Show EVERYBODY MUST HELP The Weal of This WorkaDay Republic Re-public Does Not Lie With the Rich New York Sun Signs of the Times was the subject of a lecture delivered de-livered Sunday morning by the Rev Dr Gustav Gotthell in the Temple Emanuel He said that we are a peculiar pe-culiar people a nation in shirt sleeves the despisers of Idlers whether in the world of wealth fashion or religion So deeply penetrated is this people with the idea that work makes the man that even those who do not believe in the maxim must if they care at all for public opinion assume a semblance of belief in it and even womankind Is gradually being drawn Into the whirl of ceaseless employment Dr Gotthell added that whereas 100 years ago the call was for a bill ot rights of man now the cry was for a bill of duties of man This need makes itself felt in many ways he said and the means are multiplying to acquaint the people with the duties of citizenship citizen-ship While these efforts are but rudimentary ru-dimentary yet the time would come when in every serious emergency and great endeavor the first thought would be what the duty of the people was In the premises and not what must be I done out of a sense of charity When I the people shall be accustomed to i I practice selfhelp in the widest possible possi-ble and best organized manner then I and not until then will such problems be solved The present condition of the wage worker Dr Gottheil said was full ot distress because of the lack of employment em-ployment Now eyes are turned toward the wealthy for gifts and charities That the rich should aid this condition condi-tion through the governors or ctty authorities au-thorities or through the many charl i i I table institutions or churches is the I cry of the people while the vast army of those who are employed are not asked to aid their comrades and fellow fel-low craftsmen Though there are many benefactions and benevolent lodges and societies yet these can do but little so long as the wageearners themselves are deaf to the cries of their fellows and so long as the wageearners themselves them-selves are not properly organized Wageearners must themselves be enlisted en-listed in the service of those nearest them Why should they not be made to feel the obligation to sacrifice It but a fraction of their earnings for the benefit of their feUows who are in danger dan-ger of becoming paupers The number num-ber of the rich or even the welltodo who can spare large sums besides their regular contributions to established charities is but small when comparea with tie number of those who can doa do-a little something which would amount to more In the aggregate In the relief of suffering if their efforts were directed di-rected judiciously and earnestly by tne properly qualified persons Let the laborer la-borer Insist upon the dignity of being counted upon when the hour calls for volunteers in the service of suffering fellowSvorkmen Such an attitude ori the part of the laborer would quietly I but surely give him that moral weight in the councils of the nation which he can never obtain by a selfish or corrupt I cor-rupt use of his vote and less still by strikes and revolutions |