The San Francisco call., 1904-03-22

interest AS the factory whistles an
nounced the noon hour employer
rubbed elbow with clerk in the i'm
provised church in the headquarters of
commereialism. The services. which
were led by J. C. Astredo, superintend-
ent of the Cathedral Mission of the
Episcopal Church. opened with hymn
and were followed by the Apostles
Greed.
DIR. WHEELER SPEAKS.
After the reading of the lesson and
another hymn, DR.. Wheeler delivered
the address. The remarks. of the gifted
speaker We're listened to with rapt at
tention. DR.. Wheeler said in part:
The call to citizenship resounds throughout
this land to-day as Il never resounded before
a X never rssounded in any land-in any time.
Never IN the history OF mankind has there
been a land in which the fate OF things rested
50 clearly upon good citizenship as in this land
or ours; and never in the history OF this
nation has there been tims when the call OF
state, Of conscience and the variety OF sta
ticns combined 50 thoroughly to make a de-
rnaud upon good citizenship as in this day OF
these United States Righteousness Is Good
Citizenship That IS the theme OF what I
shape the words that they may address them
selves to those who sit in positions OF reSDOn-
sibility and authority in the office
There never was in the history OF this mao
PIE OF ours, a time when the call for good
citizenship was direct and certain as 1t is to-
day. The sudden budding out OF the field Of
national purpose has opened questions in
politics that affect the very foundations OF
government The sudden broadening and in
tensifying. not only between distinct parts OF
the world : surface. but between parts OF the
same state - parts OF the same. people - have
never have dreamed OF before The orSaniza-
uon OF the power of wealth and the power OF
work INTO forms that make the old fashion
freeman and the founder OF old fashioned free
dom wrap his cloak about him in awe
The lesson would address 70 the business
men who have come together for this service
arises cut OF the text There is no public in
stitutiOn possible; there is not society: there
is TO state without some element Of self
sacrihce-vithOut something that partakes OF
the spirit OF religion. without public spirit
without patriotism 1t is impossible to found
a state OF society upon purely economic con-
siderations. state and society upon the basis
OF pure bread and butter considerations is a
foregone tmpossibility. II We have drffted
toward that law. turn about. There can be So
ciety, there BE- home there can be the state
only as men conceive that their lives are in
themselves ineonlpletea nd conceive OF their duty
as involving daily the element OF self-sacrifice
of saerfc OF what seems to BE- the Individual
good. And what the man who sits In the
office do? or all the men We have. those are
the most likely 10 turn from questions
fnvolving the state. thev are r,an VIZ eel
most easily the srnirch OF what is termed dirty
politics; they are the men who feel that they
are most likely TO be hurt by participating in
the affairs Of state. VIII they not arise and, ,
say there is nothing that IS called American.
under the name Of American citizenship or
connected with IT'S responsibilities that / will
There Is nothing connected with the response
bilIties OF American citizenship that is un-
worthy Of my help and my uplifting The men
who sit in the office are OF all the men OF
American duties. most likely 10 be Indifferent
TO the American state. They say: MY bust
ness interests I will look after: they concern
and they concern nobody else: I will see
TO it that 1 spend all OF my time and the
time that my employer has paid me for the
good Of my employer and myself; 1 will waste
time on the hurry -skurry Of politics." 1t
is because OF that indifference that politics
in many Of our states has gone the way It
has. 1t is because the business men have
not been willing to lay a hand to the work;
have not been willing TO take the risks Incl
dent TO taking a definite position on public
affairs This does not mean that you must be
candidates for office; II is no cail to YOU Ia
be ofhce-seekers II is a call 10 you to appre-
ciate the exceeding good thing that has been
left Us BY your fathers and the response
II Is not righteous citizenship when the man
who controls corporation or sits in the place
Of responsibility in the counting room and says
Il viii do with my own as I wiz and the
public be damned
RIGHT OF HEARING.
He is not righteous citizen who. when his
emRlOyes come 10 him and ask for a hearing
says there is nothing TO arbtrate There l.
always something to arbitrate when Cod
children are affected. Every one OF them
has right to a hearing. and when one great
other half and says would have hear
ing the hearing must be. for men are set
LgEGL1er
derstand each other. There are exaspefatiag
men who will not deal with business as /
have suggested but these fundamental prEn-
cfples indicate a righteous cftizenshfp-to be
patient and charitable and sympathetic toward
one another for we are in reality brothers one
L. another And he is a righteous citizen VITO
understands that this lie we live in society
and state is a life, after ALL ot neIghbors
and we must listen TO one another and we
must help one another and we must CO.
operate one with smother and we must be
patient
There are abundant opportunities where the
man in the office might lay hold to help . n
politics and what can be done through ehe
ordinary machinery OF politics is small as
compared with what the man OF the office
can do in helping 10 bind up these grievous
wounds that bleed and flow in the eyes u
,.ocfetv to-day / do net know where the
solution is come from II IS not TO come
from the reading Of many scientific books
treating this subject scientifically; it is not
To come from fighting intensely the battle OF
CAPITAL against labor and OF labor against
capital. 1t 10 surely not to come out OF any