The New York herald., 1876-09-06
Meeting of the State Charities
Association at Saratoga.
GOVERNOR TILDEN'S ADDRESS.
Hon. David A. Wells on the Causes and
Remedies for Industrial Depression.
FIR ZEE TRADE NEEDED
Honest Money and Financial Stability a
Necessity for All Glasses.


SARATOGA, Sept s. 1876.
The Conference OF Charities tho Town Hall at
half past three O'Clock this afternoon and called
order by Charles s. Hoyt Secretary OF the New York
State Board. ho introduced Governor Tilden, who
made the following address Of welcome
GOVERNOR TILDEN's ADDRESS
GESrLYMES CONFERENCE CHARlrIEs-As
Chief Magistrate OF the State of New York 1t my
pleasing oinco to welcome you to this charming and
fashionable resort which i, fast becoming tho shrine
of political, social and scientific pilgrimages. Two
great conventions forming essential share OF
the voluntary machinery by which competitions Of
parties arc carried and elective government
continent is made possible, have recently
held their sessions in this place, and to-day your
conference, connected with the Association for
tho Advancement OF Social Science brings to this
charming retreat class Of men with worry differ
ent objects, not less important, more comprehen-
sive IN their scope and more permanent In their
sequences 1t brings here gentlemen distinguished
their learning, for their accomplishments and for their
bcncvolence.
A conference Of charitiesl What noble rivalry is
implied in these You here not to further
your own interests not oven to promote the material
we'll being Of those communities which you represent
but to consider what best be done to cure tho
wounds and maladles OF society.
What has thus far been accomplished toward remov-
ing tho evils Of paupeiism crime and insanity will be
disclosed 10 you when the regular reports Of the
mees charged with these subjects shall before
you will not anticipate them trench upon their
domain My Office Is simply to express to you the
earnest sympathy. the strong approval and the spirit
of cooperation OF this great Commonwealth, which
represent to-day.
TUE MARCH OF SCIENCE.
In the past three centuries the progress Of science
has been something marvellous In asi ronomy, ge-
oogy, physics and chemistry and in all OF those de-
partments Of science which modern phrase
pretended under the biology, the achievements
been vast that tho earlier discoveries science
would have to 80 through fresh novitiate TO under
stand what are now ascertaned facts Kopler
Newto would scarcely comprehend tho revelations of
the modern instruments that have been employed to
discover the interior constitution Of heavenly bodies
while thov could merely watch and define the general
movements OF these bodies and thcir sur
ace 1t is gwen to us TO discern the secret internal
constitution of those bodies Prestley, Lavoisier and
even Davy would have TO 80 through training to
entitle them to be called chemists. n all the depart
great BY what means, by what methods have these
great results been accomplished? BY patient
study. By diigcnt experiment BY researches per-
sistently carried into the working places OF
nature You will answer, 1t was not by these means
alone. 1t was IN large degree by tho application OF
SCIENTIFIC
and scientific methods to these inquiries. Now you
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method still iurthcr-to apply the same implements and
modes OF inquiston to the problems OF human society
congratulate you that IN doing 1t you do it under the
auspices Of tho Society for the Promotion o Social
Science. feel quite that must derive instruc.
ton aud ad-at least that you will alb orb much that
Interesting and that is valuable from with
the intelligent, cultivated gentlemen who belong that
association You assume that the complex phenomena
Of society-its grand tides OF movement Its
| sions OF changes, growth and decay OF popuations
mortality paupcrism. crme-are capable OF being re-
duced to formula, being analyZed, studied stated
| i'll the results OF your discoveries. Now, gentlemen,
1t seems to me that no more interesting, no more I'M
rorant object OF investigation could be presented to
| the human mind. ! am quito sure that the
application of the same philosophy whcn has
achieved such grand results elsewhere will astonsh
you will astonish everyone by the results which it
will attain IN this department 10 which it will be
| applied Even those most uncertain things that de-
| pend on the human will capable OF being studied
being analyz zed OF being classified and the results
stated Human life has been held forth in the sacred
writings and in all aecs the uncertain thing
possible, and yet II you will take large number OF
individual lives and group them you can compute
within a fraction their average duration.
! DEMAND AND SUPPLY.
| In tho great metropolis IN which my home is and
its immediate suburbs there thing like 500
families 1t would be scarcely probable that any
| Of those families should know what food they Will
have upon their table tomorrow, and yet every
goes to market without concern, without plan, even
without purpose They find everything they
their tastes, ana nothing OF any. Importance
is left ut tho end OF tho day: All over this
preparing supplies for tn great mart OF traffic and
centre of population. In the immediate viciaity
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duccd far off in the blue grass region OF kentucky
Tennessee and the broad savannas OF Texas being
prepared the beef which every day leeds this mmcusc
population. and IN all lhcse tens oi thousands OF
producers there is concert no plan No man knows
what his ncghbor Is TO produce No man knows who
Will buy the products OF his industry, aud yet all
the results oil their production are sent forward tho
| market All are in demand and all lind every day
adequate sale. Take a broader field. Each OF
a. 600 900 OF people is Choosing hat he desires 10
possess TO consume TO enjoy OF the products Of for
eien cmes Each one is proposing what he shall takc
from ls own labor to pay Tor what he purchases from
abroad. There have teen those who have kept awake
nights for fear that we should buy everything from
abroad and sell nothing, and therefore, apdy become
bankrupt (Iaughtcr.)
Addressing Hon. d. A. Wells, President of the Social
Science Association. lac saidI believe you have been
able to yourself aud rescue many others from that
| apprehension. (Applausc.l You have that it is
hot necessary Two threo Hundred wise men in
the city of Washington to decide aud sIeciy what
shall SELL and What shall buy, in order TO save US
from the calamity which would otherwise tall upon
US. Gentlemen, how is II that this great
multitude OF individual wills and individual
tastes, acting separately aud Independently,
find themselves averaged and compensated until every
nbrum of forces 1t that the d., ne Being has i'm
pressed upon everything order. method and law. zap
pausc.) Even the most divergent, even the most un-
certain, even those things IN the individual taste which
We cannot oresee or calculate upon at all, when we
group them IN large masses reduce themselves TO intel
lgibe forms Now understand that what you pro-
pose 10 DO is to apply this same method nvestqa ion
TO paupcrsm, to crime TO insanity and all those
tciigcncc deemed to be necessary. do not doubt
you will study these subjects with attention diligence,
ana patleHce, you VIII Sfcut
| upon this community. and upon the whole country.
| cannot conclude. however, without
WARNING,
and that is his:--rhc emotional and sympathetic
| mind seeking cut relief Tor evil distinctly and
| strongly ict looking perhaps, upon specinc evil,
with view somewhat out OF proporto
| to its relation to all the interests oi So
ciety, and going to the public treasury for fund
from which gra,ify its humane and charitable in
stncts and not restrained by any consideration limit
ing disposition Its power, doubt leads
| tItncs TO extravaganza IN the public charities. ! had
last and the before object to tho
magnilccnco OF the public buildings being erected
this state tor these purposes ami tho caution wish
suggest to-day Is this, that,
while ali the heaven born God.given scnti,
mcnts ol humanity fairly have their
scope in operating upon your minds and your hearts
to impe you To relieve the owls OF this character