The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
THE HAMILTON
CHAUTAuQUA
Twelfth Annual Assembly Is Now BE.
Ing Held at Gordon's
Grove, Across the
River.
TO CONTINUE ALL WEEK
Glenn Frank Leetured Sunday Upon
the Probable Effect Of
the World
War.
TO CONTINUE ALL WEEK

The Hamilton chautauqua in it's
twelfth annual session being held this
week, is sustaining its reputation in
presenting unusually fine lectures
and musical talent. The opening SEES
sion was held Saturday afternoon and
will continue throughout the week,
closing next Sunday evening The
tent was filed yesterday with people
from many neighboring points in Ill
inois and goodly company from
keokuk. Rev. Nelson Hall, a Presby-
terrain minister. of Chicago. Head OF
an institutional church, is the very
able platform manager. The tent is
comfortab BILE in every way and there
Is always a good breeze in the grove
where it is located. One feature in
ment among patriotic people in the
audience. The American flag was
used as curtain on the exit door
and whipped back and forth in the
wind until the Rev. Miss Eleanor
Gordon provided portiere and the
American flag was suspended as a
banner at the back of the stage. On
Saturday afternoon, the Glare Vaughn
Wales Co., gave miscellaneous pro-
gram Of rather Indifferent merit. The
best feature OF it was two readings
from Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads,
On the Road to Manadalay and The
Tale of Water Carrier. In the even
ing the same company presented a
three act play, Rejuvination, in a
very creditabie way. 1t was sur-
frage play and their presentation OF
1t won very generous applause.
On Sunday morning, the Rev. j. NJ
Thompson of Warsaw, preached in
the big tent, to a large audience.
In the afternoon was given a lecture
by Mr.. Glenn Frank of the Northwest
ern university, a young man Of thirty
years, who spoke on Resetting the
Worlds Stage, the theme dealing
with the probable effect which this
world war will have on the business
and social institutions. He spoke
with a good deal Of authority, his con.
illusions having been drawn from a
conference which for the past four
months has been held one evening In
each week in prominent mems club
in New York, in which twenty-five OF
the heads of big business concerns
have met to plan how best to meet
the conditions which will come to the
business world. He said that in the
beginning OF the war the world con.
cerned itself in asking who started
the war. then what caused the war,
and now the great question is what
Of the results Of the war? There is
a tradition that there lived a peasant
just outside of Paris all during the
Napoleonic wars, who lived and died
not knowing that there was a war.
There are masses Of people In this
country who are all unconscious that
the war at it's close will have a ire
mendous effect upon the economic
life Of America. There is no mystery
In this prophecy, 1t is but reasoning
from cause to effect. At the close OF
the war Europe will need money for
three great reasons-to pay interest
on an enormous debt, to replace dam.
aged industry and to re-establish its
naval and military equipment.
To meet these three needs they will
have to increase their foreign trade.
The United States is the most desir-
able market and next desirable is
South America. This country, he
said. will be flooded with cheaply
made goodse, which will be sold at a
price far below the cost of manufac-
turing them here. To put a high
tariff, q prohibitive tariff, will keep
Europe poor and prevent their being
able to buy raw material from us. To
allow the cheaplymade goods to be-
sold here at low price will effect
labor. And, very surely, he said, the
United States is due for period OF
very hard times.
In speaking of the forms Of govern