The Cairo bulletin., 1910-05-20
JANE ADDAMs' SPEECH.

81. LOUIS, May I9.---JAne Addau1S,
head Of the Hull House Settlement
at Chicago, and president OF the con.
ference. in her address expressed the
opinion that philanthropists are ap.
preaching greater uniformity In their
aims, their studies and their meth.
ods o. dispen ing charity.
Dividing the great body of phiian-
thropists into two groups, the char
table, actuated by pity for the
poor and the radicals. "flred BY
hatred OF injustice" Miss Adams de-
clared that both are coming To real-
isss that the world needs 4 certain
power of compassion in our social ut.
mosphere.
Sheer experience in the complex
ity Of life has at least united hoth
groups in sentiment as we'll as In
conviction" said Miss Adams. t'The
negative policy of relieving destitr-
tion, or even the more generous one
of preventing it, is giving way to the
positive idea Of raising life to it,
highest value.
If at times; the moral life f0eals
to Dc dying ont OF the good Old words
relief and charity, it has undoubted-
ly filled with new warmth certain
words which belong distinctively TO
our own times; such words az pre-
vention, ameloration and social jne
tice."
Miss Addams declared that the
aharitably 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 up.
port their pleas.
Speaking OF women who must sup
port themselves and children, Migs
Addams said that when the woman
was unable to do so, the ftate frrn-
'shed home for the young ones. Ii
he children are to be boarded, the
speaker asked, why not with their
motRers? f''
Niuhy iitunblutipHaf Sdld MISS AT
lams, are possible of tocial adj
fances due to sanitary science push
ed by the charitable, but for our pur.
pose, nothing illustrates this more
rapidly and graphically than the
changes arising from the movement
to control and eradicate tuberculosis
We can quite hone tly instance the
iemand for more generous feeding
OF the healthful members of the fam
lily which Is arising from the proper
seeiing OF the tuberculosis patient"
Miss Adams asserts that an obli-
CATION rests upon the charity and
correction people to discover how
many OF their burdens come to them
47 the result of social neglect. remed-
lal incapacity. and lack OF indus
rial SAT guards. She instanced an
American white lead factory where
ibe said every workman Is .dischargy3
sds+at the emil of three months. Stint
Orr faulty work but to prevent thJl
men from developing lead poisoning
This Is, of course, cheaper than to
employ examining physicians or 70
Install safeguards" commented the
speaker. She told OF pottery fact
ory where she said men are chiefly
engaged who are already afflicted
with tuberculosis and cancer, because
they have but little time to
live they do not protest against the,
fate Of lead poisoning
Three hundred years ago. Jahnl
Ball, looking out over England. tells
US that he saw the great treading
'lown the little, the strong beating
lown the weak. and cruel men fear
'ng not, nud kind men daring not.
md wise mn daring not and then
With shis heart burning within him,
'e cries aloud "And the saints IN
ieaven forhearing, and yet bidding
ne not to forebear' n
III we compare our time wltt;l f
VIZ WIN almit that aIlho1