The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-21
DR. ABBOTT URGES
 AN ADVANCE Points Out to Yale Men Work Left Incomplete By Their Fa-
 thers.
GREAT PROGRESS IN
 THE LAST CENTURY
Revelations in New York in Past Week Show Room for Fur
 ther Work.

Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York, editor of The outlook, preached at the large university mass meeting yester- day morning In Woolsey hall. Dr. Ab- bolt spoke of the vast change for the better in the past. hundred years. He spoke of the populating of America through the central and western states, where hundred years ago there was but the fringe of population along the eastern coast. The great American des- ert, he said is no longer desert but a few years will be veritable garden.
 From poverty, he said, the people have come to atfiuance, or at least 10 a state of reasonable comfort. A hundred years ago the capitalists, or what we term as capitalists to-day practically owned labor. In Louisiana the work was so that the average working life of a Iaborer was but seven years be- cause of the exacting demands of the masters. While in the South there was slavery, in the North there were no laws to protect free labor as there are to-day, and labor was unorganized and unable to protect itself
 In politics there has been a great advance in the past hundred years, said pr. Abbott "A century ago the idea prevailed among the parties that to the victor belonged the spoils and acting on this theory, all the offices small and large were filled with men of the same political leanings as the victors at the polls without regard to their efficiency. To-day we have the civil service sys- tenn and in the other offices, among all men, the idea is becoming stronger and stronger that instead of means to X get all one can for himself, public of flee is a public trust,
 Along educational lines, said Dr. Ab- bolt, there has been as great advance. A century ago women were not educat- ed at least in public schools and col leges. There were few state colleges for either sex. Now new ones are be- ing planned each year and provision Is being made for the education of wo- men as well as for the education of men.
 We have recognized organized labor and realize that is Is for the benefit of labor In all lines we see advance ment including great advancement in religious ideas.
 This we owe to our fathers, to your fathers and to, my brothers. They have lifted the world on their own shoulders, buoyed up by great enthusiasm for the benefit of mankind and by faith in God, Thus they have wrought these great changes, far reaching, history making, the greatest the world has ever seen.
 And you must carry on their work. The furtherance of the great good that they have done is for you to accom- plish. For their work, great as it has been, is far from finished. The slaves which your fathers freed must be ta- ken up by you and exhalted to man. hood. The immigrants, which have come here by hundreds of thousands in your fathers time, must be taught by you what Americanism is. Labor, or. ganized in the time of your fathers many of your fathers taking part must be taught the true meaning oi their motto that injury to one is in jury to all-not in the narrow sense they mean 1t, but that injury to laboi is Injury to capital and that injury tC capital is injury to labor.
 The forests of the west through which your fathers rushed, must be preserved for the future good of mankind. Int landlordism which threatens tht lands of the West at this time, must bt prevented. We are but in the begin. ming of the trouble with the railroads those powerful influences on American life, which have bound the Atlantic tc the Pacific.
 Our schools must break away iron their old conservatism. The teachinl of industrial branches must be every, where introduced into them and thu children taught the use of their handl as well as their heads. Our moral idea must be made higher and the churcl must become less exclusive and nor active in the public life.
 And In eommercialism there mus come reform. This truth has beer brought home to us stronger than eve in the shameful revelations in Nev York city In the past few days.
 It Is for you, young men, to accom- plish these things, concluded Dr. Alb bolt. The field is large, much has beel done, and you are young and stronl for the completion of the work.
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