The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-24
The Hamilton Chautauqua Takes on
Very Practical Character This
Year and Pleases Its
Visitors.
OUR ENGLISH RELATIONS
Nephew Of Lloyd George Discusses
What the American Idea is Do
ing for the History of
the World.

Gated in England and naturalized
citizen of the United States gave
the lecture at the Hamilton chautau.
qua yesterday afternoon on the sub.
ject What America Means to Me-"
He is one of the most intelligent
speakers appearing on any Of the
chautauqua circuits and is nephew
of David Lloyd George, the English
statesman.
Dr. Evans is young man and
speaks with q marked English accent,
with vocabulary full of English ex-
pressions and colloquialiasms. He
said that he often asks Americans
what this country means to them, The
answers are varied, some say liberty,
others opportunity, democracy, equal
ity. DR.. Evans said, to him America
means fraternity. The channel be-
tween England and France has for
ages been patrolled by armored YES
| sells Of those two nations. The border
between Italy and, Austria, between
Germany and klsace-Lorraine, re-
tween Germany and Russia and the
| lines dividing score Of other nations
IS rortIned ana guarded.
The long line between the United
States and Canada has not for a hun.
dred years at any point been guarded.
To show your faith in your English
brother across the line, in 1914 when
Canada was modifying a great army,
your Uncle Sam sent his hand full of
soldiers not to the Canadian border to
watch that great army-but to the
Mexican line.
America seldom questions the mo.
tive of another nation, she has always
assumed the brotherhood Of man
Within her borders she receives all
rationalities and forgets their origin.
He made a protest however against
calling foreigners by sucn names az
Waps and Dagos. America was dis
covered by a dago and named for a
wop.
He said that very certainly out OF
this war will come a closer union, not
political union, but moral and friend
~ alliance between the greatest repub-
lie in the world and the greatest EN-
pire. All nations have emphasized
thiir national greatness, too strongly
in the past. The histories which the
school children use in England never
give France square deal. The French
histories make the Engllsnmen out to
be a poor lot. The histories studied by
the American boys and girls none
of them tell how British soldiers by
the hundreds laid down their arms
and refused to fight against the colo.
nists, saying that they believed that
the colonists were right in their con-
tention that taxation without repre-.
sentation IS tyranny. American his
tories do not say that Pitt and Burke,
the greatest English statesmen of the
time urged England not to make war
On their American colonfsts.
Woodrow Wilson's Justice.
He said Woodrow Wilson's history
or the United States was one OF the
very few to give Englishmen credit
for this spirit of sympathy with the
colonists.
America loves France, and after the
war she is going to at least admire
the spirit Of England and believe
that England loves human liberty
with the same passion as does Amer
lea.
The music yesterday at the chau'
taujua was of the highest type, fur
nished by a quintette from the Bos.
ton Sympathy orchestra. They played
prelude in the afternoon and gave a
full concert in the evening. Every
number was given with the musician
shin to be expected from such an Or
ganization.
Today is farmers day at the cha'l-
tauqua with Dean Davenport of the
state university as the speaker this
afternoon. Tonight the Dietrich's magi-
clans and entertainers will be the at
traction.
Sunday afternoon Stanley lie Fevre
Krebs will speak. Warren H. Orr. who
served as platform manager yesterday
said that DR.. Krebs is top liner and
that his address will be one of the
best of the season A high class must
cal organization will give the con-
cert Sunday at eleven o'clock. Rev.
Frank Marstan Will preach in the
ttent.
The chautauqua closes Sunday.
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