The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
OFFER HELP TO
ALL INEBRIATES
UPLIFT SOCIETY NOT A MONEY
MAKING VENTURE.
Prominent Citizens Combine Forces to
Assist Men Who Have Fallen into
Incorporate Ways-System of Loans
Whereby Any One Can Receive AS
sistance and Repay the Benefactors.

Tn order that scientific treatment
may be given the thousands of unfor-
tunates turnout the country who are
afflicted with the iquor7drinking hab-
it, several prominent Minneapolis men,
interested in practical reform move
ments, have organized the Information
al Uplift society. e..
The society. has been incorporated
with capital stock of $4,000, and
the object will be to advance money
to the inebriates who are unable to
get enough ready cash to take a liquor
cure. Under this system the man who
desires to take the cure may borrow
the money from the society on his plain
note. He may then go to any sanato-
rum of recognized standing, where he
will be treated. When the cure is
completed he will then pay back the
money to the society in such install
ments as he is capable.
Charity the Watchword. Il.
The organization is purely charitable
reach those men who have gone so far
that no one will take enough interest
in them to offer a helping hand. A bu-
reau will be established whereby the
society can get the names Of those who
have served prison terms and these men
will be sought out and encouraged to
brace up and lead honest lives.
Frank R. Mcdonald, formerly super
intendent of the Minneapolis work.
house, will be the secretary and general
manager Of the company. In speaking
of the work he says:
Thousands of good men, skilled in
their profession, Industrious and trust
worthy, become trustworthy and de.
generate thru their appetite for liquor
Their families become dependents on
the different societies and poor depart
ments, and the husband and father sinks
lower and lower and finally becomes q
| the stigma Of the prison is attached tc
him, his reformation becomes harder
each day as encouragement and Gle
pendence is forced upon him; and his
innocent wife and children are made tc
feel the disgrace and oftentimes the
faint of heredity is transmitted to flu
true generations.'
Any person may be admitted to mem
| bership in the society who is DESTROYS OF
mates upon the payment of the sum OF
one dollar as membership fee. The
office is at 500 Boston block.
Those in Charge.
The officers Of the society are: Presi
dent, William D. Lawrence, Md! vice
president, Samuel P. Snider; secretary
and general manager, Frank R. Melon
aid; treasurer, Vincent w. Bayless
directors, Colonel Frank M. Joyce, VIM
G. Judd, Frank 0. Streed.
The following persons constitute tn
advisory board: Governor Joha A
Johnson, Bishop Samuel Cock Edsal]
President Cyrus Northrop of the stat
university, David P. Jones, msyor, Joh1
Crosby, w. D. Washburn, Jr.," William
4: - E?stis, James G; Haynes. John S
Thomas p. Cullen, Edward D. solen
burger, W. F. Waite, c.. L. Smith, Mis-
Vera d. Bean, Nelson w. Clark, G. S
Hubert, George G. Merrill, Herbert M
Carpenter, Charles E. Fuller, T. 7
Hughes, J.D. Hoffman, Rev. F. Angus
Skogsbergh, G. P. Wainman, w. P. Bal
ton, Rev. I. P. johnson and Others
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