Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1915 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Urges Distribution of Wealth In Wages Rather Than Charities Bu Rev. Dr. WILLIAM T. MANNING. Rector of Trinity Church, Neiv York

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TIIE church calls upon her laymen to work for,a true spirit of justice and right dealing in our industrial and commercial life. When we have made every right allowance for difference of reward accord* Ing to difference and quality of service WE ALL IvXOW THAT THE PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IS A DISPROPORTIONATE AND UNREASONABLE ONE. We know that the excessive riches of the man who has too much are as bad and that they are often morally worse for him than poverty is for the man who has too little. « X X WAGES ARE FAR BETTER THAN CHARITIES. IT IS FAR BETTER FOR ALL THAT SURPLUS WEALTH SHOULD BE PAID OUT IN HONEST PAY FOR HONEST SERVICE THAN THAT ENORMOUS FORTUNES SHOULD Bti PILED UP IN THE OF PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS, EVEN THOUGH THESE FORTUNES SI-fOULD BE LATER DISPENSED IN GIFTS AND PHILANTHROPIES. X X X This is not saying that wealth should be equally divided. I neither say this nor believe this. Bus l do say that wealth should be more equitably distributed than it is at present. It is now the splendid opportunity of our Christian financial and commercial leaders to lead the way in making the distribution of wealth among us a more sane and equitable one, SO AS TO SECURE FOR EACH WORKER A DUE REWARD FOR HIS SERVICE AND TO GIVE LABOR IN EVERY DEPARTMENT ITS FULL AND RIGHTFUL SHARE. United States Should Guard Against Invasion by Foreign Powers i ■ ■ ■■ - ■ -- Bu Colonel THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Former President of the United States IT is the duty of this country to put itself in shape to defend its rights should they be invaded. I MYSELF HAVE SEEN THE PLANS OF TWO OF THE COUNTRIES NOW ENGAGED IN THE EUROPEAN WAR TO INVADE THE UNITED STATES, CAPTURE OUR GREAT CITIES AND HOLD THEM FOR RANSOM, CONSIDERING THAT OUR STANDING ARMY WAS TOO SMALL TO BE DANGEROUS. THIS WOULD CRIPPLE OUR COUNTRY AND GIVE THE ENEMY THE MEANS TO PURSUE THE WAR. I WOULD RATHER SEE THE CITIES DESTROYED THAN TO HAVE ONE CENT PAID IN RANSOM. I HAVE SEEN THE DEFINITE PLANS FOR THE CAPTURE AND RANSOMING OF NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO. I hope to see the time when our nation shall come to a status in which every young American man shall have the training in marksmanship and military customs .which will enable him to take an effective part in the defense of his nation should her rights be invaded. A fight never was won by parleying. You’ve got to hit and not hit soft. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OWE IT TO THEMSELVES TO MAKE THEIR HAND SAFEGUARD THEIR HEAD.

Women Will Vote Right When Given the Opportunity Bu JANE ADDAMS, Social Reformer THE strongest and most logical reason for equal suffrage is that women should have equal justice. We are in the midst of a great movement in this country—one which has as its aim not so much the elevation of women to their rightful place in society, BUT WHICH IS PRIMARILY A MOVEMENT WHICH HAS TO DO DIRECTLY WITH SOCIAL REFORMS. It has been said that there never was a political or a moral revolution in which women did not have a hand. They have always joined in any movement which means an uplift to society. And rightly so, for they are nearest the home and feel more keenly than men perhaps the necessity for social reforms. ' / ; . FOR IT IS THE MOTHER IN THE HOME WHO FEELS FIRST, PERHAPS, THE SOCIAL ABUSES WHICH GROW OUT OF UNCLEAN GOVERNMENT AND THE MALADMINISTRATION OF LAWS. The things women feel the need of can only be obtained by means of the ballot. \\ omen represent the side of life—the home-—in which men have never been so vitally interested.

America’s Passion For the Beautiful Greater Than That of Eujope Bu HAROLD BEGBIE, English Author and Sociologist MATERIAL tilings are always the expression of the mind. The passion of American people for beauty is far greater than Europe’s. It is so thorough and so deep that they must have railway stations like cathedrals and shops like temples of art. They read more than English people read. They are more intelligent. They are more original. THEY ARE INFINITELY MORE IN EARNEST. IT IS AMUSING TO THINK THAT EUROPE, LIVING ON THE ARCHITECTURE AND BEAUTY OF ITS PAST, SHOULD PRESUME TO BRING 1 A CHARGE OF MATERIALISM AGAINST THE TREMENDOUS NATION which is visibly building up a new and splendid world and which sends to the old world nearly all the inventions which prevent that old world from falling into dotage. AMERICA IS THE MOST VIGOROUS AND LIVING EXPRESSION OF THE HUMAN MIND, AND, WHILE AMERICA IS CONSCIOUS THAT IT HAS SOMETHING TO FROM EUROPE, EUROPE HAS HARDLY BEGUN TO BE CURIOUS ABOI/T THE REAL EXISTENCE OF AMERICA.