The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-18

Industrial School. and commended the work
of the Reformatory and Reform School
for Boys. He thought, however, the courts
the age and mental condition of the sub
jects dealt with. He advocated supervision
of paroled children and thorough manual
training In the Reform School
AS to the prevention OF crime he praised
the many laws which have been enacted.
To further prevent crime he advocated a
system Of warehouses, because, he said,
work instead OF idleness in a measure pre-
vents crime" Complete separation OF the
sexes should be required and a system of
probation. under supervision. should be es-
tablished to prevent first jail sentences.
franklin MacVeagh spoke on "A Busl-
ness Mans View OF Organized Labor.
His address was comprehensive and in
teresting, containing many ideas that had
never been brought TO the attention of some
who are interested in charity work. The
business man, though some people may
not think so. has a heart like other human
beings said Mr.. MacVeagh. HE has his
feelings-even his emotions. He can be
sympathetic; and he does not always, any
more than another. get easily to the bust
ness view of charity, being in some cases
a long time before he can look charity
squarely in the face, as he looks other prac-
teal matters squarely In the face: But
when he finally gets the business view OF
IL he does not let go. But all his busi-
ness methods and ideas, which he believes
essential to successful and progressive
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high calling of those men and women
without whose personal devotion. personal
leadership and personal example charity
as a progressive science would not exist.
Method. sytem and ideas, however business
like. are helpless without good, able and
trained men and ONE
FRAKLIN M'VEAGH'S VIEW.
Charity organization loses a good deal
by its multiplicity of names. Notwith-
standing a multiplicity and even a con-
fusion of names, there is but one charity
organization movement; and but one So
ciety many times repeated. The primary
explanation of the movement is that by
1863 it came to be overwhelmingly realized
that charity was unorganized. The benev-
olence of England and America lacked
system. and it lacked ideas even more
than 1t lacked system. With the best in
tentions in the world charity was doing
two evil things. 1t was wasting it's re-
sources, by reason of its bad system; and
1t was doing about as much harm as
good, by reason of its lack of RICH ideas
and conceptions. 1t was a most serious
condition that confronted the men and
women who devised this reform. and the Sc
robustness of the situation has by no
means passed. The reform has made head
way but it has not prevailed.
1.-The century just closed was one of much
organization and reorganization. 1t vas a
period when things were scrutiniZeo- and
found out, and then being found out and
understood were either ordered abolished
If wholly worthless or ordered reorganiZed
ried everywhere throughout the world of
thought and action. Ii was what We call
our scientific treatment of things. 1t was
the scientific method. And so charity was
scrutinized; was studied, found out and or
dered TO be r~eorganized; and 1t has been
recognized so far as the great and diff
cult work has yet had time to be carried.
We, at least, are on the right track.
s'Tha State tho county tho tnurn tho
city. the churches and the volunteer citi-
zens are all doing charitable business in
one field with no regard TO each other and
with the effect of an incoherent medley.
This Is a crying offense to business concep-
tions; and the demand of the business world
Is that ii must be completely reformed.
Our benevolence is pauperiZing our peo-
pie. IL has been pauperizing them from
the beginning; and il will pauperize them
10 the end, except as some influence takes
public and private benevolence in hand
and organizes IL into a system and controls
Ii 10 good ends. The business man knows
OF all this pauperiZing, and his instincts
and training revolt at Ii. He does not be-
lieve that pauperism is in any sense neces-
sary. He believes that we produce it by
unregulated charity, by Ill considered char
ity, by indiscriminate charity. He believes
that our charities, as now constituted, do
a vast deal of good and a vast deal of harm,
and that when they are properly organized
they will do good only. He demands, there
fore, that they'shall quit making our poor
iiiNo pduptlS, II lidl inty shall save tiC
body polite from corruption and the sacred
money of benevolence from needless waste.
POVERTY CAN BE REDUCED.
"He also demands that honest poverty
shall be reduced, for he is certain it can
be reduced with far less money than 1t
costs to support ii. He does not believe
that poverty can be eradicated as pauper-
ism can. The money is spent without get
ting anywhere. 1t is an endless chain of
expenditure with. no progress. To cure real
poverty requires study of the case. a dis
covery of its causes and then quiet, con-
tinuous effort to remove them. The de-
mando of the practical business mind is that
there shall be no waste of the funds of
benevolence in the administration of chart
ty; that there shall be no duplication of
agencies. The business man also insists
that the havoc created by emotional benev-
olence shall be stopped, and that the relief
of distress shall be certain.
when the charities of a city are unor-
ganized il is impossible to have relief every
where IL is needed. Under organized chart
ty there should be a central office and a
central organization and district organiza-
lions enough to cover the entire city. There
should be thorough. tactful and trained
investigation of all cases.
THE aim of the help of a charity or
ganization society is to evolve and estab-
lish self-help, and this aim includes one
of its most profound and far-reaching
ideas"