Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-21

he described as a citytof adobe huts, with
COW paths as streets, which ;ike as crooked
as the streets Of Boston
Expressive Of the appreciation Of the audi
ence, a unanimous vote of thanks was tend
cred Judge Seeds.
The lecture was followed by vocal solo
by Miss Annie Wills. *ho responded to an
encore. The lecturer Of the club, Mr.. Henry
p. Holden. then entertained with few re-
marks upon his experience as q "tenderfoot
in Colorado" The Vice president called
upon Miss Helen v. Boswell, who gave a
talk upon her experiences as q campaigner
in the tenement district of the east side of
New York. Miss Bokman gave piano solo,
and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Haywood, member of the
club, gave Rotations in the negro dialect.
The vice president aAnounced as program
committee for the nextsmeeting S. H. Jacob
son, w. d. Cullen, Fillmore Harrison, Mrs.
NJ. NJ. Haywood and Mrs. Annie Elliott.
The regular meeting of the Unity Literary
Club was held at the Hotel Stratford on
Wednesday evening, Col. William Emerson,
the president, presiding. A large audience
to an address on Socialism by Mr.. Frank
lin Wentworth, featured for the occasion.
The speaker was not present on schedule
time, however, and impromptu exercises
were introduced Mr. Mueller rendered a
pleasing musical selection on an autoharp;
Mr.. Spiedel gave a humorous recitation,
Beware of the Widows" and as an encore
responded with John Smith, the Hero of
Gettysburg"
Mr. McCreey. with "a quarter of a min
ute's preparation gave an interesting mar
rative of human progress through it's va
rious periods of evolution, from the saw
agery of primal days, slavery, feudalism
and serfdom, down to present wage-earning
conditions. His argument was for the right
of the producer to the fruits of his labor;
the popular control of the industrial inter-
ests rather than moneyed individualism, and
the freedom of humanity He portrayed
the Slocum disaster and : contraSted the
WORKOUT horse sent to green pastures to
end his days in luscious happiness, and poor
old dog Tray with his protective societies
differed by the first ladies of the land,
with the inhumanity of man to man in the
old government clerk who has given his best
days in working for its interests, facing up
to the problem of a possible age limit, and
being sent adrfft reSOurceleSS upon an I'M
charitable world.
Discussion ensued, which was participated
in by Major Lawrence on behalf of the
paternalism of the government Mr.. Bern
stein, who made an 1mpaSSiOned plea for
the right of life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness for the working man and wo-
man, and Miss Bennett, with an apt Illus
tration of the old Latin fable, "BellinS the
Cat"
Through the kindness of the Rev. Dr.
Kent. who had secured the attendance of
Mr.. Wentworth, the latter was introduced.
and he held the attention of the audience
for some time in clear exposition of the
underlying principles of socialism from the
standpoint of newspaper man. A move
ment of the proletariat, rough-edged as all
revolutionary movements necessarily must
be, its ultimate aim is the freedom of the
masses from the enslavement of ignorance
the evolving of "the spiritual ideal in the
world that will result in men living like
brothers, and the ownership of the COM
mon means of production and distribution
Appropriate Illustrations and anecdotes
added to the interest of Mr. Wentworth s
plea for a better, brighter side of life for
the wage-earning class and the evolution of
new nobility"