Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-12
M1NGLING OF THREE ELEMENTS

The President talked to the woman s
department of the National Civic Fed
Grafton yesterday for a few minutes. wei
coming the committee and expressing his
opinion that they are engaged in "A work
Of great benefit to the country. He made
special reference TO the welfare work.
saying:
I'VE have right to expect leadership
from our public men; leadership from or
ganizations like this. and 1 congratulate
you that you are giving such leadership.
Do honor to individuals and corporations
that install practical appliances for the
health and comfort of their employees;
that provide means for recreation and
amusement: that encourage thrift and
home owning. and that turn dull factory
yards into places of beauty
Warns Against "Reactionary."
The President urged that the liability
law be studied. and told of his desire TO
have one enacted and spoke of case
where a man had been injured while in
government service at Panama and whose
family could not be aided by the govern
ment He closed his speech with a warn
ing against the reactionary."
The truest friend of the reactiOnary.
he declared us the violen; extremist no.
taby the men of anarchistic type. or the
socialist who in practice makes his social
ism simply a modified form OF anarchy.
The man who breaches class hatred. who
breaches violence. who stands for assault
not only upon the abuses of property.
but upon property. is doing all he can for
the cause of reaction: for anarchy has
ever been the handmaiden of tyranny the
precursor of absoutism. Always through
out history. if the sons of violence for the
moment gained control of governments al
institutions then their anti-types, the
men who believe in order without liberty
inevitably succeed them in the control OF
these institutions
Society, Capital and Labor.
The reception held by the leaders of the
wOmans department of the National
Civic Federation at the New Willard last
night comprised a gathering of society
labor and capital. The three elements
mingled on common ground-employers
employees and the general public-and lis
tened attentively to talks from men
and women of widely separated
spheres. Andrew Carnegie. Seth Low Mrs
Sarah Platt Decker. president of the
Federation of WOmen's Clubs; John
Mitchell Secretary Oscar l.. Straus of the
of the Department Of Commerce and
Labor. Eva Mcdonald Valesh, the
champion Of the organized women work
ers of America
In the receiving line were Mrs. Nicholas
LOngwOrth. Mrs. Taft. Mrs. Fairbanks
Seth Low. Samuel Gompers and John
Mitchell Past them filed line of nearly
two thousand men and women from every
walk OF life-merchants. clubmen and
clubwomen. here and there a senator and
several hundred wOrkmen. members of the
Central Labor Union. some of whom were
accompanied by wives and daughters
Three matrOns carrying babies in their
arms shook hands with the leading women
of Washington society. Besides those who
Yesterday formed the wOmen's departmen mt
of the Civic Federation some of those
present last night were former Senator
Blair of New Hampshire. Chas II. Treat.
treasurer of the United States: Mrs Jo-
seph Medll Mccormick, daughter of the
late Senator Hanna: Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins and Miss Janet Richards
Following the reception Mr.. Gompers
called the meeting to order and introduced
Seth Low. president of the National Civic
Federation. who spoke on the work of the
organization and the fact that the meet
ing was typical of all the meetings he
had ever attended. inasmuch as it was
not confined to one class. but that labor
and capital were present to learn some