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No. 9.
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February 23, 1913,
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One of the cleverest platform
S]Jeakers in America says that the
Ford Hall folks constitute the most
difficult audience to speak to in
America. ' He bases that statement
on personal experience, 'Ne had him
with us about two years ago and it
was a briliiantly successful evening,
Not only in his address, but also in
his handling of the questions, he was
exceptionally fine.
He did it so
easily, apparently, and is so used to
speaking to audiences, large and
small, all over the country that I was
amazed when he told me the other
day that his evening at Ford Hall
cost him a week's vitality,
In fact,
lhe strain was so severe that notwithstanding he had made another
engagement with us for this spring,
he cancelled the date because he was
not feeling quite up to the mark
physically,
He has filJed his other engagements in connection with his annual
trip to this part of the country and
felt quite equal to them, but didn't
feel quite robust enough to meet the
ordeal of another engagement at
Ford Hall just at this time,
This
· is the more ·remarkable to me because we have seldom had a speaker
on onr nlatform who has more completely won the sympathy of his entire audience than he did,
Maybe
that was the reason after an.
A
vigorous exercise of sympathy is as
devitalizing as a sharp combat with
opponents,
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Many another speaker hava I heard
giving expression to a similar experience with the Ford Hall audiences,
Probably we don't begin to appreciate what a tax it is on every speaker,
It is one of the few places
where a vital topic is discussed before a high-powered audience, embrnclng a score or more of widely
varying points of view, and where
each questioner is at liberty in a direct personal qnery to turn the
tables on the speaker if he can,
I will never forget the night when
a young man in the gallery floored
com]Jletely one of the great Intellectual leadel's of the country with
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Price Ten Cents.
these two questions: "Isn't it true
that the ablest biologists of the day
all agree that consciousness Is nothing more nor less than the interaction of nervous forces?" VVhen the
reply from the s1ieaker indicated
tha.t there was another school of biologists quite as emh1ent as the one
named, who would disagree entirely
with that statement, the v_oice from
the gallery insistently addecl, "Name
one," and the great man on the s1rnr
of the moment couldn't do it.
Do lou wonder that thel'e is an unusual strain in addressing a Ford
Hall meeting? How necessary then
it is to show the speaker every possible consideration and courtesy consistent with getting at the truth.
And that is what we have a reputation for doing,
NEXT
SUNDAY'S
PROGRAM.
Dr, J, A, McDonald, editor of the
Toronto Globe, is lo address us next
Sunday on the subject of "War and the
Human Breed," Dr. McDonald is the
most powerful speal(er in Canada and
is widely known in this country, alsoeS'pecially in religious circles, He and
his paper are the leading forces in
Canada in favor of reciprocity with the
United States, that policy being but a
part of his attitude towards all brother
nations.
An extra treat for that evening will
be the character readings of ·wanen
G. Richards, who will render for us
the "Lil' Brown Baby" of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Eugene Fie.d's inimitable "Seein' Things at Night."
Mr. Richards is an artist in the de·
lineation of character, all his effects
being obtained by quick facial transformations,
Pure artistic fu.n may
very well have a place, now and then,
at a Ford Hall meeting,
Another
feature of interest, next Sunday, will
be the extra-size issue of this pape1·
with many v'easant echoes of the
Birthday in it.
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vc years old now, and knows -it. ,vell,
nade a.n indelible impression upon the ·
I am not speaking of ''Ford Bui,ld· 1
itnd an older proposition, but "F(
ngo, when George
Coleman beg
to interpret the heart of Daniel Shi
s0d to furnish a free and open fon
~ purpose of bettering their conditj
l sired, that it sprang full-formed i1 • •
rng the social and moral force~. of /
it aml the fame of it are everywl~
·,mplete identification of a man wit)1
, George ·w. Cole1uan is mentioned,1
fall, When Ford Hall is recalled, r
IP liYe face of ;Father Coleinan likq
h,lay party •was as_ much for onj
dual celebration, the man focused
11lation, In a certain sense, Ford:
rman began, _as did the real Col
111. Both had existed before, hut
•~· discover just what they were for
>oint of Meeting,
•ame together when he, ronfident
incd to feed' it, and when the h
ancl immediately filled it. :Almost
ins been cn1mmed full of prepared
( minds that were overleaping the
litions, They have the look of
pres.sion for the deepest and tru 1
,.,. recognition and •vindication of
True, it is not a church llJldienc
,.lJ the average chmch has little
olemn trilling, too intelligent for
II for platitudes, and have no ·bel
rock reality, nncl ti fetching respo
rP i·eadJ; \JU the instant: the ans
)()f ag11inst the palpable thrill and
·pstedly visits Ford Hall ever co
of any other gathering, It is
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them~elves ,vith ot11ers vitally Christian thiit ha,•e, made. the me~t,i;
ings Eo rema.rlmble> and rendered thel)l so· attractive to t)ie 1~·orthi1ist '
among the wo~king poor.· There has been something in the vibrant.:
atmosphere tlmt put every spraker at his best, and that eomething '
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lo pay for a thing so uncom·ent
l. It does not smoothly glide in
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he soft accompaniment of Siren
/lght," It can Imrdly be good u
it hns "made good" ·liy winning.
l11se themselves in the throng
Pn .the period of triumph. become
of struggle,
·cl H11ll as a Baptist enterprise,
,11, of the Social Union Committ
a responsible body of leading
11, Baptist trust, Also we urns
f opinion .·freely issuing from th
,c volu.ntary caretakers who hav
shoulders; of the downright goo
:onsdentious suspicion for anyth
,!pr; of the saints and the excelle
11l methods of Christian assemb
livine word. 'It was, therefore,
Hall's manner and· method sho
sly churchly nnd ba.ptistic, and.
herskite, public 'or p1:ivate.
rear at a Time.
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PRAYER.
(Preceding Mr. Anderson's Address,)
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Grant us, we pray, a mutual respect and consider~tion for each
other t11.ough we hav,~ come from the
ends of the earth, though we have
come, some yesterday and some very
long ago, Give us the joy of mutual
interests, the delights of a common
life and the satisfaction that comes
of· an eager sharing in the hopes for
a better day.
"We thank Thee for
that hardness of life which is helping
to make us strong and self-reliant.
We rejoice In the larger measure of
freedom and opportunity which om
adopted country affords us.
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bless the men and women, who, com•
Ing earlier than we, have he:ped us
on our way. Keep us, 0 God, from
ever harboring that contempt for
people less favored than ourselves,
which is often meted out to us by
those whose lot has been more favor•
able than our own. Help us, one and
all, foreigners and natives, new ar•
rivals and established citizens, men
of every nation and rlass, to come lo
a friend:y knowledge of each other,
to work together in good will, and to
uphold the rights of all mankind
against all forms of greed, misrepresentation, and oppression. Amen·.
PUBLICITY AND SOCIAL ADVANCE,
The evils of secrecy in matters of
general concerJi, and the advantages
of openness, wllre clearly shown by
Dr. Talcott Wrliams, director of the
School of Journalism at Columbia
University, in an address recently delivered before the Public Formn · of
the Church of the Ascension, on the
subject, "Publicity as a Cure for Social Evils.'' Dr. Williams said, in the
course of the evening, that society
can advance on·y to the extent that
each member of it recognizes his responsibility to every other member,
and that society can cleanse Itself
only when it knows what are the
evils to be removed.
Only by the
aid of publicity, he believes, can soclet.ti, advance.
Ill. vVllliams' forty years of service as reporter, correspondent and
editorial writer have given him
the right to speak with · authority,
and his trlbu te to the social value of
the press Is just, as we at Ford Ha.II
very well know.
'We owe much to
the friendly co-operation of our Boston papers!
here had to be a· tussle for surv'
11,vernge church for sl!ccess; fo1
t of success is worshiped nowa
~ achieved, almost any brand o
1t brings it. Ford Hall had that
1tirnes came· too ln,~e to get in,
ting time, The fam\l of the 11
the comm·.mity, Those who ea
"'<•cl nnd became radiant friends,
1s a Sunday n'ght service, in a
1•11t l'aptist,. nncl conducted wiU,~..._--~---~-dimes without 11, prayer, or, "gospel
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IMMIGRANT SEES IT,
(Address of Stewart Anderson of
Springfield, Mass., at the Ford
Hall Meeting, Feb. 16, 1913.)
come here tonight as one who
was an immigrant, asking the privilege of having a sort of family talk,
and I hope that the native-born will
not feel themselves defrauded because I think we shall all come together before I sit down,
Now you know, in a family, the interests are held in common and each
one knows the thoughts of the others, and I am going to assume tonight that I know your thoughts, All
that I shall attempt to do will be to
reflect some of ~•om· thoughts and
hold them up for emphasis.
