The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-20
QUAINT SPOTS OF
EUROPE DESCRIBED.
yce
chautzuqua Audience Had Most En-
joyabIe Visit to Land Of sham-
rock and Heather Yester-
day Afternoon.
SOLDIER BONUSES URGED
Speaker Telling Of Chateau Thierry
Urges Money for Doughboys But
Says Call it Back
Pay.

trip across the Atlantic ocean 10
Scotland, Ireland, Paris, Belgium,
Germany, Switzerland and back to
Liverpool in 1914, when passports
home were hard to get, and the jour-
ney home as steerage passengers,
was the chautauqua treat IN Rand
park yesterday afternoon, with Prof.
M. H. Jackson as speaker and host
to the party and the audience as
guests on the trip.
The public drinking houses In Scot
land, the Irish peasant on his little
farm, the historic spots Of Bobbie
Burns, Paris, and Chateau Thierry
nearby, Germany, the village where
the Passion play is given, SWitzef-
land, famous for it's William Tel
all of these things came in for their
share in the travelogue.
And all along the journey the
speaker-host would stop and return
to the United States for minute to
bring home lesson to Americans or
to give bit of timely advice in re-
gard to economic or existing social
conditions here.
Prof. Jackson pleaded with his
audience to give the foreigner on our
soil and in their own lands, too, a
chance, for he says they are just like
we are Perhaps their clothes are
different, perhaps their languages
are peculiar to US, but these are only
external differences and can be
changed, slowly.
Pleads For Common People.
One thing which impressed Prof.
Jackson particularly on his various
trips abroad was the fact that when
he was over there he was the for
eigner and the other people were the
home folks. And don't you ever for
get that, either, he said. plea for
the common people in Ireland with its
peasants and in the United States
with its millions of poor was one OF
the main issues stressed by the
speaker. And he said that the com
mon people shall understand each
other better in the next big move
ment which takes place in the world. Z
Prof. Jackson begged the Americans
to make good their pledges and prom
Uses for the square deal and philan-
thropic measures for the people when
the war was going on. He says we
prayed then, but we haven't done so
since it is over. Our greatest danger
is forgetting God.
The Irish question and the wrongs
Of the peasants was one OF the most
pathetic pictures painted yesterday.
Prof. Jackson lived with one OF these
people for several weeks once and
helped the old man plow his fields
in order to become acquainted with
the real situation over there; and in
telling Of conditions he suggested the
same remedy for those peasants rs
the one he would apply to the needs
of the laborer in the United States.
'Give the man living wage and
then let him pay for what he gets
Don't pauperize him by paying him
a wage too meager for a human being
to live on and then donate him hot
soup Tin this country at less than
cost for his MONDAY meal, or a BIT
of pork at butchering time, or sack
of flour at harvesting time Tin Ire
land).
Is Hard Problem.
Prof. Jackson doesn't blame the
English of today for all of the pitiable
conditions in Ireland He says Their
ancestors have handed them mighty
legacy and problem hard to dea
with. According to the speaker yes
terday, until fifty years ago there
was no written agreement between
the English landlord and the Irish
peasant. If crops were good the rem
was high; if crops were poor the
rents were low. Very accommodate
ing, was the landlord, but you MAY
be sure he took all the peasant had
Prof Jackson said, and sometimes i
the lord knew OF sons and daughter:
of the Irish who had come to America
to work and were sending money
home to their parents, they would de
mand that, too.
The young people are leaving Ire
land, too; they will not stay in tina
land which is SO oppressed. There