Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-09
TEE METHOD QUESTIONED.
A Correspondence With a Decided

A Correspondence With a Decidedly
Sharp Point.
The following letters were received at the
RECORD UNION Office yesterday, no doubt
intended for publication, though no letter
of explanation accompanied them. AS the
correspondence is decidedly interesting we
give it publicity:
CAPAy, Yolo county, CAL, Oct. ], 1885,
Dear Frisad: l am deeply interested in the
Young Mems Christian Association The good
accomplished by this organized effort is mani
fest wherever rightly presented. To fully meet
all requirements building, thoroughly adapted
10 this use, is necessary. Such a building is
needed in Sacramento, and they ask our aid in
obtaining the amount necessary to erect such
an edifce. One large subscription has already
been pledged, provided the remainder needed
is subscribed. find that it viii cost but few
minutes and dime Here is the plan. 1t is
not original, but 1t will produce sufficient to
erect the building. Every one receiving this
letter is asked to write three exact copies, chang
ing the date, and of course signing your own
name and putting at the top the next highest
number, the same number in the three letters
to three of your friends, and at the same time
return this letter with the name and address
OF your circle OF three with dime or five two
cent stamps to c. II. Dunn, Treasurer, Sacra-
mentos Cal
Each of your circle is asked to do the same, and
SO the chain is kept frightening, and anyone
declining to join is earnestly requested to return
this letter to the Sacramento address, that they
may know the chain is broken, and though it
seems but a trife, any break may involve
serious loss to the enterprise. They ask us to
read Matthew XIV, 40. This is asking but little
Shall we not do it willingly for the young men
OF sacramento? Yours truly, MATTE FOSTER.
THE REPLY.
CAPAY, Yolo county, Cal, Oct 2, 1889
Dear Young Friend: The letter to my address
concerning the Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton building came to me this morning. The
first thought on reading it was, how nice in you
to interest yourself in such enterprises and how
kind OF you to think of me as one to depend
on to assist you. appreciate the educa-
tlonal and moral effect of that organiza-
ton, and win give, ten times the dime
asked to help build that edifce. But
do you think it honest for that institu-
ton, in presenting this subject, to tell us
that 1t will only cost us a few minutes
time and a dime, when the time involved
is no less than two hours ana instead of dime
the cost is eighteen cents? That is, in order to
get 81 TO Sacramento. we must pay eighty cents
to the Government in postage stamps. 1t may
be small matter to each one but don't you see
If $40 1000 were raised in this way, it would cost
the donors S. 900 TO get the $40 600 in stamps to
Sacramento, and then it would be in stsmps
and would probably cost 5000 more to get it
changed into specie. There are 81 the rural
districts must donate that the Young Mems
Christian Association may receive 81 benefit In
justice to sound business principles and true
pnlantnrOpy we should not do this thing. /
will send the letter to Sacramento, in order that
the chain may be mended if broken-but must
have the courage of my convictions, and not be
accessory to what l regard as a swindle in the
way of raising money, even though it be for so
benefcent an enterprise as the Young Mems
Christian Association While we are trying, my
young friend, in SO many indirect ways to assist
the young men to better lives, would it not be
well for us, who are able TO see it, to work for
women's political acknowledgements that she
may, by the small effort of depositing her ballot
remove those immoral insttutionsI where now
is spent by the young men of Sacramento enough
dimes each day to build them Y. NJ. C. A.
building in that same time? Do you say that
the effect of women's franchise would probably
be less salutary? Inform yourself, please, of the
effect OF women vote, where possible for them
to exercise it, and say if it were not at least
worth the trial. Is 1t fair to womanhood that
we should be obliged both by our natures and
the necessities of the case 10 principally build
and sustain all the moral institutions for both
sexes in christendom, and at the same time to
be deprived of the power to do this in the most
effective way? For we know too well that the
power of the ballot for good or evil over-rides
tina: OF all other powers combined. Some one
has said, The home, the state, the nation, are
they not one?' And, if the influence of good
women is great in the smaller and minor circles,
shall 1t not also be benefcent in the larger and
more extended? Your friend,
MRS. D. Q. ADAMS.