| Show MUCK RAKE WORK VORK IS NOT FALSE ALARM Rev P. P A. A Simpkin Has No Nc Patience With Attacks on Men Who Expose Evil Evi THE POISONED SPRING Golden Fever 11 1 Has Hus Tainted Our Live anti anil Men el have o Comic Cone Mad With lh Lust for fUI Wealth Supporting tIm the man with wih th tho muckrake mud muck rake anti and ant denouncing th the man who decries de lle- cries the exposure of or evil 6 Rev Re P. P P.-A P. A. A Simpkin delivered an able sermon ermon ni nithe at atthe atthe the Phillips Congregational church yesterday Ho ito 10 took as ns his text The Th Poisoned Spring and amid reviewed th the national situation as ns It I appears toda today He lie le said In part pmt We e have Just passed through the tho nations nation's naton's na na- na- na tion's tons ton's celebration with wih Its Is causes for re re- re and pride That volcanic outbreak of or I 1 years yean cr crago ago which changed th the tho face of tho the social and economic ape age as truly as the outbreaks outbreaks out out- tC breaks braks of earlier and off far Car of ages age changed the lie tw fact face of th the physical world has been thrusting ever up lp the lie peak o or of our nations nation's naton's life on whose summit Is se set that lint standard o of liberty which catches the lie longing e eyes eOS of the whole earth In the marvelous stor story of the race written so 80 painfully In the time centuries Vo y th the he toilers and the dreamers fascinating in Its record of human endurance am and Is no story toC so vender vender- ful as that of our beloved land Theold The Thi old song of or Israel becomes our son Ve are aro the time sheep of ills His Ils pasture and tin the lie of Ills His hand people Ils hand No Nt Land LaHi Ilk Like Ol Ours Our Never a a. land on earth like this The white figure of freedom that stood on 01 the Atlantic shore 1 it years ago afO has led let with the charm rm of her music and th the soothing tones of her speech the flocking hosts of or the earths earth's sad and weary wa across a great continent rooting the great colonl col col- col- col onles In the conquered r forest and tin the lie wide wile wastes on billowing prairie It In wooded temple neath mountain shadow In rich val valley y on crazy height until the thi palm fringed Pacific shades the throngIng throngIng throng throng- Ing lug children of oC Ibert liberty who sing In the thi abandon of happiness and content the thi lie song heart of oC the 1 Fathers athers sung b by the thi Eastern Ea tern sea and in less than tw two centuries across the vast ast north land north th the busy lingers of the he brave p pioneers am and nd their children have ha e won continent on wide zonal In length the he garment o of happy liberty Fair was the forest with H Its great kings s that drunk the sun and dew of i a alO years fair the rolling under world work with lO teeming life wild wid and graceful faIr fan w h teeming the thousand unpolluted streams that tha sun sung by day an nn anthem I by night a lullaby fair the unbroken prairies prairie's bosom boson with wih I Its flowers fower and son songs s and birds am and andI IM Its tossing 10 bosom om of fragrance that hid hk I the power and wealth of a million harvests harvests har bar vests for tomorrow tomorrow- Work ork of oC Brave Bra Hall Hand Aye Are but fairer the new forest foest that tha brave hands have mude mute Where once the thi robed green monarchs bourgeoned In tin the lie breeze and md from whose boughs the mockIng mocking mock mock- Ing ng bird filled fled the vast st stillness with if its liquid uld Ir melody or from Crom whose heights aboriginal eyes eye saw for the glory glor of oC III Ills His empire or th tiC the m of or his enem enemy There Ther stands the temple the lie cathedral l the church with wih nil all al their rich force Corce 01 or of truth ruth truth of or comfort of melody of or God Gol th the th hospital with wih its hu Is quiet rooms amid whose aln tilled places walks walk earths earth's and heavens heaven's hea hea- the th the Christ Christ- en's ens fairest angel angel the angelof lilt pi ministering to the worlds world's broker broken and stricken Here is the time library hoMing holding on Us its Is shelves the lie pictured charm of or theold the tin old the story of or the making of the new the he powerful 1 visions lons of the thinkers the sweet songs of the poets the body bod of al all al he time tw ages ages' truth ruth Ien Here where the bubbling spring sang through the heated summer there here flows another another- Is Its outpour is Irhe Inthe In Ir inthe the he school-houses school the academies the tho colleges col col- col- col leges and universities Illes that rise In every settlement the lie ves vessels el of truth Liberty T Takes Take Here in the place where only the Inexorable In- In Inexorable inexorable law was voiced there are th the jud judgment seats sets of liberty and righteousness righteous rIghteous- nest ness guarding and giving guarantee ol of ofal al all the constitution spoke to that free and ant happy Irl life that Is nourishing In those twenty million milon homes of the republic tile U love ove and purpose e of a nation laton has tins scattered scat scat- catter ter cred d from ocean to ocean Prosperity well being development opportunity equality of privilege and certitude of sta- sta mark the life of this his land as the they have lave marl marked none other An Increasing Increasing figure In the worlds world's life he the respected and welcomed member of ol lie ho great