I have
not brought here tonight some new
scheme for regulating the universe.
The first thing that I want to re,
fleet is this. 'I'hat a special ob'igatlon of good citizenship rests upon
us. who are not chldren of the house
bnt are of foreign birth. Let me emphasize this: Most of us came to this
country either as refugees from op1n·ession, seeldng security for such
property as we might possess or mlghl
acquire, or safety for our children,
our womanhood, our own lives-for
one or for all of these-or else we
came in search of that opportunity
for ourselves and our children that
our fatherlands could not provide.
And whatever we may not have
found, we have found security for
our property, and safety for our children, for our womanhood, and for our
own lives; and an innumerable host
of us have found, to a satisfying extent, the opportunity that we here
hoped to find, And it is not the fault
of the American people that, on the
other hand, a very large number of
us have merely left a life of misery
across the sea !or a similar one here.
America was eager to give us, and
has given us, freely, the best that she
had to give. Therefore that elemental emotion of manldnd, gratitude,
lays upon us an obligation to give to
our adopted land, in return, the best
that ls in us, both in our private lives
and in the wider life of our citizenship.
There ls another aspect of this special obligation.
It ls, that democrney needs us, because the backgronnd of our lives is such that we
should be her most ardent! and persistent exponents. (Applause.) Our
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MMIGRANT SEES IT.
Stewart Anderson of
Mass., at the Ford
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1·e tonight as one who
igrant, nslring the privi1c;· a sort of family talk,
/1at the native-born will
t mselves defrauded bek we shall all come toI sit down,
110w, In a family, the inold in common and each
1u thoughts of the oth111 going to assume tomow your thoughts, All
11 empt to do will be to
of your thoughts and
for emphasis,
I have
1ere tonight some new
•g11lating the universe,
i11g that I want to re,
That a special ob-igacitizenship rests upon
,t chldren of tlie house
•ig;n birth, Let me ein,lost of us came to this
as refugees from opi11g security for such
111ight possess or might
fety for our children,
tl, our own lives-for
of these-or else we
Ii of that opportunity
111d our children that
1 could
not provide.
we may not have
e found security for
Hl safety for our chilimanhood, and for our
innumerable host
1d, to a satisfying ex·t 11nlty that we here
\ nd it is not the fault
1 people that, on the
ery large number of
left a life of• misery
ir a similar one here.
,ger to give us, and
ely, the best that she
1terefore that elemenrnankind, gratitude,
obligation to give to
I, in rnturn, the best
Ii in our private lives
r life of our citizen•
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earlier life was in lands whose people en a I sweetness ~:om our hearts,
must yet travel a long road hefore Second, thinking produces op11110n,
they reach a state or political free- opinion leads to argui11entatlon, argudom. We had heard America called mentation generates beat, heat pro"the land of liberty" and with long- vokes pugnacity, pugnacity begets teing eyes, and with faith, ·we came nacity, So that when a bitter souled
hither. And here we found a people thinker has passed through these sevmore nearly free than those of any eral stages, he is liable to have beother land. Here are no separate
come enslaved to one idea alone, and
to class his fellow-thinkers, and all
zones ln which alone the Hebrews
may live. Here ls no military con- other men, either as supremely wise
scription. Here is no state-suppo 1t- and superbly honest, on the one hand,
ed religious tyranny. Here there c!rn or as iniquitous knaves or colossal
be no political tyranny that the votes fools, on the other hand, according
of the people cannot, in time, overto whether they agree or disagree
throw. And while the economic sys- with him in respect to his pet tenactem is like that of other civilized ity,
He has become -an intolerant
countries, its rule over us differs h'I fanatic and a nuisance, and his influthis, tliat if a majority of the voters ence for good upon the social body is
of the United States shou'd make up as small as that of any other fanatic
their minds to bring about a fundaor nuisance.
He does not realize
mental change, there is neither king, that men's opinions are to a large deczar, kaiser, nor franchise limitation, gree the product of environment,
to prevent its consummation.
(Ap- physical, moral, mental, and that enplause.) Therefore, even in respect vironment is varied; and that thereto the economic system Hie people fore two men of equal honesty and
of the United States are their own equal mental quality can hold opposmasters-they are free. And so, be- ing views of social remedies, while
cause our fatherlands were lands of desiring with equal purity of motive
lesser liberty, or of infamous tyran- that society shall be so organized or
ny, and because we have found here reorganized as to do justice to all and
so much that we sought, and because to promote the happiness of all.
our help is needed in working out
There is another lrlnd of intolerour country's problems, a special ob- ance, which springs from ignorance,
ligation rests upon us to bring to
and it does us as individuals, and
our citizenship a burning · and un- also the cause of social rights, a good
quenchab'.e devotion to democracy;
deal of harm.
Perhaps intolerance
that tllis natioil shall move on to a
is not quite the narne for it, since it
still broader democracy, a still finer
is more passive than positive.
This
liberty, with social justice as its at- is what I mean.
I meet men who
tainable goal.
Ungrudgingly, and say that no man really works unless
reverent'y, let us constantly renew he works with his hands, and that if
and constantly pay om· debt to the he does not he cannot he in sympacountry whose ports were open to us
thy with the wage-eamer.
"\Vagewhen we were in need and that now earner to them means manual-worker
has need of us.
onJy, They do not realize that there
At the foundation of good citizen- is a vast host of wage-earners whose
ship, in a democracy,• is tolerance.
work i~ not done with the hands or
Tolerance ls respect for freedom,
ls only partly done with the hands.
Many of us of foreign birth are cast, They do not know, because they have
as soon as we reach these shores,
never been in a position to know,
into the seething turbulence of the
that men who use their heads may
industrial struggle. We take a bold work as hard as those who use their
stand, and, rightly, we champion rad- hands, that they become as unutterical proposals. And conditions lead ably weary, and that when they
some of us into a state of intolerance break down, as numbers of them are
that cl'ipp 1es om usefulness ag citi- constantly doing, restoration ls frezens.
'I'his intolerance manifests quently slower than that wl~ch fo'.itself in contempt for the mental lows the breakdown of those whose
quality of those whose social remedy work is wholly manual. Nor do they
differs from ours, and in condemna- realize that a multitude of such men
tion of their motives. · Possibly it ls suffer grievously under present condue to two chief causes.
First, we ditions, and are, therefore, in that remay have been such sufferers from in- spect, b1;0thers of the hand-workers.
justice, either in our fatherlands or · And so they laci( that inspiration that
in this land, that bitterness lias driv- comes from knowing that others
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the social and moral forces of
nrl the fame of it are evc>i-yw
than those of their own class [\re It mentally, and frequently so twists
lr·te idcntilication of a man wi
their brothers, and that their social
it morally, that later it may not be
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needs are the same. Further, some able, as a parent, to produce chi'.dren
When Foi'd Hall is recalled,
of us lack the inspiration that comes cavable of successfully bearing at
from knowing that a rapidly-growing maturity the heavy burden which
rr face of ;Father Colcfornn Iii
lnrge body of such headworkers as
modern life lays upon a member of
., party •was as mnch for•01
editors, ministers, lecturers, and pro- the social state, In mill, fac.tory, aqd
I celebration, the man focuse
fessors in colleges, universities, and mine, from early morning until night,
ion, In a certain sense, Forll
theological seminaries are aflame with
the children work. And the patter
1 begun, as did the real Col
fighting zeal for the cause of human and shuff.e of their tired feet, as they
Both had existed before, bu
rights. We are too apt to regard as go and come, has swollen to s.o clam,cover just what they were fo
hostile aliens to our cause and to our orous a volume of mournful sound,
of Meeting.
