The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-30
A FRIEND, NOT AIMS.
System Of Associated Charities
Explained.
GOV. M.GRAw LENDS HIS AID.
PLATA Statements Concerning the Aims
as the Mass Mesting.

70 take part in the nesting held under the
auspices of the Bureau of Associated
Charities and board Of friendly visitors.
Every seat was filed. and those present
represented the wealth. culture and all
that was best in the citizenship and So
ciety of this city.
After an orchestral selection by the First
Regiment band Maj. W. Y. Rinehart,
president OF the bureau, said that the OBJ
lect OF the meeting vas TO take counsel
together as to the best methods of reliev-
ing the poor of this cIty. He said that
while the ideals of the Bureau of Associ-
ated Charities were high he recognised
that its means were not perfect, and he
thanked the public and the press for not
criticiSing the officers of the bureau in
their efforts, which, though they had ac-
complished much, left still more to be
done. He then introduced Gov. John III.
MeGraw IS chairman of the meeting.
The governor was greeted with hearty
applause. and after it had subsidized he said:
II desire TO thank the ladies and gentle
men of the Bureau of Associated Charities
for the privilege of presiding over this
meeting anc 10 assure them that l esteem
IL privileges. You have my hearty SYM
patty in the good work in which you are
engaged. l know something of the
embarrassments which surround you.
l bespeak for You the active CO.
operation Of your fellow citizens. l know
OF no time in the long calendar Of the year
so suitabie as this Thanksgiving time
for such q meeting as this. Ii is a season
when want is keenly felt and abundance
gives thanks and rejoices-a time of ali
times when We should open our hearts and
our purses literally and give generously to
those who are in need OF meat and drink
and the means of warmth. The year
that will soon close has brought
misfortune to many. Labor in rhe
factory and mine and on the farm when
obiainable. has not been remuneratiye
and in many of the avenues of labor there
has been total lack OF employment. Thus
II Is that in our daily experiences we are
called upon to listen to rhe pathetic story
of the strong, earnest and ambitious man
who seeks. and frequently seeks in vain.
the opportunity of earning for himself and
family the bare necessities of life. To aid
such men is the chief mission of this
bureau. 1t is noble work and
worthy of the consideration and encour-
agement of all thoughtful people. In the
hurry and worry and hustle of everyday
life many OF Us are too apt to become
wholly absorbed in our own selfish pur-
suits and unmindful of the just claims
which our unfortunate fellow beings have
upon our bounty. Surely tonight none of
US will be unmindful of the fact that
though
sin faith and hope the world will disagree,
Yet all nankind's concern is charity"
Rev. Wallace Nutting then delivered an
earnest and eloquent prayer for Divine
help for the bureau and all VINO are en-
gagged in charitable work.
After selection by .he band the address
of the evening was delivered by Joseph
Shipper, who said that the eve of Thanks
giving day. consecrated throughout our
LAND by tenderest memories of homes and
loved ones, could not be better spent
than in considering our duties and
privileges to the poor, distressed
and needy and the best methods for their
efficient hep by strengthening the MODEST
impulses of our hearts and renewing our
vows of fidelity to duty. He said that
charitable relief is a question as old as the
ages, as unsettled as the sea waves and as
vital as human love. He alluded TO the
work Of John Howard TOR the imprisoned
and that of Dorothy Hicks for the insane,
and asked who were the better friends of
the deaf and dumb and the blind, those
who gave them cold victuais at the
back door or dropped quarter
into the tin box at the street
corner, or DR.. Galiaudette who invented
the sign language, or Dr. Howe who in
vented raised letters. He said that the
principles and methods of helping the dis
tressed and neglected have advanced as a
phase of sociology, keeping pace with the
arts and the sciences. and that the inn
pulsive and indiscriminate dole of aims,
still unwisely maintained by some, should
yield to the far wiser and more efficient
methods of scientific charity, as derived
from Hamburg Elberfeld, London. and
the Eastern cities of this country.
Continuing he said:
And If this subject at all times appea,s
to the MODEST instincts of the human
heart, you well know that now and here
10 especially demands the most serious at
tention and the greatest sacrifices. In adj
dition TO the present season of the year,
the prevailing hard times. arrangement of
business and suspension of industries, the
gap of legal authority between our city
and county officials combine to render the
condition of the poor and distressed Of
Seattle subject of especial sol:eitude, and
wise, generous action on our part From
the foundation OF our city by the heroic
pioneers. Of whom some are still with us.
there has never been lacking in Seattle
uecp ihtrfest IN cnaritaote WORK.
We recognize the noble spirit that
animaies the Womans Relief Society.
srrineing from the ashes of the great tire
OF ls-a. and stu maintaining the Chill
drens Home, We recognize the excellent
work of the Seattle mission and .eamen's
bethel; the Grand Army of the Republic.
the Young Mems Caristian Association.
the Mssons. the Odd Fellows, Knights OF
Pythias. the Knights of Labor and the
Ancient Order of limited Work man "a
well as the many charities dispensed hy
the churches, neighborhoods aud indivld-
nai>, following Ia q constant stream of be
neflcenes. We recognize also the fidelity
OF our public officials of city and county
IN the work of relief
Now, 1t was to unity and promote the
usefulness OF all these agencies. and TO
AID the good people of Seattle to more
iu'ty and efficiently carry out their high
est desires that the Bureau of Associated
hArttIss was organized. From the outset.
tNo wears ago, u dlsc.aimed any rivalry
that would seek IL build Itself up by pull
ing Others down, and il placed itself on a
bEel, bipartisan ,un sec tartan basis To some
III yoa It's history, aims and methods and
Fes"'is are well known, for see before me
some of Its prime organizers aud most
faithful supporters and workers, The NIB
lse, too, has a general knowledge OF the
subject through the unfaslins assist
ahEe W our ctiy newspapers
and Vet ;he fundamental nrircinIes
derived from the experience and results of
the most successful philanthropy OF
modern times are not yet Familiarity
kDosn and applied. IL - hard 10 ts,itv
grasp aud apply even the simple max,ms:
Not aims. but a friend :" self helm Is
'he best hep; The open eve must ac-
company the open hand :" Give the dis
tFessed OF your brain as we'll as money"