Professor Stilliter drew from his pocket
folded picture frame of red leather. When
the gentleman had examined the photographs.
with evidence of pleasure not to be mis-
taken, for the good looks of the An,esh,:c,,:--
and their daughter were certain and sud-
den in their effect upon the eye as is the
beauty of the Yosemite Valley.
but" said sturtevant, what is the
remedy
Ear ans-ar barclay &imDiy touched the