Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-22

on the Circuit bench refuse to re.
appoint Judge Mack to the Juvenile
Court? There was reason for this.
as there Is for everything. Ask and
you Will find out. Every Settlement
worker. every suffragette talks loudly
about Judge Mack and the Juvenile
Court. Why was he taken out Of It;
We hope that enough voters will find
out the truth about this matter. to
satisfy themselves that the other
judges did right.
MIR. Mack has earned the III will OF
hundreds Of thousands Of Catholics by
his marked prejudice In favor Of "set.
tlement workers" while he was presid.
Ing In the Juvenile Court.
Who some settlement workers are
can best be explained by the powerful
address upon the subject delivered by
Father Curry Of New York at the
recent great Catholic Congress held
In Chicago. Following are some ex.
tracts from the address as published
in the Record.Herald Of Nov. Is. 1908:
Father Curry began by describing
the Pharisee Of st. Luke's gospel.
Then he continued In part az follows:
This Is the Pharisee Of the parable,
and df you desire to see him in real
life, just live for a while in q tene.
ment district Of any one Of the large
cities. You can't miss him, and when
yoi find him you can't get rid OF him,
for he Just sticks. He settles in your
neighborhood. and where he settles
you call that place settlement.
He has c0-workers, called resident
when they live with him In the bee.
hive, or nonresident when living In
their own homes or In fine hotels from,
which they condescend to come down
to what they are pleased to dub the
slums' and rub elbows with the poor.
All these characters you must call
workers. Their work with the poor
Is incidental and accidental; they
work with best financial results among
the rich.
MY own neighborhood, Cherry
Hill. has suffered and still suffers
from the odium cast upon 1t by set.
tlement upliSters and missionaries.
and the repeatedly published stigma
OF toughism and thuggism has stuck
SO fast that I was forced to complain
once to member OF the editorial staff
OF one Of our dailies against the cruel
injustice done to us, but he replied:
Father, we know what you say Is
true. but the people believe those
things and we must print them.'"
Then the speaker asked why settle.
ment workers did not do labor among
the rich.
II can anticipate their reply" he
said. namely. that the rich can be
taught those things In their churches,
but tell you that their churches are
empty.
I'VE have two distinct types of set.
tlement workers, the one real mis-.
sionary, an outand-out kidnaper, de.
termined, irresponsible, unavoidable
and as dangerous as live electric
wire. The other of milder type, Is
we'll parlor-trained. soft of speech. pre-.
else in manner, of nice. attractive, win.
some ways. The first, like bucca.
neer, fights her way, grabbing every
soul-prize In sight; the second wriggles
herself into the hearts OF the children
and the mothers.
"The temple of the settlement, how.
ever, shelters a third type, and a dan.
gerous one at that. He Is the natural
product of the socialism of the settle.
ment, which Is a religion of social sci.
ence, a fellowship of almost pure nat.
uralism, into which. II God Is taken
into consideration at all, 1t Is only as
fancy or circumstances may suggest or
suit.
1T Is from this brotherhood that the
shaggy-headed anarchist and the plati.
tudinous socialist are evolved. bundles
incarnate OF misguided theories and Of
energies as direfully harmful as the
bombs which, In their wicked ingenui.
ty, their too skillful and experienced
hands manufacture for the destruction
Of their fellow creatures.
1T is to this class among the work.
ers that the red nag is dear. the nag
whose color Of fire and blood betokens,
and Is an incentive to. the destruction
Of property and OF life; the nag whose
very color is the stain Of Cain. which
calls down the vengeance Of heaven"