Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-06
PROMINENT PERSONS
SUPPORT THE PROJECT
Institution Would Sound Death
KneII of Machine Politics Is
Belief of Those Behind It,
Correspondence Morning Journal

Jus SLuu'Ill OF HOtidl tbHuiLlplS, bOll
her" ana abroad, PROMINENT person.
are lending tnetr wealth and intluenc,
and the laboring Glasses their supper
10 the movement looking toward ii.
realization. While his work has beer
going on for years iJs final develop.
ment is largely due to the following
opinion Of the above mentioned stu
dent:
America, says he, furnishes the
most unstable people. politically, in
the world. In England a mans politics
come to him at his birth. once d con
seryatiNc, always d conservative,
through not one, but many genera
lions In Germany and many other
countries the people are solrdified.
Hence their power. In this country
they Nacillate, No one can tell from
year to year how they may feel on any
given question Hence the supremacy
OF organized machine politics. The
very freedom of the American voter is
his undoing. He lacks organization,
In this expression is found the key
note of the movement now going on IN
this city to change these conditions.
tFbthtN ny lllAlAhAl INV E'AHNH bAt ~
strictcd by the method OF its organ
izatiou. this Utopiou scheme is with
out politics or class. Republicans and
democrats, rich and poor, mix in II on
an equal footing, and with equal
voice. A railroad king may cngage IN
Joint discussion with a j%anltor. one
OF the main effects of the movement is
to educate the people IN the duties Of
citizenship and to give them a means
of making their influence felt in the
management OF their own alfirs.
slowly but surely the way toward ua-
.onal education is becoming plain and
ii is doubly significant that the soIu-
ton is being worked out in New York
city where thousands exc ont an eX-
Istcncr scarcely to be called life, whcrc
iu summer lLe masses Writhc under
Iutulcrably heat that Kills the babies
is hundreds ana in winter freezes ten
~ twelve in a room in the tcnements.
Through a spirit ri brotherhood,
through education and alert public
conscience and the creation of a stable
machinery enabling tine masses at all
Dimes to express the consensus of
thought ana feeling upon questions Of
public interest. an Improvement in this
situation is believed to be possible.
This is the belief of some 10000 peo-
Pile liNiue their lives in the very cradle
Of the SOCIAL unrest. New Iorks East
SIDE. That this is so is largely due TO
he work of that peculiar organization
known as the Peoples Institute of
Sew York, which in the nine years of
. l... IN. fY,,f,t - , tNYlr-l
to a recognized force both in
he metropolis and throughout the
tate. The platform which outlines
note struck by the movement is as
olloVs Recognizing fraternity as
fundamental social truth. democ-
acy ais tine highest known form of hui
government. the national worth
s dependent upon Individual worth,
Peoples Institute seeks 20 pro-
lotc. through education ana the co..
pcration OF good men of all conditions
nd occupations. the peaceful evolu-
of "A society based upon the rygog-
of the iutcrdepcndencc OF man
I'M man'
The institute does not expect TO
lmpass the evolution OF society sud-
aud says so frankly 10 aIl who
Guild enlist in the work. But that IL
going ahead effectively Is dttystcd
, the fact that the audiences of the
who have assembled SO far thus
at Cooper Union and at various
ubs totals over 100000. The home
the institute is i'm tho heart of the Fl
eat East Side. facing StuyN'sant
ark. and there and at Cooper Union
M at various smaller clubs. lectures b
given which offer continued and J.
dered education, making the move +
emit iu "a real sense "a peoples uni %
rsity.
pot,ntial, 10 b., the largest college iu b
a. world. because il has the whole "
litcd States as q prospective tltla' ID
rIal scicuc, rs very naturally @ ire-
tnt topic in the lecture courses, but ''
story. literature ana kindred sub e
It's which tend to round out the i'm +
.Iigcncc of the people are 10y no
neglected
ON amy on, of IN, our nights dur '
2 the week Vuen meetings are held
visitor Co these gathering VIII De
nNiu,sd ot at least two cardinhai
fnts. the y.lue~tue~s of ihy audi ''
80 and an, educational tenor ot the 90
H, viii rcaiiz, that iu- 81
lso personal interest alone is the -
ltive which serves to draw great u
diruccs night after night to hoid
toiiyrs year after year. because no
IT of sens|ltIuualism or rsdleHIIsm is
re- heard H-tr. TOO. the visitor may r.
Tor himself O. visible indication OF OF
his work Will be when 10 shall
vr grown to include the whole mae =
n. This 3. tac pccrle'~ forum. so i
N known has the department be-
nae thtt bis druunciat.oHS uf amy bad
assures introduced in tho legislature a
it~ endorsement of one believed by ~
ptpgI, o. De- beneficial carries "a
considerable weight at Albany.
g Governor Hughes D. upon record
desirinC COB hear from this mouth 4
.te OF rh. plain citizen ul the state Il
.en.scr laws %affccting ihe public &
aI ar, proposed. lie further said q
tho Institute NOS long & BOZ a let Al
to lbs director ana founder. 81
lv of no more Important work than
D are doing"
Through It's alliance with organ z