MAN'S INHUMANITY
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cent laws. But I have seen commit
tees of manufacturers, many of them
members foremost in church work,
opposing these laws because it meant
a curtailment of profit. Yet ministers
and ' laymen often wonder why the
workingmen seem to have a prejudice
CKHlnst ihe churon ' hav heard
ministers time and again thunder
against anarchy and violence, but the
1'itlpit's thundering against the greed
for gold that is the chief cause of
anarchy and violence has been con
fined wholly to the index. In a prom
inent Lincoln church one Sunday
night I heard an appeal for help for
a former minister who had been down
in the depths of degredation and wa
struggling back, his health broken and
Ms family suffering. There were up
wards of"200 men in that congrega
tion and the collection netted au even
$8, an average of less than 4 cents
a man. The following Sunday after
noon I attended a meeting of my
union, with leas than sixty men pres
ent, and an appeal for help for a sick
oud disabled member resulted in a
voluntary collection of $22.40, an
average of 30 cents per man.
I have stood on Broadway at the
head of Wall street, in front of Trin
ity church, a corporation controlling
property worth upwards of $150,000,
000, and saw men and women worth
in the aggregate two thousand mil
lions or more, walking through the
gieat church portals to worship the
Man of Nazareth who had no .place
where He could lay His head. Within
two minutes' walking, distance I saw
a room ten feet one way by twelve
feet another way, a ceiling seven feet
Mgh, one window opening upon a
ventilating Bhaft and the door open
ing from a hall In which there was
no window not even a skylight. In
this room were twelve men, women
and children working on the "bar
gains" that our wives and daughters
and sisters fight for on "bargain day."
These workers averaged from thirteen
to sixteen hours a day, and the speed
iest worker- who made the best
wages averaged less than 90 cents
for thirteen or fourteen hours' work.
Seven of these people ate and slept
in this room. With me were a phy
sician and a Salvation Army captain.
The physician told me there were not
lees than five 'Infectious diseases in
the room, among them scarlet fever,
diptheria and varlloid, and the Sal
vation Army captain told me that
there were not less than 10,000 rooms
last like it within a radius of one-half
mile from where we stood. There are
four influences for good at work in
these breeding places of poverty, filth.
disease and crime: The "slummers
who visit from curiosity and scatter
money among the poor like they would
peanuts to the monkeys in the Zoo,
for their dollars buy food and med
Icine even If given without thought
of charity; the College Settlement
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conditions,"' the Salvation Army,
whose members are coming nearer to
following in the footsteps of the Naz
arene than are the members of 99
l,er cent of the orthodox churches, and
last, but most beneficial of all, the
captains, lieutenants and privates of
Tammany Hall the most berated,
probably the most corrupt, political
machine in the world, but the cause
of more happiness, more comfort,
more hope in these tenement hells
than all the churches in Gotham com
bined. I speak from a thorough knowl
edge of the facts when I say that
Tp.mmany Hall does more every, yeaf
foi the poor of New York than all
orthodox denominations in that great
metropolis. I went to Coney Island;
once on one of "Dry Dollar." Sullivan's
annual outings for the women and
children of his district. The Im
mense excursion steamer was loaded
to the guards with women and child
ren gathered from the slums, from
the noisome tenements and from
the damp and foul basements that
paid tribute to Trinity and filled the
purses of elders and deacons in other
churches. This trip afforded hun
dreds on that boat their one yearly
glimpse of a sky unobstructed by
smoke, their one yearly glimpse of
the blue of the ocean, their one year
ly breath of pure air, their one yearly
sight of trees and grass and flowers,
and their one day in the year of
plenty to eat. In addition to plenty
of wholesome food, "Dry Dollar" Sul
livan provided lemonade by the hogs
head, ice cream by the hundred gal
lons and candy by the bucket. There
v.as plenty of music, and as good as
money could buy. The food left over
was carefully packed in baskets and
given to the widows and orhpans, with
often a quiet contribution of cash by
Sullivan's watchful lieutenants. For
weeks before this event Sullivan's
lieutenants had been working night
and day seeking out those whom this
gieat holiday would benefit.
