The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-20
Dangers of the Age.


PITTSBURGH, Nov. l4-Chauncey
NJ. Depew, of New York delivered q
lengthy address al the twentieth All.
niuersary of the Pittsburgh branch
pf the Young Mems Chri than Asso-
riaiiOn. In the course of bis remarks
Mr.. Depew spoke of the great good
The YUang News Christian AssOcia.
ton was doing among railroad men,
In ten years the effect upon the em-
ployes of the New York Central
Railroad was so marked that it can
be seen all over the road, Instead
of spending their time in baYroOms,
pool rooms and other places where
their manhood was destroyed, they
spend their time in improving them
selves, and their money goes to their
families, the saying banks and into
homes. The association is creating
that which will ultimately be the
saving of the country, every man
owning the roof which covers him.
mo man." said he. "Whn has mon
ey in his home, who has capital in-
vested, goes to bed without fear that
something Is going to happen. Why
are men afraid of the line being
draw through the community?
Afraid of civil war? Afraid of So
cialistic riot? Why? Because the
developments of the century are
greater than the church and its de-
velopments can take care Of"
The speaker referred to the differ
ences that have come in the last
hundred years 10 the advance in civ
iliZation and in productive power.
1--WE boast" he said, ''Of our 10000.
900 people, in having outStripped all
countries, of our wealth, of our pro-
ductiye power. But we must face
the fact that grave perils are at our
doors. AT recent election in the
largest city of the country. one-third
of the people voted for man who
declared that we were on the eve of
another French revolution with all
its horrors. OF the 68, QUO men who
voted for George, not one in hun.
dred believed what George said; he
don't believe it himself. They are
not Anarchists or Socialists. What
did they mean? They meant some
thing. They meant that they .,aye
a grievance. We don't exactly know
what it is. They can't clearly ex-
press it, but it exists" The rapid
development of the country, the
speaker said, had dried up he springs
of common humanity and men no
longer understood each other a they
once did. He spoke of the time
when an employer knew all his en-
ployes, when their joys and sorrows
were held in common. This has
gone by. The keenness of competi-
ton left so small Il margin that profit
only existed in large operations
which required more capital than
one person could furnish. This call.
ed into existence corporations. Then
the distance between the employer
and employees grew greater. How
could this he avoided? Labor Orga-
nized, but this only arrayed two
hostile armies and made war between
capital and labor, which should be as
the brain and stomach. The solution
would be in organization within and
without the church to teach the true
relation between labor and capital.
In conclusion Mr.. Depew said an
organization like the Young Mems
Christian Association takes man to
place where he finds sympathy,
where he is taught, where blood
thirsty tie 'chings are dispplIed, where
he is not asked about his creed, where
he meets men who feel for him. who
will visit hin, where he feels the cur.
rent of humanity.