Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-04
STOKES and
WIFE HEARD
Millionaire Settlement Worker
and Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes
Made a Deep Impression.
LAST OF RARITAN CLUB SERIES
The Noted Lecturer Told of Indsis-
trial and Tenement Conditions in
Our Cities, and Asserted that He
Sees the Only Remedy in the Doc
trines of Socialism-Mrs. Stokes
Poems Eloquent and Well Given.


Poems Eloquent and Well Given.
James G. Phelps Stokes, the noted
millionaire settlement worker, and
his wife, who was Rose Pastor, poor
cigar factory worker for twelve years,
delightfully."- interested an audience,
which well filled the high school audi
torium, for two hours last night.
Mr.. Stokes lectured on socialism.
and his wife recited two poems which
she wrote herself. Mr.. Stokes showed
a firm grasp and intimate knowledge
of industrial and tenement conditions
and explained the ground work Of So
cialism, which he declared to be the
only way he can seen out of the dark
ness in which the wage-earner and
tenement dwellers are enshrouded in
this country.
Mrs. Stokes is delightful person
ality, and earnestness, sincerity and
kindliness are depicted In her voice
and utterances. She possesses a keen
mind and is as fully in sympathy with
her husbands humanitarian views as
1t is possible for her to be. Both, last
night, declared themselves as social
lists, and Mr. Stokes explained the
fallacy of many common ideas exist
ing among non-socialists as to their
beliefs and the fundamental ideas and
purposes of socialism.
Both Very Plainly Attircd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stokes were both
dressed with plainness. almost to the
point of severity, and both bear the
hallmark of absolute democratic
minds. Mrs. Stokes was attired
wholly in black, but in excellent taste.
with black shirtwaist skirt and gloves
and an untrimmed toque. Mr.. Stokes
wore dark brown business suit and
dark four-in-hand. with no jewellery,
save slender gold watch chain. He
is an extremely tall young man, with
eyes set far back--the eyes OF a
thinker and student. He jsa2is.aa-.
orator, but he is a speaker and prac-
tical theorist.
He declared that the chief purposes
Of socialism, which, he said, is adj
vancing rapidly, are to secure better
working and living surroundings for
wage-earners and to give to them q I
word in the disposition of the results
of their labor. The lecturer quoted
census statistics showing that $50. 600 J
are killed .Qr injured annually in tho
industries Qf this country. and
deplored thu ,insanitary conditionlV
under which iNost of them work anG
the surroundings OF their tenement
homes, which nApessitate their goin.
outside to cheap haces Of amusementV
and worse. for leir social inter
course, conditions Which are not G.
ducive to good mar and
anhood and good citiz9 9pship.
Non-Participativa Owrefss
The socialist doctrine an to e
mate the absolute control md
comes of absentee stockholdelJ ans
their heirs and assigns, and to render
to the workers the privilege Of the
spending of the results of their toll
beyond legitimate running expenses,
additions to property and profit.
He also said that a large percent
age of the tuberculosis. so prevalent
in this country could be wiped out II
factory owners would devote fair
share of their profits to the better
ment of the sanitary conditions In
their shops and mills.
Mrs. Stokes Genius.
Mrs Stokes read two of her own
poems, THE Song of the Cigar Work
err" and THE New Democracy" and
the applause which she received, and
her husband also, was an indic2sapn--
of the impression they had. Yfnads
upon their hearers. Mrs. Stokes was
laboring under vocal difficult5es due
to heavy cold. but she could be
plainly heard in every corner of the
aupditorium.
After the lecture, Rev, DIR. w. G..
Snodgrass asked some questions.
which Mr.. Stokes answered, but Dr.
Snodgrass continued his interroga
tions and argument until Mr.. Stokes
had to run to his carriage TO reach
the train home.
The First and Last Lecture.
Harry K Golenbock, the Raritao
Clubs lecture course supervisor. an
nounced that circumstances of at
tendance and other facts had caused
the curtailment of the course. Mr..
Stokes prefaced his lecture with q
few words, regretting the ending Of
the course and telling of the benefits
OF such interchange of thought as
good lectures afford.
Guy Brothers Minstrels Monday,
January Z. at Wilder theatre