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NOTES OF bUMMBR CHAUTAUQUAS
Dr. Graham Taylor, the lecturer on people as the lecture. One of the most
economics at the Crete Chautauqua, re- interesting features of this experience
ports in his paper, "Chicago Commons," was the conference with the men in the
some of hie experiences in summer' Santa Fe railway repair shops, where, at
Chautauqua's aa follows: the noon hour, foremen, mechanics and
"The growth ofjeocial consciousness and laboring men, grouped around their
culture is nowhere more apparent than great machines, listened to the discus
in the numerous summer assemblies for sion of the motive and the methods of
popular education. The attendance and the labor movement. The social spirit
, attention given to classes for the study of the occasion found no more beautiful
of the social teachings of the Bible and expression than in the . noon concert
to courses of lectures on the labor move- given in these shops by the orchestra,
sent and other branches of social eco- who, as members of the Musicians'
nomics are simply astonishing, even to union of Kansas City, volunteered this
one in constant personal contact with token of fraternity to their brother
the growing interests in these direc- workingmeu. Dr. Gunsaulus well ex
tioos. The new movement seems to be claims, "Give me a Kansas audience!"
in solution everywhere, needing only a istebestjn Nebraska.
point to p.ecipitate upon. While prev- In Nebraska, at the Crete Assembly,
sleet usaoog all classes, it is noteworthy the same interest manifested itself iu
that the women of the west seem to have similar ways. The note bookc, the de
a greater degree of social interest and mand for biography, the references to
intelligence than any other class of the books read, the study of labor cointuw
pepulation. This is largely due to the sioner Wright's Chautauqua text book,
woman's clubs which have grown so entitled "jfhe Industrial Evolution of
rapidly even in the agricultural states, the United States," the intense interest
that they seem to be well nigh omni- in the Btory of the rise and progress of
present. For fifteen years the Woman's tne labor movement through the pest
Social Science club of Kansas has done six hundred years' of English history,
a splendid educational and social work aH'bore evidence of the deepening social
for the womanhood of that great com- consciousness of the nation and the
moo wealth. When a bright woman growing social intelligence of these
was known to be living on some lonely western states. The tremendous nural
ranch or in an isolated town she was in. earnestness with which social aspects of
vited to the meeting of this club, which, the coinage question were discubsed, not
for wider usefulness, though at the in.- only by such representative debaters as
ceaveuience of the majority of its mem- Hon. John P. Irish, the effective advo
bers, has been held in every quartersof cate of thegoid standard, and the bnl
the state. When necessary, her, travel-, liant Mr. Bryan, presidential candidate
iBg expenses -were paid, that she might of the silver sentiment, but also by all
take part in discussion or read her first classes of the people themse'ves, was a
paper. Thus there came to be little revelation to an eastern man. What
groups of women in every county, gath- ever may be thought of. the economic
ered around leaders whoreceived their principles involved, no man can.gainaay
training in this way; so that when the the candor, ability, depth of conviction
state club federated the local centers and manly spirit with which the con,
there were found to be quite a thousand tending views are held and discussed,
members Since., women have the 'The nation has little to fear from ihis
municipal suffrage in Kansas the Big- great awakening of such a citizenship
niticance of this social training is great, to active participation in its economic
and its effect is in plain sight. So ef- development and legislation,
factually is the prohibitory law en- labor meetings at des moines.
forced, for example, in Ottawa, and to so. The large city constituency thit Des
high an ideal has the social order been Moines supplies to the new Iowa Mid
raised, that its population of 8,000 people Iaad Chautauqua was no exception to
require but one policeman by day and the prevailing popular interest in the
another at night! The jail stands empty same themes. The many appointments
most of the time, and no grand jury has for their disuueaiou on the ground did
been necessary during the ten y:ars. not prove sufficient, and invitations
Disciissixo the church's mimstbt. poured from the city for the repetition
So great was the demand for teach- of some of the address? or presentation
iag on social topics a' the Chautauqua
Assembly that the writer' eighteen ap
pointments rew to thirty during the
tea days of his visit, special conferences
beiBfj requested by tbe young women
college graduates and undergraduate,
by public school teachers and .superin
teadents, by pastors, fifty of ( whom,
representing various denominations,
were present eager! v discussing the
seciah aspects .of their pwn and the
eacrebs mtajstrrf So many ere .the
iaavifteS'rsgardiBg the topics, of ' each
ieetare that a question hour, was held
of other phases of the subject. Confer
ences were held with three hurches,the
social economic section u' itie Woman's
club and the Trades aud Labor As
sembly. On Sunday night the gn-at Calvary
Tabernacle tield a largo .iudieuce of
workingtuen and wouicu, among whom
were many busiuesd uj professional
men, bankers and employers of labor,
who seemed to listen with equal i mer
est to the discussion of labor and re
ligion and a hat was com sun to both
The following evening the invitation of
every erseiag, and drew nearly as ir.any workingmeo to meet them in their
Tradesand Libir Assembly hall was
accepted for the purpose of an informal
conversatinnil conferance over the ways
and mean of making the most and the
best of their labor unions.
There, for three hours, the men list
ened to the plainest talk and the frank
est criticism. They appreciated the
best that the speakers had t" offer and
applauded the reading of Arnold Toyn
bee's most conciliatory pleadingB. One
of their number, an old English miner,
made the most telling speech. Ridicul
ing the workingmen's subserviencyto
party, by which his old countrymen had
been kept crying to this Tory lord,
"pictr us up, and to that Liberal com
moner, "pick us up," and by which
American workingmen were still cry
ing, "McKinley, pick us up."' "Bryan,
pick us up," the ''old-man eloquent"'
thundered out, "it's time to pick our
selves up!" and again. "The man that
can't mas'er the week's wages he earns
won't master the movement for more."
The Tabernacle pastor.himBeK a gradu
ate from an Eoglish coal mine, and one
of the most heroic of American city
mission workers with Parkhurst in New
York, alone in Omaha, and single-handed
in Des Moines, made a rousing plea
for the brain power of the workingmen
to be applied to the study of industrial
economics and the history of the labor
movement.
BEGIJfMSG A NEW EPOCH.
One of the leading editors of the city,
who had been keenly interested
throughout, declared it to have been
one of tne most enjoyable and profitable
evenings he had ever passed, and pre
dicted that this meeting would prove to
have oegun a new and inestimably im
portant educatioual movement for the
people of Jes Moines. One of the trades
unionists immediately turned his prop
hecy ,into history by moving that' the'
firs of a series p such meetings be held"
in two weeke, und that tbe editor, min
ister and the old miner be invited to ad
dress it. With a vim it was 60 voted,
and with hand-shaking all around the
new brotherhood adjourned to meet
many a time thus to pray,
"that come it may,
As come it will, for a' that
That man to man. the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that."
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