Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1903, Page 23

The Battle in the City | S, UNICIPATY, problems are only one €Xisted in a dull despair that men mis- come in. I think New York City has been labor of a great university, went forth te phase of the great problem of called content. Now they have life, hope, perhaps the worst governed city in the take up your work and my work, and to de . human life. That life is a strug- activity, spurred on to life by the oppor- country under Tammany rule, unless re good service for you and for me -not to be Q\‘lg gle has long been _taught by tunity in this new land. If I were a rail- publican Philadelphia has not been a little praiged for what he did, but to be scolded, _— = religion, and has recently been road man with $60,000,000 to invest I should worse governed. Political reforms, if they not to say slandered, for what he was not reaffirmed by sclence. From the cradle to not know how much to put into a railroad are simply political, do not go to the root able to do in so short a tim the grave we are engaged in it. A strug- and how much into a college. I am not of the matter. The problem is more than o The greal enemy we have to fight s gle in the individual between the higher sure that a railroad would not render the political question. It cannot be solved by greed, the spirit that desires to get some and the lower, the animal and the spirit- best service of the two—much better than legislation. It involves the battle of all thing for nothing, that puts acquisition ual, the sensuous and the super-sensuous. Some colleges. Here are the great news- the ages, that began in Eden, and will not above everything else; the spirit which ' ““The good that I would I do not, the evil I papers. 1 do not think I quite agree with end until the great curtain of all human counts honesty as something between man hate to do,” is a very ancient interpreta- Jefferson when he said that he would history drops down and the other life be and man, but nothing between man and tion of this struggle with which most of rather have a country without government gins, that goes on we do not know whoere men; the spirit which considers it wrong to us are familiar. There are few sinners than without newspapers. But I am quite or how pick the pocket of a man, but right to l"_l( 80 apparently hopelessly depraved that certain that we could get along without In this great battle of the ages the the arm up to the shoulder in the public they never enter on this battle. There are congress for a year better than we could enemies of honest government in our g treasury. And this spirit of greed is “':""-"“ few saints that have won the battle and get along without newspapers for a year. cities seem to me to be chiefly three when it is seen in the highest quarters have no need for further fight. The city, Wonderful enterprises they are, reaching I8norance, indifference and greed. 1or It is not at its worst in the man the modern city, 1s the place where the their hands out into all the world and ignorance the remedy is oducation. \What who selis his vote for a dollar bill forces of good and evil are more than gathering all the news from all the world, In some sense every political campiign Of a4 job in the street cleaning department everywhere eise lined up for conflict. The and serving it to us with our breakfast furnishes indirectly, teaching us our obliga It is worse in the men who swear off the city is the heart of this great campaign. coffee. They are great educators. They Uons. teaching us the principles by which taxes they “‘“'.M e w“,'w Bk The city is the Gettysburg of the long war. teach us what we are, how much our civili- W¢ should be governed. that ”‘“"' legislators to give public v(r‘;:n' The city is the Quarte Bras in the Water- zation is, how much of solid mahogany and Indifference is a worse enemy than igno vhises for which .”".'\ "”’F’_” il i “,.l o loo of the ages. To a great city come how much very thin veneer. Here are the rance. The chief sinners are not the who R bl R R t.‘f’ l.“"”".Imd“;mt‘ both the worst forces and the best forces great schools. To the towns and cities live in the tenement houses on the Ka<t 8 o bt rnu‘uxxl o ”m“l-’ l-“|‘ of the nation. Here gather the criminals, come the parents, bringing their children but those who live in the brownstone hus they may l'..|‘||l l»n the corruption; \‘wn;l n. the Ishmaelites, the men whose hand is to be cducated, because in the towns and in the center and heart of the city. Iivory the ""'T” ¥ ‘"l"“""l'.]"i_ ‘\.””"' ""';:“I“ “:’;‘, agalnst every man. Here they come to rob ecities are the great universities, the great voter is a trustee. In a hotly contes SHAL are ";”:'l '“"l' li"“lll-l|lllvd-"ll ‘“ ‘ll“;:i.r:';“; and to plunder, here when they have industrial and professional schools. Here Ppresidential election, out of 7,000,000 people W . ‘_ ”I m;;\" ," ;."L:,".,'l.