New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-05
UNITE, SAYS CUTTING.
He and George l.. Record Speak at
Y. ". &. Il. Meeting.

r Fulton Cutting president of the Citizens
Union. and George L. Record, Mayor Mark Pagan
Corporation Counsel in Jersey City, were .'ie
| speakers Mt the Sunday afternoon meeting, unoer
the auspices of the Young Mems Christian Assooi
alton in the Majestic Theatre, yesterday
Senator Colby and Mayor Pagan accompanied
Mr. Record from Jersey. Mayor Pagan SAT OH 'ne
platform. and blushed at the applause wh7h INC
chairman. the Rev. C. P. Fagnani called ATTENTION
to his presence. Senator Colby sat in nox' ana
smiled when Mr.. Fagnani called attention 10 h'"'
and the audience appauded
Mr. Cutting said:
believe that never has government been so fun
OF humanity as now. The state has entered heart
lily the solution of the great pressing potica
and economic problems ana no LONGER 20 these
matters.
The speaker referred to the work Of the Board OF
Education in sending nurses to hunt up SICK chill
dren, the work OF the Health Department in its
fight with tuberculosis. and its efforts to establish
a great seaside park and the Department OF Char
tiles which has changed the name OF the aimsnouse
to Home for the Aged. He said:
In these ways you see conscience forcing its way
into our domestic life. But conscience must learn
the of success, which is organization, Con
science 1day is as of them So long as they
rely public patronage and subsidies from Prisaee
must organize in their party organizations II they
Wl, ana there they might DO something; Dui II
tons that are sprgng up s SGde he II
ev oreanzed he and every man putting his shoulder
10 the wheel to turn this city over With organNz-
If any Of YOU want to do something, communicate
with and will tell you where t you can In dey ane
there is a demand for men who can go into public
p fg t8r yan W q want Who
the temptations of public life.
MI Record said:
want TO say that echo Mr.. Cuttings sentiment mt
supplemented 1t will be Of comparatively little use
for you to join political club or org p Ea
unless you have some purpose in mind OrSahlAssi-
ton by itself is subsidiary. and must ever be- AS
and keep it ever in mind. although you may not
always be working toward it. -, No
good men" and in what has been called political
preHce E Manf aG TO m S that all put in
one man and to put out another because o, H1
/ am simply giving you my experience TO let You
WS 66 nave ag ad6Tes Snf T9R here "
The issue is the thing lot the man There can
finding the issue. There is just now, something
which we cal reform weeping , over 66r re CHASE
for dollars for the last quarter of century The
to have something permanent erected?
b6es Pue S % eT BIKE @gEe tf pp S4 us uDab
to move in any direction until some man comes
along and sets it right and gives 1t direction.
AS l read the Gospel find that the meaning Of
Jesus Christ and Gods meaning was that il is not
in Riverside Dive While another man With his
family f sis, Is crowded into two-room fiat In filthy
But the whole meaning of Christs Gospel is that
of brotherhood is fundamental in all the literature
sacred and profane, ethical subjects The great
souls of all the ages have aspired this principle
Let us not inhabit the earth at one another's
threats for dollars, but brothers in amity.
There Is a growing discomfort and a feeling that
annual production of wealth is not equitabIy
distributed. | don't believe every is the equal
mentally of every other, and don't think they ever
will be. will conCede that there ought be large
differences in rewards. but do say without hesita-
ton that there is not between man and man any
such difference there is between s2000O00O0 piled
UP by man in lifetime and So a day for a
labOrer.
Now what can be done? We can't adopt Rus
sian methods, we don't want 70 dynamite,
will not permit the assassination of rulers. will
permit the pillage the rich castle. but
will settle these questions along the good old
fashioned American lines OF reason and common
sense enacted into the laws of the land.