The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-03-31
D0GTGIl: or square DEAL
Distinguished Worker Among the
Working Man Talks From the Stand
point of the Worker Along Lines
Pertinent in Kenosha

day afternoon in the Rhode Opera
House, under the auspices of the
Young Mems Christian Association,
and there were some four or five humid
red men present. The association
never did a better thing for Kenosha
in the way Of bringing expert men in
different departments Of life IS activi-
ties and our men together, than it did
yesterday and it should have the
hearty thanks of the community. The
Jacoby orchestra gave several selec-
tions at half past two O'Clock, and
Mr.. Morgan sang two solos. Rev.
Edgar T. Farrill of the First Congre-
gational church offered prayer, and
G. H. Curtis, president of our Y. NJ.
c. A., introduced the speaker of the
afternoon.
Thus the men of Kenosha were Civ
en- an opportunity to hear speaker
upon a subject of which he is com
plete master. The subject was the
uppermost in the minds of men, en-
ployed men, employer of men, sub
ject Of vital interest to every man and
to the life of this nation. The man
who spoke has been sent for from
every part of the land to address
crowds of men; to advise men in priv
ate council, and is the recognized
authority and a wise discreet courage
Gus leader in the realm of social
economies.
Sent for by the famous Sunday
Evening Club to- speak in Orchestra
Hall, Chicago, last evening, Charles
Stelzle consented to stop en- route and
give an hour or two to the men of
Kenosha Mr.. Stelzle s childhood and
boyhood were spent in New York City
in the midst of direct proverty, and he
felt the blighting effects in his home
of sweat shop methods. He began
work for pay when eight years of age;
became a master workman and is to-
day an active member of labor
union. At the same time he is as
active in the interests of the Christian
church holding a certificate as a
preacher in the Presbyterian denomina-
ton. He looks at the situation from
the view point of the labor union mem
Der and of the church member Rare
ly, if ever, has there been put before
men of this city fairer statement Of
actual facts pertaining bothto the union
and the church than he presented in
his remarkable talk Sunday Con
vincingly and conclusively he stated
the faults and the failures, the SPLEEN
did characteristics and fine ideals of
each, and in himself was a living ex-
ample of his subject "The. Square
Deal'
While there is no space to bring for
ward the several very strong points
in the hour address, it will probably
be of most interest just at this time
to call attention to the statement he
made regarding the saloon and the labor
union and the working man. Having
shown that today the church and the
labor union are unit, when taken at
their best, as regards the uplift and
the practical benefit of the working
man, his family and his home inter
ests, he said: 'But the saloon is dead
against the working man s every in
terest. The labor union stands for
making every workman a better work
man; the saloon stands for making
every man worse workman. The
labor union stands for better wages
for the working man; the saloon
stands for poorer wages for the work.
ing man. The labor union stands for
making the working man more compe-
tent; the saloon stand for making the
working man less competent. The la
Dor union stands for making home
happy for the working man. The sa-
loon stands for making the working
man s home unhappy and wretched.
Labor union stands FOR the ed
ucation and happiness of his child
rem; the saloon stands >for the
ignorance, privation and unhappi-
ness of his children The labor
union stands for higher citizenship;
the saloon stands for dishonesty and
corruption. In a word, the saloon
stands for about everything that the
labor union does not stand for. but
condemns
Mr.. Stelzle made the prophecy that
the time was fastening fast when the
great body of workingmen, seeing the
curse that the saloon puts upon his
life, the blight on his home will rise
lup and put the saloon out of bust
ness. In uttering this prophecy he
did not speak as labor union mem
Der, or as church member or as a
prohibitionist, but as man among
men who was deeply interested in his
fellow men, had mingled with them in
every walk in life, had studied them
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