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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
is STILL SPOTTED.

Signs are not wanting that Germany will re-
sist peace terms which she considers hard and
may even make common cause with the Rus
sian bolsheviki to this end. Already German
newspapers are violent In their demands that
France must not have back to the colonies
stolen from her in 1870; and apprehension is
growing in Paris that the war is not over but
that, as Clemenceau says, there is only a lull
in the Storm
There can be little doubt that the German
idea is still Imperialism in some camouf1aged
form. The government asked the ar1nistlce
when it did as the only way OF saving It's
armies from the complete destruction that
seemed inevitable. Gcrmany's forces were
threatened with humiliation. Its fighting ca
pacity for a generation to come would have
been destroyed. Events prove that this was
a well grounded fear; for the weather has been
such for the last three months that military
operations would not have ceased for a single
day. Germany's object was to conserve its
fighting strength for another war; and opt-
mist err who imagine that it is reconciled to
the situation and ready to accept the allied
terms. The Paris Gaulois warns the world
that it has irrefutable evidence that German
factories are continuing to turn out munitions
and airplanes day and night
Germany is not contrite, is not ashamed, is
not sincere, is not trustworthy. The leopard
has not changed his spots; the Hun hyena has
only for the moment changed his cry.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
PROFESSIONAL REFoRMERs.

Announcement is made that one DR.. Franklin
Hall, late head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon
League, has now become organizing secretary
of the No Tobacco League to have national
headquarters in Syracuse, n Y. and will start
q campaign for constitutional amendment
prohibiting the culture, use or importation OF
tobacco in the United States.
Was anyone so guileless and green as to i'm
agine for moment that these salaried agita-
tors would ever willingly renounce their posi-
tons and perqusites and return to private life 2
It was foregone conclusion that they never
would and never will, until compelled to.
Professional reformers grow to their seats of
power more readily and adhere to them more
firmly even than professional politicians. They
know a '.soft snap as it is called in common
parlance when they see it, and never content.
edly go back to productive walks in life. As
long as they live they and their successors after
them will agitate for something, anything, for
which those of like thinking will give them sal
aries and expenses. They will keep up reform
ing as long as it pays; and if they ever lack for
what they call moral issue, religious issues
will certainly be raised. The acrimonious at
tack of some of them on a venerable cardinal of
the Roman church is an indication Of the
lengths to which they are prepared to go.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

! Edward H. Smith, in the New York
World: A former New York street
arab died away up III Sitka, Alaska,
not long ago and the newspapers all
over the country carried the story.
OF course this was quite unusual
street arab. His name was John
Green Brady and he was governor OF
Alaska three terms. He began his
life in the depths and ended it pretty
well on top.
! The lesson of John Green Brady's
| life is not, as we are sometimes told,
that it is an advantage to be born
in the slums and nursed in the gut
ter. Neither is 1t that street arabs
make better men. And least of all
lis 1t that poverty is ever anything
but handicap. The lesson is that
the occasional person has in himself
strength sufficient to overcome all
| barriers and disadvantages
iheredity, youthful malnutrition. child
hood brutaliues, public institutional
life, homelessness. foster parents and
all the rest.
! John Brady was born about 1850
In the lowest end of Roosevelt street,
where the filth of the slum street
washes in the slime of the East
TlFtl. Tbs ldILeT WAS q lOuSSuOIe-
man, who was drunk as often as he
had money to buy liquor. Whenever
he was drunk he beat his little son
tout of exuberance OF animalism, and
when he was sober he beat him
again out of i'll nature and remorse.
The boys mother. died and the
the boy with old fashioned step
,motherIy severity.
When four or Ave years old the
lad began his street life, selling
papers, picking up kindling and ac-
PERCEPTION can bestow on a child.
Then, as now, the streets of the city
had been made safe for horses, but
not for children.
When he was about seven the boy
found the beatings in his home past
endurance and he determined to
leave. 1t seemed simple enough to
his childish brain And it was no
great feat, in fact His father was
tired of him. Between the meager
sale of newspapers, and such spo-
radio generosities as passing old
ladies and occasional DRINKS afforded,
the boy managed to get through the
ragged, penniless and freezing.
One bad night a policeman waken-
ed him when he lay curled up in a
doorway. The boy denied having a
home and begged to be taken in. The
officer arrested him out Of pure pity,
and put him into a warm cell for the
night and saw that he had food. The
next morning the boy went to Ran
6plI'a island nj In -
care of the Children's Aid society.
He was then eight years old.
In 1859 twentyseven boys from
Randalls island were sent west
under the care Of the ChiIdren's Aid
society, which had found homes in
the central states for that number
|of parentless lads. Among these
Itwenty-seven was Johnny Brady He
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
SAYS HOT WATER
WASHES POISONS
FROM THE LIVER
Everyone should drink hot water
with phosphate In It,
before breakfast.

