The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-10

sympathy resulted. for after all sympathy
has no place IN business-business Is bust
ness. He trudged the treets day after day;
returning from the dishearteniug search
to home he sought to go through the
meagre and scarce DEMONSTRATING meal
with cheerful face and merry chatter CT
better things to come on the morrow.
But the morrow brought temptation. In
a railroad yard where he hoped for efn-
ployment lay some copper ingots. Driven
by despair he stole and sold them, and
surrendered to be dealt with by the
strong arm of the criminal law. Scarce
more than a lad. Victim to an unjust
State policy with respect to employers
liability for industrial accidents, one vic
tim of thousands, whose stories cry out
in ever-increasing volume for the enact
ment Of remedial legislation, whose cries
have reached and touched the heart and
judgment OF the executive of the nation,
whose cries will, before long, touch the
hearts and judg1nents of our States execu-
tive and Legislature.
''Tbese were just boys. Boys like yours
and mine. Their stories are the stories OF
hundreds Of our lads.
did the State deal justly by them? Did
It. in view Of the fact that its welfare is
intertwined with their welfare, do its full
duty by them? / answer. no. and every
where. when Il true understanding of the
situation is had; aye, everywhere except
where selfish personal interest stills the
voice of conscience and Of Judgment, that
answer will be reechoed.
Progress toward the assumption BY the
0ANNC "a 80 ANtA 1NNs AAA1 -
has been slow halting and not general. In
its way stands the ill-founded fear Of the
ultra conservatiyes-the fear OF a paternal-
istic State
Here stands our fair city. What has II
done2 1t has Fairgrounds In its public
parks. or neighborhood Fairgrounds it has
none. although through the persistent ef-
forts of far-seelng men, led by Within j;
McKiernan, writer, dramatist and friend
Of the boy, 1T is soon to have one. Think OF
it-juSt one.f 1T has a recreation centre es-
- l.A.T.1 AIa- AEFAr4a - e uanaa
earnest women, but the dawn that shall
see the general establishment of such CEN
tres throughout the congested district still
seems afar off.
in the State the effort TO secure legis-
lation preventing the attendance of the
young at plays which pander to lowered
tastes and give n lurid and false concep-
tion Of life has for the time being failed.
Legislation has decreed the abolition of
the back room of the saloon. but ] fear
it will require a more thoroughly aroused
public sentiment than now exists to wipe
1t out completely. Efforts to enact a
statute covering in a spirit of justice the
case Of industrial accident | have depicted
nave failed. No agency to bring the
message of hope to the discharged prisoner
exists.
".As you love your boy will you not OK
tend that love so as to embrace all of the
inhabitants of 'Boyville' and join those
little bands who are battling to secure {
practical recognition by the State of IL
obligation to insure to every lad within
IT'S DDfuelS a luiT opportunity 10 WuIk Oui
the destiny God designed for him; to Sc,
cure a fair rule of industrial liability. apd
to provide for the extension by the Stat
of "A helping hand to the prisoner dis
%charged?'"
City Comptroller ]. Henry Bacheller,
president of the league, acted as chair
man.
The following resolution, introduced by
the Rev. George e. Lombard, pastor Of
the Paramount Baptist Church. after the
Sherifs's address. was adopted unanimous
ly:
Resolved. That we, the members of tn
Meas League of Paramount Baptisi
Church. place ourselves on record as II
favor of establishing nelghborhood play.
grounds In this city.
Piano selections were given by Harry
Huntington and Richard Weiss.