The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-25
THE YOUNG MEN OF WICHITA.
That Meeting Tonight and What May
Come Of 1t.

| "The secret pleasure Of a generous act
! Is the great mans bribe-"
Tt would take too much space to tell how
the matter took shape and its aim, but the
movement should enlist the endorsement
of the entire youth of the city. Itsomeway
happened that a number Of young men,
who have character and brains enough to
appreciate the fact that they, the boys Of
! today, will, in the very near future, be the
men who must be responsible for the well
fare of Wichita, for all its great business
| interests, its educational, moral and char
table institutions, and the suggestion was
made as to what they were doing to i'm
press themselves upon the community.
Somehow or other il was proposed that the
young men Of Wichita found an institu-
ton or create fund that should grow up
! into the life and manhood Of each and live
after them. Other young men
were consulted, young lawyers, clerks,
accountants, statesmen and students,
and the conclusion was the determination
for an organized movement. W. Z. Stan
ley Esq, who has always been recognized
as an especially successful sympathizer
and adviser of the youth and their plans
was enlisted, and the first public evidence
of this enterprise upon the part of the
young men Of the city will be meeting
this evening at the Presbyterian church to
which all the young men of the city are
urged to come, the seats in the body OF the
church to be held for them
The movement it seems has taken the
direction Of permanent charity, the OBJ
ject: homeless children. There are boys
and girls, innocent, helpless little ones,
who can never know what a father aud
mothers love is, what the tender affection
| of brothers and sisters is, even what a
home is, except as there came TO them in
their lonely lives through the white hands
Of charity and by the grace of
human love and sympathy. So in
| the direction of a permanent friend.
permanent home or something
of that character, to be determined at the
meeting tonight, by the young men Of the
city themselves, is to be inaugurated.
There is to be no collection solicited, but
such an organization is to be completed as
| in after years the gray haired man can
with pride point to and say Il helped to
lay its corner stone in the First Presbyte-
rian church on one Sunday night in the
Autumn of 1891"
The generous pride of charity is as
gracious as it is noble, and we know of
| nothing that we would sooner urge upon
the young men of Wichita than this move
ment which looks to gentle deeds of mercy
that will strengthen their lives with the
prayers of the fatherless and friendless
and bless their memories when gone
"The drying up of a ingle tear has more
OF honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
As we understand it the perfect freedom
of action is in no way to be embarrassed or
trended by older heads who may be present,
and who from the novelty Of the thing,
doubtless will be present in numbers. 1t
is to be organized and managed by young
men whoever might hereafter contribute.
If carried out in the spiritlin which it was
conceived it will be grand, a glorious
thing, another gem for the fair brow of a
city whose accumulatIng attractions holds
the love of her people with a loyalty scarce
ly less than that with which she wins all
strangers.