| Show I f I TALKS ON TIMELY TOPICS I BY THE MAN IN A CLUB WINDOW I TT was quite natural that President Eliota remarkable speech before I tho Boston Economic club should provoke I pro-voke crltlclpm wherever It has boon read Hit attack upon tracles unions nM being opposed to Individual action I and development of Independent character i char-acter does not receive support from Wayno MaeVeagh himself a wellread student of social economy On the contrary con-trary Mr MaeVcngh f In bin crossox nmlnallon of Mr Mitchell nlmed to show that I the unions are so Imbued with the spirit of lawless license ns to be veritable hotbeds of anarchy Now anarchy IR simply fndlvidiiillsm run mad it Is the overturninpr of govern I mont I the t destruction of united action the logical carrying out of the idea that I nil men have the right to be n law unto themselves without a thought for the I rights or other So that if Mr Mae I Veagh were sincere In his analysis of I the spirit and purpose of the unions It would he clear that the danger consists In their allowing too much personal liberty and not In subordinating tin freedom of the Individual to the will of an organization as claimed by Dr i Eliot Ao to Mr MacVeaghs sincerity there may weJI be room for doubt considering i con-sidering the fact that he is the heavily feed counsel for the coal operators Be tween the two Intellectual glunto both I i experts In their respective professions and yet pronouncing diametrically op poslte views the unions nre having a I hard time of it It in i probable however I how-ever that they will manage to survive time ordeal s 1 1t t f Tp RESIDENT Eliot also thought fit j to express his profound contempt r e for any man who did not choose to labor i la-bor every day Just as long as his c f strength would I permit An utterance I Wee this has n brave and strenuous sound It Is what certain academic t j writers and speakers would call ring Ing and uplifting but It 10 only sound all the same and a very brassy sound at that Why should any man choose to labor every day Just as long as his strength permits The answer depends of course upon the nature of tho work and its object It scarcely i J teems reasonable to argue that in a wellregulated state of society It j should be necessary for any one to labor la-bor all day long to tho verge of cx a jl f haustion in order to procure a monger ij I living for himself and family There should bo time to do other work be j i sides that which merely relates to gain r I lag food and clothing There should be time to cultivate the mental and splrit i i ual nature If Dr Eliots Idea of a il j clays work Includes all this one might i be less Inclined to take exception to his I views although It may be said that a i If days work Is incomplete which Is limited I t lim-Ited to providing for the bodily and mental requirements and leaves no j time for acts of benevolence and cltl J zcnship It is wqll for most people that they should labor all day but it should not all be labor of the sordid kind La La u to maintain an abiding place for the i higher part of man but there should 1 a be time left for the culture of that higher nature by means of reading and 1 study and the society of other minds and also for nets of kindness and beneficence be-neficence In behalf of others Dr Eliot was speaking of men who toll hard r during long hours livery day and then barely 1 succeed In making a poor living They have no time to fulfill the nobler destiny of their being no time even to I indulge in higher aspirations It is a cruel mockery to revile such men as I the poor minors and laborers whom he had In mind because they do not cheerfully cheer-fully choose to labor hard all day and every day for a pittance with which to i i keep soul and body together The t r learned president of Harvard receives j an ample salary and much honor and glory for performing certain congenial duties connected with his position Those duties by no means monopolize I all his time lie has available mr o hours of every day which he can employ I em-ploy In scholarly Investigation in authorship I au-thorship and In society All these varied pursuits he calls his days work and he finds rest and refreshment In < < change of occupation Very different Is the lot of thousands who toll from I morning till night without a thought or hope In life beyond procuring a bare subsistence but for whom Dr Eliot expresses ex-presses profound contempt because they are not resigned to their unjust and unnatural lot In life r r v I T Is hardly to be doubted that any r ftsprcsolon of opinion which the lf Wbmarro Christian Temperance union T i may elicit from the mothers of soldiers r ill bo unfavorable to the repeal or I even modification of the antl canteen r law Tn dealing with such a subject It is natural to expect that resort will be i had to the emotions rather than to cold reason The question at Issue will not be as to choosing the le ser of two pos I sible dangers but opposition to some r1 thing which on an ex parse examina tem appears to he a huge and unmitigated unmiti-gated evil admitting of neither choice I I nor compromise Is the use of intoxicating intoxi-cating liquor In any form and any quantity wrong In Itself and a source of peril Then the use must be prevented pre-vented at any hazard and without regard i re-gard to any possible alternative danger i I dan-ger The fact that tho existence of the 1 S canteen in which beer and light wines I wore sold Is do