world councils the tho envy and anil the tho he marvel of the old worlds world's autocracy cursed cured lands the he arbiter of better ant and gigantic contests the wide breasted nurse nur of liberty and Independence the mentor of oC the linest things In the great grent world school our land does well wc-hL to as ast asIt asit It t will wi tb do 10 well wel to lay often ofen its Is hands ortho on or tho the fundamental things whose force has so marvelously and fruited so sc rich richly I Would Fain SI See U Us nil nil- ni Now ow there here are those without our naIon naton na- na ton lout Ion who do not wish us well wel who would fain us die ell either her by rottenness In tile the the body pol politic tc or by destructive dissension similar to the the- war of the tile sixties They profess proCess love for us because we weare weare were are re rich and powerful and Ingenious and generous These tell cli tel us ug that that the lie trouble Is In our very ery TY constitution that Chic he spring Is poisoned Is It so The spring Is poisoned but it H was not It I has not been so always No Nol no no There never broke for the thinking men who h have lve struggled let for tor the making of what Is about us a stream purer than those clear cear waters that rip rip- ed from that lint that new risen riven rock of the American declaration So clear were Its Is waters water so refreshing Its ls draught that It H carried men b by wa way of sacrifice and blood and death to the victory which established It forever and made possible the enunciation of tho the great constitution Despite the befouling b by privilege and sectional Interest It was still In the sixties almost as pure as when the patriot fathers wrought ht under Its Is spell for tor Independence an ansi and humanity No No-a No Noa a spring th that could coull make men capable of or uch such heroic service and sacrifice as were witnessed ld In the wars wan of or revolution and rebellion must needs be pure Deull Deadly Element jf men t Added But Rut as one reads clearly cearly and notes car carefully ruly the signs of or our time he must come to see sec that a deadly element has been heen added to the waters of our national life There Is 18 no need ned for Cor the lie wild wid alarm evinced here and there ther we are not on the eve of destruction Human liberty Ibert the association as- as of or free men In self and mutual government Is now as fixed as life Woe oe betide the man or r men who seek In either the old form Corm or new wa way to turn back the clock of time to the dark hours ol ot divine rights and special class privileges privilege AM As above the holy dust of or the patriots patriot lying neath the new billows at nt Gettys GeUs burg bu Lincoln said sll In closing the unmatched unmatched un un- matched oratory orator of or his brief dedication This naton nation under God shall have a new birth of oC freedom and that the government govern govern- gover- gover ment meat O Of the people by hy the p people ople and for forthe forthe forthe the people shall not perish from the earth earth So wo we upon this side sido of or many manya a trying experience can cnn echo It with wih even ever deeper assurance Mali Many an With Wih Muck Rake But the county has been stirred by bythe bythe bythe the man with the rake muck muck as It has not en bc-en fen stirred for many a a decade I Is I It a a false alarm Nol Noi I have no patience with wih tho the man who denies the punishing of or an evi evil Wrong Is wrong To shut ones one's eyes to a cancer or to call caU It I by somo some other other name nama makes it no less lesa I I deally deadly It I Is true and we mut must fact face and treat the time condition with courage and wih sanity that in tome some tome way a the spring of the nations nation's naton's life has been poisoned and we are suffering tl tie the consequences The Tho revelations of the last three years beginning beginning begin begin- ning with wih the coppers widening to Standard oil oi embracing n the steel trust the trust the the Insurance shipping scandals scan scan- daIs dals the railroads with wih their rebate system system aye aye- tem tern crushing out the weak individual In Ina Inn ina a n land where equal privilege Is granted to 0 nil all ni the he land and timber thefts the conditions In commerce that called caled Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the pure food bill bi are arc nil all al too fresh to need any rehearsal rehear al Notice that In no one of them Is there thero therea theron a n primary question Queston of fundamental lib liberty liberty lb- lb lib lib- crt erty or save In one or two an encroachment encroachment encroach encroach- men ment t on constitutional rights ts Tho The railroad I Is largely largely- an Innocent sufferer suf suf- ferer compelled bv by tho the necessities of or the situation to light fight for or exl existence tence and yield In to the use of the handiest weapon The Tho poison polson is that same yellow vellow powder pow pow- tier der lle that the Israelites drank to Insanity In the wilderness tells us 0 of of- their heir madness There Is 18 nothing nothing the he matter mater with wih America except Just that thaL The golden olten fever fe has tainted our lives Men a are re mad mal with wih tho lust for wealth and what It will wi bring I do not think this will wi be he disputed Mrs Mrs Will WH He Bee played tho ho evening otter offer tor tory Mrs frs McCiain of the Y V. W W. C. C A A. spoke briefly of the he work vork of the I new horn |
