The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-03

thon - practical charity the world over. every
ana x.ns person must know that pauperism
have no csrsa and all shsir direct progeny
so serious. Z. nI IT,, encourazement 80 apparent:
.norslSlaass ana in this fact lies the grave re-
oficisi :. n upon those who. in individual OF
cn. misery IL is their osteusiSle purpose 10
s surely charity IA not the encnurara-
covs COW. anu perpetuaton Of dependence, of moral
sinn ~ lie, OF imoecility! II cannot be its mis-
g., on 20 extlnguish selfrespect in the ob;scts OF
IN ~ Urnssoisnes, nor to rob or impovsrish them
sats : 80 ays 40 measure Of aims can compen-
'sIiy bestowed or uucarned pisfanca
r,i sne matter OF remedying the evils of aims
n. ,a tne dimcusy 10 not 30 much in reaching
a. ,eAson OF lndiscrinninate givers but para
ooA though IL be, in reaching thar hearts in
Sossing the actual indifference of such to the
fsr Pr r.. claims OF charity upon them They pre-
r.. ~ ny way. IL IL 80 much easier TO give in
sIAt form than the other: easier than 10 devote
, personai Interest, patient study, than to give
seIs. hs sen a. counselor. friend and helper to
a snsrs would still be room for DELIBERATE dis.
~. s.ni III treatment The self-respecs ana cour-
Ts, % even dog are elements iu training and
d aIi But III the treatment Of being,
ueinauent or dependent, whose essential life ia
no' pn!sicai, should We attempt imply to patch
~ ,e sneii or tenement OF that life, and leave
SShas.acter, the tenant, to hobble and starye?
cnouio not our direct purpose be to heal ant, re.
sio oIe tue occupant, to Inspire him, not by words
e1tasnc OK wisely compel him to make his own
ssuf Independence Is the blessed prerogatiye
~ vssfy mortal, the basis of all righteous ac-
SousnIaoiiity Let US rob no one OF Ii, for in SO
Vo.ug we leave nothing.
w. Al the ghouis Of ancient and modern su-
tssasHtion nave more terrified men aud women
n snaa .ne innocent term, science-that other
- a. .oI ofgani1afion and principle as opposed
20 aisorder and enpiricism. We NAV agree that
sne heaEt OF thoroughbred metaphysieian,
r, uIe ano simple, sis hard but it is manifest
snAt our methods of education, home discip-
me, politics, business, charity, and indeed our
IeHgion, all that concerns our acti re existence
are quietly but rapidly conforming to science
al AZ science, organized knowledge. truth, ma
.ufs or whatever name we will, Ii is the higher
sws-uods agency-the demand and the dis
sinction OF the age.
hampered in the past with . one-sded
senoiarsnin, the pulpit yields and the civilized
word Is beg inning to see that il is not the re-
nenon on truth that cannot stand-whose ex-
Ponents may not reflect the light of truth from
whatever source; that He cannot be more the
1oa OF love than Of truth-of all truth.
scieutihe charity! Contradictory termsl
impossible! That would be masculine charity,''
were the EXPLANATIONS OF many barely dozen
years ago. when charity organs ration societies
began their benefcient infiuence-a work that
now embraces luo central associations in cities
ana towns that contain probaby e0 00o ,OO0'of our
popuiation- Two hundred OF such societies are
scattered throughout foseign lands. Ii was 10
combat or rather supplant "mascuiine charity
mere stomach and rags charty-cruel, soul
oignting charity. charity so-caIled, that the
piihcipie OF charitable reciprocity cooper
a.ion came iortn. II came to invest the aims
giving spirit with larger love and a brain: with
eyes; with more painstaking. tender. unselfs
aeiicate, personal devotion! to make it power
LOT good, instead OF an engine of mischief. 1t
came TO supply what 80 many at first feared 1t
would take away
What is its status today? Take New York
city Tor example. II has so commended itself
20 the churches and to all other agencies of
form and relief, hsA become go inclusive, that
snsy snnSnnee: Our cooperative gains for
want OF new material must row be Intensive
rather than extensive No more prejudice to
conquer! CHARITY organization Is no longer
aelensive Ihey have stotal cooperative COM
bination OF $50 organizations. including 81 So
cietes for general relief, Q national {foreignl
relief societies Sc medical charities the depart
institutions for indoor relief and 2Os churches,
counting the Roman Catholic as q single body.
Inc churches given are: Episcopal, 81; Presby.
terrain, 49, Methodist, 26; Lutheran, 6; Baptist,
Is; Dutch Reformed. Is; Congregational 4: Uni
tartan, 3; Universallst, 4: sundry Protestant
churches and chapeis, Is: conferences of sc.
sides the above several thousand private fam
lilies exchange Information through it
During the ten years of its work the New York
Society has treated probably 10000 persons in
volved in actual or simulated dependence, and
has been the direct means of making 100 900
families self-supporting and decent that were
mates such conversions worth to the public
$500 each per annum, showing herein gain to
the community of 100000
In Boston they have over 800 friendly visitors
--one to every five or six benefciaries. Think
of being able to say of a metropolis like the
capital of New England: There are no worthy
poor unsupplied with friend and all the ma
terial help such may need: there are no street
beggars; 'roundep' aud the vicious are set to
work or are punished as evi-doers; there Is
comparatively no overlapping of relief. and all
within their reach are being served in the most
helpful and permanent form. Their system en-
ables them TO know the conditions of their
field from center to circumference. They are
retaining hosts OF children and have turned
thousands OF men and women into seif-respect-
ing and seif-sustaining creatures. who were
chronic dependents recruiting the ranks and
swelling the volume of crime.
1t needs emphasis, perhaps, that the functions
OF this organization can in no way interfere
with the independent existence, funds or legiti-
mate work of any other society, whether asso-
ciated with IL or not There is no publicity in
its plan, nor any in its dealings with the worthy
poor.
Sympathy and personal work are its most in-
dispensible agencies, its beneficaries being
treated with "a view to their permanent good, as
beings of intelligence and spiritual endow-
ments. Ia the doing of the work the utmost
care is always observed to avoid sectaranisui. or
what we may term technical religion. The bu-
reau itself. while touching every s0urce OF sup
ply through its officers, delegates and friendly
visitors, dispenses no direct relief in aims IL
is not, nor does il propose TO, become in any
sense or degree an additional relief-giving So
ciety.
IL IN H.