St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-18
HOW TO HELP THE NEEDY
WITHOUT CONVERTING THEM INTO
PAUPERS.
NUMEROUS SHORT TALKS.
The First of a Series of Parlor
Conferences = Many Charity
Workers of Protestant and
Catholic PersuasiOnS Talk
Upon Charity Work-How to
Do 1t the Most Effectively.

The first of a series of ''parlor con-
ferenceS" was held last evening at the
residence of Mrs. Pascal Smith, on
Laurel avenue These meetings are
for the purpose of discussing the prob
lem of caring for the poor as presented
in this city, and another of these meet
ings will be held some time in Deem
Der. The work of the associated chari-
ties was discussed by Rev. IL. Il. Hart,
who presided, and in brief address
explained the object of the meetings.
Following Mr.. Harris talk, Miss Hale
sang "The New Kingdom Called
Home"
j. F. Jackson explained triefly his
work which, as secretary of the hoard
of associated charities, brings him in
contact with the poor and needy in his
visits of investigation as hardly any
thing else can. Mr.. Holt, of Minneap-
oils, explained very interestingly the
comprehensiveness Of the work in Min
neapoIis. and with which he has been
SO prominently identified during so
many years. He related some of the
opportunities that had presented them
selves in caring for the fire sufferers, who
are now in the majority of cases COM
Portable. or, at least, not in need, and
again supporting themselves.
Mr.. Morgan, OF the Bethel, re-
viewed the work that he is
doing. and j. ID. O'Brien ex-
planned the workings of that well-known
Catholic institution. the society of st.
Vincent de Paul. Miss Louise Emery,
who is at the head of the industrial
school work of the Peoples church. fol-
lowed with paper OIL How to Help
the Poor Without Material Aid" This,
as Mr.. Egbert explained afterwards, is
getting at the bottom of the problem,
and as Miss Emery's ideas threw great
deal of light ON this knotty question,
they are given. in part.
ut will never be done until the people
who have learned how to use the goods
/ of the material world are sufficiently in
tereSted in their fellow men to study
their social anatomy as the physician
| does that of the body, and, like the
physician, apply the proper remedy.
/ There is something wrong with the man
who in ordinary health cannot maintain
| himself in clean and healthful circum-
| give needed sympathy until those who
need it have gone beyond its reach, de-
! scending from bad to worse, from need
| of friendly aid to absolute beggary.
| The people who work are interested IN
| how to earn living. Those who gain
livelihood from the labor of others are
| equally absorbed in their pursuit. A
| man out of work and out of money finds
| sympathy only from those in similar
Erin dol s4I
when Sought among the better
classes, meets him at last apparently.
How to care for those who are suffering
with the least expense and the greatest
caution is solved by the associated
charities. The next is how to make the
| needy poor self-supportipg. The third
/ is now to keep the poor rom becoming
| needy. This is solved by the principles
resolved in the work of the friendly
visitors. People who are just existing
| need to learn how to live. This training
| and development can only come through
social communication with those who
have learned to live properly. Cleanli-
ness and health must be in the attnos-
| phere. To know how to make the best
| use of little money, to keep house,
| furniture and clothing clean. If they
need aims, they first need a friend. If
I they have wise friend they will not
| long need aims"
These short talks were followed by
| reading by Miss Ford, and then Rev.
john Paul Egbert summed up the ideas
| of all the speakers in brief as follows:
| The question, to that gentleman's
| mind, resolves itself into how to do
away with paupers entirely. He made
very clear distinction between poverty
and pauperism, saying that while pow
| erty was entirely honorable, pauperism
was moral disease, and the sufferers
| therefrom should be whipped out of the
community.
The meeting adjourned, and the next
one will be held some time in Deem
| Der.