hearts all whose lives we do not ·see that the whole nation has. turned at
together when he, confident
and know, and to believe that we last to look with pitying eye at this
alone are bearing the burden, we vast army of its maltreated children.
to feed' it, and when the l
(AJJp!ause,) To the children of mill,
a:one arn figl1tlng for justice: This
immediately filled it, :Almost
Is a kind of intolerance, and it is factory, and mine, I join the child
r•c•n crammed full of prepared
cost y to our caus·e.
workers of the tenements.
ids thn.t were overleaping th
Shall I bid you .be tolerant of this
And so I say that we of foreign
s,
They have the look of
origin, in giving our best to our evil? Shall I tell you that economic
ion for the deepest n.nd tru
adopted land, should give plenteous- Jaw necessitates this sacrifice and
•rognition and vindication of
ly of tolerance, Fot· tolerance is at that it should be borne philosophical,,, it is not a church n.udien
the base of democracy, and democ- ly? No! But on the contrary, and
lie avernge chmch hn.s littl
racy is a state of brotherhood, and if it were necessary,-which it is not,
11 trilling, too iiitelligent fo1
brotherhood rests upon individual - I would bid you to be fjlled with replatitudes, and have no be
freedom and reciprocal respect. But lentless intolerance toward chilli laI am speaking solely of tolerance
bor. I would remind you that a large
n•n.lity, and a fetching resp
to men in the mass and to the aver• proportion of these children are chilarl1; on the instant: the an
age man, and not of tolerance toward dren of immigrants. I would ask you
1n inst the palpable thrill an
to summon pity by looking upon your
evi's.
ly visits Ford Hall ever co
And these evils are many, I shall own little ones, and by remembering
11·.1• other gathering. It is
not recount them to you or revel in that you would lay down your lives
them. You know the1;1 by heart. But to keep harm fai' off from them. I
le to Survive.
let us, to suggest om· attitude, take would call your attention to a recent
r for a thing so unconven
one ·of them-Child Lnbor. Suffering report of tenement house conditions
does not smoothly glide i
ls·· the badge of manhood and woman- ln New York, ln which lt is recorded
that little, thin-faced toddlem four
hood, We arn used to it. We accept
npatra's barge with its fr
years of age are conm'lon among tenit as a part of life's penalty or as a
ft accompaniment of Siren
lesson in life's schoo'.
But child, ei11en t house child•workers. And I
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hood should be without burden, with- would tell you 'that there ls recorded
out suffering, It is the time for joy- a'.so the story of a mother and her
1~ "made good" hy winning.
ous play, for tenderest care, for hap- three children. The o:dest was four
themsell'es in the throng
piness unclouded by any hut momen- years old. She worked long hours a
,. period of triumph. beco111
tary tears, for preparation for the day on corsets, The next child-she
11ggle.
yoke that men and ·women bear, ·we was only a babe-was three years
II as a Baptist enterprise,
call him "brute" who mishanl]J.\ls a old, and she, too, worked Jong hours
the Social Union Co111111it
child, we bless him who ls kind to a day on corsets. And then-0 God
,p6nsible body of leading
a child. And· yet we, the wor'd's of plty!-the youngest, an eighteen
ptist trust. Also we 11111
great democracy, proud of our Amerlr, months' old infant worked with tiny
ion •freely issuing from ti
can ideals are monstrously cruel to fumbling fingers upon artificial flowmtary caretakers who ha
1,750,000 of our chilrl labor children, ers-that she mlght help to buy food
Irrs; of the. downright goo
For never will be healed the harm enough to keep her infant body from
that child labor does to its pitiable vic- • a little white coffin and a baby's
ntious suspicion for anyt.l
tims; and generations must pass, after grave. Oh, you comfortable 1nen, you
f the saints and the excel
child labor has been stopped, before comfortable· women, who with hard
;hods of Christian assem
the harm done to the na.tion shall hea1 ts glibly justify want, suffering,
word. 'It was, therefore
have been eradicated. Child labor and death in your prating of eco, manner and method sh
rnbs the child of the playtime nec- nomic Jaw, read that heart-breaking
mchly and baptistic, and
ess·ary to physical growth. Like a story, and, If it does not melt you,
! c, public ·or p1:ivate.
vampire it drains more strength than then in the name of God, be dumb for
can be replenished. It rolls the boy eveimore. (Applause.)
ta Time.
of the educ2.llon that might fit him Do ,you hear the children weeplllg,
n d to be a tussle for sur
0 my brothers,
for industry most profitable to himg~ church for success; f
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
se'f and the community and for the
uccess is worshiped now
most useful citizenship. It so under- They are leaning their young heads
,vcd, almost any brand
against their mothers,
mines the child physically, so limits
gs it. Ford Hall had th
f'ame too late to get i~
111e, '.l'he fame of the
1111Jll•.mity, Those who
rl became radiant friend.
111rlay n'ght service, in ~
ptist,. and· eonducted wlluum,ml""";'
without a prayer, or, "gospel ·:
'-or collections-they would not i
11ileavored to throttle the meeting •.1
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of humor, a wise, sweet persist-.
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s11ccessfully bearing at
heavy burden which
a.1·s upon a member of
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work. And the patter
their tired feet, as they
l!as swollen to s.o cla1111ie of mournful sound,
1, nation has. turned at
ilb pitying eye at this
its maltreated children.
'o the children of mlll,
ii ne, I join the child
; tenements,
,ou be tolerant of this
tPll you that economic
1,s this sacrifice and
lie bome philosopliicalon the contrary, and
;sa1·y,-whlch it is not,
011 to be filled with re:1uce toward chiltl la·11lind you that a large
iese children are chil1nts. I would ask you
l1y looking upon your
and by remembering
lay down your lives
·ar oft' from them. I
a ttentlon to a recent
1"nt house conditions
which it is recorded
-faced toddleru four
comn\on among tenJi Id-workers.
And I
liat there is recorded
,t a mother and Iler
The o'.dest was folll'
worked long hours a
The next child-she
1e -was three years
, worked long hours
And then-O God
111lgest, an eighteen
1t worked with. tiny
11pon artificial flow.l1 t help to buy food
c•1· Infant body from
:omn and a baby's
1111fortable men, you
.-•11, who with hard
ify want, suffering,
111' prating of ecol llat ht1art-brealdng
·loes not melt ·you,
1f God, be dumb for
ISe.)
children weeping,
'l'S,
·omes with years?
l l1eir young heads
· nrnthers,
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But that cannot stop their tears.
The young Jambs are bleating In the
meadows,
1'he young birds are chirping in
their nest,
The young fawns are p'.aying with
the shadows,
The young flowers are blowing
toward the west,
But tlie young, young children, O my
brothers,
1'hey are weeping bitterly!
They are weeping in the playtime of
the 'others,
Iri the conn try of the free!
For a little bread and a little meat,
For two poor soles for his weary feet,
I~or a tattered coat and a bed of rags,
And a curse or a lJlow if he ever
lags,
F'or a right to live as a worm may
live,
I
f--le gives up all that a child may give.
I do not believe that under the·
IH'esent economic system child labor
can be totally abolished. (Applause.)
But I do believe that society can,
through an adjustment forced by legislation, maintain itself without the
labor of the children. Let us use our
influence and our votes-not waiting
for a fundamental economic change
-to tear this accursed thing out of
the life of the nation and to give the
children tneir birthright. (Applause.)
rt has been said of the children, "of
such is the kingdom of heaven." I
ask, should they not first have their
kingdom here upon earth!
(Appia use.)
As members of a class-Immigrants-upon whom evrs such as
this bear so grievously, and as men
and women specially obligated to
good citizenship, let us be unyieldingly Intolerant towarrl them.
Let me reflect one more thought of
this nature. 'We are hearing a good
deal ·about the right of a man 01· a
. womun to be born under conditions
that shall make probab'e at maturit.y a sound body and mind and normal morals, Thinking men and women are pointing out that our horses,
our oxen, our hogs are the product or
selection of parents and birth condltlrms. For our domestic animals must
yield their maximum of market value
or of prize-taking VAiue. But man-?
vVe know that man commonly comes
without a special invitation, and frequently he comes un welcomed, hated,
and thousands and tens of thousands
of him, for themselves and for society, hAd better not have come at all
-so far as human judgment can de-
5
termine. It is unjust to produce a
man who must limp, physically rnentnlly, morally, tlirough life, llideousJy unjust to him, and economical y
unjust to society, And it is worthy
of note, And of admiration, that woman, the motlrn1" of the race, is beginning to proclAim insistently the
right of proper parentllood, (Applause.) I know tliat the problem is
interlocked with other JH·oblems, but
we can begin with its simpler elements, and let them lead us on, vVe
build for posterity, nnd what better
•cou'd we do for posterity than to provide good parentage? Give men a
chance at the very gateway of life.
