The San Francisco call., 1896-07-28

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We are looked upon sometimes as
bat It Is 3 little wrong.
W arden Hale will bear me out when
say that Sunday week we had g most
beautiful meeting az San Quentin Jail Il
was one OF the best audiences / ever
looked upon l thought OF the thousands
these people represent = people OF the
lowest and most hopeless classes In our
social work We have 500 institutions,
By over 100 officers. We find
noble men and women in the army who
ask Tor no wages, but say, We don't care
Ior the dollars; give Us the same food and
the same shelter as the poor people We go
70 help
ave shelter night by night some 1000
people In England the cost Of our social
works last year was $3.50 600, ard out OF
tnat the poor people contributed $3.50, COO
We might have done even better than
that, but We have made II : rule never TO
underse1 the regular market We have
supplied l. 500 coo meals during one year
and have furnished beds 10 l, 10000 We
have dealt with the worst classes, men
who seemed TO have no hope except tne
grave or the prison OF these 50 per cent
have been brought to lives OF usefulness
The Salvation Army is nothing II II Is
not practicable. Already the army here
has shelter for men capsble OF accom-
modating 800 and s Eomen's shelter with
accommodations for nifty We nave
home for poor friendless girls and We
have chiIdren's home with secom mmods-
tions for poor friendless waits l feel that
there sre some things more We believe
IN having 8 City colony for the sake or
helping the poor in the City, but We do
not feel that It Is possible 70 deal properly
with these City poor unless We have also
farm colony.
1--WE want 1000 acrss somewhere IN reach
OF San Francisco. We feel that il Is on
the land and out Of the land that the
problem Of our poverty Is 10 be solved
We have burnt our fingers several times
irving 70 start farm OF that kind without
capital. I an afraid We cannot enter upon
such sn enterprise with less than $1,000
There Is another point which 1 consider
OF greater i'm port2nce, and II this meeting
results IN nothing else 1 hope i VIII be
the initiation OF 8 movement for home
for released criminals / would appeal TO
you tonight that San Francisco shall have
home where released prisoners can get
fresh start IN life
I'VE are hoping soon 70 start SAWS
ton Army hospital where We can aid the
poor Who are III at small cost
The commander concluded with 8
eulogy OF San Francisco and q glorious
account of what he expected OF this City
IL the future
= -
J. Oliver presented 3 resolution, which
was promptly seconded, spplaudiDg the
projects of beneVolence outlined n the
SaIVstionist officers address
Il offer sa amendment TO that reSolu-
tion, said George Speed. rising in the gal
lery, and IN e clear. penetrating voice he
read the following amendment:
EHEzEAs, Il is evident 70 the thinking people
ofIhis continuity thstIE IS the desire ofrhe sal
rHrrOl Ar1lT 70 FlEcrrDlS o. govern
msut; and whereas. IL Is evidently scheme
foiSted on the worthy unemployed 20 give
sstiOl, save that or 'tfood, shelter and raj
usut" n; and whereas. IL IS reasonable and
probable that after = seasons work tue unem-
pl0yed would practically be IN the same cond[
hon that they were when they commenced
said labor, aud whereas, We Gre.rC!d IN Holy
Writ That the lsborer Is worthy OF his hire"
+ We hsve looked for II II vain N his scheme;
I therefore De it
ResoIusd, Thst We, the unemployed citizens
1 OF san Francisco s1d its immediate vicinity,
/ do hereby protest sgsi1st any religious bo1E
/ IN general and the Salvation Army IN perueu-
I lar, handling the Affairs OF the unemp ploved
I and assuming the functions OF government %
I the discomfort OF tne many therefore De II
( EssoIrsG That We, the aforesaid uneu ployed
/ do amend that Il Is the sense OF this meeuu
! that the contemplated relief work Be placed
/ where IL rightly belongs, IN the hands CT the
Labor Commissioner OF the State OF CsIifore Is
For g moment silence rsigned. being
roar, friends and opponents OF the first
motion trying 70 drown each other
/ voices BY shouting themselves hoarSe-
.Amendmentr' cried some ''Origina
motion - thuHdsred others; and matters
we're reaching rather rempestuOUs stage
/ vnen Mr. Craig. his face very pale, liter
ally beloved forEh the words:
The chair will decide that the amend
rnent Is out OF order. Those IN favor o
the original motion viii please say aye
A deafening volume Of ayes, noes. hisses
and grosns surEed through the building
Contrary. noW The words resoundeC
amid the cIamor ike an explosion o
dynamite and were greeted by chorus o
yelIs indescribable IN It's Wild intensity.
THE chair decides that the ayes nav
IT" vocIferatei Mr.. Craig, and at 3 siEr
from the commander the musicians struel
up America" N tones so loud sha
further shouting was IN vain.
As the audience was leaving the hal
some one shouted that there would De
meeting OF the friends of the smendnen
upon the steps Of the MINT building. Be
fore the hail had been fairly cleared D. N
Wiley prominent socialist, had taEen
position on the steps, and was addressing
between 800 and 400 sympaEhize-s. II
denounced the Salvation Army as 81
organized band of beggars, which va
seeking TO usUrp the functions OF govern
meut-
No system, he srgued, could be Of bene
1t TO the unemployed which contemplated
giving the Ia borer less than ne produced
/ The poor-farm proposition advanced b.
Booth-Tucker, he maintained, was simply
8 scheme for sggrzndiZIng and enrichin;
the Salvation Army. ss the Izborer could
not possibly consume all he produced from
the soil, and the army would get the sur
plus
George Speed. the author Of the amend
neut, made brief but very spirite,
speech II support OF the propositions ad
vsnced IN the document He called upol
the lsborers to be alive 70 their interest
at the polls and not rely upon the Chart,
OF such an organization as that repre-
sented By BOoth-TUcker.
Ross Martin, another prominent so
cialist and labor leader, was called for AM
made an impessioned speech He de
nounced the Salvation Army IS insincer
N It's religion and accused II of hsFin,
sinister motives IN its efforts 20 aid tn
unemployed The only hope OF tn
Eorkingman, he declared, lay in tn
Socialist Labor party, and he warned hi
hearers not 20 be led astrsy by the excite
nent OF the bass drum. the sentimentslit,
awakened oy psrading lzssies or IN
j crocodile tears or hypOcrisy