On another occasion I sat in the
headquarters of a "charity organiza
tion" God save the mark of a big
New York denomination. I was told
by a man who was In a position to
know that every dollar really ex
pended by that organization in help
ing the unfortunate was attended by
three dollars of administration ex
pense. Every applicant for help
was required to answer the most
searching and often the most impu
dent questions, and then dismissed
with ' the notice that an inspector
would' call at the 'address given and
make a personal investigation. . And
children have starved and women have
sold their virtue in despair between
the time of application and the call
of the empty-handed but inquisitive
Inspector. Can you wonder, my
brethren, that the workingmen fight
shy of that . ' (
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aiid, looking askance at the church,
turn to organized labor as their re
ligion and think oftener of the Tam
many boss in their district than they
cti of Him who told the rich man to
stll all he had and give it' to- the
poor?
A million and a half of American
children under fourteen years of age
slaving hours on end in American
mills ' and factories. Eight hundred -thousand
under twelve, 450,000 under
ten, 200,000 under nine, 150,000 under
eight, 75,000 under seven, and 25,000
urder six bobbin boys, spindle girls,
jock spinners working from ten to
thirteen hours, many of them at night
and all this that we may marrv
our heiresses to the washed-out scions
of an enfeebled foreign nobility, build
palaces within sight and sound of ab
ject human misery, rear lofty spires
on cathedrals, build stained glass
windows picturing the crucifixion, and
pay a secretary and assistants of a
local charity organization nearly $2,
000 a year to spend $1,500 in helping
the poor. i , .
One man, by special legislation and
purchased legal decisions, secure3
control over the lives and destines
o 700,000 people just as fully as any
feudal baron of medival times exer-,
cised control over his vassals, and
the loudest defenders of- the system
come from the ranks of the clergy
and the professors of denominational
colleges founded and sustained by this
man's ill-gotten gold. The press fights
manfully for the protection of "vested
rights" in property, but the man who
lights for vested rights as a working
man to receive adequate wages for his
toil is thrust into jail by judicial ukase
without trial by jury as guaranteed
l-y the constitution which he is ex
pected to support with musket and
muscle in time of war. Every year
more lives are sacrificed through ac
cidents than might have been pre
vented by safety appliances and sig
nals in American industries than
were sacrificed in the contending
armies during any two battles of our
late civil war. Every week sees in
America more deaths from industrial
accidents that might have been pre
vented by safety appliances than were
lost upon any battlefield of the Span
ish-American war. Gettysburg and
Petersburg the two bloodiest battles
of our civil war did not show as
large a list of wounded on both sides
as the yearly list in American mills
and mines and on American railways,
and expert investigators tell us that
two-thirds of these accidents are due
to lack of precautionary arrangements
and safety appliances due to a greater
regard for dividends than for human
lite and limb. '
Only here and there does .a news
paper voice a protest against these
awful conditions, and 99 per cent of
these protests are voiced by labor
papers looked npon as "anarchist
sheets" that thrive by "stirring up
class hatred." The daily press is ss
silent as the tomb. The religious
press seems as ignorant of the con
ditions and their causes as the be-
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nighted Kafir is of the religion which
these church papers would send
them.
Our wives crowd the bargain coun
ters for "bargains" in lingerie and
ltady-made goods into the seams of
which are stitched the tears and
heartaches and despair of their Bis
ters, and never give a thought thereto.
We grab at "bargains" manufactured
in penitentiaries, while free labor
walks the street vainly seeking the
work and wages that will keep wives
and children from starvation. Ws
seek to close the doors of the work
ingman'sf club the saloon without
opening another door in which he can
find the same companionship, the
same socialibity, the same warmth
and the same welcome and good cheer.