'fhere will then be less need to dema.nd it later. (Applause.)
Woman
ls thinking and saying that her offspring ls entitled to at least as favorable birth conditions as are provided
for a cnlf or a foal or a prize puppy
or an ango1:a kitten, And is she not
right? Applause,) For
What a viece of work is a man!
How nob'e in reason! How infinite
in faculties! in form and moving, how
express and admirable! in action, how
like an angel! in apprehension, how
like a god! tlle paragon ot' animals!
the beauty of the world!
vVe carn10t speak of woman nowadays-indeed wllen we read the English news we cannot even think of
her-without running head-on into
woman suffrage.
Straight from the
soul of democracy comes the demand
that woman shall have politlcAl
equality with man. {App 1ause.) And
the opponents of it might as well
stand on the shore of the resistless
sea and bid the rising tide turn back,
As to try with their impotent voices
to roll back the rising tide of triumphant democracy, (Applause.) I shall
not here argue this cause: there Is no
need of it, for this hall Is democracy's
temple, All over the civilized world
woman is coming into her political
own, And at least ten states of the
Amel'ican Union l?ave enfranchised
her.
May Massachusetts-freedom
loving· MAssachusetts-b~ spared tha
shame of being the last on the list;
and she will be spared if the standpat
legislators in yonder building can be
dislodged, (Laughter and applause,)
The United StAtes ls nominally a republican democracy, but it will not be
in reality a republican democracy until the remainder of the states shall
have given the franchise to the no~
exc·uded half-not the worse halfof their adult population, (Applause,)
1.Yoman of right ought to be the po-
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\ themF,elves with. 0U.1ers vitally Christian that have. made the meet,r'.
HARLES H. WATSON.
: ings rn remarkable) at1d rendered them., so· attractive to the \yot·thi~st ,'
five years old now, and knows -it, well, '\ among the working poor. There has been something in the vibrant.:
3 made an, indelible impression upon the , utmosphere_)hat. put everJ' speaker at his best, and that rnm.ethi11g .:,
ter. I am not speaking of "Ford Buil.;~'=·=~o o~o':::"":"'"~*~h~•e~,h~e~-~~e~e~t~t~b~e~u'='::!b~r~s[!;t=c!Ic!!D=1!0,!ol1bJtJ]hLge..,,,!)b~rn11,,c})'.J'jlll,._J_hlllJllJJlllltJJll11Jil11Jlg,t.'.;'og;fL__________,__ __,.1111!!11&
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er aml an older proposition, but "Ff
" ugo, when George
Coleman begi
1)0, to interpret the .heart of Daniel Sh!
, used to furnish a free and open for1
the purpose of bettering their condiH
l'..!I. sired, that it sprang full-formed il
mong the social and moral forces of I
PORD HALL FOLKS
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,f it and the fame of it are evei·ywhi
• complete identification of a man wit!
litical eqnal of 1111111. She Is his mor- of makers enslaved lo a class ot' takH'II George
Coletnun is mentioned,
al m1perlor, even though man was ers-when the crimes produced by
l Hall. When Fo1'd Hall is recalled, ri
made a little lower than the engels. poverty shall have disappearedSociety needs the political participa- when womanhood shall not be sold
the !iYe face of ;Father .Coleinun like•
tion of woman, and woman, for her for bread-when children shall not
,irthduy party ,was us. much for one
, own protection and lrncause it is her be driven in droves by the lash of
actual celebrntion, the man focused I
natural right, should be a pertlci- need-when the providing of food,
ratulution, In a certain sense, Ford ~
clothing, shelter,, shall not exhaust
pant.
: 'olenmn began, ,as did the real ColeJ
When man and ,voman are politi- the strength and kill the soul of the
0g!ln, Both bud existed before, but ·
cally equa', the vision of democracy worker-when men and women shall
they discover just what they were for,:
will become like an inspired pro- not In their old age c, awl almost
e Point of Meeting,
phecy. For every unit of democracy crustless to theh: graves-when abunwill be armed for the final long strug- dance shalt have replaced povertyI came together when he, ronfident I
gle with the most powerful weapon when reason, and music and art, and
nnined to feed· it, and when the hul
that the ·American dtizen can use- science, and nature-the mother of
ng und immediately filled it. Almost f
the vote! This is :i country of bal- us all,-and religion-the breath of
,c h!ls been crammed full of prepared 11
lots, and not bullets and bombs. Blind God,-shall beautify and glorify huing minds that were overleaping the 1
le!lders of the blind are they who man life and there shall be one vast
1mditions. They have the look of p~
would try to conquer the will and the brotherhood of the peo]Jles of the
0xpression for the deepest and true~
.judgment of the American peoJ)le by world. (Applause.)
a tive recognition und vinclic!I tion of j
Far-off, far-off will be the fulfillvloleiice. Futile would be their war1,., True, it is not a church audience/
J'are, and the chief result. would be to ment of this prophesy, but the race
,rhirh the average church has little JI
delay Indefinitely the victory of rea- though old Is young, Here in Amerir solemn trifling, too intelligent for
son, o[ justice, an<I of the golden ca, with its citizenship the noblest
r11le. For It has heen written in the on earth, and with ,a free democracy
t icul for platitudes, and have no bell
hearts of this J)eople from the very as Its exceeding rich endowment, we
1(•<1-rock reality, und a fetching responl
founding of the nation that the will face the beckoning future. Vi7e shall
• are i·eud,\; 911 the in stunt: the ans,~
educate our way toward It, and we
Qf the majority, freely made known
proof against the palpable thrill and
in democratic form, shall be recog, shall vote our way toward it. We are
,tcrestedly visits Ford Hull ever com
nized as the collective wl I of the peo- confronted at the outset by a choice
,n t of any other gathering, It is a
ple.
They believe that "freedom or two economic systems, each of
slowly hardens down, from precedent which, some of its respective advo) Struggle to Survive,
fo precedent." They are devoted to cates assert, is capable of giving rea '·
internal J)eace.
They know that izatlon to our vision. One of them
,,,. to pay for a thing so m1conventil
through the ballot wrongs can, In is the age-old competitive system,
fall. It do<Js not smoothly glide int
,
- r ..
time, be driven out. They will not and the other Is the alluring hut yet
like Cleopatra's barge with its freig
tolerate the snbstituUon of a reign of untried socialist system. (Applause.)
terror for the reign of law I And if the What should be our attitude toward
h the soft accompaniment of Siren sti
time should ever come wh!'m the pow- them? Shall we, while Ignorant of the
,ocl fight." It can ·hardly be good t111
er to express the popular will in or- merits or demerits of either or both
h,·n it huA "nrnde good" hy wiiming. o
derly manner was seriously menaced, of them, accept one and reject the
l,1· lose themselves in the throng
millions of them, il millions were other? Or shall we, sensible of the
often the period of triumph, becomes.
necessary, would rise, and, forgetting dignity of our political manhood and
nc of struggle.
· ,
their own social wrongs and all else of our American citizenship, prepare
Ford H!lll us a Bltptist enterpriRe, o
save the clanger to their country, for our momentous choice by a carearon, of the Social Union Committee!
would ,strike down the enemies of ful study of the ]Jrinciples of both
ns a responsible body of leading B
peaceful progress, whether they were systems, so that ,vhen we by ballot
of a Bn.ptist trust. Also we must
foreign-born or native, For that rea- manifest our will, intelligence and
· of opinion '.freely issuing from the
son, if for none other, violence is conscience shall guide 11s, and each
madness,
And, too, already the shall speak for himself and not as a
Ihose vohwtary caretakers who have
preaching of it, and one case of the mere registrar of the opinion of anwn shoulders; of the downright good
extensive practise of It, has done ln- other man or of other men?
