Evening journal., 1914-03-11
By the Rev. Dr. George Edward Reed.

NNol lItlf oUNudi-tN afAhu iNtIHlNil Nu-
pors, exposed hourly to death in its
most horrid forms md asks what can
be made out of a nslD living a life like
that. Follow him. ~ iseuing from the
bowels of the earth, lie moves to the
crowded and CONTROLLERS barracks, de-
risiyely called his hume. Behold the
squalor. the filth, tho lack Of privacy. the
noise. the clamor. tho buso fed faces. the
pnched and hungry forum. TIE lack Of
every refining inhuence. and ask what
possibility Of happiness OF content, is
neres
Look upon MIN as h- tolls in the fac
tory, where amid tine rattle and war of
incessant machinery. the whrling Of
countless shafts and drums and pulleys,
the days of the years of his life are
passed Study him. az like a modern
Vulcan. covered with sweat and CRIME.
and SCOT. amid the roar Of furnace and
the blaze OF ilying sparks. he tolls TO
make the hard. insensatc iron subser-
Went 60 his will
60 into the sweat shops fostering in
your great metropolis. Look az the acres
of sad faced women-merc children,
many OF them stitching their lives
away for the beggarly pittance that
crouching by their door. Listen as they
sing their terrible song:
Work. work work
My labor never flags.
Consider the wages.
A table. n broken chair.
This naked floor.
And a wall so blank
Thin shadow they thank
For sometimes falling there"
Consider all and ask what of man
hood, Of womanhood, is possible herey
'if this does not sufhce. he saws. 80
further. Enter Wonder tenement houses;
climb the winding staircases Look at
these throngs, living where privacy, de-
cency. cleanliness, health, are impossi-
ble Tell me what chances have these
wrctches in the great battle of life
what chance for earth-what hope of
heaycnf Little. indeed" And our re-.
former is right. Every day they sink
but the deeper in all that is earthly.
sensual, deyilish, even while surrounded
by churches. by schools. by philanthropi-
cal associations. by all the appliances OF
wealthy and puissant civilization.
boasting that in a single year more is
being done for the ameliorating of
human ills. than in oldcn days was ac-
complished in a century.
3 What is TO be donef Instant with the
question is the answer: Give to those
miners. those factory slaves. those shop.
men, those sweat house girls a decent
chance.
-Give 10 the laboring man a day short
OH - 1 l. \.
him to enjoy a sight OF the faces of wife
and children. GIVE him opportunity TO
get out into the fields. TO breathe free
lair. Break up those dreadful tenements
I in which men swarm as bees in a hive:
open up the streets so that Gods wind.
can enter. Provide sewers that shall not
be breeders OF disease and death; cap
ture the streams upon a thousand hin
sides; pour their mvigorating floods IN
abundant measure, through all those dis
NAL dcns OF poverty. ignorance and dirt
tear down those squares Of dilapidate'
houses, the aboues of sQualor. of in
fanny. of shame; construct in their stea,
parks, where trees shall grow, birds shal
sing. and happy chiuren play; run ~
trolley lines out in the distant mca
dows; transport thithcr the population
of your crowded wards; provide cheal
fares. build comfortable homes; furnisl
baths and libraries and schools. and n
a generation You viii effect a transfer
nation that will be a spectacle fol
angels and for men.
DO these things" saws the socialist
'and the wilderness places of humal
society viii bud and blossom as the rose
Paradise lost will be regained. Will
under the invigorating influence of al
environment at once stimulating an'
Transforming, humanity Will push, witt
iconquering stride, toward the consum
'mation Of its destiny. The Philosopher
Stone will have been found at last-th
stone that maketh all things new
l. 4 beautiful dream; one that has at
tracted the thought and filled the heart
ioi men well nigh from the time whel
man began 10 eat his bread in the swca
OF his brow; but. one. nevertheless. tina
has never had realization. and. in III
nature of things, never can have. vii
liam Booth tried all that for twent.
years. and what has he accomplished
Backed by millions OF pounds, urged o
by queen and prince and nobility. 10
years he toiled to transport from dark
est Soudon the hundreds of thousand
'of men and wOmcn-a a million strong
from heatheni-m a. dark. as cruel. a
desperate as can be found in any So
called hcathcn land-out into green fielo
and pleasant homcs-and with what re
suit. The saving of a remnant. int
whose vacant places other swarms hav
stepped. swelling 60 even larger propol
tions the ranks of the hungry. the dis
solutc. the idle. the discontcnted. tn
unhappy and the miserable. New Yor
has had similar experience. So has CHI
cago.
The tearing down of crazy tenemcnts
the opening of streets; the erection {
new and imposing buildings. make III,
Points respectable. but. after all. as III
old 'five Points goes. another rise
in another quarter. Light and air. sew
.crage and comfortable homes. hooks an
picturcs are all 10 be desired, but.
human experience be true. they are nc
: the sufficient panacea Of human ill
They mitigate the discomfort of m
human family. but when they have don
all the deep-sca loneings of the huma
heart for something that can minister {
"a mind diseased; plucl, out rootc