To feel as fine as the, proverbiaI
fiddle, we must keep the liver washed
clean, almost every morning, to pre-
vent Its sponge-like pores from clog
ging with indigestible material, sour
bile and poisonous toxins. says
noted physician.
If you get headaches, it's your
liver If you catch cold easily is
your liver. If you wake up with
bad taste, furred tongue. nasty breath
or stomach becomes rancid, it's your
liver. Sallow skin, muddy complexion,
watery eyes all denote liver unclean-
liness. Your liver is the most i'm
portant, also the most abused and
neglected organ Of the body. Few
know its function or how to release
the dammed-up body waste, bile and
toxins. Most folks resort to violent
calomel. which is a dangerous, salt
yating chemical which can only be
used occasionally because it accumu.
lates in the tissues. also attacks the
bones.
Evrey man and woman, sick or
well, should drink each morning be-
fore breakfast, glass Of hot water
with teaspoonful Of limestone phos-
phate in It, to wash from the liver
and bowels the previous days indi-
gestible material, the poisons, sour
bile and toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and freshening the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach.
Limestone phosphate does not re-
strict the diet like calomel, because
it can not salivate, for it is harm
less and you can eat anything after
wards. 1t is inexpensive and almost
tasteless, and any pharmacist will
sell you quarter pound, which is
sufficient for demonstration Of how
hot water and limestone phosphate
cleans, stimulates and freshens the
liver, keeping you feeling fit day in
and day out.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
MORE OF RIGHT THAN WRONG.

It is a curious fact, very little noticed, that
we are coming to be very certain about things
that are wrong and quite vague about things
that are right. All normal people, and even
some partially abnormal people, will admit that
there is right as well wrong IN our present
ways of life But many of the people who talk
are definite and convincing when they discuss
the wrongs and their causes, and even indeh-
mite or silent about the things that are right
The modern man is sure not only that a thing
is wrong but quite certain he knows why it is
wrong He will cheerfully admit that some
things are right but he will be uncertain and
backward in stating why they right. This
is the negative spirit come to its prime; it is
the plant of discomfort and doubt in flower
Now the logic Of Observation-Disclosures it IS log
ical-comes from decision as to whether cause
for it exists and whether this cause can be re-
moved. If a cause exists, then discomfort IS
logical until the cause is removed or discovery
is made that it cannot be helped; then discon-
tent is simply self torture. No questions
plenty of cause for discomfort There has
always been such cause; but there is really
much less cause for discomfort now than In the
past. 1t is true of course, that the discomfort
Of the past was silent; repressed; sometimes
bitter, dumb suffering. The very fact that dis
content can now make itself heard is a blessing
s
there was honest joy when wrongs were right
ed, even when the process was long and hard.
Today the righting Of a wrong seems signal
for new campaign; there is passion for find
ing wrongs and inventing ways of righting
them There is a foolish sort of practice of
keeping the good things of life in eclipse.
What we need is to take an honest inventory
of where we stand-we, the people of the United
States, a great, able, rich, industrious, intell-
gent and ambitious people, with a wonderful
past and nothing to keep us from even greater
wonders in the future. Some of us have had
the worst of it. some of always will; there
must be worst of it. But we can make the
worst better; we can all of us get a wider
chance by helping in pulling the whole business
up than by stopping where we are and leveling.
Why not make sure of what is right and of not
losing it, as well of what is wrong and of right
ing it? There is much more that is right than
there is that is wrong
An honest inventory would for a majority
of people be a hopeful thing. We need some
thing to restore us to common sense hopeful
ness and common sense energy in going about
our business.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
A STREET ARABS ROMANCE

