The Greeley tribune., 1912-02-29
YANS SPEECH NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION tn PR0GRSSV LITERATURE

sN's " ue oetter and the Worll
.aunot De better unless man Is put
upon the throne and money is made
ms servant, Cloud applause.) II
would be very risky thing for us
70 educate men, for us to train men
,or us to enlarge their power to do
harih' as well as to do good, unlegs
we put back of those larger power.
heart development that will a5-
sure society that those larger poV
erS VIII be ample for the advancu-
ment OF the public welfare.
However, to relieve you of ap-
prehension and place your faith
upon firm foundation, I must 90
a step farther and tell you that the
worlds moral progress is as certain
and as rapid as the worlds intel
lectual progress. In fact, if the mai
ter was LETT to me to decide l would
say that just at this time the eyI
denee of the worlds moral awaken
ing is even greater than the eyi-
dence of the worlds intellectual au-
vance, and that means to the over
throw of plutocracy.
Let me show you how many Or
gani2ed efforts are being put forth
now for the lifting of the standard
OF morals, In our own country
within the last ten years somethinE
like million men have been
brought together in mems clubs and
Bible classes in the varioUs
churches, Ten years ago your min
isters will tell you that those clubA
and Bible classes were not numer-
Gus; now there is scarcely a churcn
of any size Of any denominatioD
that has not its mems clubs Of
Bible classes. There are more men
studying the Bible today, discussinE
it together and trying to find the
light to guide their path than we
have known before in this country
After the formation of these ind
yidual clubs they were brought to
gether In national brotherhood
The church with which ! am con
nected organized its national broth-
erhood less than tive years ago
Now nearly every important de
nomination has national brotheT-
hood and these in turn have been
brought together under the com
mittee OF '9T which has charge or
the mems forward movement, am
this organization has set the mari
at three millions OF men. But that
is only one group of organization.
We have the Laymen's mission
airy association, young ana grow
ing; the Christian Endeavor society
met in st. Paul two years ago las
summer and reported "A membersh) p
of two million and half. 1t me-
last summer and reported mem
bership of three million and hall,
million added in two years. Am
since that time the additions have
been so numerous that now they
claim four million, and that is only
two years and a half since they had
two million and a half. Then there
is the Y. NJ. C, A. 1t has mem
bership of about a million and hal
that membership in the United
states. The Christian Endeavor
society was born i'll the Unitel
states and the idea was exported
the Y. NJ C. A. was born in Great
| Britain and the idea was imported
hope you will pardon me If turR
aside for moment to say th'rt
| there are things as valuable as
! ideas than can be imported "ithout
having to come through the custom
house. (Applause.)
am asked what ! think ABOUT
| the republican nomination. can
easily excuse myself in regard 10
that question; but they want to
| kow what about the demOIratic
nomination. Well, don't know.
They ask me who ought to be nouli-
mated. cannot tell. Sometimes
they ask me if | have any choice,
and if | think it would help or hurt
the man if made my choice known.
Everything is being talked about N
politics and it is getting worse and
| il will keep getting worse; aiteI
| while we will have some speeches.
brass bands, red fire, pages aud
pages OF editorial space giving ne
| representation and misrepreseuta-
ton. We are all interested in poll
tics, and yet in the last presideuual
election campaign the amount -
pended by the two leading parties
was less than two million dollars
and half; the republican commit,
| tee had million nine huhuIeu
| thousand, our committee hau slA
! hundred thousand. | think the con-
| tributions were rather uneQu4ls
divided between the two PaEllss
but the two managed on less LAaI
two million and a half. We spelu
| five millions a year on the ! M' y
| A. That is twice as much as suI
presidential campaign. Is not tAat
! a good showing? But it is belle
than that, because we only have one
presidential campaign in four years
while the Y. NJ. C. A. work goes on
every year So therefore we must
compare expenditures by the Iu1I
years, that you must multiply ,.9 W.
| million by four that gives elEut
/ millions or four times as murh 10
spend on the Y. NJ. C. A, rs III H.',
tional politics. Is not that gooa
| showing? But it is even better man
that because with publicity MS 10
| campaign contributions we are ilh5
" to spend less in national politics.
/ While the y. Nj. c. A. work increases
Ione now before this ratio of eight
to one is swelled to sixteen TO one,
! and then who will object to 10 u