New-York tribune., 1908-04-29
BLACK EYE, FOR "ISMS.
Clubwomen Settle Modern Problems in Two
Hours

! Socialism. anarchisn international marriages
! universal peace. the future Of the United States
/ and few similar matters We're thrasheL out at q
meeting OF the Society for Political Study the
/ Hotel Astor yesterday afternoon A member who
I was socialist snd didn't know it had the right
label pinned her by q socialist knew.
Wealth: It's Use. Its Abuse. Its Possibilities.
the subject Of the paper OF the dag. which
was read by Mrs Emma EeckWtth- Mrs Beck
with thought this country n rather a bad way be
cause SO much Of its business is done credit
Credit" she explained parenthetically IL notes.
You know certificates. and things Ike that
The audience nodded.
..One of the worst abuses OF wealth" Mrs Beck
with said. is this wholesale trading of money for
foreign titles that is going II is disgusting and
humlliatirg.
"A good deal Of money IA sent out OF the
country by the Bridgets and Gretchens and Seimas
and the rest, who ship all their savings to their
homes in the Old World. and by Italians who come
over here and scrape together everything they can
and then sail for Italy. We Americans are sup
porting the broken down royal nobodies of Europe.
and when one OF them comes over here lot more
money is spent 70 feast him"
Then Mrs Beckwith made a suggestion. bor
rowcd, she confessed. from man. People dying
possessed OF fortunes" she said. should not be
allowed 10 dispose by viii OF more than $1,000 900
| think it would be better to say 100000. The
rest should go TO the state. think there should
be such q law; though want it understood" she
thing OF that sort"
oh yes the speaker is socialist said Mrs
Elizabeth Chambers. suavely. The idea of limiting
the fortune TO be held by any man is one OF
the ca rdinal principles OF socialism She's social
ist: I. doesn't matter what she calls herself"
"A rose by any other name" murmured the
ciety.
Mrs salIIe NJ. Cory said she believed this
country had something terrible ahead of t-"abject
poverty for the multitude. or revolution. You've
been talking about the amount OF money per cap
TIA in this country" she added. When nine-tenths
OF the wealth is owned by a very small percentage
of the population, / don't think you make any
fair per capita estimate. This country doesn't
realize what an awful future is before It. The
money is in the hands Of few, who can't spend
half their incomes. and the money goes back
boarded wealth.
A woman in black mUrmured that she didn't be
Iieve th> United States going into any such
awful future like what Mrs. Cory talking
about Why" she added. enthusiastically. ''rhe
rich do great deal FOR charity. They spend
sums for charity that don't hear anything
about"
Il think hear about their charities cried Mrs.
Chambers. I don't think there's much they give
that We don't hear And / don't like the
idea OF these hospitals and homes The working
people ought be fairly paid they wouldn't
have to accept charity"
\ woman in a red hat asserted that great wealth
was all right If honestly made.
Mrs. Cory and Mrs. Chambers shifted. Honest
Iy." said Mrs Cory And ! want TO say" she
went on. that when the richest man-probably-
in world can't find anything better TO do with
his money than vivisecticn farm IT'S time
the rich were looked after