was put off the train in small In
| diana town, where an attorney named
Green had reserved for himself the
'raggedest and poorest" boy in the
lot. MIR. Green took the boy into his
home. treated him with kindness and
courtesy, made him forget his origin
! and sent him to school, When he
was nearly a grown youth he was
called before his foster parents and
told to choose career for himself
Like many another excellent man,
the lawyer asked the boy to choose,
but had meantime already chosen
himself. He wanted Johnny Brady
to take up law. The boy was deter
mined on the ministry. A conflict
arose and the boy went his own way.
! He entered a small western college
little more than a preparatory
4 school-and worked his way through.
In 1869 or TO he appeared at Yale,
! passed the entrance examinations
and enrolled as a student. In four
years he worked his way through
Yale as well. He swept halls, kept
fires, rang the chapel bells and did
Whatever work came his way to sup.
port himself and pay his tuition. In
1874 he was graduated.
! From Yale young Brady went to
Union Theological seminary. when
he entered the ministry. His first
large project was great farm in
Texas, where he hoped to gather in
boys from city s1ums and streets
land to reconstitute them as he had
been remade. The thing failed for
want of financial support.
! Finally he heard the call of Alaska
and went there as missionary
After some study Of the situation he
tried to interest the Presbyterian
mission board in plan he had
worked out for the education Of the
Alaska Indians. He failed to receive
! the expected support, and decided to
work out the scheme for himself
When gold was discovered on the
/ Yukon and the boom swept over
Alaska, John Brady saw opportunity
opening before him. He still con.
tinued his missionary work, but he
opened general store and trading
center in Sitlca. With the rush OF
gold-seekers, miners, capitalists and
] settlers, his business expanded and
he became prosperous
ernor of Alaska territory in 1897
! iCSiuSul IlooSeNell IedppolHteu Hlu
(, to second and third term
John Green Brady, remarkable in
many other ways, was exceptional in
: this respect: He never forgot the
institution that made it possible for
him to get a start in life. AS a
young minister with big charitable
plan in mind, he wrote constantly to
the society for advice and to report
I his progress. AS a missionary in
| Alaska he sent frequent letters to
those who had befriended and pushed
him along AS governor of Alaska
he was the guest Of honor at ban
quet in New York where he told the
guests the story of his life in detail,
and gave the Children's Aid society
credit for whatever good had come
of his life.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
INSURANCE AND INFLUENZA.

New York World Partial reports
from the life insurance companies of
the United States, printed in the
Journal of Commerce, show the
deaths from the Influenza epidemic of
the Observation-Disclosures period in
1918 of more than 10000 policy
holders. These deaths caused claims
against the companies for more than
$52,000,000. It is expected that COM
plete returns will show a loss at
least of 100000 lives and of $1O0, OOO.-
900 in claims.
These reports constitute a reduc-
ton to plain figures of some portion
of a national calamity to which we
are accustomed ito refer in terms of
human sorrow and bereavement. Such
statistics of plague are unusual. AS
quoted here they are amazing. To
guide us in an estimate of the pro-
portion of the loss in insured lives
of the total number of deaths from
the epidemic we may know that
something more than 11,500,0Oo poll
cies were in force in the United
States in 1917, or little better than
one to every ten of population.
To policy-holders generally, and to
business interests In any way related
to insurance concerns, the word will
be reassuring that in broad way
the companies are meeting the liza
bilities strongly. The call upon their
resources was unexpected but is not
staggering.
Agreeing with the observations of
health authorities and others who
watched the progress of the influ-
enza, the insurance men report that
an unusual percentage Of victims died
in years from 30 to as, covering thus
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE

WELCOME TO AGE.
Welcome, old friend These many years
Have we lived door by door;
The Fates have laid aside their shears,
Perhaps for some few more.
l was indocile at an age
When better boys were taught
But thou at length hast made me sage,
If / am sage in aught.
Little know from other men,
Too little they from me-;
But thou hast pointed well the pen
That writes these lines to thee,
Thanks for expelling Fear and Hope
One vile, the other vain;
Ones scourge the others telescope,
/ shall not see again.
Rather what lies before my feet
My notice shall engage
He who hath braved Youths dizzy heat
Fears not the frost Of Age.
Walter Savage Lander
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
wATrERsoN ON WILSON.

Henry Watterson, at Palm Beach
Fla: Two pictures have just reached
me from the other side which will
make excellent campaign material for
tho republicans. One Of these repre-
sents Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson standing,
Will not say Sinking, with King
George and Queen Mary before the
camera. The other depicts. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson proudly holding down the
Corso in Rome with King Victor EN-
manuel and Queen Helena. For one
II don't like it. 1t offends not only my
plain American sense OF republican
simplicity, but what may call sense
OF national propriety. There can be
no such thing as equality between Il
citizen and sovereign, and now that
the president begins to think. feel and
act like sovereign, he is out Of char
acter and out of place in these vain
glorious explorations. He has shown
himself at times man of very un.
equal, even of infir1n judgement. With
such handicaps to carry. along with the
third-term issue. do not believe that
IL he agrees to offer himself in 1920
he will carry state outside the boil
shevih provinces of the south"
Suppose you are mistaken, and he
runs and IS e1ected?.
In that event, gcod4by to the re.
publicanism OF WASHINGTON, Jackson
and Lincoln, and all hail the autocra.
cies of Boliver, Rosas and Diaz. North
America is next door to South Ameri.
ca, you know. But if he runs again, he
will not be elected The republicans
Will have an easy thing, an easier
thing than they had last year. But we
shall see what we Shall see."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Happiness is from Within.

