New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
BouckWhite Says He Wrote
Clergyman He Would
Make Sunday Visit.
"MOTHER" JONES HERE
TO SEE ROCKEFELLER
Militant Strike Leader Feels Uii'
derlings Have Not Told Mine
Owner the Truth.

The Rev. Dr. Cornelius Woelfhn VINO
on.a,rsa tho arrest OF Bouck White and
Ten other Socialists for interruptng morn
,,y service al the Fifth Av. Baptist
Church Sunday. will be forced into the
West side Court as witness for the oe-
fence this morning. Or. Woelfkin spent
most Of yesterday lodging process serV-
ers. according to White. and was only
found late in the afternoon. He VIII have
n admit the receipt Of the letter-un-
enswered-in which the former clergyman
advertised his coming says White VINO
contends that such admission will imply
a readiness TO receive the visit therein
mentioned.
The Rev. Percy stckney Grant rector
% the Church OF the Ascension VIII
oIinch the testimony Of Dr. Woefkin' oe-
clares White. .,
OR Grant will show that speech such
as intended 10 make yesterday Woulu
NOT have seriously interrupted the SER
vice" he said. land that religious ser
ices are elastic enough TO permit OF such
interruption. c,
vvbollv unconcerned about White. Sin
clair or the rest Of them, Mother" Jones
V-,ho hears her eighty-thrce years with the
cav strength of youth, hustled into her
room at the Union Square Hotel yes'5r-
dav. where she has come all the way
from Colorado to do what all the otheis
have failed to do-see Rockefeller
"No. don't bother with underlings or
so-called agitators AT ALL" she said l
shall be here two weeks, and shall then
go 10 Washington. where l hope TO see
the President 1 hope TO talk with MI
Rockefeller and tell him what / Know
Surrounded as he is by men who must De
b,essed. he can't know the truth. but
have lived with the miners for thirty
years.
81 know the way the miners minds
work. know, more than that the way
In which their women and children were
burned 10 death at Ludlow, oil oelhg
thrown on the tents before they were
fred know of one case in which a
little boy twelve years old. was butchered
while carving a drink Of water 10 his
mother. who lay rnortally wounded few
wards away. I know'-she clenched her
fists and her blue eyes snapped Ike Steel
and then, very gently, she relapsed into
benignity and smile.
1.-THE churches? Let them alone. Let
them mind their own business. But tell
you that the ushers were more TO blame
at Rockefellers church than the social
lists.
''The trouble in Colorado7 It's due to
robbery and oppression Of the miners.
They dig 5000 pounds and only get credit
for one ton. If you carry union card
you're lucky TO come out on a stretcher,
lucky to come out at all"
Dr. Grant has for two years. ever
since the dismissal Of the Rev. Alex
ander Irvine, assistant rector at the
Church of the Ascension, for his too pro-
nounced socialism, shown strong leanings
toward radical political doctrines. He re-
Gently told The Tribune that he might
be called a socialist" and his support Of
Irvine ut the time Of the latters diff
culties with the vestry reused much hos
tility within the parish. Matters were
snoothed over. however, and members OF
the parish are now wondering whether
his support Of White will cause the old
storm. which his friends quelled two years
ago to break out anew.
White, meanwhile declaims against
movement" TO rid the churches Of their
socialist preachers. He cites himself,
Irvine and DIR. Gamble. Of St Marks, as
instances Of ministers dismissed for their
socialism. and expressed great admiration
for the conduct of Dr. Grant, who spoke
in his favor in police court Sunday night.
MANY women are interesting them
selves in this case" he added, moved TO
f. possibly by the oppression and brutal
fly Of one church 10 another. look for
an acouittai, but If convicted ana given
the alternative Of a fine or Jail, l shall
probably take the latter. Hunger strike?
No. Why should I? II I were TALLER
and a man hunger-striked, I'd let him
starve.
oThe situation needed publicity, and
nv act opened up the question Did Jesus
teach the immortality Of being rich| II
modern critical scholarship shows he ala,
the issue becomes one which affects all
Christendom."