A few years ago a union walking
delegate in New York City was found
guilty of accepting bribes to call
strikes. Immediately the press, secu
lar and religious, began denouncing
him in unmeasured terms. He was
sent to the penitentairy. Yet the pa
pers that so bitterly denounced Sam
Parks, the bribe-taker, had not a
word to say about the rich, influential
and conscienceless church elders and
deacons and vestrymen who gave him
the bribes.
Modern commercialism is daily de
manding a greater sacrifice of blood
than Juggernaut or Moloch demanded
at their annual feasts of human flesh.
The young woman looking for , a
clerkship in one of these great modern
machines that grind flesh and bone
ic to an insensate mass " is told that
she will be paid $5 a week. "But T
cannot live on that," she protests.
"Well, you can find gentleman
friend, can't you?" is the response.
Woman's virtue weighs as a feather
in the scale as against profits to the
proprietor or bargains to the "cus
tomer. Every hot summer day a girl
is taken, fainting and helpless from
the superheated room of a laundry,
but woman's clubs discuss "The Cara
of Oriental Rugs" while their unfortun
ate sisters slave and starve. An, ex
plosion occurs in a mine, and because
greed prevented the Installation of a
ventilating shaft and fan, 300 miners
are suffocated, one-third of, them boys
under 15. The public shudders with
horror for one moment, then plunges
on Into forgetfulness. The. few who
protest are denounced as "agitators"
and the defenders of "property rights"
scon drown out the voices of those
who dare to talk of the rights of
humanity. ' ' ' ,
' Modern commercialism, has blunted
our feelings. Greed has destroyed pur
consideration for our fellows. We
have idealized the divine Christ un
til He is something wholly apart from
our daily lives, and we have lost sight
of the man Christ who was Himself
an humble carpenter with all the
feelings and attributes of His fellow
workers. We spend $40,000 to build
a church that is open less than eight
hours a week, and then try to close
other doors that ' give to humanity
the companionship, the cheer and the
warmth that the" churches fail to
give. We frown upon the things that
make merry the workman's hours
away from his toil, and offer him
nothing in return but a reading room
where he must talk In whispers, walk
on his tiptoes and forget" the cheer
ing pipe in his pocket. We demand
that he spend the Lord's day as we
would have him spend it, forgetful of
the fact that Sunday is his day of rest
and recreation and that our way of
spending it may be irksome and tiring
to him. i
We feel a transient sympathy for
the individual in distress who appeals
t; us, but we give no heed to the'
cry of suffering humanity at our very
doors that great, sweating, suffering
mass, hidden in sweatshop, in tene
ment and in mines that suffers daily
because of our greed for gold.
Do you wonder, my brothers, that
the workers of the nation are turning
to the trades unions instead of the
church for practical help and sympa
thy? Do you wonder that there is a
growing feeling that the church is too
busy catering to the rich and power
ful to give practical help and sympa
thy to the poor and needy? Do you
wonder that even here in Lincoln any
Sunday afternoon sees more men in
union halls than Sunday evening sees
In the churches?
Flatter -ourselves, as we will; dis
guise the facts as we may, yet we
di not -hide from ourselves the fact
that the Church of Jesus Christ is not
a living, vital force In human affairs
that it ought to be. Everywhere we
can hear sneers at thfc orthodox
church, and everywhere we can hear
only praise for the Salvation Army
and. the American Volunteers, those
noble, unselfish men and women who
kneel in the filth of the streets to
pray for suffering humanity while you
and I fidget because of uncushioned
pews in comfortable churches. Sneers
foi the church that doles out mechan
ical charity, and praise for the Sal
vation Army and the Volunteers who
seek out suffering humanity with
hearts full of sympathy and hands
full of food and clothing. Sneers" for
the church that accepts with songs
cif thanksgiving the blood money of
the commercial pirate, and praise for
the unorthodox organizations that are
as quick to accuse the rich of crlmo
a.-, they are to call a poor sinner to
a halt in his downward way.