Orison SWEET Marden: We musp
carry our happiness with US or we
will never find it, just as we must
carry our success in our mind or We
will never find it. Happiness IKE
success. is state of mind. 1t does
not exist in other people or in things.
1t is in ourselves that we are happy,
or miserable. Happiness is inside %
us or it is nowhere. And we get "
day by day as we journey through
life, or we never get it at all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

cessaarfes OF life patiently enough, but
what howl goes UP when tax is put
on luxuries.
Waterloo Times-Trioune: We near
much about lettering school condi-
tions in Iowa, but we cannot nope to
accomplish much along this line, if we
fail to take cognizance of the elements
that go to make successful school.
One of the most important is the mat
ter Of good roads We must have bet
ter reads in order to improve the con-
ditions of rural life and we must have
BETTER rural schools il we are to hold
the children on the farm.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Looks Like perpetual Motion.

Baltimore American: The wheels
reyolve and we get nowherei Be
cause of wage increases, railroad
freights must go up; and when
freights go up the cost of living ir
creases. Then higher wages, higher
freiEhts--toot. toot we're oh-ces
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

occasioned calls on many policies on
which but few premiums had been
paid. Beyond the insurance consfd-
Grafton, 1t is a matter of consider-
able pathologic concern. The insur-
ance data in full may prove of great
value in the post-facto medical study
of the epidemic.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Undesirable Aliens

Remsen Bell-Tnterprise: Judge
George Jepson, naturalization judge
in Sioux City, says he will refuse
to grant citizenship to any person
guilty of holding bolshevist ideas.
The judges idea should be framed
into federal law, which In turn
should be enlarged in scope so as
to embrace all those who have held
pro-German ideas. while little
clause taking away citizenship from
such people who already have it
would look not at all out of place.
The enemy country needs them. and
the United States can't afford to
Keep them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Regardless
of their defeat the women of the ma
ton should be patient, should retain
their composure To do otherwisa
would be to endanger their cause when
next it reaches the floors of the house
and senate. They will win. The moral
support of the nation is behind them.
Dubuque Telegraph erald: The suf-
frage amendment will ne adopted one
of these days. 1t is as sure TO come as
death and taxes 1t is right that it
should come, because it is absurd to
say that woman hasn't equal moral
right with man to exercise the suf-
frage.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
The mayor of See tile absolutely re-
fused to recognize the bolsheviki or
even listen to them. Seems like he'd
be a good man to add to the peace
commission
Fort Dodge Messenger: If bolshev-
ism is anarchy it is a mistake to allow
IL to be camouflaged by the new title.
II has been suggested that the news
papers Of the country can do a good
deal to prevent the spread OF its Jaw
less practices in this country by ceas-
ing to permit the masking OF the right
full name, end that they should call an
archy and anarchists by their proper
titles.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The de-
feat of the suffrage amendment is
merely delaying the achievement of
Il al t< ~, Ty.,% ,h. nP
Borah and Hitchcock becoming the
nominees of their respective parties
for president is gone forever. No man
will be nominated by either party who
is opposed to suffrage
Perry Chief: It would be interesting
to know how much harm those militant
SUITS did to the cause in Washington.
There may never be way OF finding
out. but it's an even bet that the
amendment would have been carried
he'd the fire Getting females used a lit
tie common sense
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Everybody
ought to live through another genera
ton just to see how people get along
without booze.
Cedar Rapids Republican: A great
deal will depend on how General
I'ershing stands up to the acid tests
which will be made under criticisms
that always follow wars. Our own op-
in:on is that he will stand up in first
class way.
Webster City F'reernan-Journal: It
is almost as hard for tie democrats
10 stop expanding money for the war
as it was for them to get started in the
first place.
Boone News-Republian: The presi-
dent has weighty matters on his hands
tut he viii have weightier ones when
he gets back to this country and calls
an extra session Of congress
Charles City Press: It's the same
old story People will pay taxes on ne
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

Washington reports a serious
shortage of homes and sees no pros.
pect Of relief unless Uncle Sam un.
dertakes the job of building them.
Down that way your uncle is esteem.
cd yr e,e-- e>,,o
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

1t must take some of the sting of defeat out
of the Germans when they reflect that they can
criticise their former kaiser's moustache as
much as they want to without danger of going
to jail.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

In life, as in art, and as in mechanics, the
only profitable teaching is the teaching by
example.-Froude.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

What will the governor of South Carolina
have to say to the governor of North Carolina
after July first, nexta