facto a recognition of 1 the principle that temperance iu not no > cessarlly total abstinence will be bufil clent to sot in operation I all the forces of the W C T U to prevent a reestablishment I l t i rees-tablishment of the ofilcial barn at ruill o lary posts The fart that the canlecn acts as a safeguard against the allurements allure-ments of the low dives and doggeries j of a large city will not he connldered at I all Tho protection thrown over the I habitues of the military saloon by the official rules and strict supervision Is I not regarded any more than the un I bridled license and lawlessness which mark the conduct of thc low drinking t I places frequented by soldiers aa an alternative I al-ternative to the canteen The fact that i most soldiers will have a drink on oc frnslon and that If they cannot get It tinder decent restrictions and oversight in the vicinity of Ihelr I quarters they will go Into the town to get It and run the chance of Indulging to excess and J getting Into all kind of trouble all these and many otlier considerations 1 I arc completely lost sight of when it cornea to an appeal to the feelings Instead i In-stead of the reason of the opponents of i drinking habits The canteen may not I be and Is not claimed to be an jinmlxod 1 good neither Is It an unmixed evil The I point Involved Is not what soldiers and i other men ought to do but what they I I can be got to do so as to work the L least possible detriment to themselves t Looking at the question in a purely I practical way It certainly seems that s I It would be better for the soldiers I t mothers to votu for a wellmanaged I canteen where their sonu would be safe I from drugged liquor the depredations I I of robbers and the attacks of thugs i I I rather than for the continuance of a i s state oC things which means all the i lastmentioned evils without tending In f any way to promote the cause of temperance tem-perance In dealing with all these subjects affecting the moral and social condition of men whether In military or civil life It 1s 1 most necessary to look at things as they are and then proceed to mako tho best of them It IH hope I less to expect to revolutionize tho na tural tendencies of human nature or to control ho I appetites of young men by any kind of legislation The line Jc nated by reason would seem jLq bo 14Q granting of a fair amount of personal freedom Alth Judicious restrictions and rational moral sniislon rather than the application of coercive meuaurcB ACCORDING to statements printed from time to lime In Eastern newspapers the drink habit is gut In Inn Jimong tho women of the smart wet In New York and other big cities to an alarming extent When young persons of good family and refined bringing up think nothing of going to a restaurant and ordering cocktails and champagne not to speak of hrnndy and soda there certainly 111 food for reflection and concern con-cern i an lo the future of the girls of the wealthy leisure classes In hlr country These young women have plenty of money to spend no useful occupation to engage their attention and Hide or no parental oversight f Their boast Is I that they have practically discarded even the appearance of chaperonage and they delight In performances designed de-signed to shock the moral sensibilities of plain people who have been brought up to respect a decent regard for appearances ap-pearances This form of feminine emancipation does not necessarily mean any moral downfall of the grosser kind rt Is to be hoped hat most of the young women know how to stop In time and so avoid actual Intoxication with all the dangers which this leads to Still It In no secret that many cases of shameful Intoxication have occurred among young girls of respectable parentage pa-rentage and ample means The habit of frequenting restaurants and drugstores drug-stores where Intoxicants may he easily obtained without publicity naturally I I tends to blunt the moral perceptions and dull the finer feelings A girl who I begins with a highclass restaurant or the private buffet in a fashionable mll llnern establishment has taken the first I downward step If she never sinks any I lower It Is a matter for thankfulness I but with the majority It Is I to be feared I that there Is no such thing aa remainIng I remain-Ing stationary and from the fashionable fashion-able reslort to the common wincroom and disreputable roadhouse the descent Is only too often a matter of course One may well inquire what are the mothers of such girls about or arc they loo slaves to the vice of Intemperance and Is It duo lo their example ex-ample rather than In spite of It that their daughters arc running loose and throwing themselves In the path of awful temptation The pulpit may inveigh against the sins of society the press may record salutary I warnings and social reformers mat ma-t = to find a remedy but unless society so-ciety Itself takes up the question of effecting ef-fecting a reform It IK not likely that the morale of the wealthy and Idle young people of the large cities of fashionable life will be much Improved The true cure for such a deplorable slate of things as Is depicted In the Eastern papers pa-pers will only be found In early moral and religious training coupled with useful and absorbing occupation Young girls should be taught lo avoid the first appearance of evil and to shun the dangerous companionship of fashionable fash-ionable women of fast proclivities Much temptation is put In the way