(Ap·
,f conscientious suspicion for anythi
jmy to us of alien origin. ,vhat do plause.)
: order; of the saints and the excelle1
we hear?-"'l'hat's what comes of letAnd now, with this preparation for
and methods of Christian assembll
ting in these Ignorant foreigners, the ballot, and Inspired by this
11• divine word. •rt was, therefore,
They're a pack of anarchists, The vision, if you believe that from the
,rel Hall's manner and method shoul
gove1 nment ought to keep them out." republlc!ln party alone, with Its
Inusly churchly und baptistic, and. m
vVe shoulrl not be silent eoncernlng championship of a high tariff, and Its
l,latherskite, public 'or p,:ivate,
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this doctrine of violence. We should recognition of a concentrated capital
speak resolutely for peace. The coun- and Industry, can come salvation
A Year at a Time,
try is listening for our voice, Let It from Industrial evils, permanent conrn there hud to be a· tussle for surviv
be heard!
ten t1irnn t of wage-earners, and the
the avernge church for success; for
And what is this vision of de- ideal social state, then vote as a resort of succeas is worshiped nowacl
·
mocracy? It Is the coming oA n clay publican.
it is !lchieved, 11,lmost any brand of,
when there shall ho no stffrvatlon
Or If you believe that democratic
that brings it. Ford Hall hud that '
line-when there shall not be a class principles-free trade or tariff for
ftentimes came too htte to get in,
,weting time, The fame of the me
lied the comm'.mity. Those who cn1
1Yinced and became radiant friends.
wus a Sunday n'ght service, in a
ninent Paptist,. and conducted with
mmetimes without a pmyer, or, "gospel7
or "cards"-or· collections-they would not I
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FORD HALL FOLKS
d to a class of tak·i 1ues produced by
a 1·e disappearedshall not be sold
<"hildren shall not
·1•s by the lash of
1,rnvlding of food,
sllall not exhaust
kill the soul of the
11 and women shall
age c, awl almost
~rnves-when abnnrnplaced poverty111 usic and art, and
1·u-the mother of
ion-the breath of
ry and glorify hu, ,ihall be one vast
ie
peoples of the
1·ill ]Je the fnlfillllesy, but the race
,g, Here in Ameri•nship the noblest
a free democracy
t('h endowment, we
, future, We shall
toward it, and we
toward it, ·we are
uutset by a choice
systems, each of
s respective advoa J,le of giving rea'.on. One of them
, 111peti live system,
H; alluring but yet
1 stem. (Applause.)
11r attitude toward
lile ignornnt of the
ol' either or botll
11e and reject the
·e, sensible of the
1ical manhood and
itizenshlp, prepare
1·holce by a care111•inciples of both
:llen we by ballot
intelligence· and
tide JIS, and each
1self and not as a
J1e opinion <if an,t her men?
(Aplis preparation for
inspired by this
•re that from the
,ilone, with its
·1 i gh tariff, and its
11nentrated capital
come salvation
s, permanent con·
-1•arners, and the
!11;11 vote as a re, that democratic
de or tariff fo1•
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revenue, restoration of competition,
decentralization of governmental authority-will raise ihe \\\age-earner
far above the starvation line, will
lead to a time when the. multitude
shall not be the enslaved wealth-producers for the few, and will reform
society through the enthronement of
justice, then vote as a democrat.
Or if . yon believe that the dominance of prohibition principles would
usher in the golden age, vote as a
prohibitionist. And whether we so
vote or not if every man and woman
in the nation were to ado11t the chief
princip'e of the prohibition party as
a rule of conduct in his 01· her life,
society would undergo such a transformation, physical, mtral, mental,
financial, as probably nothing else
bnt an economic change could produce. (ApJ)lause,)
Or if you believe that the progressive party, with its adherence to au
equitable tariff and its aclmowledgment of the Inevitableness of caJ)i talistic and industrial combinittion, is
the one safe and sure route to social
justice, because also it is preJ)aring the
minds of the J)eople for still more radical social measures than it has yet
proposed, and is putting into the hands
of the people instruments for the introduction of those measures into the
national life, then vote as a progressive, Also, if you are of those who
believe that social evils must always
exist, that the poor must always be
with us, and that the enactment into
law of progressive measures already
proposed would be lilrn soothing the
agonized' nerve of society with a morphine pill, so tliat a genuine remedy
would no longer, or soon again, be demanded, then a'.so vote as a J)rogresslve. (Laughter,)
But if you believe that from the
competitive system cannot come the
cessation of class warfare and the
abolition of war among the •nations,
and that It cannot evolve a social
state in which the powers and aspirations of the members can have full
scope and a just and satisfying frnition; and if you believe that the ador,tion of socialists princiJ)les would
eventually give glorious reality to the
vision of the IJBOple, then, as a man
and as an American, do all in your
power,-by • voting as a socialist, or
by voting with any party that may be
advancin& the cause of socia1Jsm,-to
swell the million votes of the last election into a volume, overwhelming and
sustained, that shall bring man-the
heir of the ages-in triumph to his
destined heritage! (Applause.)
7
I cannot take my Heat unlil I have
exalted this theine of human rights
unto the highest plane, In all ages
mankind has had gods or a god. And
in these latter days men of every religion and creed, and or no stated religion and no creed, a'n10st universally believe that there is a supreme being who is the life ot' all life and the
source of every ennobling ideal tllat
leads man steadfastly on and on amid
the encircllng gloom of the mystery
of human life, And although I cannot prove His existence to your satisfaction or my own, I am not ashamed
to name here the name of God, and
to acknowledge my belief that man
is made in his image, and to say that
justice must eventually reign in the
Jives of men because God is,
That God which ever lives and loves;
One Goel, one law, one element,
And one far-off, diviue event
To which the whole creation moves!
( P1 olonged applause.)
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS.
Q, 'How can we ca"J A1nerica so
free when conditions existed such as
we have seen in La \Vl'ence?
A. If that were genernl all over
America, I would say that we caunot
call America free. It. happens In isolated c"ases,
I do not think that
)lroves that America is not free. (AJJlause.)
Q. rs
capitalism going to be
strong enough to prevent such legislation as is necessary to wipe out
child labor?
A. No, it is not,
Pnl511c opinion
is against it, In my statement I said
I do not believe under the present
economic system, child labor could
ever be totally abolished, 'I'hat was
my statement. (Applause.)
Q. Are not
the
English suffragettis justified in using force hecause that ls the only thing an rnnglis4man can understand? (Laughter
and applause.)
A, I think if the rnnglish suffragette used just enough mild force
to resist the IlJnglish government, it
would not do much harm, but when
It comes to destroying the railroad
and cutting tele1ihonu lines I do not
believe that it is right.
Q, What does the speaker think
of the immigration liill that is now
before the Senate?
A, 'I'hat is the il:iterncy test.
It
has been vetoed bv the President
·what little I have 1;ead about it, I do
not like that illiteracy test, It seems
to me that ,tt would keep out men and
>rd Ha,)l's Birth, da,y party
,
u;ese 1elem~i1ts got into tM mr,,nnn.v·
,ahct;
lhe1melves witli,,ot.1,jers vitally q1ristiim
the
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BY CHARLES H. WATSON,
, ings rn remarkable> and rendered them, so. attractive to tl10 1rort1uest '.
oston, is five years old now, and knows •it, well, , amo11g the working poor. There has been something in the vibrant:·
,f Feb. 23 made an indelible impression upon tho \ ati!1osphe,1~e that put .every spcnke1; at}1is
a~da~,l~at_E~~1;::_t~i1~f
? youngster, I am not speaking of 1'Ford Bu;.'""·~·__;_::.::.:;;;.;;;:;.;;;.....,....,..,."""',.....,...;.....!:..~...;;,;-..,____.'------L'-'..:__,____,....
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ite another and 1111 older proposition, but "Jl
flve years ago, when George ·w, Coleman bej
.Jain people, to interpret the heart of Daniel Sl
hat it be used to furnish a free and open for
>le with the purpose of bettering their condil
\\'as so we]} sired, that it sprang full-formed,
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FORD HALL FOLKS
, giant among the socinl and moral forces of
,, form of it and the fame of it are everywl
women of character and ability just.
