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Show HUMILIATING . CONFESSION. '. -".-.-' Chicago, Dec. 27. During, a stampede of the 10,000 men, women and' children waiting, for ad' mission, which followed .the : opening of the. doors of the Coliseum, where the Volunteers of America today gave ( their a linual' Christmas dinner, several glass door.s were demolished and the dozen policemen police-men on duty at the place managed to restore order with the greatest difficulty. v In -the rush several women and children were , knocked down and ' trampled on, but none were seriously injured. The crowd was the largest that exer. assembled at such an affair in Chicago, ami when evervone had been satisfied not a niorselof the tons of food remained. We cannot say that ye were edified at the generosity gen-erosity of the donors, or the', avidity of the 10,000 persons who contributed to and partook of the above big Christmas dinner. Charity, as a Christian Chris-tian virtue, according to St. Paul, conies first. It does not consist in mere' outward display. When extended once a year a;id then advertised it assumes as-sumes a maudlin' sentiment, and. we doubt if the real needy share in its' benefit. Christian "charity 'never fallcth away," but continues in silence its works of mercy at all seasons. Every true Christian Chris-tian should consider it a privilege to be able to assist those who are in; want, for did not Christ call thotjc blessed "who fed the hungry and clothed the naked," and this not". once a year, but, continuously. continu-ously. "Ten 'thousand : hungry men, women and children stampeded anddemolished, several glass doors." How; ma ny - t hoti saijd modes t, retiring niQii, women and children remained, in their cheerless ' homes without food or clothing on Christmas day we aye not informed, but that there are such in every ev-ery large city we are well aware... ' Again, it is not to the credit of the nation that in Chicago, with its many multi-millionaires, there could be .found .in these prosperous limes' so many hungry men, women and children who, like voracious vo-racious beagels or half-starved swine", rushed madly mad-ly ou to the Christniasl'dinner." "In the rush sev- era! women arid' diildrfff 'were knocked down and iiampicu ou -tins. indeed is a remarkable but melancholy, confessioin'' It shows the misery ind wretchedness of the richest country in tin vorld. Ten thousand hungry mrn, v.nicn and children in one city, in Ajr.ooa, b -t$$xfi .toda.S a .gwatcr abundance of supply for every want thin we hid at any forme- :H:iiod of cur national existence. jThis avowal is full of T iiitructidn. Thoughtful jminJs should y poudet'' over it. Desperate men, jforoed to starving pQintyrttsh madiy on and "knock down helpless wometiViid. children." If . this happened hap-pened in London; I'lri's or Berlin, the press of tho country, instead of ..giving". 4 he simple dispatch to' its readers, would,''by its comments, show liowx depraved de-praved and desperate tlj'e "slaves of European governments gov-ernments worjy to what .abject poverty they were reduced. - Therceouicl iky on mo re ..sorrowful sight, nor stronger condemnation' of the. order of things than this melancholy fact, that in Chicago were to be found, on Christmas day, ten thousand hun- -gry men, women and children, many, no doubt, willing to work, yet stampeding to get some victuals. r ' v --' " ' i -"'- All this is humilnUiug to theVation, ho matter from what standpoint w yiew' it. That there should-be should-be so many;. thousands of our people in one city who ury kept' alive only as. fed by private charity is .mortifying to the manhood of the nation.. It helps to break down the natural instinct of laudable laud-able pride 'wliicft theVree'citizens of a great nation should possess. We like to see the charity of the rich increase, but public charity dinners, with such scenes as took place in Chieaeo. are luimili;, V our , national pride and American manhood. Better results. and more lasting benefits can be obtained -by supplying and ; providing for the immediate wants of destitute'; families in their humble and cheerless homes, - ; ''.'' ' ' |