The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-18
WHICH OPENED AT RED WING
YESTERDAY.
BLUFF CITY's WARM WELCOME
Is Cordially Reeiprocated by the
Members of the State Organi-
zation In Speeches.

with flowers and the American flags.
The band from the state training
school furnished the music. Mayor A.
P. Pierce delivered an address of well
come, saying in substance:
mot often have the citizens of Red
Wing enjoyed so distinguished an
honor as they do today. Very few,
perhaps, know to whom we are in
debted for it. 1t is to ex-Gov. Lucius
f. Hubbard, during whose term of Of
flee, and largely through whose in
strumentality, the state board Of cor
rections and charities was organized.
Red Wing, as his home, it seems to
me, is a very proper place to hold such
conference, and in the name of the
citizens. I bid you, the delegates, well
come. Here you will find the state
training school and the Goodhue coun-
ty almshouse, both model institutions
of their kind"
Ex-Gov. Hubbard also welcomed the
delegates no less cordially than had
Mayor Pierce. Il am glad,' he said,
ito have the opportunity to extend a
word of greeting to worthy men and
women gathered in a worthy cause.
You Go not come here to seek selfish
interests, mutual advantage, or gain,
but rather to sacrifice your own per-
sonal interests while you work to de-
wise measures for the promotion of the
condition of unfortunate fellow beings.
In SO far, perhaps, as this service may
tend to elevate the citizens of our
state, there are incidental advantages
to us all, but the work you are doing
must be universally recognized as work
for the welfare Of mankind I well
come you to our city and to our in
stitutions, in which I know you will
find much to interest you"
Supt. w. E. Lee, Of the state reform
atory Of st. Cloud, who is president Of
the state conference, responded to the
addresses Of welcome. He said:
ut is true that we are not among
strangers. We have met representa-
tives of Red Wing and Goodhue county
in public meetings in the capitol and
elsewhere, and have formed a favora-
BILE impression Of them, which is but
heightened by the warmth Of your re-
ception here today I am glad your
state institution here has been referred
to- I believe much Of the evil existing
the neglect of the youth of our
nation, and one object Of our meet
ing is to work for the interest of this
class. We are glad TO be with you"
Mr.. Lee then read his annual address,
In the evening Alexander Johnson,
the president of the National Confer
ence of Corrections and Charities, spoke
on the Organization of Charities in
Cities" He said:
The need of wisdom in charity is a perennial
one, and began with the dawn of mans sym
pathy for and help of his suffering brethren.
But the necessity Of what we now call or
ganization of charity was not recognized until
century ago, when Herr Won Voght, a mer-
chant Of Hamburg, in period of uncommon
distress and business depression, first con-
ceived the notion of associated effort of
such kind that all the benevolent agencies
of city should work in harmony together
to common end.
Beginning in Hamburg the history of the
movement has been extremely interesting
Like all human activity it has been rythmical,
it has had times of ebb and flow. Waves
of charitable energy have succeeded each
other, and have left behind them societies
organized at high-water mark to show how
far the advance has been. The well-known
Elberfeld society marks of these move
ments and the wave that rose then reached
our shores about 1910 or 1850 The numerous
provident associations, societies for the i'm
and aid societies, that were organized about
the middle Of the century and still survive,
are the beach marks of the Elberfeld wave.
The numerous and excellent societies of st.
Vincent de Paul had their stimulus, through
the great Ozanam, from the earlier move
ment which reached France about 1905. These
societies, or similar ones, were organized in
most of the large cities of this country
and their original constitutions are emphatic
concerning what we now call scientific char
ity, its fundamental principles were clearly
nPrpGiVed nv them and there have hnn-1
new ideas of any Importance added later.
Twenty-Five years after the ElberfeId wave
came one that had its first upheaval in Lon
don and brought us the phrase Charity Or
ganiZatien society. Because we had by this
time many more cities where the, need of
this work existed than earlier. and also be-
cause we like the newer phrase, this title or
its sister of Associated Charities, has been
adopted by an ever-increasing number of or
CARNATIONS, having in common the general
principles of modern benevolence, chief Of
which are investigation of all cases and CO.
operation Of all agencies, but differing from
each other in practical work quite as much
they differ from the provident associations
and relief unions which preceded them.
Although it is true that every community
has it's special needs and its peculiar condi-
TONS and differs from every other, just
men and women differ from other men and
women, yet we must not forget that numerous
are the points of difference there are still
more POINTS Of resemblance. Every coat will
not tit every back, yet every coat must have
its component parts that are practically iden-
teal. So we have come to recognize a gen
eral type Of society for wise charity that
suits most cities and villages, and that only
needs minor adjustment to local conditions,
constant good faith and good temper and the
application of the Golden Rule among soci-
cites as we'll as individuals, to be a blessing
and help to each community adopting it,
Perhaps the best definition of organized
charities is the simple one that it is the
application of business methods to the work
Of helping the suffering. Only one method
OF business is left out, competition between
rival agencies is eliminated. But the care
full study of the work to be done, the adupta-
ton of means to a clearly defined end and the
accurate record of all that has been trans
acted, which mark the successful man in
every kind of business, are the conditions
of success here.
1t is very evident that before we can do
business must have something to do it
with. So with our charity business. We
cannot make business Of what does not
exist. We must have charity the divine
love for the suffering and the sorrowfuI in
our hearts in large measure, or the results
will not be beneficial. No. more grotesque
was ever perpetrated than by the man who
called the Associated Charities a society for
the suppression of beneyolence. No doubt we
do suppress, or try to do it, SINE very foolish.
we encourage a far more liberal and loving
gift than we try to suppress. The petty
dole. just enough to keep the recipient from
starving and also from working-we insist
must be replaced by adequate help, perhaps
money, perhaps clothing, perhaps food but
In all cases and every case the best and
wisest help. Help that II possible shall have
a permanent effect, and not be done today
SO as to make sure 1t must be repeated tomor-
row. We do denounce the individual gift to
the tramp or to the beggar, without knowl-
edge and without effect. But we ask the
individual to give far greater gift, that of
practical personal service in the cause Of pee-
pie. poor brothers and sisters of ours, whom
we know and have studied and believe we
have wise plan for their permanent benefit