T of the complete identification of a man wi
bPcause they did not know their southerners that education of the
nre, \Vhen George \V, Coletnan is mentioned
A B Cs, but who knew the a 'phabet of negro industrially Is the only soln•
.tion of _the problem, '·. think we shall
R of Ford Hall.
When Foi'd HaU is recalled, !
morals and useful life, and for that
find there will be lef. of that in the
'Pntcr is the liYe face of ;Father Colehrnn lik
reason I do not like it, (Applause.)
South. It is a proble1n whose end no
great birthday party ,was ns_ much for on
Q. If the Puritan ln11nigrnnt was
man can see and one of
•L in the actual celcbrntion, the mnn focused
not tolerant of the Indian that he problems of the coun l1 J'. the great
,.]ming grntulation, Ju a certain sense, Fon!'
found here, how can we expect our
Q.
vresent. day immigrants to be toler- which How are you going tQ decide
1·ge \V. Coleman begun, _as did the real Col
political partj, we want, In
ant of the native minority who seek view of the fact that there is so much
Hall began. Both had existed before, bu1
to rule and eont.rol? (Laughter.)
nos, did they discover just whnt they were foi
ability in all of them and each o[
A. I do not ask !Jim to be to!er- them c'.aims to be lhe whole thing?
The Point of Meeting.
ant. I simply suggested the need of (Langht.er,)
"ord llall came together when he, ronlldcnt
tolerance toward nnv man wl1ose soA. All you cnn do
study the
,,r, determined to feed• it, aml when . the h
da! remedy differs f;·om onr own and situation and use your is lo judgment.
own
of feasting nnd immediately filled it, .:Almost
the need of opening our ears and eyes
(Applause.)
It ls autocracy or dethe house has been crammed full of prepared
to the knowledge that vast numbers
m.ocracy, Democracy will in · the long
of those who do not work with their run do less harm to tl1e body politic
hespeaking minds that were overleaping the
hands are wage earners· like ourRocial conditions. . They have the look of !
than autocracy will.
selves; therefore they are brothers.
finding expres.si,on for the deepest nnd tru,
Q. Don't the
Progressive party
They, too, like we, are suffering under
a.11thoritative recognition and •vindicntion of
give us the II bolition of child labor,
present conditions. .I do not ask him
, stmggle. 'frne, it is not a church audienc
woman suffrage 111HI several other
or anybody e'se to be tolerant under
1y for which the average church has littlE
t.he present. conditions,
I distinctly good things?
r;1est for solemn trilling, too intelligent for
A, There is no doubt about iL
said, let us be intolerant towards
.oo practicnl for platitudes, and have no be!
evil.
(Laughter and apvlause.)
:u t for bed-rock realitr, and a fetching respo
Q, In view of the value we put on
Q. Doesn't the speaker think that
!'RS thcr are ieadJ; c;m the instant: the ans
individual liberty, why do we dls- some fine moming he is going to
onld be proof against the palpable thrill and
cl'imlna.te against the negro race in
wake up and find himself a socialist?
the South?
(Applause,)
·ho disinterestedly visits Ford Hall ever co;
A, That Is a. question of racial
with thut of any other gathering. It is.
A, I don't mind saying that o[ all
antipathy, That Is the root of it. It parties, the sbcialist party should be
extends all over this world-races do
most to'era.nt toward the Progressive
The Struggle to Survive.
not rub well. It was the root of the
varty,
(Applause.)
The Progress a price to pay for a thing so unconvenl
struggle in the South, But through
sives are made up of men and women
Ford Hall. It does not smoothl,y glide h
education of the negro and through
whose minds are breaking away
a growing sense on the part of the
from the old opinionS',
iirntion like Cleopatra's barge with its fre
nncl with the soft accompnniment of Siren
in "a good fight." It can lmrdly bf,l good t
11ml when it Jrns "mnde good" by winning:
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,Ve nre ready to consider any subject that has moral and spirlt.11al value,
,r the blntherskite, public 'or p1:ivate. · ·J
No p'ace for anything merely entertaining or purely technical.
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Only requirement of a speaker is that he have a real message lt.JHI
the power to put it over.
il·e years there lrnd to be II tussle for surl
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n•ds oftentimes came too late to get il'
,.fore meeting time. The fame of the;
!errs, filkd the comm:mity. Those who e
"''e convinced nnd became rndiant frien~
hat it was a Sunday n'ght service, in
n prominent Paptist,. and conducted witllOUt'71~---"
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No. 9.
Mau lfolhs
February 23, 1913,
OUR EFFECT ON THE SPEAKER,
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One of the cleverest platform
S]Jeakers in America says that the
Ford Hall folks constitute the most
difficult audience to speak to in
America. ' He bases that statement
on personal experience, 'Ne had him
with us about two years ago and it
was a briliiantly successful evening,
Not only in his address, but also in
his handling of the questions, he was
exceptionally fine.
He did it so
easily, apparently, and is so used to
speaking to audiences, large and
small, all over the country that I was
amazed when he told me the other
day that his evening at Ford Hall
cost him a week's vitality,
In fact,
lhe strain was so severe that notwithstanding he had made another
engagement with us for this spring,
he cancelled the date because he was
not feeling quite up to the mark
physically,
He has filJed his other engagements in connection with his annual
trip to this part of the country and
felt quite equal to them, but didn't
feel quite robust enough to meet the
ordeal of another engagement at
Ford Hall just at this time,
This
· is the more ·remarkable to me because we have seldom had a speaker
on onr nlatform who has more completely won the sympathy of his entire audience than he did,
Maybe
that was the reason after an.
A
vigorous exercise of sympathy is as
devitalizing as a sharp combat with
opponents,
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Many another speaker hava I heard
giving expression to a similar experience with the Ford Hall audiences,
Probably we don't begin to appreciate what a tax it is on every speaker,
It is one of the few places
where a vital topic is discussed before a high-powered audience, embrnclng a score or more of widely
varying points of view, and where
each questioner is at liberty in a direct personal qnery to turn the
tables on the speaker if he can,
I will never forget the night when
a young man in the gallery floored
com]Jletely one of the great Intellectual leadel's of the country with
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Price Ten Cents.
these two questions: "Isn't it true
that the ablest biologists of the day
all agree that consciousness Is nothing more nor less than the interaction of nervous forces?" VVhen the
reply from the s1ieaker indicated
tha.t there was another school of biologists quite as emh1ent as the one
named, who would disagree entirely
with that statement, the v_oice from
the gallery insistently addecl, "Name
one," and the great man on the s1rnr
of the moment couldn't do it.
Do lou wonder that thel'e is an unusual strain in addressing a Ford
Hall meeting? How necessary then
it is to show the speaker every possible consideration and courtesy consistent with getting at the truth.
And that is what we have a reputation for doing,
NEXT
SUNDAY'S
PROGRAM.
Dr, J, A, McDonald, editor of the
Toronto Globe, is lo address us next
Sunday on the subject of "War and the
Human Breed," Dr. McDonald is the
most powerful speal(er in Canada and
is widely known in this country, alsoeS'pecially in religious circles, He and
his paper are the leading forces in
Canada in favor of reciprocity with the
United States, that policy being but a
part of his attitude towards all brother
nations.
An extra treat for that evening will
be the character readings of ·wanen
G. Richards, who will render for us
the "Lil' Brown Baby" of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Eugene Fie.d's inimitable "Seein' Things at Night."
Mr. Richards is an artist in the de·
lineation of character, all his effects
being obtained by quick facial transformations,
Pure artistic fu.n may
very well have a place, now and then,
at a Ford Hall meeting,
Another
feature of interest, next Sunday, will
be the extra-size issue of this pape1·
with many v'easant echoes of the
Birthday in it.
