Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-14

Sunday school superintendent ~All
Of you little divvers that want to swat
Satan, stand on one leg"
EnsIand's Struggle With Liquor, Rae
ing and Gambling.
Serious Thinkers in England today
are exercised in impressing upon their
country the Immediate necessity OF
clear heads to meet the Impending
trials Of the next few months. They do
not wish to see these heads either
muddled by alcohol or distracted by
the excitements Of horse racing and the
attendant stimulus Of gambling. Worse
than all, perhaps. Is the growing In
temperance among women. The earlier
temporizing policy Of the government
in respect to the question Of liquor pro-
hibition leads DR.. Robertson Nicoll to
observe in The British Weekly (Lon-
don) that "tinkering with the evir will
have no good result What Is needed.
he says, els great step that will arouse
enthusiasm and attract the eyes Of the
world" BY this he means the prohibi-
ton Of all traffic in distilled liquors
during the war. He thinks all patriots
will "for the sake Of their country be
willing to endure and enforce, with
proper consideration for those affected
q measure which will assuredly secure
certain great ana coveted ends-a
measure which we say deliberately will
do as much a. any for the speedier ter
mination OF the conflict" He quotes
Scottish correspond ent who expresses
the belief that II the country were
polled 1T would be as Unanimous
and enthusiastically in favor Of the
measure as Of the prosecution OF the
war itself" The traffic in spirits Is
directly charged with diminishing and
lowering the valuable working forces"
Of the country whose services in the
manufacture OF munitions are the ulti-
mate consideration in this war OF
Shells" Dr.. Nicoll writes:
I'VE have less than no fault to find
with the men in the field, and no dispo-
sttion to interfere with the provisions
made for them by the authorities. But
during their period Of waiting they adj
mittedly suffered In not a few cases from :
alcoholic excess. Foolish friendship
was. NO doubt, at first the cause Of the
baneful practice Of treating" But the
offense now deserves q severer con-
demnation. We can not so much blame
the young men. who are naturally
wound up to high excitement, and
who very often have scarcely known
what alcohol was. There IL, however,
an evil great and admitted evil.
which grieves and wounds parents who
have made bitter sacrifices. and which
we can practically put an end to II We
will
Prapmatisns.
The admirable feature Of Professor.
AAnv~ - -
ford Theological Seminary, handles .
sibls language Philosophical ques-
lions are Of immense importance be-
cause the practical questions Of society,
politics, science and religion arc large
~ determined by the philosophical
standpoint Of the time. Pragmatism.
or practicality, declares that any prin-
ciple must be tested by Its workings.
To use homely expression 1t II an at
tempt to get down to brass tacks,
to apply to any system Of thought or
morals the test we apply to a ma
chine. We Judge It by the way It
works. Thus Of Christianity we can
say that even though imperfectly
adapted II produces q higher type OF
man on the average than the religions
Of Greece or Rome. even making al
lowancs for the few great characters
like Socrates, Plato. Cicero. and Mar
Gus Aurelius. Furthermore. It lasts;
II tends TO brotherhood and peace. OF
the philosophy Of Kant we can say.
with its insistence on conscience and
the moral Law, 1t was followed by a
Germany, and the APP
pearance OF such men as Goethe,
Schiller, Klopstock and their contem-
poraries, men who took q serious view
OF life and duty. Judged by It's fruits,
Mohammedanism il failure. The
philosophy OF Schopenhauer. exaltina
the will, modified by an erroneous con-
ception Of Darwinism that the strong
est survive and the weak must perish.
as expoundsd BY Nietsche. Trietske
and the rest. II . failure because It has
led tor il pronulgation is followed
by an immenss increase in human
suffering and the production OF no
treat characters to whom humanity
can look a examples. In a word y
"does not work. TO the advantage Of
the race.--Hartford Times.