The Church of Jesus Christ is
sleeping upon its opportunities. On
the one hand it- is losing to the fra-
tornal insurance organizations that
offer present social pleasures and
guarantee against future want on the
part of widows and orphans, and on
the other hand to the trades unions
that offer protection against greed
and a guarantee of brotherly help in
time of trouble.
What greed is not doing to enslave
humanity, thoughtlessness and bigotry
and prejudice are doing. In a na
tion that is the richest in material
things and the most productive the
world has ever known, we have the
greatest wealth and the most abject
poverty. We prate of religious lib
erty and of civic freedom, and send
our army abroad to force our religion
on a people to whom we deny the
civil liberty we demand for ourselves.
We grant special privileges to men
who become wealthy beyond ' the
dreams of avarice, and ; declare un
constitutional the laws that seek to
protect the weak and the helpless.
We abandon the churches in the work
ing districts and follow the broad
clothed and silken crowd into the
aristocratic districts. We force women
into prostitution because industrialism
has shut the door of hope, and then
shudder with horror and dTaw our
shirts aside if . the scarlet woman
approaches our doors. We pray for
the souls of the Hindoo mothers who
feed their children to the crocodiles,
and we beg for the contributions of
the men who are feeding tens of thou
sands of our-American children to the
voracious beasts of commercial and
industrial greed. The flag which our
fathers washed clean of chattel
slavery! with an ocean of patriotic
blood ia today befouled with a ten
times darker .. stain of ' industrial
slavery, and either an ocean of blood
must wash it free or men must be
reached with the gospel of the Naz
arene not a Christ of idealization, but
a Christ who worked with His hands,
suffered with His fellows and made
the supreme sacrifice for the world.
The man or the dollar? . Choice must
be made between them. ' i "
"III fares the land to hastening ' ilia
a prey "' -
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay. v.
For abold peasantry, once a coun
try's pride, . ' .'-' ;
When once destroyed, can never be
supplied." ' '
''Vested rights" must give way to
human rights, or the republic falls,
The playtime of youth must not be
sacrificed upon the altar of greed
else the fountain of citizenship is
poisoned and the country, is ruined
Manhood, not money, must be the
test of preferment. What the church
falls to do in this great work will
be held against it, for it is its duty
tv take the lead. . Had it been doing
its full duty all these centuries the
present conditions would not be so
deplorable., i ' ' " ,. (
The church must begin working in
the now, instead of pointing to an
indefinite tomorrow; ' it. must face
present conditions . at home and not
turn its back upon them to look into
an indefinite future. . Says Kipling: .,
"We have fed you all for a thousand
. years, - ' .' . .; ' .
And you leave us still unfed, '
Though there's never a dollar of all
your wealth - j V
But marks the workers dead.
We have yielded our best to give you
.. rest, '.
And you lie on a crimson wool, 1
For if blood be the price of all your
wealth.
Good God, we ha" paid it in full.
"There's never a mifle 'blown. aky-
. ward now
But we're buried alive for you;
There's never a wreck drifts' shore
ward now i
But we are its -ghastly crew:
Go reckon our dead by the forges
' ' red,
And the factories cruel pull;
If blood be the price of your accursed
wealth.
Good God, we ha' it in full.
"We have fed you all for a thousand
years, , ,
For that was our doom, you know,
Fvcto the days when you chained us
. in your fields '
To the strike of a week ago. '
You ha' eaten our lives and our babes
and wives, ' .
And we're told It's your legal share,
Hut if blood be the price of your law
ful wealth, , '
Good God, we ha" bought it fair."
Robbers blew open the safe in the
State bank at Hope. Four hundred
dollars was taken. There is no clew
to the , robbers. ....
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comparatively few women ever whls r
tie. Home Notes.. ' '
. Woman and Her Wants.
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