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vc years old now, and knows -it. ,vell,
nade a.n indelible impression upon the ·
I am not speaking of ''Ford Bui,ld· 1
itnd an older proposition, but "F(
ngo, when George
Coleman beg
to interpret the heart of Daniel Shi
s0d to furnish a free and open fon
~ purpose of bettering their conditj
l sired, that it sprang full-formed i1 • •
rng the social and moral force~. of /
it aml the fame of it are everywl~
·,mplete identification of a man wit)1
, George ·w. Cole1uan is mentioned,1
fall, When Ford Hall is recalled, r
IP liYe face of ;Father Coleinan likq
h,lay party •was as_ much for onj
dual celebration, the man focused
11lation, In a certain sense, Ford:
rman began, _as did the real Col
111. Both had existed before, hut
•~· discover just what they were for
>oint of Meeting,
•ame together when he, ronfident
incd to feed' it, and when the h
ancl immediately filled it. :Almost
ins been cn1mmed full of prepared
( minds that were overleaping the
litions, They have the look of
pres.sion for the deepest and tru 1
,.,. recognition and •vindication of
True, it is not a church llJldienc
,.lJ the average chmch has little
olemn trilling, too intelligent for
II for platitudes, and have no ·bel
rock reality, nncl ti fetching respo
rP i·eadJ; \JU the instant: the ans
)()f ag11inst the palpable thrill and
·pstedly visits Ford Hall ever co
of any other gathering, It is
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them~elves ,vith ot11ers vitally Christian thiit ha,•e, made. the me~t,i;
ings Eo rema.rlmble> and rendered thel)l so· attractive to t)ie 1~·orthi1ist '
among the wo~king poor.· There has been something in the vibrant.:
atmosphere tlmt put every spraker at his best, and that eomething '
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truggle to Survive.
lo pay for a thing so uncom·ent
l. It does not smoothly glide in
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he soft accompaniment of Siren
/lght," It can Imrdly be good u
it hns "made good" ·liy winning.
l11se themselves in the throng
Pn .the period of triumph. become
of struggle,
·cl H11ll as a Baptist enterprise,
,11, of the Social Union Committ
a responsible body of leading
11, Baptist trust, Also we urns
f opinion .·freely issuing from th
,c volu.ntary caretakers who hav
shoulders; of the downright goo
:onsdentious suspicion for anyth
,!pr; of the saints and the excelle
11l methods of Christian assemb
livine word. 'It was, therefore,
Hall's manner and· method sho
sly churchly nnd ba.ptistic, and.
herskite, public 'or p1:ivate.
rear at a Time.
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PRAYER.
(Preceding Mr. Anderson's Address,)
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Grant us, we pray, a mutual respect and consider~tion for each
other t11.ough we hav,~ come from the
ends of the earth, though we have
come, some yesterday and some very
long ago, Give us the joy of mutual
interests, the delights of a common
life and the satisfaction that comes
of· an eager sharing in the hopes for
a better day.
"We thank Thee for
that hardness of life which is helping
to make us strong and self-reliant.
We rejoice In the larger measure of
freedom and opportunity which om
adopted country affords us.
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bless the men and women, who, com•
Ing earlier than we, have he:ped us
on our way. Keep us, 0 God, from
ever harboring that contempt for
people less favored than ourselves,
which is often meted out to us by
those whose lot has been more favor•
able than our own. Help us, one and
all, foreigners and natives, new ar•
rivals and established citizens, men
of every nation and rlass, to come lo
a friend:y knowledge of each other,
to work together in good will, and to
uphold the rights of all mankind
against all forms of greed, misrepresentation, and oppression. Amen·.
PUBLICITY AND SOCIAL ADVANCE,
The evils of secrecy in matters of
general concerJi, and the advantages
of openness, wllre clearly shown by
Dr. Talcott Wrliams, director of the
School of Journalism at Columbia
University, in an address recently delivered before the Public Formn · of
the Church of the Ascension, on the
subject, "Publicity as a Cure for Social Evils.'' Dr. Williams said, in the
course of the evening, that society
can advance on·y to the extent that
each member of it recognizes his responsibility to every other member,
and that society can cleanse Itself
only when it knows what are the
evils to be removed.
Only by the
aid of publicity, he believes, can soclet.ti, advance.
Ill. vVllliams' forty years of service as reporter, correspondent and
editorial writer have given him
the right to speak with · authority,
and his trlbu te to the social value of
the press Is just, as we at Ford Ha.II
very well know.
'We owe much to
the friendly co-operation of our Boston papers!
here had to be a· tussle for surv'
11,vernge church for sl!ccess; fo1
t of success is worshiped nowa
~ achieved, almost any brand o
1t brings it. Ford Hall had that
1tirnes came· too ln,~e to get in,
ting time, The fam\l of the 11
the comm·.mity, Those who ea
"'<•cl nnd became radiant friends,
1s a Sunday n'ght service, in a
1•11t l'aptist,. nncl conducted wiU,~..._--~---~-dimes without 11, prayer, or, "gospel
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AS AN
IMMIGRANT SEES IT,
(Address of Stewart Anderson of
Springfield, Mass., at the Ford
Hall Meeting, Feb. 16, 1913.)
come here tonight as one who
was an immigrant, asking the privilege of having a sort of family talk,
and I hope that the native-born will
not feel themselves defrauded because I think we shall all come together before I sit down,
Now you know, in a family, the interests are held in common and each
one knows the thoughts of the others, and I am going to assume tonight that I know your thoughts, All
that I shall attempt to do will be to
reflect some of ~•om· thoughts and
hold them up for emphasis.
I have
not brought here tonight some new
scheme for regulating the universe.
The first thing that I want to re,
fleet is this. 'I'hat a special ob'igatlon of good citizenship rests upon
us. who are not chldren of the house
bnt are of foreign birth. Let me emphasize this: Most of us came to this
country either as refugees from op1n·ession, seeldng security for such
property as we might possess or mlghl
acquire, or safety for our children,
our womanhood, our own lives-for
one or for all of these-or else we
came in search of that opportunity
for ourselves and our children that
our fatherlands could not provide.
And whatever we may not have
found, we have found security for
our property, and safety for our children, for our womanhood, and for our
own lives; and an innumerable host
of us have found, to a satisfying extent, the opportunity that we here
hoped to find, And it is not the fault
of the American people that, on the
other hand, a very large number of
us have merely left a life of misery
across the sea !or a similar one here.
America was eager to give us, and
has given us, freely, the best that she
had to give. Therefore that elemental emotion of manldnd, gratitude,
lays upon us an obligation to give to
our adopted land, in return, the best
that ls in us, both in our private lives
and in the wider life of our citizenship.
There ls another aspect of this special obligation.
It ls, that democrney needs us, because the backgronnd of our lives is such that we
should be her most ardent! and persistent exponents. (Applause.) Our
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MMIGRANT SEES IT.
Stewart Anderson of
Mass., at the Ford
eeting, Feb, 16, 1913.)
I,
1·e tonight as one who
igrant, nslring the privi1c;· a sort of family talk,
/1at the native-born will
t mselves defrauded bek we shall all come toI sit down,
110w, In a family, the inold in common and each
1u thoughts of the oth111 going to assume tomow your thoughts, All
11 empt to do will be to
of your thoughts and
for emphasis,
I have
1ere tonight some new
•g11lating the universe,
i11g that I want to re,
That a special ob-igacitizenship rests upon
,t chldren of tlie house
•ig;n birth, Let me ein,lost of us came to this
as refugees from opi11g security for such
111ight possess or might
fety for our children,
tl, our own lives-for
of these-or else we
Ii of that opportunity
111d our children that
1 could
not provide.
we may not have
e found security for
Hl safety for our chilimanhood, and for our
innumerable host
1d, to a satisfying ex·t 11nlty that we here
\ nd it is not the fault
1 people that, on the
ery large number of
left a life of• misery
ir a similar one here.
,ger to give us, and
ely, the best that she
1terefore that elemenrnankind, gratitude,
obligation to give to
I, in rnturn, the best
Ii in our private lives
r life of our citizen•
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earlier life was in lands whose people en a I sweetness ~:om our hearts,
must yet travel a long road hefore Second, thinking produces op11110n,
they reach a state or political free- opinion leads to argui11entatlon, argudom. We had heard America called mentation generates beat, heat pro"the land of liberty" and with long- vokes pugnacity, pugnacity begets teing eyes, and with faith, ·we came nacity, So that when a bitter souled
hither. And here we found a people thinker has passed through these sevmore nearly free than those of any eral stages, he is liable to have beother land. Here are no separate
come enslaved to one idea alone, and
to class his fellow-thinkers, and all
zones ln which alone the Hebrews
may live. Here ls no military con- other men, either as supremely wise
scription. Here is no state-suppo 1t- and superbly honest, on the one hand,
ed religious tyranny. Here there c!rn or as iniquitous knaves or colossal
be no political tyranny that the votes fools, on the other hand, according
of the people cannot, in time, overto whether they agree or disagree
throw. And while the economic sys- with him in respect to his pet tenactem is like that of other civilized ity,
He has become -an intolerant
countries, its rule over us differs h'I fanatic and a nuisance, and his influthis, tliat if a majority of the voters ence for good upon the social body is
of the United States shou'd make up as small as that of any other fanatic
their minds to bring about a fundaor nuisance.
