The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-20
able and correctional iustitutions of
the state. Tho .membership Of such q

USOt0 0A1VuAO ~ - bm&ll 6B pO0blUlc
OF course consisting of an odd number
to avoid deadlocks which might nulli-
~ emciency. Politics, religion, prev
tous or prospective serviture to the
powers that be should not have voice
in the selection.
That politics can be divorced from
state institutions is mo- longer a the
ory but an established fact, an exist
ing condition in some states"
Jaae- Adams Talk
Jane Addams, head Of the Hull house
settlement 1t Chicago, and president
OF the conference, In her address ex-
pressed the spinton that philanthrop-
lists are approaching greater Uniform
ity in their aims, their studies and
their methods of dispensing charity
dividing the great body of philan-
t17opists into two groups, the charit.
sble. actuated by "pity for the poor.
Iud the radicals, fired by hatred OF
injustice" Miss Addams declared that
both are coming to realize that the
world needs certain power of com.
passion ii our social atmosphere.
Sheer experience in the complexity
Of life has at last united both groups
in sentiment as we'll as in conviction >
said Miss Addams. 'The negative pol.
Icy of relieving :destitution, or even
the more gener ous one Of preventing
1t, is giving way to the positive idea
Of raising life to its highest value.
"1f at times, the moral life seems
to be dying out Of the good old words
relief and charity, 1t has undoubted dly
filled with q. new warmth certain
words which belong distinctively tc
our own times; such words as pre-.
vention, anne melioration and social Just.
Ice"
Miss Adams declared that the
charitably inclined person seeking
legislation must, to be effective, be
armed with more than sentimental
zeal; they must appear as men OF
science. armed with statistics to sup.
psrt their pleas
Speaking OF women who must sup.
port themselves and children, Miss
Addams said that when the woman
was unable to do 30, the state furnish.
ed home for the young ones: II the
children are to besboarded, the speak.
er asked. why not+with their mothers
Many illustrations said Miss Ad.
dams, ARE possible Of social advances
due to sanitary science pushed by the
charitable, but for our purpose, moth
ing illustrates this more rapidly ant
graphically than the changes arisinf
from the movement to control and
eradicate tuberculosis. We can quite
honestly instance 4the demand for Z
more generous feeding of the health
full members Of til efamily which 1.
arising from the proper feeding of tn.
tuberculosis patient -
Miss Addams asserted that an obli
cation rests uponsthe charity and cor
section people to Es..oyer how man.
OF their: burdens oesns to them as tn,
result Of social neglect, remedial in
capacity, and a'lack of Industrial safe
guards. She dnstanced an. American
white lead factory where she said
every workman is discharged at tn,
end Of three months, not for fault,
work, but to prevent the men from de
veloping lead poisoning.
This is, of course, cheaper than tt
employ examining physicians or to in
stall safeguards" commented the
speaker. She told Of pottery factory
where she said men are chiefly en-
gagged who are already affliee.d will
tuberculosis and cancer, becaus,
knowing they have but little time t.
live, they do not protest against thu
fate of lead poisoning.
Three hundred years ago. John
Ball. looking out over England, tells
us that he, saw the great treadins
down the little. the strong beating
down the weak. and cruel men fear
ing not. and kind men daring not, ant
wise men caring not and then, witt
his heart burning within him, he erie.
aloud, And the saints in heaven for.
bearing, and yet bidding me not tt
forbear.'
If we compare our time. with his
We will admit that although the grea,
still tread down the little, and the
strong beat down the weak. that the
cruel are at last becoming afraid o.
public opinion, that kind men are
more daring in their schemes Of allie.
Walton than they used to be, that wise
men are at last learning to regard
human sympathy as one source of wis.
dom, and in that sense, at least, are
more sOlicitous. We do not venture
to say whether or not the saints ir
heaven forbear, but we are very Ger.
tain that no saint upon earth could
forbear in the presence of contempt
raneous social and Industrial condi
tions and whether saint or sinner, We
all know that the conditions can onl,
be made more righteous and more hu.
man by the increasing devotion Of
countless generations of men.
THE English economists and phil.
anthropists have started a crusade
against destitution; the most INTREPID
of revolutionists are those who have
been stung into revolt by the povert,
and degradation of Russia's peasants
the Social Democrats of Germany are
three and a half million men. vowed
to the destruction OF poverty! Wha,
part shall America take in this in.
ternational crusade of the compass.
sionate. In this standing army OF
'humanity's self pity suddenly mobil.
lied for new conquest"
FIRST EFFECTS.