The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-16
TREND OF THOUGHT.
Talk on MOaern Ideas to Uni
yersity Students.
METHODS or THE NEW ORDER.
ersry Societies Of the ststs
CniveYsfsy.


The ada.es. beso.s the ii,e.a.y societies OF the
tive aadieae~ in fiymoufn church last night by
N<lvsa q. winssocx. deputy prosecuting a.tor-
ney Hss subject was: 'sThs Trend Of Modern
Thought" fhc speaker. who II Jew. said in
opening ira. be regarded his invitation not 90
Mueh ~ . psssonal compliment a. m honor 10
his RACE and tribute 20 the spirit OF iioersisty
which distinguished the time ana the COM
murisy. Ia his discourse proper thu speakers
effort wsa FIRST devoted 20 the question Of moaey
and the problem Of vast fortunes Oaiy fools
and dcmAgogres cried ont against mere money:
wise men condemned its abuse he said Mill
ionaises wase pictured - building great coli
1eges, endowinK technical Institutes aad erect
ing great stone churches where such gifts are TO
b. secu and admired, yet grinding down and
underpAying working girsa, driving mousdess 10
desperation, ssyskes and crime. wreckiug rail-
roads. cheating the government and shameiessly
buying and pross.futing legislative bodies in
order that the maases might be securely en-
shaved uuaes the color and authority Of law.
The conclusion OF the apsaker wss that wealth
Was = means TO m end and that rfca men were
but trustees fos iss proper and Legitimate use.
Speaking OF religions, Mr.. Winstock said that
today there was TOO much church and too little
religion Notwithstanding the force af eonccn-
tYstcd effort the charches were wasting valu-
able energies In Keeping up differences THAI
ought 10 have died 4 century ago. In Seattle.
with more than sixty churches. there were no
freq bath places except in jail. and but few
places to which men may ~ and read good
books free. and thoss inadequate lie SAIL that
hungry men were fed 1T saloons oaly and that
there was not single riace 70 which man
might 70 sud apply for work and find that q
sincere and systematic effort was being made to
IA kfFxya n4r.g r
cell sustaining. Yet, said the speaker. houses
are Continually erected In which men meet to
worship aud praise God. while thousands OF His
:. children ars pcrnittcd to rot AID die BY the
wayside.
In his discussion OF the question oil public
education the lecturer drew his inspiration
largely from the opinions OF President Elio. OF
Harvard university. Despite the expenditure
OF vast sums of state money. the common
schools OF the country, he said, have not mado
che pcopsc pufcr or happier, have not made
nore cordial the relations Of labor and capital.
Hor reduced crime no. abolished poverty. Tho
ZEAL trouble lay in the fac: that Instructors had
ignored the matter OF character building TO a
larss extent, having apparently forgotten that
smarsness aione could not save nation from
becoming corrupt and vic.
Impure municipal politics. according 10 tho
speaker, was the source OF all the evils which
now injected the governing OF the people. lie
Wesfcrn towns, but referred 10 New York and
other great cities. There, ne said, ricn men had
been permitted to erect tenement house, and
low lodging places into which thousands
swarmed to breed filth. disease and crime.
These pest holes were the starting points OF
corruption. No citizen over tho age of II, he
said. conId shisk responsibility for this coudl-
tion oil affairs.
society" was arraisned and its extravagance
aud frivosisics dealt with mcrciicssiy. The an.
dieucc was reminded that tho senscless cx-
travagsnce Of rank and wealth. aud the misery,
starvation and oppression OF the poor, meeting
together, paved the way for the 'Reiga of
Terror In France. Tho people even in free
America. he said, had no right 20 bellows that,
because materially prosperous. they would be
exempt from the iogicsi consequences o: their
acts.
The speaker then turned his attention to what
no called tho remedial part of his address. Tho
recreation OF the world could be accomplished
through exissing religious and political or
Eanizatons.. The churches would DO tho great.
est work because they were In possession OF tho
most powerful organization. Less time must no
spcnt in formal worship aud more In man hunt
ing aud man saving. According to n writer In
the March Arena the religion Of the future will
not be ICED, heaven, hereafter, but ''man.
earth, now. II will bar no mans God, but
will promote the highcst love to Gods man. and
who made the love OF maa tho key note o. bis
career
Public school education should come to mean
the systematic training of all children in the
duties of life Children must lie laugh; from
the kindergarten IN that intelligence is n wea-
pom Ia 10 used Tor honorable purposes only.
Less attention must be paid 10 precedent aud
more TO development Of the progressive rea.
sonug powers
Men OF wealth shomid reeognlxe their trustee
ship ny considering what may be done to I'M
prove the conditions of the " no mus, do
manual toll for their daily bread. This was
shawn not only TO be Just and right. bat profit
able from material point % view. hy the re-
suits al the experiments Of the ksupps at their
great gun foundry In Essen. Gegmany. Mr.
etastnsk then addressed some very plain
words 10 the industrial masses He said tha:
wars.ngmau shogid net wait to be pattesi Oh
tasir hscAs nor should they feel tina: they
needed 10 lie pleaded with to do right, that they
shoalf educate, nplita cleanse themselves. AMI
sfonid Yield the sasae respect 10 the rights of
Others that thes exact tor themselves.
higS tFtbato was paid tn tho press as a
factor ia the future of iha world tor the reason
that il - tesferaiiag tee weird. aunihslstag the
false in religion. III law aad government pro-
1aosiug an enlightened public sentiment aui
Bringing out GcmI.na prosperity and hsprl.
sffss unafeatnei ot before. ia concluding tue
speaAef congratulated ali upea the umiyarsi,y's
bright Future prospects. Hts conclusion was
fssfked by enthusiastic applause which was
followed by naauy congratulations sipom the cad
OF the nacssiag. Mr.. Frank Atkins thea sang
1.-THE Three t,sensasFs." An interesting iitiis
cersaspay then followed IN the preseafat on To
f1he Avs gsadusses ri tSts yeat OF certificates OF
honorable conduct aud mera he.sAip in the two
Literary societies. The presentation va, made
ty I Y MgE&gnS IAt, raHFluss~,t ths. sx,.a.t