, 1891-11-10
THE UNITY CLUB.
Subjects Discussed at Last Nights
Meeting
Fhe Meetings Will be Held Fort
nightly Hereafter -PosSibiIi-
ties OF the future Of
Electricity.

The Unity Club held an interesting meet
ing last evening at the residence Of Mrs.
Annie MacLeay, on Water street. The
report Of the committee ON plan of con-
Quoting the future meetings and paper
by Geo. M. Savage were the features of
the evening. The committee report
which was unanimously adopted was that
an executive committee Of three members
should have full charge of all programs for
exercises. that these exercises should be of
varied character, that no business should
be discussed or acted on except at special
meetings called for that purpose, and that
all restrictions hitherto made in regard to
the work of arranging for exercises were to
be rescinded and that the regular meetings
were to be fortnightly instead of weekly.
Mr.. Savage's paper on The Increase Of
Crime, Its Course and Cure, was a strong
and clear presentation, and the club un-
animously voted to invite him to read it
at Tacoma hall next Sunday evening,
Other interesting features of the evening
We're solo to her own Accompaniment by
Miss May BLY,, and suggestive paper on a
new feature of electrical appliance for the
purpose of facilitating the Welding of met
dis Ill cases WuGIC IL WOulO NC uGSlI6u W
push the heat around" so as to Concen-
trate it at one point, leaving other points
cool, The Malthusian theory of popula-
ton and subsistence as criticised by Henry,
was also pre2ented tothe attention Of the
club by member. That population in
ereases more rapidly than the means Of
subsistence, as Rev Nautilus held, is
shown from facts and analogy to be delu-
sion. England's population is four times
as dense as that of China. Saxony and
Belgium are the most densely populated
districts on the globe, England standing
third, but in these countries the food sup
ply seems to be more abundant than in
many other places ofsparser population.
On the assumption of Rev. Nautilus that
population doubles every twenty-five
years, as long as the food supply
is sufficient the descendants of ConfuGius
would number the perfectly unimaginable
sum of $4,000, for Confucius lived 2,150
years ago and his descendants have always
been an honOred and favored class in
China, and it is hardly to be supposed that
the searcito of food was a check to their re-
production. Ii Nautilus is right, why is it
royal families die out and peerages lapse ?
Man increases the amount of his food by
directing the reproductive forces of nature.
Hence, the law which NAV hold for ami
mails does not apply to him. Steam en-
gines represent force equal to that repre-
sented by the manual labor of three times
the number of the people on the GLOBE and
he has only begun to use electricity. The
time will come when through its agency
and that of chemical forces, the food ele-
ments contained in bread and beef steak
will be made from clay and sunlight direct
Mr.. James in reply to a question said, he
understood that quinine had already been
made from the elementary principles. II
medicine, why not food? The problem is
not that an abundance Of food is lacking Of
is apt to be, the social and economic prob
lem of today is the equitable distribution
of that which is produced.
The next meeting of the club will be al
the residence of Mrs. Anna MacLeay, or
Water street, in two weeks,