The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-14
CHURCH PEOPLE ARE
ADDRESSED BY LUND
Socialist Mayor of Schenecta-
dy Expounds Principles
of His Party

OF His Party
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-One Of the
strangest meetings ever held in a
Brooklyn Episcopal church with the
sanction of the pastor took place in
Holy Trinity church, Montague and
Clinton streets, when the Rev. DR..
George r. Lund, mayor-elect of Schen.
ectady on the Socialist ticket and for
merly Brooklyn minister, addressed
a large audience on the principles OF
socialism.
Such meetings are usually held in
the gymnasium Of the Trinity club.
next door to the church. DR.. Mellish,
pastor of the church, announced that,
owing to the large assemblage, he felt
that every foot of seating and stand.
ing room of the gymnasium would be
taken up by the combined audience,
90 invited those in the gymnasium
to listen to DIR. Lund in the church.
Upon being introduced DR.. Lund re-
ceived a round OF applause. He said
in part:
ut sounds strange to hear applause
in an edifice OF this kind. To open the
doors of a church, however, for the
purposes of discussion, ! think is a
good thing. for II the churches do not
begin to realize that their doors
should be thrown open to the discus
sion Of problems that affect whole
whole communities, with things as
they are today, it will be only a short
time before they will not have to
open their doors at all. The time has
come when they will not get the inter-
est Of the educated classes unless they
do"
Dr. Lund then spoke of the social
problems OF the day, particularly the
question Of dealing with the pauper
situation. the labor question and the
fair distribution of the earnings of Ia
Dor.
There are thirty or forty thousand
men on the streets of Brooklyn today
who are unemployed. who are unfit
for employment and would not be
able to work II they had it offered to
them" he continued. They are will
ing to live on cents day, and will
take that five cents and spend it in a
saloon and get just enough to sustain
life in their bodies. Such conditions
rs this should not exist. There is a
way to stop 1t and think the Social
list system will do it. This kind of
type can not be changed in q day or
mOnths--it will take years.
Probably some of you good people
have taken some poor family to the
onh xUhon n,1oot}0n0d oh0,,t ~
will say: why, as soon as ! turned,
they made right back to the city, not
caring to stay where there were beau
tiful trees, pastures, ETC. Certainly
the sounds of the country would drive
them crazy. just as the sights and
sounds of the slums would drive you
crazy. They are type and that is
all there Is to it,
DR.. Lund, in finishing his address.
before inviting to audience to ask
questions, said:
DR. Beecher said at one time that
there was never convert made in
Gothic church. Well. probably there
never was. The meeting tonight Is in
. Gothic church, but we must under
stand the times now are different from
those OF DIR. Beecher, and l hope
will have made. before l leave num-
Der Of converts"
General questions were asked the
minister as to how the Socialists
would handle different questions that
would arise. and Is was the last ques-
ton that was asked him that referred
to the Mcnamara case.
ITO my mind the confessions came
very inopportunely," he said. 1T
seems too bad that this thing should
have happened at 80 critical a time.
! believed in the absolute innocence
Of the McNamaras, or l would not
have expressed myself as l have. Mil.
lions besides myself believed the same
thing.
II do believe. however, that the bus.
mess interests in Los Angeles had
something to do with the present sit
uation. also feel that advantage
should not have been taken of the
aituation az it was. Considerable ha.
tired has been occasioned between
capital and labor by the past situa'
ton, and I feel that labor will be the
better by the wedding out Of such
men as the McNamaras 1t will mean
cleaner unionism and a cleaner body
Of mon who advise them, which will
lead to much higher understanding
on their part
You will find that druggists every.
who're speak well OF Chamberlain
Cough Remedy. They know from long
experience in the sale Of it that in
cases OF coughs and colds it can al
ways be depended upon. and that it is