The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-23
FRIENDS OF THE POOR DINE
ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE LEGAL
AID SOCIETY.

4 6OOlEIIs
me werh or the orEaniratien warmly Praised
~ Lnwyers ard D~ivines-Menbers Suggest
ways In which Hts Scope Can Ne EnInrEed
About 200 member Of the Legal Aid Society
dined at Delmonico's last night and listened TO
words OF praise Of tho work Of the organization
from members Of tho legal profession, repro
Bentatives Of the church. and others. The Rev.
DR.. Gottheil made a stirring address. pleading
the cause Of the Jews at homo and abroad, and
thanking the members Of the society for the i'm.
partial way in which thor work had been done.
Rishop Potter, Seth Low. Joseph Larocquo,
Frederick w. Hollis, Joseph II. Hendrix. and Q.
O. Beaman also spoke.
President Arthur Won Briesen presided, and
among others present were Isaac N. Seligman,
Louis windmueller. Edward Lauterbach. Carl
Schurz, Jacob H. Schiff. Magistrate Cornell,
ana Civil Justice Roesch.
President Won Briesen in his opening speech
said that during tho twenty-five years that the
society had been In existence nearly 10000 poor
and afflicted had sought and found relief
through its fundamentally
"This means, he said. THAT nearly 10000
Of tho real poor Of New York have been
wronged by as many employers, 1t being clear
that for every wrong done there is a wrong
doer. The society 10 anxious to extend It's work
beyond the specific assistance rendered to In
dlvidual clients. Thus. for example. we have
, found that certain ministers here In our borough
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Of granting divorces which. under our law. have
the credpious have been received as bind.
ing. and through which, therefore, an
vincent ys Of e ml'G 4s.d hSs a SsSe ssGSFh' II about sSa
out Z trial: Is suddenly sspprlssd oftho fac. that
that the care of the children has been put to her
door The society should have the power and
Its officers SHOULD have the time to combat OWLS
MI; Hollis. who spoke next, said that manya
for want Of ono friend, FOR want OF one Kind
word. Tho call to feod the hungry and clothe
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Justice to the needy. and to plead the cause OF
Relation Of the Bar to tho Legal Aid Society"
and then DIR: Gottheil was introduced. He said:
misery to DO without home. but | verify Believe
that worse and more painful is the feel.
i Ssss.u Ct The he gRS SSn's m sse T mSney feels Is f s~1
his rights, or the, influence to secure
them. III, he j.. must submit to .h wrong; This This
classes where 1t prevails the people are ready to
one whore all men shali be equal. The work Of
this society, to make these men feel that their
right Fl t Gs%pG fro SS my lnyrl oES eRSe; Is C nS with 0 the
| orphan and the outcast what their feelings arc.
RRsfaePs 1 MSo hs ~ho be sahe sxp % 3 from aGn r. Ra pGor
the great wrong don't, them abroad. They have
their shortcomings, but they are good fathers
ft human beings to bo good citizens OF a free
rover in dark Russia the word America is to
them what Palestine meant % my fathers: They
prayer for this country's prosperity. am sorry
to read Of the adoption Of a biz to restrict i'm.
t R, VIII come ike hs Il second e % os a1al tn my a messages ssSp!s
Of horror to them. for they hope Tor a future
here; The iron heel Of the Russian tyrant has
crushed all ambition for themselves out OF them,
but their hopes, are for their children and are
based on America,
that land from which the first message of lib.
erty came. and take up the case of q Prosecuted
Of Off h snssS MgG rs sstss WITH Hts t tha iu race which iae has la.t the
same chance ius to to the poor as to the . rich Ih g., God BE b
apring of England. the United States OF America.
In the victory and enthusiasm Of the Anglo;
Saxon asnpr rae lies the hopes of the future of all
Bishop Potter. who spoke next. said:
DO commercial I surprised a friend recently
falling in my, own profession. BY stating that 1
did. II is q characteristic OF the times In which
We 1--we. There is a tendency toward the spirit
that breeds an interest in profit rather than in
Those who venture to read the London Spec
tdtor may have noticed q recent criticism OF
certain ecclesiastics. You are all aware of the
great strike of the engineers going on. at pres
or wrong, it is heroic: The, Archbishop
OF Canterbury and tho Archbishop of York
set q form Of prayer to be used In the churches,
in connection with tho sufferings caused by tho
strike. The Spectator took exception to this
prayer. 1t said that it was not the office of men
concerned in the spiritual welfare Of their fell
lows to bother with the physical comforts.
Right or wrong. It said, the thing to BIO urged
was Justice. =
Just critlcism. Tho thing most to DO desired in
ers 10 that each side get its rights. and when
tho wage Garner cannot secure righteous deal
ing It 10 proper that some one should step in and
"it is q splendid thing that in our Greater
New York there should be such n body of men
AZ this banded together for the purpose OF So
curing for tho weakest, tho most obscure. and
tho least cared for these rights to which they
are entitled. To come into the atmosphere of
the Legal Afd Society exhibits to the citizens Of
New York what is the chiyalry of the nine
teenth century,
"This society exists in the interests Of all
that 10 most civilized. People ask why those
you seek to aid suffer. 1t 10 because many of
them do not know their rights. They suf-
fer not alone from ignorance, but from
that infrmity of human nature that leads the
strong man should exert his strength, but it
for his brothers."