Arizona republican., 1913-07-07
PULPIT AND BAR
 ARE |ND0LENT
Rev: A: J. McKelway of Washington Says Min lstry and Law Is Inactive In Cause of Social Jus tlce In United States.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH1

ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATCH1 SEATTLE, July 6.-In the annual sermon before the National Confer ence of Charities and Correction here today Rev A. J. McKelway, of Wash
 lhSton, D. C., secretary of the na- tlonal child labor committee for the
 southern states, charged the pulpit and
 the bar with being indolent in the cause of social justice and therefore barrier to it's realization
 We have had at these annual ser mons to the conference" said Dr. Mckelway, many eloquent and stir
 ring messages from the church to the social worker In this new demand for social justice, we have the social workers message to the church. 1t is
 true that we have with us those whom Micah of old stigmatized as priests that teach for hire and prophets that
 divine for money it is also true that the American pulpit, whether repre-
 sented by Protestant minister, Catho- lie priest. or Jewish rabbi, has not vet fully awakened to the demand for social justice that rings in our ears
 am convinced that the great ob-
 stacles to enlisting the powerful
 agency of the church in the cause of
 
 pulpit. But the pulpit is not alone
 in resenting the necessity of expIor-
 ing new fields of thought. The bar is
 reluctant to consent to constitutional convention which may upset the pre- ! Cedent of a hundred or a thousand years and make necessary a new line 1 of decisions
 We have gone far beyond the
 period of human or animal sacrifices l to propitiate Deity. We I0e in q
 more refined age of the world. Now 1 We work men twelve hours day,
 seven days of the week at wages barely sufficient to support life. and
 we proptiate by putting into effect a beautiful plan of WOrkmens cOmpen- sation. We atone for the facts of | poverty and misery and inhuman toll and needless accidents and deaths by 1 building libraries out of the income l of a bond issue whose interest is paid in bloody sweat We crush our competitors through the employment of spies as book-keepers in rival cs- tablishments, through rebate arrange ments with cOmplacent railroad SyS- tems and we endow universities and foundations for the instruction of youth and the alleviatiOn of human suffering. We work women and
 
 a cay, v- resist every effort to raise 1 the age limit for working children and 1 to shorten the hours for the mothers | of the race and then out of the | profits of their industry beyond that | which satisfies the stockholders. we i. build schools and churches and hos | pitals and playgrounds and do all | manner of betterment work. We erect | tenements with so little regard for l light and air and every decency that l we would not house in them our cat tie or x<r houses lest they die, and | rent these to our fellOWmen, counting | the unearned increment as the capital on which we must have returns. and | then we build mission churches for the poor and make large gifts for the conversion of heather into what we think is Christianity. We kill men by the thousand every year on our railroad systems that we may pay dividends on Watered stock and tax every man who must buy the myriad products of soil and forest and mine that enter into transportation. and we are the pillars of the church and the ornaments of the state. We hire women by the thousands at wages below the cost of decent living and fill the houses of prostitution with our NlCIlnS, put we die idISt 'pli- tributorS to the Associated Charities and the Magdalen homes.
 "Men do not always know what justice is, and their thoughts of Js- tice widen with the process of the suns, but if there is any current of American thought today that is run ming all in one direction, it is the demand among the masses of men for justice. We can tell it's course by the nipples on the surface, when some obstacle rearS it's head. Privilege or any kind must go down before the rush of that current. There are some who fear that much that is precious shall also be swept away if the stream becomes a torrent. There are some who believe that the stream will run red with the blood of revolution ere if finds the level that it seeks. So IL may be. if the demand for justice grows at the same time intelligent ana and justice is denied
 Tn an address on vocational training in institutions, delivered before the conference this evening, F. J. Sessions of Davenport, la, entrusted the re- suits of the American school system with those of Germany, to the dlspar- agement of the former.
 "The training of American youth For vocational independence,' said MT. Sessions. "has been of so little "on- ,ern to the 1aw-making bodies, with 1 ! few notable exceptions, that the subject has had only superficial con ,ideration, but strong demands are now being made for remodeling the school systems and the substitution ,f art for science in teaching Re- Iisiop and readiustment are going on.