of young persona of adventurous tendencies tenden-cies through their admiration of what is called a Bohemian mode of life It Is so Bohemian they say describing a luncheon or mild drinking bout In some French or Italian restaurant of more or less shady reputation where seedy artists and doubtfullooking foreigners for-eigners congregate In this way maybe may-be acquired the drinking habit which so often enslaves the thoughtless seekers seek-ers after excitement HE discussion of amusements THE comes up at regular Intervals In the pulpits of the country Several months ago qulle a little symposium on P the subject was collected among local clergymen and the opinions then expressed ex-pressed Here widely divergent Some were for the suppression of pretty nearly near-ly I every form of recreation on the ground that amusements tend to keep Christian people from the contemplation contempla-tion of serious and momentous questions ques-tions affecting their everlasting welfare wel-fare In the opinion of those uncompromising uncom-promising antagonists of Innocent gayety I gaye-ty all such pastimes OH dancing card playing and theatergoing are instruments instru-ments In the hands of the devil to bo used for the destruction of Immortal mule It way found however that I there are many ministers of religion In the city who lake a broader and more liberal view 1 of the matter and In the opinion of these there Is nothing wicked wick-ed pernicious or dangerous In nmuec menlH when properly used It IB only In the abuse or excessive ue of them that there t lt 1 evil or the menace of evil Indeed I experience has shown that recreation re-creation 1st one of mankinds absolute neiesplllop ns essential 1 In fact as food and sleep Thofe persons whose lives are destitute of amusement fail to perform per-form their best work or accomplish the same results with a given amount of labor as those whose liven are sweetened sweet-ened by a reasonable amountof pleasure pleas-ure A lively dance a merry game a clever play or an absorbing novel will make weary brainfagged men and women forget their cares and responsibilities responsi-bilities and enable them to return to their work with renewed hope and cheer For the young amusement Is an natural as the air they breathe and one may well pity those for whose recreation of mind and body no provision pro-vision IK made in the economy of home and church life There may be too much of a good thing and excessive indulgence In-dulgence In amusement Is apt lo produce pro-duce a kind of mental and moral djs pepsla which tends to throw the whole system out of gear and foster indolence Indo-lence and Inability to grapple with the stern affairs of life The fact is i that I good hard work and plenty of It relieved I re-lieved and allerntiled by healthful IIi I-Ii musemcn ts Is I the very best condi Ilion I-lion under which people can live and thrive One may well have doubts as to the probable utility of a person who wants to go through the world without experiencing either the pains or blessings bless-ings of honest labor but It Is also questionable if one be warranted In placing much confidence In those austere aus-tere and monotonous drudges who assure as-sure you that they never need rest or change and dont care for any kind of amusement Work hard and play hard Is I a good enough motto for the young and middleaged The old need more rent but enen they may prolong life and Increase their happiness by keeping keep-ing up an interest In work and taking I their share of recreation by the way AN the Pulpit elevate the Stage CAN Possibly not directly certainly not by unjust attacks and Intemperate Indiscriminate censure A largo and respectable section of the Stage does not need elevating anyhow but Is eminently emi-nently qualified to contribute Its own share to the work of Improving society not een excluding that numerous and Intelligent portion which Is accustomed to receive mental and moral pabulum from the occupants of the pulpits A good wholesome play Is I like a good wholesome book one Is read In the retirement re-tirement of the home the other Is placed as a living presentment on the stage of a theater In the one case the dead types speak to the mind In the other the living voices and gestures appeal to the eye and car and so find their way to the soul There arc trashy books and trashy plays but no one refuses re-fuses to enter a library because the shelves do not contain books of equal merit There are many things about the Stage which call loudly for reform but this fact Is no argument at all against the Stage aa an Institution It Is just as true that the Stage can be and often Is made the means of inculcating Incul-cating lessons in heroism in honor and In purity as Impressive and enduring as lessons conveyed by other educational educa-tional agencies as that It may be and ERASTUS SECURES A BITE OF THANKSGIVING TURKEY p f I ri > etrtu 1 t l it t J r I 1 X81 ti 1 1 fl c 1 I I m 1 r r 1l I i I l rsYI I fir 2 T Wy rtfi > S3 I l t a I 1 y s r r I 1 I 3 s f 1 1 1 1 I IIII a I I I II I o > y s le i t 4 1 A 1 IY I r v i4 U too often In made the vehicle of Instruction In-struction of a coarse Immoral and lowering low-ering character The work of reform must come from within but the stimulus stimu-lus and encouragement have to he applied ap-plied from without There aro many noble pureminded actors and actresses who are as anxious to see the standard of their profession elevated l aa any clergyman