“.;, shame- robbed and plundered elsewhere they come the public school is seen at its best. Here about 14,000,000 vote. What does that mean? ;"']M !mlmr.;'.‘. s % }: r -\"nv;‘ it ‘-. .,,\‘”',. in to live, This is their camping ground. too are the great churches, Protestant, It means that every voter votes for five A“'_‘ “"m"‘:;‘;.'_Is:,.wh‘lfl 'h ||-||i|u'( I':“; r-xlnk This is where they easiest find the booty Catholic, Jewish. I do not siy there are Others. for the women, the children, the ‘r'l"_-‘ ‘:’:“;“‘ '”N sasition ‘wlm.;-mn’ltnl ““; and the most. Here gather the sensual not preachers as able, as devout, in many nonvoting population. 1 am their trustee ):’;’“r.:,» '_'\N;\_ ,‘,“ uu'm-(‘lnnu out-of which forces. Here come the men who want ease a country village as in the metropolitan If 1 neglect to vote I neglect my duty as :1" may (“‘;., fo § i.‘ r'«‘ nal profit an advan- and indulgence. Here come the men who pulpits. We are too prone to measure a trustee. If 1 throw away my vote, | tawe ';M”'"‘,“ !'l\"lu-:»'" the public a fair like to dress in fine linen and fare sump- man by the place he stands in ra th-ow away the rights of these five people rlL ;;-;»l-l«' ,”i,‘ equivalent g tuously every day Here are the great than by the work he is doing. Yet in the Who are entrusted to me. If I sell my vote ‘\'\‘ h_‘"[ .“.,'. “‘ Bone :;. a5 T6.is Waas that hotels, the restaurants, the theaters; here main the great preachers and pastors are [®F a place or an advantage or a 3 bill, 1 this ;j- :n l-.n!ln' 1.:.I to be won merely by the great pleasure givers of every kind, to be found largely in the great cities, 2¢! the r'ghts that have been entrusted to \u,xl;-v,; ;.ur even chiefly by voting. It is to and bere therefore come the men who are Here are the auxiliary institutions, the ™M Andyetl think the chiefest cause, one Vb Th lir viy taught and learned in seeking plemsure. Here men come t0 Young Men's Christian associations, the «:vr(:unfy of the chicfest causes of this the home. It Is to be won by mothers gamble, and to drink, and to make merry. Daughters of the King, the various mis- :,?:"'.’“"’f" rh"" ‘1"“1.:'- w,'l‘,'," lr(':_l.nl ',h" ”;" teaching their children patriotism and pur- H ke Stmbiiie oin Wi EHAYE RN LoF MORKYy | Bodrax T THEY A cstarNhers i haVe: - et e i e s s i ':,T,": the 1ty and truth and honor. It is taught by nothing while life laughs its hours away. their direction here, are moulded and l‘!nllk "; Todvin it b i it g R the influences that are more potent than Here, too, come men who are eager for shaped here; but their influ does not The lr.-:-u w'.;"l AR OR A LIRS (o ahoTnt political power. It is to be won by ideals wealth, who measure all of life by the dol- end here, and from these cities, these i n\" AR flu:\' aia nn‘(v- tHie which we hold ourselves and foster and lar mark, who think success is measured homes, from these churches goes out a ;»n-.-«- tr ’]Mm" "mm FPd '"q Iut the Inspire in others. It is to be won by the by the money a man possesses, not by the stream of beneficence to bless our own land oliv8. thee BAl Lnte them th;xm I leave Work of the minister. Not by his preach- character he develops. Here come the and to bless other lands. I had occasion my fatness, wherewith h\" me they hn‘-nr ing on trusts and strikes when they are men and the women who are fond of dis- ten years ago to make inquiry #s to what God and .r;|.:m and go to wave to and fro Deing discussed by the newspapers; not by play. This is the place to show ourselves the churches in the city of Brooklyn were over the ".N_'q‘-, And the tr-’uu said to the doing the work that belcngs to the press; off. This is the place to ride in the finest doing: I found that in that one year they fig - tree, Come '(hn" and reign over us. But Dot that. But by recognizing the fact that carriages with footmen and coachman. had spent $2,250,000 on religious work, and the "g' tres. Said unto ‘thom, Showld” 1 religion is to do justly, to love mercy, to This 1s the place to wear the fine dresses, $1,333,000 on charitable work outside the jeave my sweelness and my good fruit and Walk humbly with God: by recogniving the \ the glittering féwe's. This is the place In churches. And Brooklyn is not an excep- g0 to wave to and fro over the trecs? And fact that our prayer is not an idle one, | which to go to the opera—not always to tionally rich eity, nor has it done nearly the trees said unto the vine, Come thou and “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on | ’» hear the music, but sometimes to have as much as New York. Thus we have reign over us. And the vine said unto earth as it is in heaven." By so preach- { other people look at us. Here is where these two forces standing face to face in them. Should I leave my wine, which cheer- ing and so ministering as to it men and A ' we g0 to the horse slipw, and people won- the city, wrestling with each other, the oth God and man, and g0 to wave to and Women to live noble lives in New York ‘ der whether we have gone to see