New-York tribune., 1912-04-21
WARSH|P TO VISIT MEX|CO BRYAN EXTOLS RELIGION
Gives 1t Credit for All Good There
Is in Him.
HELPS FORWARD MOVEMENT
John Mitchell Says Workers Be.
lieve Church Should Aid Fight
for Eight. Hour Day.

William Jennings Bryan spoke to sew
eral hundred men yesterday afternoon In
Union Square under the auspices Of the
Men and Religion Forward Movement on
THE Claims Of the Christian Religion on
the Men OF North America" The meeting
was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr..
j. B. Remensnyder, of the Madison Avenue
Lutheran Church, who was introduced by
ex-Congressman William s. Bennett, the
chairman. DR.. Remensnyder prayed for the
bereaved of the Titanic disaster, and then
the audience sang Nearer, My God, to
Thee" A motion picture man on the plat
form had his camera trained on the bare
headed men in the audience while all this
was going on.
Il need not tell you that I've been ac-
tive in politics." Mr.. Bryan began. Let
me say, friends. 1 have no intention, how
ever, OF reducing my interest in govern
ment. II had been elected President Of
the United States I would have done what
I could for the people. If had succeeded
in bringing any good upon this country 1t
would have been small in comparison with
what every individual can do for the coun-
try through the Men and Religion Forward
Movement. I don't want any of you to take
my life as guide, but want to tell you
this-I give to religion the credit for all the
good there is in me.
Mr.. Bryan said religion was the supreme
influence In life and no man could hope to
be satisfied with himself unless he was
moulded by a great conception Of his
Creator. The key to Gladstone's life, he
ha Mr.
Gladstone was the most potent personality
in the world. Mr.. Bryan said he had a
mighty poor opinion Of men who scoffed
at the Bible and failed to come across with
anything that looked at all like even fair
substitute.
IT wouldn't for any amount Of money ex-
change the environment Of home which
gave me Christian education" he cried
turning to the young men UP front. young
men! When I die I don't want any man tc
bring TO my bedside g. copy Of Darwin's
Descent OF Man In that great hour
shall want some one to read to me the
Twenty-thi Psalm"
Among those on the platform with Mr.
Bryan were William C. Amos. president oi
the 10th Assembly District Republican Club
Dr.. Thomas Darlington, Henry w. Jessup'
Frank Harvey Field, Captain D. A. Nesbit
Rishop d. r Hendrix OF Kansas City; the
Rev DR.. Canon Dixon. Of Toronto: John D.
Rockefeller. tr., James Talcott and John
Mitchell. vice-president Of the American
Federation OF Labor.
Last evening in Carnegie Hall Mr
Mitchell spoke to large gathering on
"The Church in Relation to the Industrial
Problem" He said in part:
"It Is imperative that the factory and
mining laws of all our states should b'
greatly extended and should be enforced
with the utmost vigor. Employers shoulC
be required to equip machinery and work
Ing places with every practical safety de
vice: the state SHOULD establish museum
OF safety devices and Industrial hygiene
the force of factory and mine inspector
should be largely increased and the inspect
ors should be removed from the sphere o
political influence and trained especially TO
their work. It should not be necessary ina
a thousand miners be blown into eterhiI'
or a hundred and fifty women burned In
factory to secure the enactment and en-
forcement Of laws TO protect the lives
the workers"
Discussing the eight-hour work day, Mr.
Mitchell said: "The unanimous testimony o
all competent observers has been to tn
effect that a reduction in the hours of labol
almost invariably means an improvement
I'm the whole moral tone of the community
a raising OF the standard of living, growtf
in the self-respect of the workingman anc
diminution, not an increase In drunk
enness violence and crime. The working
men believe the Church should recognize
and indorse their position in demanding the
limitations of the working day 10 eigh
hours"