Evening journal., 1910-09-12
SOCIALISTS
HOLD RALLY
Irvine and Warren EnthuSe
Large Audience at Satur-
day Night Meeting
EDITOR SEES CHANGE
COMING FOR THE PEOPLE

ware Oity, ana lne Rfuen contingent
came by wagon. bringing the speakers
of he evening with them. On the
platform chairman, j. Frank Smith
permanent chairman. Upton Sinclair,
John p. Edwards, and the speakers on
the occasion, Alexander Irvine, recent
ly associate rector OF the Church Of
the Ascension, New York, who achiev-
ed fame through Sunday night social
istic after-meetings. and Fred d. War
ren. editor of the Socialist paper, the
Appeal to Reason"
Alexander Irvine. who was born an
/ Irish peasant lad, served i'm the Brit
ish navy. worked at 100 trades until
/ he began missionary work in the New
/ York slums, as the first speaker. said
/ he had been jOlted into Socialism by
! the impossibility Of helping the poor
/ by the aims method. He said preach
I ers lived I'm a Medieval atmosphere
and were the last to take up modern
thought When he went at the work
/ Of saving souls I'm the Bowery. he
| found that instead of spiritual things.
! he had to become a combined soup
/ kitchen, junk-shop and employment
agency and everything ran out. He
was afraid TO convert a man, because
he didn't know how to get him a job
! afterwards. Made frantic by the des-
perate appeals of 10000 men out of
work in New York their families
starving he told their stories in meas
ured terms to the rich. He said
they tried to solve the problem by
going down into their cellars and
sending him car loads Of old junk for
Christ's sake.
His advice now, he says, to the poor
/ is TO lie down and die rather than
take the aims OF the rich. that
pauperizing the poor is no solution
of the social problem. The rich told
him TO stick to his business of saving
souls, but he said he got so ne didn't
know what a soul was. He had TO
leave the work or he would have gone
crazy.
Then he became pastor of an East
Side church. He said he thrashet
an agent who insulted a poor widow
but he couldn't "iick" all the brut
J aeents in New York. He argued al
undertaken into putting back "A corps
) irto a casket, which he was goin
{ 70 take away for non-payment, bu
. he couldn't hope to fix up all tn
shyster undertakers in New York Tn
undertaken told him he was tn
= toughest preacher he ever met.
Mr.. Irvine said he was a Socialis
because christianity is absolutel,
impossible on the face of the eartl
without socialism. People with n,
! work cannot be Christians" he said
|, Too Much Theology.
Mr. Irvine said he found churcl
congregations water-logged Will
theology When he tried civic re
forms, he ran up against memberi
of his congregation who owned stool
in the public service corporations
Then he tried farming; he though
an Irishman ought to be able 10 rais'
potatoes. But the potatoes are still
in the ground, and the Strawberries
are still a dream. He got all thl
agricultural literature at Washington
r and he fiirted with the single takers
Now any single taXer approaching
him is in physical danger, he said.
Then came three years at tn
= Church OF the Ascension, one of tn
r. wealthiest churches in New York. II
r. the parish house on Sunday nights
q thousands of men and women, tn
majority from the East Side, gathere
and exploded" their ideas until mid
Il night. The meetings were famou
Il all over the country. Everybod
4 could say what he wished. A mont
ago the church vestry grew nervous
p, according to the rector, and ordere
u the meetings stopped. Mr. Irwin
e then began lecturing.
o Suggestions for Roosevelt.
j. Upton Sinclair introduced Mr.. War
ren, as the man who had suggeste
!. writing the Jungle" to him, ha
- first published II, and made il fnan
Is cially possible to write #.
Mr.. Sinclair said he took the pres
e ent opportunity TO say that many O
II the Roosevelt policies" came I'm tn
e first place from the Appeal to Rea
l. son. whether Mr.. Roosevelt knew
m or not. He mentioned the followin
s. movements first advocated i'm the So
n cialist paper: The White Slave in
J. vestigation. the Congressional con
g. mittee investigation into Mexican cor
le ditions, the saving of the lives q
m Meyer and Haywood, and the agita
d ton against the Chicago meat pacl
ers. Mr.. Sinclair said that Roosevelt
admitted the investigation was starte
nc because the President was receivin
Of a hundred letters a day from reader
ir of the Jungle" Mr. Sinclair ais
~ oAAA AAoA Ai0NAAA6 l'A AAaAAiHA W Il
he accomplished by the agitation, ths
rs things were worse now than they eve
were
to Mr.. Warren was greeted with a
IN ovation, Which lasted several mil
er utes. The editor is under sentence
re six months imprisonment for Offerin
er to reward anybody taking ex-Gove,
TX nor Taylor Of Kentucky. back to thi
M state. the official having moved
Iy Indiana under indictment Of murd'
g. in Kentucky.
an During his Imprisonment. thOusan.
he OF Warren Defenders" are pledged
,k secure five new subscriptions a we,
to the Appeal to Reason" The Sc
tence has already proved a fine a
he vertisement for the paper.
no Nation Bound and Gagged.
Mr. Warren took for his text, "Yl
Of are bound and gagged politically. al
nd slaves industrially" He asserted tn
nd the laws we're invariably interpret
,is against the worker. and in favor
70 the owning class. He referred to {
+ unjust fellow servant doctrin'
90 whereby a worker cannot recei
on damages If the carelessness of a f.