the horses forces of sensuality and vice and crime fro over the trees? Then said all the City If the ministers can do this, we or for the horses to sce us. Here come the and ignorance, and the fore of virtue troes unto the bramble, Come thou and ©an leave problems concerning the celestial \ wolves that raven, the swine that fatten, and intelligence and courage and moral reign over us. And the bramble said unto ©City for a little while. We shall be ready the bees that hive, the peacocks that strut. purpose. Here they meet at close quarters. the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king for it when the time comes. We will be But here also come the great forces for We jostle one another on the same car, over you, then ceme and put your trust in building a celestial eity on earth, intelligence and for virtue. Here the no- we walk by one another on the same my idow, and if not, let fire come out For the battle is not to be won by politics, blest clements of humanity are found; here gtreet, we live beside one another on the of the bramble and devour the cedars of which is a re methed of life, but by life the strength, the heroism and the intelli- game block, I am not sure that we do not Lebanon itself. It is to be won by the recognition gence compacted together. Here are the sometimes kneeli by the side of one an- I'he olive and the fig and the vine have by us of the truth that we are in this great commercial enterprises; not merely other in the same church. said in America, “We do not care for poli world not for pleasure, not for wealth, not meney-making but humanity serving A The question of political reform, there- ties.” Then we have elected the bramble, for any subsidiary thing; that we are here great railroad is something more than a fore, is not a political question. 1t is the and when we have elected it the parable as our Master here, to love and to corporation to pay dividends to stockhold- battle of the ages in a microcosm. It is has been reversed, for fire has come out of serve; that we are here to fight the battle ers. It is a eivilizer. Run this railroad not a preblem that can be solved by a the bramble a:d devoured the cedars of long as God shall give us life; that we across the western prairie and where this political panacea or settled in half an hour, Lebanon. Nor can I fail to say here one here so to live that when at last the road goes the village springs up, the school It cannot be settled by electing one y ®hrd of honor to the man who surely be end shail come we can look back upon our house and the church are built; and send- or another to office. “Turn the democ longed among the vines and tt figs and city life and say, not, I was a millionaire, ing their children to these school houses rascals out,” and leave the city as it is, and the olives, who had a position in this city not, I had a good time, not, 1 was in -« and worshiping in these churches are men the republican rascals will come in. *“Turn which any man might covet, a place of dis- society, but, T fought a good fight and I and women from across the sea, men and the republican rascals out,” and leave the tinguished honor and also congenial work, kept the faith. women who had no hope at home, who city as it is, and the democratic rascals will out of the quiet, pleasant, constructive New York City. . ’ < . ’s Final and Grimmest Battle Humanity in 1 ri es attle Ol'R generation we behold a the I.nw,»{ form of organic life have met at have shot the last kangaroo—one of the Indian tertiary animal-world with its ele- gl'.'anl‘n- s;uf-(;n'!v. ()f:ly a few l:n's‘t in ..'l fight f'nr existence earliest and oldest of mammal forms; the phan rhinocerl, hippopotami, huge car- bt alle s Do glonlibnn Bl $ YR LBRINE, oL dfl.l.;i\.‘. :,.r y,;\:w“..,-, .mn'u.‘ ]y.lj |Il‘l )fllw 1 .l:.l(. .l|’{|.l~l:]/.1.|:w gorilla and orang, confronted even civilized plaret in order to see it as it is, monstrous, the vulmlllul'nu }»:nm u!- all l;b—dnn-ln )= " |l-“( " \'ll'” ‘?“ I" r|'f'.“ ‘l‘)kf - ‘ l 'f humanity like a demoniac specter, sur- yet subliwe in its very terror . St axa ) W " ftive ¥ "f‘f\ “T' “"‘ “‘“v' ' < ,h "‘-"‘“""f" rounded with fables, the image of the 1 i R ment and the oldest, most primitive, most lisard hatteria in New Zealand, the 0n8 wyiid world" that ruled lands and threat- £t us imagime a persrective simple existence that life has produced, surviving arch-reptile, which linked the sned humanity. Instead of humanity we see a si ras with which life beean milllons of years reptiles with the amphiblans and perhaps . ¢ " : man. And this man, a Hercules, is wres ago, and which life has dragged upward even with the mammals, has become S0 But a2 early as l.ur'l‘lulm-' Py .'N"‘""d ling with a hydra. with it as an undigested primordial rem- rare, only 100 years after its discovery that to subdue the beast. The Carthagian en- The hydra of the old tales was an animal, nant, side by side with the mighty devel- only the protection of the government and slaved the '(-‘l»phuu( and made war material palterned after the octopus, the polyp or ment at whose pinnacle stands man. its isolated habitat on a few rock islands ©f him The iron Roman dragged the "."