America's Conspicuous Failure

Spuixgfíeld, IUs., Marché-..- Ruv. Dr. Carlos Martyn, of Chicago, spoko in Representativos' hall under the auspioes o) the National Chriatian Citizenship League and Y. M. C. A. Tlie attendance was large. Dr. Martyn disoussed "Municipal Problems." Amongother things he calicd attontion to the face that the government of citios is the conspicuous failure oí American institutions. He graphically portrayed the results of municipal misrule in Chicago and New York, and said that theso were ruerely samples of the situation all over the country. He severely scorod the state senate for passing the "Humphrey bill" legalizing pool selling. Dr. Martyn said the bill should be entitled a "bill todebauch the moráis and raanners of tho people of Illinois." He said its author should be branded and his coiloaguea scored in infamy.