The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-30

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an approved system of pubic charity, let
imagine that merely organization will
bring about the desired results.
Make channels for the streams of love
Waere they may broadly run,
And love hiss overlooking ssreams
To MI them syery enc.
For We must share If we would keep
The blessing from above.
Ceasing TO give we cease TO have.
Such 10 the Law OF love.
To our supporters and co-workers the
bureau would say: There are no obstacles
that will not 60 down before the ire and
charge OF enthusiasm, ciearness and de-
cision; such qualities cannot be diverted
from the path of duty. and when they
take possession of the soul it viii not be
recreant to humanity. In short, such al
truism is life. not of fiesting purposes,
not transient sentiment, but auench-
less. divine flame OF philanthropy.
Melvin G. Winstock was introduced and
said il was q pleasure to him that q
Hebrew of the Hebrews like himself could
stand in the pulpit of Christian church
and talk of charity. when he considered
that only few centuries ago the ancestors
of those about him would have taken
the greatest pleasure in roasting his
have been glad to reciprocate If they
had had the power. He said that the
bureau was instituted to kill of profess
sional 5eggary, and he told story he had
heard about the beggars of London hav-
ing organized themselves. gathered and
published lists and directories of tender
hearted and sympathetic people. with cx-
plantations of the best ways of touching the
h<n f.<Fz l. l.
had gone into the business of begging with
capital of some $25,oo0 and had reaped
big profits ont of the venture. He also retold
the oft-repeated story about the tranlps of
this country putting marks and signals on
the gateposts of the people they had solic-
tied for handouts" these marks indicat-
ing the sort of treatment to be expected
by succeeding tranps at that house. He
then told how a tramp might go from one
charitable organization in this city to an
other and get money from each
and leave town with more money
than Gov. McGraw or himself could raise.
He said the society was poorly named and
suggested the title OF Humanity's Clearing
House as better one. He then likened
the bureau to the clearing house in which
banks of hope. love and money ex-
changed checks with banks of de-
spair, hunger and idleness. After
stating that there was nothing
better in this world than money except
love. he said that the work of the bureau
brings about new desire for the religion
of the future. The religion of the past
had been God, heaven. hereafter; but that
of the future would be man, earth. now.
Mrs. G. A. c. Rochester then sang Come
Unto Me All Ye that Labor and are Heavy
Laden" by Handel, accompanied on the
organ by Prof L. A. Darling. Her beau
tlful rendering was heartily applauded.
Rev. ID. {. Garrett was then introduced.
and said that his text was the same as
that once chosen by Sidney Smith. which
was: He that hath pity upon the poor
lendeth to the Lord; now if you are salts
fed with the security put up" He pre-
faced his remarks by telling story about
a c!ose-6sted rich man in Chicago who had
never been known to give a cent TO any
charity but had somehow taken q notion
to present the city a statue for one of her
parks 1t cost about $50 900, and one day
a friend asked him what he would take
for the statue. He replied that he did not
own il; that it was the city's but that If
he did own it there was not money enough
in the city to buy it. because when
he heard people admiring the statue il
male his heart swell to think that he had
caused so much pleasure. His friend re-
membered that he had reason to consider
il a good investment. Mr.. Garrett wished
that more of the mortgage men in the
world would similarly regard such invest
ments. He then explained what the bureau
needed money for. He said il was not
primarily for the bodily relief of the poor.
1t is not TO go for food or other aid It is
not the object, of the bureau to dispense
aims. though the board of friendly visitors
does do so. The bureau is simply
place where a record is kept of the
aid given to people. He considered
it the duty OF the county COM
missioners to take care of the poor
and not the duty of the city. and said that
there was something wrong in the admin
istration of relief, and he believed il was
due to there not being paid overseer of
the poor, who could give the matter his
whole and undivided attention. He said
people should not give aims to those who
asked them for it. but should send the
applicant to the bureau for aid. and the
bureau, after investigating his needs,
would send him to the county commits
siopers, If he was worthy. He said the
bureau had not received the encourage
ment in this city which IL should have re-
ceived. and chat the system had been a
success wherever il had been tested and
given the hearty support OF the citizens.
While Mr.. Garrett was talking cards
were passed around among the audience
on which subscribers promised to pay a
certain sum per month toward supporting
the bureau, and after they were collected |
Mrs Rochester sang The New Kingdom"
with piano accompaniment The enter |
taiament then concluded with the audi |
enee singing ''America-"