‘ “"“‘“l"‘qhfi."" animal that has been The full earth-mastery of man strictly in Cook sound check its extinction tempo- dungle Dbrutes ipfo his arenss ‘," Aries, piaced in the frst rank of the mollusks by speaking, did not begin before the nine- rarily. }.\”'] when the musket was invented the 2 modern science—therefore an animal of rel- teenth century. On this same New Zoaland the Maeris final hour struck rm:‘n,“ hl? of primeval atively high development. Man appeared on earth in an epoch i te a race of immense wingless birds, and ancestral life. The tertiary world of 2 poch in ate up a ra " But this man that we see battles with a which it alr glants went tumbling headlong after the » . A ) dy possible to reckon the moas. For all this great world of sur- thirg tlLat Is not animal, not plant. It is backward millions of years during which vivils, man became the executioner in the tlive, It is without organs, without th ; " e vertebrates had become the superior 3 ning and remains so. dructure. It is not gigantie, like the i R P esinning s secondary world and “culture’” became the exvceutioner of a historical decree, o hs# ‘ T 3 r « . 2 e, creatures of the world. Of quite different importance to man in But m ”'”‘“‘ to do with another group of storicd hydra, in the sense of having a ™ tel 2 s e was a second group of large animals The great force that drove the " sing’e huge animal body. But it is gigantie l" ‘I' rtebrates, man's nearest ancestors .|w'u'| u‘n) |‘ North America. Rurope tertiary mammals out of the north con- E el /€8 F Fi >, y /e b 8. L ) 4 4 . 2 in another sense that goes far beyond that :.’,“ ' : ‘“\; % man had to destroy first. b ’vl A :;‘ A ] n”| am i+ ch l'n;,x at tinents, before man became strong, was the old hydre. 1wey faced him iIn three groups and in and h.ur 1 ia here < 168 A oartaln Baveanks st a8 snpsmats ok each group was a history of timo, this time that altered or destroyed the In the hydra a new head grew at once ip place of every one that was cut off. The monster to which I refer tears apart under thus driven south consisted of some that had adjusted themselves to the cold. So there came the red-wooled mammoth, the The smallest and least important group animals of tertiary time as the ichthyo- remained as the vanishing rest of an epoch saurians, marsupials and billed mammals sy e a . 4 in whose highest period man did not exist. of secondary time had been swept away. o Shinanenan tha cave Hon: the sk the hands of the fighting man into milliards We call this the secondary epoch now. It However much man may have witnessed R l 4 s 0f ‘new horrors. Where one {heealaned way the day of the Lohibyossuelana. This of this ohanks. (¢ eartalnly ooourred withs 9% A M. Peinaeey . : countless masses threaten in the next ' 2 5 : i ; o This is the so-called diluvial animal ? ok . Mr.-n'-,;- world h.url (Ll.--v‘-l Ii'nn rulh :nh;|< ;JIII| l:lN'IwIp \":'hn n IAa'lllul :rw n;n\v strong, world. And man had to do directly with it 3 minable spaces o ime. Then it roke e entire, i monstrously large rem- £ ety ¥ % 5 . Arid in this expanding mass the ereatures qown Probably the slowly strengthen- nant of the tertiary world dwelled in } '_n)';"' l“l”"“ .l‘l":"“"l ;':I'l":l'l'ls ,«h.-:\\ rlh.fl‘ spread over the earth and heaven till a Ing worlds of mammals helped to force south Asia and in Africa. A small distant "" \j"i ‘,‘“_ Hl “:T‘N “. } “‘ LI'“:':'\ “, ll; new, still more dreadful whole is formed 4§t ynder. It happened long before the remnant also lved in South America— oAy rriey ybtpe “]: i thank again of them, and drives like a black, kill- coming of man. He did not meet the grotesque mammoth sloths and mammoth ¥ AiheRs GF the foa-tiue Lon his- graatest ing 1 fr He all sides upon the Hercules early progress, such as the discovery of ichthyosaurians. Only here and there did a the way to kindle fire gasps—will he conquer? he nadillos The latter evidently became J find a relic of the epoch extinet ¢ v, and as we have evidence t ; ¢ i » - No mjythology has created anything like Australia has pres r.ln d the m:st sin- m ,4' ‘nl -Hllrw erium ‘.:llxt| ;'.!\;"lr]ulunhliu‘l 1 ‘\: l_“;l" ,‘:““I‘N flluvial world todas Man fna) Tl gular survivors. The few wild men thore prehistoric days, it is likely that he was sis example of the vertebrates ractio. | It is man—humaaity fighting the bacillus hardly disturbed them; our advancing Eu- the hangman of thiz animal world also ally exhausts almost the whole l‘-vwl»lvm A most wi rful thing has, indeed, de- ropean culture is doing it radically. The In other places the battle was not 50 easy. ) % veloped on our old planet. %he Lighest and duck bill is disappearing. Bevu they wil For 2,000 ycars and more the African and (Continued on Pa Thirteen.)