The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-27
UNITE SOCIAL FORCES.
League of Social and Ethical Forces
Meet in New York.


New York, Feb. 27..-Hundreds
of clergymen, labor leaders, social
lists, socologists and ethical and So
cial workers assembled today for the
first general conference of the lea
que of social and ethical forces. Bish
op Greer is the presiding officer of
the meeting, which was called at the
Hotel Aston. The new body has been
in process OF formation for a year
and has for it's object the alliance of
all the forces in the community
which make for righteousness.
The creed of the new league which
is wide enough to admit the men,
bership of all humanitarians, whet-
her Protestants, Catholic, Jew or
agnostic, is as follows:
This organization was prompted
by the prevailing consciousness that
the present separation between the
in this community involves great
loss of power. By the bringing of
representatives of the various ethi-
cal social interests into fell
lowship of service, where personol
acquaintance will be cultivated and
knowledge and experience exchang-
ed separation and distrust will be
overcome, and the ethical forces
united in the support of measures
The work of the league will con-
sist, in the first place, of conferences
between the leaders of all the diff
ferent elements in the city for an ex-
change of knowledge and opinions,
and possibly for concerted actions
on such measures as all may agree
on. In the second place, meetings
will be arranged by the league in
churches, halls, etc, where the con-
speakers representing classes and
elements of the city's life differing
from those they would ordinarily
have the opportunity of hearing.
Every church except the Roman
Catholic is represented in the lea
que. According to both DR.. Thomas
G. Hall and Mrs. Spencer there is
every probability that that church
will have a representative soon.
ha
at present" said DR.. Hall, for a
Roman Catholic to identity himself
with the movement. But the Roman
church is social force of the first
magnitude, and | think that as soon
as it comes to understand Just what
modernism is it will enter in this
movement especially with all its
strength
ITO me the league seems to fill a
| very important place in the religious
and social work of the city, con-
! tinued Dr. Hall. The churches are
/ coming to realize that they are a
great social force, but that there are
other social forces at work, such as
the public schools, the labor unions,
social meetings, the single tax move
ment and philosophical anarchy and
that these forces, together with the
settlements and even political organ
izations are making consciously or
unconsciously, for a new world.
Among the 116 men and women
who form the general committee of
the league and who participated in
the first meeting are Bishop Potter,
President Charles Cuthbert Hall of
the Union Theological Seminary,
Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, of the
Society for Ethical Culture; Andrew
Carnegie, George Foster Peabody,
DR.. Lyman Abbott, Charles Sprague
Smith, of the Peoples Institutes Dr.
Charles F. Aked, Alfred J. Boulton,
labor leader; John Spargo, the So
cialist; Miss Helen Marot, of the
Women's Trade Union League; Seth
Low, President Butler of Columbia,
President Finley of the college of
the city of New York, immigration
Commissioner Watcher, Marcus NJ
Marks and DR.. Samuel Schulman