The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-06-01


These quotations from the state,
church ard finance are taken from state
ments by the men mentioned in reply
TO DR.. Newell Dwight Hills assertion
before the annual conference of the Or
thodox Friends. as follows:
II want TO say that we all 60 to the
devil on $4,000 a year--at least, a great
many men / know are going to the devil
on that sum. Once a man has an in
come Of that much money year. he is
so apt to forget. in the same way that
n man forgets to say grace after he has
dined.
To-day we are raising pampered sons
and daughters. surrounding them with
every luxury and idle satisfaction OF
desire. and they are rotten before they
are ripe. and the boys in many cases
are sinful before they are bearded"
Senator Depew had read the remarks
by DR.. Hills and was ready with an an
swer when asked for his views on the
subject. He said:
''The doctor Is all wrong. In these
days IL is not the amount OF money
which one has TO spend, but il Is wheth-
err the tendency is in the right direction.
On the surface il looks as IL the man
who has an income OF $50. 900 would have
more temptations than one who has moth
ing. Thirty years ago that may have
been true. but now a family having that
amount to spend sends Its sons To college.
The influence OF the college is all against
dissipation. The public sentiment there
is against gambling and fast life. The
young men when they are graduated be-
come physicians. lawyers and eminent
members OF society. The percentage OF
those who go wrong is very small.
DANGER TO RURAL LADS.
1.-THE first thing is influence. the next
environment. then the will power to re-
sist temptation. The greatest danger
comes TO country boys who come TO the
city to make their fortune They are
removed from the home influence. The
hall bedroom is not much of home.
and the saloon and the poolroom have
their drawing powers. He stops going
10 church. as II is not like the old church
at home. Unless the Young Mems Chris
tian association or some kindred assoca
ton gets hold OF him the conditions are
all against him. The trouble with him
is that the best his father and mother
can do is to give him the education their
neighborhood anords ana senu nifn u
the city to make his own way
But the boy with the $4,000 year
has everything around him to protect
him. and the percentage of these who
go to the gentleman with the hoofs and
the horns is not more than per cent.
"The young man who comes Into $4,000
a year on coming OF age is another prop
osition from the one who has been ac-
customed To the use Of money from his
birth. He is not in the class with j
Pierpont Morgan. Jr.. who went through
Harvard and has become the head Of his
fathers banking house I'm London, mol
like the sons of forty other millionaires
[ might mention. In the line OF law take
the sons Of William NJ. Evarts. and sc
on throught the list OF old and honored
New York names. Not / per cent. oi
these go wrong
soul SAVES THE MAN"
The Rev. Thomas r. Slcer said
II never enter into any controversy
with gentlemen Of the cloth, but on the
broad general proposition / would say
that I do not know the roadway To the
devil and do not know how much 1t costs
There is no general rule I'm the matter
outside of salvation 90 character. The
money has nothing to do with ~ II the
man is sound. AS n matter Of fact, the
.oul saves the man. not the man the
soul There Is no possible rule between
The man himself in this connection
James Stillman of the National City
hank was I'm hurry to catch train
for Boston and had time only TO ejacu'
late: