Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-14
MEN
HEAR JUDGE HIT
At STANDPATTERS
Jersey City Jurist Makes Spirit
ed Address at Banquet
of Mems League.

In a spirited address ON Practical
Christianity" at a banquet of the Mems
League of the First Baptist Church OF
Arlington. held at the Continental
Hotel. this city, last night, Judge
Robert E.. Carey, of Jersey City. hit out
from the shoulder at the standpatter
in politics, religion, industrial life and
In the social and economic sphere. He
besought the men OF the Organization.
which has grown in Its first year from
a dozen to nearly a hundred members.
to be vital factors In their community
and to count for something.
For most Of h unfortunates brought
before him for sentence, he said, he
had only pity. They we're the outcasts
and the derelicts of society, creatures
often OF unfavorable circumstances
over which they had no control. They
were not the real criminals. he con-
tended; but the real ones were the oiti-
Eens who merely existed and who were
bent only On making money by day
and playing and resting at night and
letting the vicious elements of society
seize the reins of government and ex-
plot humanity without mercy in order
to wax wealthy.
The Judge asked his hearers TO get
into the game, rs he put It, and to bs
practical, vigorous Christians. de-
termined to better conditions In every
walk of life The men worth while
we're those bigger than their business.
something more than mere money-
grubbers or mechanical church
workers. Incidentally. he told of the
effort being made in Jersey City to get
a business like administration under
a commission form such as Ia now in
operation in Galveston. Des Moines and
other cities. Al its close the Judge was
given q rising vote of thanks.
An address was made by the Rev. DR..
Robert T. Craig, of the Summit Avenue
Baptist Church, Jersey City. He talked
at much length on h necessity of
church members taking an active in
terest in public affairs. and made 9.
strong point in favor OF restricting the
labor of children. He told how he had
been compelled to work In q wooden
mill from his tenth to his thirteenth
year n Of the degrading influences
the men and about him exer-
cised over the operatives of tender
years. He scored the capitalists who
ostentatiously chanted In the churches
while paying misery wages and
mercilessly grinding their fellow men
and women and even little children to
increase dividends.
Remarks were also made by the pas
tor of the Arlington church, the Rev. J
Franklin 5hindell; Past President VIII
lam ]. Wilson, of the Mems Leaguey
Professor Merton c. Leonard, Prin-
cipal Thad. ]. Knapp, Of The Kearny
High School, and the president of the
league, who also received a large
bouquet and holder, the presentation
being made by First v~ice-president
Axel Sydow. A letter of regret al his
inability to be present was read from
Speaker Edward Kenny. Of the House
of Assembly, and on motion of Truman
r. Cornwall a rising vote of regret was
given Mr.. Kenny, as also a vote Of con-
graduation to him on his elevation 90
the important State office.
Music was rendered by the leagues
orchestra under the direction Of Philip
u. Brockway. and the diners sang
patriotic songs.