New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-22
TOO MUCH RED TAPE.
B'shOp Potter CHticises Women's
Methods at Child Labor Meeting.

: meeting held at the Hudson Theatre yesterday
afternoon in the interests Of the proposed Child
LABOR League OF New York gave Bishop Henry c.
Eo'ter an opportunity 70 express his opinion about
some wome:'s clubs
There IS nothing more entertaining TO me" the
BISHOP said, than ladies' meeting. There is
manifested often what | might call a laborious
Ignorance Of ali the ordinary rules Of order. and
an enormous amount Of time SIS devoted to mere
red tape Then. growing Of this mechanism
are somewhat unbeautful and ungraciOus collisions
oe'"een gracious and beautiful people
Any one who knows anything about the history
OF philanthropy knows that it IS a history OF or
ganized ignorance. Last summer a phiianthropic
woman came TO talk about plan for pro-
Nlding outings for poor children. A mere man hap
pehed 10 he present and after a while he asked
the woman IL she had any ides OF what It was going
TO cost day to care for her children She hadn't,
and he said: While you have been talking have
been figuring. and find # will cost YOU S a day
Tor each child. You might send them TO the Wal
dorf-Astoria for that"
The Bishop seemed 10 think that the proposed
organization Was going To be different from the
ones he had been talking about
What interests me in H." he said lis that It is
movement OF unihcatioH. II aims to realize the
ideal of brotherhood and make it for the chii-
drsn. who often forgotten by their fellow
men"
To illustrate the need OF such work the Bishop
told an incident he had heard within a few days.
man went 10 a barber shop, and. calling for his
had retired. Why. he is not old man." said
the customer; why should he retire. No
piled the proprietor OF the shop. he is not old
man. He IS only thirty-eight in fact buJ he has
three girls who now old enough 10 support
him."
Or. Felix Adler expressed the opinion that the
people who enslave children themselves tie
enslaved by the hypnotic power OF money.
We know that person who gazes long enough
az a bright object viii be hypnotized he said,
and there are people. otherwise honorable men.
who have had their eyes glued long the dollar
that they hypnotized, They don't know what
they doing and they make all SORTS OF excuses
FOR their conduct Tncy will tell You il is a gooa
thing for children to work. They went TO work al
children themselves. But. come to find out they
toll 81 night in glasshouse work twelve hours
2 day in cotton factory They will tell YOU also
that these children belong lower order OF hu-
naanltS ana are nj fer nothing better than their
daily toll the same argument that was once made
10 Justify chattel slavery
Alfred ]. Boulton compared chattel slavery with
child labor. greatly 10 the advantage Of the former.
The descendants of New England Ahationists
he said. are now the owners of slaves that have
who has invested mis- money in the South does not
need 10 buy children. They ready his hand.
cheaper ana cheaper labor. Not content with de-
spelling manhood. they are now rohblng the
Mornay Williams. chairman of the New Yorl;
Child Labor Committee. appealed TO the assembly
to enter upon chidren's crusade and the Rev
Anna fiarin Spencer said that II merely
that under CONFERENCE.-The child Of the
tenement house swea tshop and the newshoy with
his Wet feet and insufficient clothing and all the
stains OF the street upon him.
Miss Pauline Goldmark presided. and those pres
ent were asked 10 leave their names 20 that they
might he summoned 10 an adjourned meeting in
April