The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-13
IT is NOT PRACTICABLE
Time Is Not Yet Ripe for the Y.
M. @. A. Project.
HAVE DECIDED TO WAIT
BY Majority OF One 1t Was Decided to
Let the Matter Rest Until Field
Secretary Can Look the
Ground Over.

BY majority of one part of small
audience of Butte Christians yesterday
afternoon voted the Y M. C. A. move
ment in this city into statu quo, there to
| remain until an inspira ton seizes the
community. The matter OF Y. M. c. A.
organization in Butte is now in the
hands of board of control whose
members are disposed to await the ar
rival from the East of some man who
vii! take unto himself the task of ex-
planning to the people Of Butte the
needs Of such an organization in this
city. The board Is not in favor of
Butte citizens going ahead right now
and making an effort to organize, be-
lieving them to be incapable of carrying
the proposition to successful issue.
1t believes that an outsider can come
here and create better quality of en-
| thusiasm than can be created by home
| talent. 1t favors holding the matter
in allegiance until such time when an
international field secretary Of the Y.
M. c. A. can come to Butte and decide
| the question of organization, when he
can look the field over and determine
| whether or not Butte wants a Y. M. c.
| A. In brief the board does not think
| that organization to-day is practicable
The meeting yesterday was held in
the First Presbyterian church. Rev.
Mr.. Groeneveld was chairman and A.
ton of the meeting held on the previous
Sunday. The subject of debate was
the hold-oVer motion to adopt the rec
ommendation of the board of control,
which in effect favored postponing ac-
tlon until future date There was eS-
tended discussion of the notion and
when the time came to vote only 27
showed their preference one way or
the other. There We're 81 voters pres
ent, exclusive of the chairman. Four
teen voted to adopt the boards recon-
mending and 10 favored going ahead
with organization. Thirty-four did not
vote. Immediately after the chairman
announced the object Of the meeting
Professor Hastings rose to point of
order, contending that the request of
the board was not in order, as more
than two months ago the organization
of the Y. M. c. A. was effected The
chair ruled against the professor, say
ing that the point was not we'll taken.
inasmuch as it should have been ad-
Vanced when the motion was originally
put, week ago.
Professor Firch. who at a previous
meeting was excluded from the board
of control, hoped that the motion would
prevail. He favored dropping the whole
matter until time when all sects and
creess could get together on one grand
common platform.
Several others on both sides of the
proposition addressed the meeting. The
argument put forth by the opposition
to the board was in substance as fol-
lows
In the creation of great bodies, insti-
tutions, associations, etc, procrastina-
ton was never adopted. Great organi-
cations have sprung from a handful of
men whose determination to win was
paramount Parents have an interest
in the Y. M. c. A., and it is for their
children that they work to accomplish
the end. 1t is believed that two or
three thousand men reside in Butte who
would pay SIS or $40 each for member
ship cards. 1t does not speak well for
the Christians of Butte to send out or
the state for someone to come in to tell
them what to do and how to do it,
Butte can attend to it's own business.
As soon as enough Christians got to-
gether in Butte they organized the first
congregation of church-goers in this
camp Then they did not send East
for advice. They simply found a place
OF worship, engaged a preacher, and
to-day there are many churches in
Butte, and it would be difficult task
to pick out one which owes its exist
ence to the efforts CT outsiders. Butte
citizens claim the distinction. So it is
with the great fraternal and labor or
CARNATIONS of Butte. They may all be
branches of the parent organization.
yet Butte citizens are the fathers of
them.
Ex-Governor Richards. member of
the board, made an address in support
of the position his committee had as
sumed. He feared that the enthusiasts
may be carried off their feet He re-
ferred to the several attempts made in
the past to organize and the subsequent
failures. The board, he said had deep
ly studied all the phases of the question
and had debated it among themselves:
also sought the advice of business men.
who urged the board to go slow. He
thought that if the small attendance
was illustrative of the zeal and interest
manifested by Butte citizens in the Y
M {. A. movement the report of the
board should by all means be adopted
Professor Hastings replied to the ex-
governor and remarked that there was
altogether too much conservat ism in
the movement. He wondered how the
men could stand up and say that now
is not the time to organize, knowing
that right now in Butte the women are
maintaining homes fer charity's sake
and doing far greater work than that
proposed by the Y. NJ c. A. devotees.
DR.. Albritton was sorry that the board
had seen fit to renort as it did, but
Knowing its members to be men Of
sound logic and conservatism he would
abide by their recommendation.
j. M. Hinkle said that lust as sure as
the boards report is adopted. so sure
would be the death of the Y M. c. A.
movement. Mr.. Hinkle made a vigor-
Gus plea for action as against delay.
The meeting adjourned with the un-
derstanding that some day it would re-
convene. The board which carried the
day is composed of Ex-Governor ]. f,
Richards, George Stephenson. A. c. BY
ers. e. S. Shields, c. H. Repath. A. H.
Barrett, ]. W. Kemper Logan McDon-
aid, Byron Kerr, NJ. C. Davies, w. C.
Orion and w. Howard.