Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-25
TEDDY'S HUNT COADS NATIVES
Ugandans Demand Arithmetic to
Compute Animals Killed.
PLEA FOR AFRICAN MISSIONS
Secretary Of American Tract Society
Speaks Before Assembly on Needs
of Dark Continent-More
Funds for Negroes.

DENVER. Cola. May 2l.-The board Of
foreign missions wants more arithmetics.
These books are wanted by the natives in
Uganda who wish to he able 70 compute
the number Of lions and tigers and CRATES
slain by our beloved former president"
This was one Of the requests madk by DIR.
Judson Swift, y. D.. of New YORK. secre-
tary of the American Tract society. who
spoke before the general assembly Of the
Presbyterian church today.
In presenting the report Of the society
he pleaded for more funds. Necessary
Roadway could not be effected until dona-
tions were greater. He found a new cause
for what he believed was a lack ~ interest
in Christianity in America
The greatest work yet 20 I've done Ivy the
church, he said, tiles IN the American
home. America never will be snved until
the threshold Of the home is crossed. II Is
all very well to prech from the chu, ches,
but the home remains IN :hri.t'nn. You
must get into the home Cor thar is where
the fault lies"
It was In speaking of the lack Of funds
and the aid rendered the Board Of Foreign
Missions In the preparation OF literature
that he found occasion TO refer to Theodore
Roosevelt. He said that while II was not
the province OF the tract society to pub
lish arithmetics. yet 1t would he done, be-
cause the natives Of Ugar ada needed them.
The purpose, he supposed, was for the
computation of animals slain in the African
jungle by the beloved former president"
The reference brought a storm Of applause.
DR.. E. P. Cowan Of Pittsburg, treasurer
OF the Board OF Freedmen, spoke In the
behalf Of the report asking more funds
for the relief OF the negroes Of the south.
Big Devotional
Nine great devotional services marked
yesterdays activities of the Presbyterian
general assembly at Central Presbyterian
church. DR.. James NJ. Barley, the mod
orator, delivered his annual sermon to the
assembly. He reviewed at length the work
Of the church throughout the world.
A popular meeting in behalf of home and
foreign missions was held In the afternoon
and In the Denver Auditorium the Rev.
Charles Stelzle of New York addressed
several thousand laboring men on the SUBJ
ject of labor conditions over the United
States.
Last evening five popular meetings In as
many different churches in behalf OF vari-
GUS movements were held. The principal
meeting was in Central church, where the
subject Of Christian education was taken
A popular meeting In behalf Of the
young people Of the church. another in
the interest of the Presbyterian board Of
another for systematic benefit
cence, and still another one for Sabbath
observance made IN the evening program.
On the subject, "A Square Deal Rev.
Charles stelzle said in part:
steIEle IN Labor and Church.
The most important thing about the la
Dor question is to give the other fellow a
square deal. The average w%orkingman
Is too close to the labor question TO under
stand II, but what is true of the average
workingman, is probably just as true of
the average employer. Thousands OF men
are being deluded by the vain hope that II
they can abolish the labor union they will
have solved the labor question. These men
forget that the labor union is not the la
Dor question. II every labor union In ex-
istence were abolished today, the labor
would still be present.
The trades union is a symptom. It IL
the effect and not the cause OF the in
evolution through which we are
1t has been accused OF numerous
indiscretions and there have been occasions
WieH SUITE employers nave been 1uStitied
in relentlessly fighting unreasonable de-
mands, but one need not go very far back
In the history Of the church to find dupll-
Gated everything that we deplore in or
ganized labor today even down to the boy
cotting and the smuggling. However, else
the church and labor may disagree. we
can at least sympathize with each other
In the mistakes that we have both made.
"rhe trades union is, according to Car
roll D.. Wright, the greatest force in the
United states for Americanizing the immi-
grant. II demands equal pay to men and
women for equal work; IT supplies a liberal
education in its meeting halls and through
the labor press; II opposes child labor; II
struggles for better sanitary conditions: It
is an influence for more temperate living;
II invites membership regardless Of race,
creed or color and 1t is fighting for uni
versal peace.
Will Ever Remain Unsettled.
1.-THE labor question will never be settled
until the last days work Is done. Our ideals
are constantly advancing and no, matter
how high our ethical standard, the next
generation will declare that our conception
OF the solution of the labor problem has
been altogether Inadequate. The day will
when socialism will be looked upon
as a species OF economic slavery, and were