Evening star., 1901-01-21
200 books, but We would not mind having
some more
What kind Of books do you want?' q
Indy asked

some more"
What kind Of books do you want?'' =
lady next asked.
"oh, any kind of coed reading"
The attorney general was asked as to
the salaries paid to the different officials,
and his replies developed that the highest
salary was paid to the chief OF police, who
receives S. a week.
He was next asked about the length of
time a boy is expected to remain at the re-
public. and whether If citizen wanted to
leave he could do so.
1t was thought best that Mr.. George
Christiancy, one of the directors of the re-
public, should answer these questions, and
the latter did so, fully and explicitly. The
attorney general, resuming his remarks by
request of the chair, read extracts from the
laws passed by the boys on the subjects of
the currency, gambling, assault and pro-
lection Of all birds excepting crows and
hawks.
A brief address was made by Rev. f.
Lawrence Hunt, pastor of Westminster
Presbyterian Church, who, in concluding.
said: I'VE want TO take the star Spangled
banner and to make 1t wall of defense
to keep the boys of America from falling
over the 'precipice.
Senator Mason's Comment.
Senator w. f. Mason of Illinois said that
While he was listening to the talks made
by the two citizens of the National Junior
Republic he thought of thousand things
he wanted to say and felt that he could
hardly wait to say them, but now when
his time mad arrived he did not know what
to say. AS he heard the attorney general
deliver his manly address he mentally
wished that no man in the great republic
could vote until he realized his responsible
ties and the duties of citizenship. ReSpon-
sbility, he continued, is the only gateway
to success, and he thanked God that at the
beginning of the new century some great
brain had conceived the idea of the Nation
al Junior Republican institution which
seemed to be an answer to the question
asked centuries ago, Am 1 my brothers
keeper" He was surprised at what he had
already learned about the National Junior
Republic. He had reached the conclusion.
he said that boys and girls are all as good
as the environments by which they sur
rounded, and he does not believe there is
such thing as total depravity After de-
picting in eloquent language visit made
by him. while a member Of the Legislature
of Illinois, to one Of the penal institutions
of that state, he assured Mrs. Lockwood
that he and some others. to whom he re-
ferred, desired to add their mite toward
what they believed to be another foundation
stone to the great republic which all Amer
leans love so well, and they would do all
In their power to make the work Of the
Women'S League success.
BY request Mrs. Noyes sang a solo en-
titled Rags and Tatters,' and after she
had concluded she was applauded by the
audience and heartily cong1 atulated by
Chairman Macfarland, Senator Mason and
others.
Appeal for the Institution.
Mr.. 7. C. Noyes was introduced by the
chair as a member of the board of trustees
of the National Junior Republic, and the
enc who had done more than all others to
raise the money for its support thus far.
Mr.. NoyeS began his remarks by drawing
word picture of a mean-looking cur
sneaking about butcher shop for the pur-
pose of stealing what he could. In the
are, he went on to say, hundreds of boys
and girls who are in as bad a condition
the dog referred to, and they cannot get
out of it unless they are assisted. Sup
pose. said Mr.. Noyes, we should, here In
Washington, tenement house filed
with human beings on fire, and call was
made upon us to go and help rescue those in
peril. We would ask: Are not the fire de-
partment and the police department there?
So, when call on You to assist the Ma
tional Junior Republic in rescuing some of
the Washington and Baltimore boys and girls
from the paths of vice, Will the response
be: Have you not already the work house
and the jail? Shall we send boy or girl
to the work house or Jail to be associated
with criminals? They learn there every vice
they did not know before, and when they
come out they have not only become past
masters in crime, but are lost to them
selves, to their country and their Divine
Master. The junior republic gives the boys
and girls put i'll it's care new sense OF
their responsibility, and teaches them the
glorious privilege of the American fran
. chise.
In conclusion, Mr.. Noyes said the audi
ence might take his word for it that no
boy will ever go forth from the junior re-
public who will not know the value of the
right of the ballot. One of the boys he
said, told him that his father did so and
SO in ward politics in Baltimore, but they
would never fool him in that way, for
when he went back to the city he would
know better. Mr.. Noyes also explained
that there was great necessity for ad-
ditonal buildings at the republics location.