or moralist can he but to effect this object one thing Is I especially necessary There must b ° a distinct Improvement In the tone of the public mind so hat he demand for dramatic work In which Intellectual vigor I shall he happily blended with refined and uplifting up-lifting alms shall be so strong and unmistakable un-mistakable ns to reach and Influence t the moneyed men who control the great I theaters Jt IR practically useless to expect to eliminate the spirit of commercialism com-mercialism from the clement which finances the stage and enters to the public demand which represents the greatest number of fI enientscek ers and the largos amount of cash receipts re-ceipts In the treasury The work of creating a refined find l healthy sentiment senti-ment among the mass of playgoing people not the church members educators edu-cators rind social reformer I who constitute consti-tute the occasional I patrons of the Stage but the great body of regular pportprwill necessarily be slow and may well tax the hf st united effort ef-fort of the Pulpit the Press tin Platform Plat-form and the School A LREADY tho good effects of the ALREADY 2 3 crusade against Limo smoke nuisance nui-sance arc becoming apparent The 7 C M I and the Troy Laundry bolh of them Institutions operating largo plants have Joined the ranks of cleanly fuelconsumers and aa a consequence the atmosphere In their vicinity is I bright and pure Instead of huge volumes vol-umes of black smoke belching forth and filling the eyes throats and lungs oCr o-Cr one who had the misfortune to come within range the sky = Is I clear and wholesome and an unwonted look of cheerfulness pervades the neighborhoods hood Propertyowners are rubbing their hands and congratulating themselves them-selves and the institutions on the change for the better Now that the work of Installlnz consumers at the city and county building Is well underway under-way and the contract has been closed with the Utah Light and Power company com-pany It will not be loner before a delightful de-lightful chance will be observable In the downtown district The good work ha ing been given a most auspicious start Is likely to go on unlll the atmosphere at-mosphere overhead In as clean as It Is I In some quiet village where wood Is I used for fuelas clean overhead in fact as we would like to ace the streets underfoot IT Is hardly fair to the New Yorkers to allow poor demented Carrie Nation Na-tion to wander at will and cause disturbances dis-turbances in public resorts The mental men-tal breakdown of Mrs Nation Is a sad example of the fate which sometimes overtakes earnest but illbalanced persons per-sons who are so unfortunate as to go through life possessed of only one Idea It Is the one string Incessantly played upon which is bound to break sooner or later Only persons endowed with strong bodies and mijids can stand the strain of constant agitation i and those professional agitators whose egotism causes them to attempt the role of solitary soli-tary reformer and to hold themselves aloof from organized effort are very likely to come lo grief It would seem aa though Kansas having produced Mrs Nation and furnished the field for her early and most dramatic exploits ought now to lake care of her instead of permitting her to wander unrestrained unre-strained through the highways and byways by-ways of Wicked Gotham The New York officials are sadly l lacking In sentiment senti-ment and arc apt to deal summarily with deranged disturbers of the public peace T was to be expected that the time IT would come when the Buddhist and Mohammedan priests and teachers now In this country would become so far Americanised as to ask for the privilege privi-lege of halfrate tickets when traveling on the railroads and steamboats The plea la made that the courtesy la accorded ac-corded to Christian and Jewish ministers minis-ters and missionaries and to sisters of charity No recognition of sectarian lines being possible It does sot seem as If It would be feasible to refuse the request re-quest of the Orientals without barring out all other applicants of whatever denomination who base their claim upon the fact of their being ministers of religion 1 It really uppeais to bo a question of all or none The railroad companies have long been considering the advisability of discontinuing the practice of Issuing 1 these halfrale permits per-mits Junt as they arc bending every effort ef-fort to bring about the total discontinuance discontin-uance of the pass system In a new country the transportation companies being Interested In encouraging the Immigration Im-migration of settlers fully realize the value of religion as a civilizing Influence Influ-ence and have always been glad to support the ministrations of the church In remote and thinly settled region When the object of travel Is to spread thc ft elevating and humanizing Influences Influ-ences in communities so few In numbers num-bers and poor In purse as lo be unable to support a resident ministry the granting of reduced rates or even of free passes might be regarded In the light of a good Investment Apart from his consideration however the question ques-tion may fairly lie asked What reason rea-son < an be given which from the standpoint of the transportation companies com-panies would offer a rational ground for the Indiscriminate extension of privileges to members of one profusion which are not granted with equal freedom free-dom lo the members of all |
