New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06
NEED IN PHILIPPINES.
1t Is Rational amusement, Secretary
Taft Says.
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT MEETS.

UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT MEETS.
I'VE ars working in the Philippines on a problem
analogous to that which the University Settlement.
as 1 understand II. is'working out" said W. II.
Taft. Secretary OF War, at the annual meeting OF
the University Settlement Society yesterday Sec
rotary Taft was warmly welcomed by audience
that crowded the ballroom at Sherry's. stephen III.
Oln. who presided. introduced Secretary Taft He
said in part:
The University Settlement is an association Of
young men end women living ana woIkln5 toI
into an atmosphere Of culture and rational amuse-
| ment Rational amusement That is what we need
chiefly the Philippines We need 1t amOng the
Americans. who. II they do not nave rational
amusemeats. will seek vicious ones We need IL
among the poor in the large towns Of the Islands
We are trying to put such amusement in the hands
OF the people. to Americanize them through the
public schools, and send one hlndred young men
every year TO the various educational institutions
in this country that they may Iearn Intellectual
ana ponncal fTeefsm' And how mGG n. that IN
The dream Of the settlements-of equal oppor-
DIN, without the public school system and the
institutions OF higher learning
lege OF the city Of New-York President Finley
denied that he had been born in the tenements. as
Il was born IN the nelds.' he said. and might
,S BORN W. si at is nor frS noit,cI g
in-DeIaware
President Finley then went on TO compare the
lot OF the country youth and the city youth. to the
advantage of former.
'.The sdvantages Opportunities and responsible
ties OF the urban born have vastly increased he
are born in boxes OF tenements but compare them
with the privations OF the average farmers boy.
sod which they cultivated else old men forty.
where his bovhood was sDebt WbetbsS i n ~ @
East Side street or the open country. While
for the physical betterment OF the poor in cities
yet We must remember the words II our Lord. that
the Kingdom Of God is within us"
We have grown to look for sympathy from the
ducing Bishop Coadjutor Greer. who began his
address by saying that he there because his
they. went into business together-'the pawn
eroklng business mean'-he always did what
Mr.. Speyer told him 20 do.
What are the characteristics OF the Settlement
place. they work by substitution or the vicarious
method-putting something wholesome and pure
axiom % physics that twO things can't occupy the
metaphysics ana ethics equally Two thoughts cam
occupy the brain at the same tine. two pas
human society. We have tried other systens--We
have tried 10 reform with the aid % policemen.
only beaten down: II was not destroyed. Put good
Ia rs place and by the law OF mutual exclusion
In the second place. these young men and
women OF culture 20 and live among-One hates
to say the poor because that signifies class and
suggests patronage and both are un-American.
spirit Of patronage-nothlnE Is 80 deadly These
Young settlenent WorAers often 90 NOT e9 aLh 1
among them and they determine to live the same
Il have learned more lessons OF courage. patience
bravery and splendid heroism from the poor OF this
~ b bl iI0 ao IN AMI ss how tbes dear cool
people are happy and free from anxiety Tie most
anxious place In New-York is Wall Street"
Q.aughter)
President Butler OF Columbia University cited
HuNley's figure OF the educational ladder. which
has its feet In the gutter. but reaches 10 the uni
versity, permitting passage not only up from the
The Settlement is like that he said. cit IS
engaged In making not only men and women out OF
children but American citizens out % aliens New
York City itself the most tremendous educational
within the memory OF the children at the Uni-
verSitv Settlement. the European centre OF tnrni-
grafton this country has shifted from the nelgh
bOrhOOd Of Brussels a point southeast OF Buda-
used TO from the domain either OF Roman
law or the common law OF England. and
ernroent and orderly eIectious now we are handling
no familiarity with constitutional law with the
habits Of self-dscpline and self-cOntroI which lie
al the root Of government.
Every class and club IN the University Settle
ment Is Ink i'm the chain which rtvets these
complete citizens Of them
DR. BIausteln said the mission OF America to
'The greatest problem we Of the East Side have"
he continued, lis the healing Of the breach between
it unifies the children, magnihes the gap between
the child and the parents
Then he went on to say how he himself four
teen years old before he ever saw GENTLE, and
then It an official who asked him II he had a
Most Of the Jews on the East Side come from
small towns. and have little knowledge OF the
who come heie-one eN.Ittilety CoilsetVsttISe, the
other extremely radical. Some Jews curse Columbus
FOR having discovered America. and say; what
could you expect OF America when any great dis
aster crime occurs
James " Hamilton. tho head worker OF the so
ciety told 81 the work of the Settlement through
the year.