He does not realize
mental change, there is neither king, that men's opinions are to a large deczar, kaiser, nor franchise limitation, gree the product of environment,
to prevent its consummation.
(Ap- physical, moral, mental, and that enplause.) Therefore, even in respect vironment is varied; and that thereto the economic system Hie people fore two men of equal honesty and
of the United States are their own equal mental quality can hold opposmasters-they are free. And so, be- ing views of social remedies, while
cause our fatherlands were lands of desiring with equal purity of motive
lesser liberty, or of infamous tyran- that society shall be so organized or
ny, and because we have found here reorganized as to do justice to all and
so much that we sought, and because to promote the happiness of all.
our help is needed in working out
There is another lrlnd of intolerour country's problems, a special ob- ance, which springs from ignorance,
ligation rests upon us to bring to
and it does us as individuals, and
our citizenship a burning · and un- also the cause of social rights, a good
quenchab'.e devotion to democracy;
deal of harm.
Perhaps intolerance
that tllis natioil shall move on to a
is not quite the narne for it, since it
still broader democracy, a still finer
is more passive than positive.
This
liberty, with social justice as its at- is what I mean.
I meet men who
tainable goal.
Ungrudgingly, and say that no man really works unless
reverent'y, let us constantly renew he works with his hands, and that if
and constantly pay om· debt to the he does not he cannot he in sympacountry whose ports were open to us
thy with the wage-eamer.
"\Vagewhen we were in need and that now earner to them means manual-worker
has need of us.
onJy, They do not realize that there
At the foundation of good citizen- is a vast host of wage-earners whose
ship, in a democracy,• is tolerance.
work i~ not done with the hands or
Tolerance ls respect for freedom,
ls only partly done with the hands.
Many of us of foreign birth are cast, They do not know, because they have
as soon as we reach these shores,
never been in a position to know,
into the seething turbulence of the
that men who use their heads may
industrial struggle. We take a bold work as hard as those who use their
stand, and, rightly, we champion rad- hands, that they become as unutterical proposals. And conditions lead ably weary, and that when they
some of us into a state of intolerance break down, as numbers of them are
that cl'ipp 1es om usefulness ag citi- constantly doing, restoration ls frezens.
'I'his intolerance manifests quently slower than that wl~ch fo'.itself in contempt for the mental lows the breakdown of those whose
quality of those whose social remedy work is wholly manual. Nor do they
differs from ours, and in condemna- realize that a multitude of such men
tion of their motives. · Possibly it ls suffer grievously under present condue to two chief causes.
First, we ditions, and are, therefore, in that remay have been such sufferers from in- spect, b1;0thers of the hand-workers.
justice, either in our fatherlands or · And so they laci( that inspiration that
in this land, that bitterness lias driv- comes from knowing that others
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e an indelible impression upon the I atmos here that mt every speaker at his best, and that Eomething
am i10t speaking of "Ford B p,i__
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when George
Coleman be
interpret' the heart of Daniel S
lo furnish a free and open f
1rpose of bettering their con di
erl, that it. sprang full•formed
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the social and moral forces of
nrl the fame of it are evc>i-yw
than those of their own class [\re It mentally, and frequently so twists
lr·te idcntilication of a man wi
their brothers, and that their social
it morally, that later it may not be
1l'ge ,v. Coletnan is mentionec
needs are the same. Further, some able, as a parent, to produce chi'.dren
When Foi'd Hall is recalled,
of us lack the inspiration that comes cavable of successfully bearing at
from knowing that a rapidly-growing maturity the heavy burden which
rr face of ;Father Colcfornn Iii
lnrge body of such headworkers as
modern life lays upon a member of
., party •was as mnch for•01
editors, ministers, lecturers, and pro- the social state, In mill, fac.tory, aqd
I celebration, the man focuse
fessors in colleges, universities, and mine, from early morning until night,
ion, In a certain sense, Forll
theological seminaries are aflame with
the children work. And the patter
1 begun, as did the real Col
fighting zeal for the cause of human and shuff.e of their tired feet, as they
Both had existed before, bu
rights. We are too apt to regard as go and come, has swollen to s.o clam,cover just what they were fo
hostile aliens to our cause and to our orous a volume of mournful sound,
of Meeting.
hearts all whose lives we do not ·see that the whole nation has. turned at
together when he, confident
and know, and to believe that we last to look with pitying eye at this
alone are bearing the burden, we vast army of its maltreated children.
to feed' it, and when the l
(AJJp!ause,) To the children of mill,
a:one arn figl1tlng for justice: This
immediately filled it, :Almost
Is a kind of intolerance, and it is factory, and mine, I join the child
r•c•n crammed full of prepared
cost y to our caus·e.
workers of the tenements.
ids thn.t were overleaping th
Shall I bid you .be tolerant of this
And so I say that we of foreign
s,
They have the look of
origin, in giving our best to our evil? Shall I tell you that economic
ion for the deepest n.nd tru
adopted land, should give plenteous- Jaw necessitates this sacrifice and
•rognition and vindication of
ly of tolerance, Fot· tolerance is at that it should be borne philosophical,,, it is not a church n.udien
the base of democracy, and democ- ly? No! But on the contrary, and
lie avernge chmch hn.s littl
racy is a state of brotherhood, and if it were necessary,-which it is not,
11 trilling, too iiitelligent fo1
brotherhood rests upon individual - I would bid you to be fjlled with replatitudes, and have no be
freedom and reciprocal respect. But lentless intolerance toward chilli laI am speaking solely of tolerance
bor. I would remind you that a large
n•n.lity, and a fetching resp
to men in the mass and to the aver• proportion of these children are chilarl1; on the instant: the an
age man, and not of tolerance toward dren of immigrants. I would ask you
1n inst the palpable thrill an
to summon pity by looking upon your
evi's.
ly visits Ford Hall ever co
And these evils are many, I shall own little ones, and by remembering
11·.1• other gathering. It is
not recount them to you or revel in that you would lay down your lives
them. You know the1;1 by heart. But to keep harm fai' off from them. I
le to Survive.
let us, to suggest om· attitude, take would call your attention to a recent
r for a thing so unconven
one ·of them-Child Lnbor. Suffering report of tenement house conditions
does not smoothly glide i
ls·· the badge of manhood and woman- ln New York, ln which lt is recorded
that little, thin-faced toddlem four
hood, We arn used to it. We accept
npatra's barge with its fr
years of age are conm'lon among tenit as a part of life's penalty or as a
ft accompaniment of Siren
lesson in life's schoo'.
But child, ei11en t house child•workers. And I
." It can hardly be good l
hood should be without burden, with- would tell you 'that there ls recorded
out suffering, It is the time for joy- a'.so the story of a mother and her
1~ "made good" hy winning.
ous play, for tenderest care, for hap- three children. The o:dest was four
themsell'es in the throng
piness unclouded by any hut momen- years old. She worked long hours a
,. period of triumph. beco111
tary tears, for preparation for the day on corsets, The next child-she
11ggle.
yoke that men and ·women bear, ·we was only a babe-was three years
II as a Baptist enterprise,
call him "brute" who mishanl]J.\ls a old, and she, too, worked Jong hours
the Social Union Co111111it
child, we bless him who ls kind to a day on corsets. And then-0 God
,p6nsible body of leading
a child. And· yet we, the wor'd's of plty!-the youngest, an eighteen
ptist trust. Also we 11111
great democracy, proud of our Amerlr, months' old infant worked with tiny
ion •freely issuing from ti
can ideals are monstrously cruel to fumbling fingers upon artificial flowmtary caretakers who ha
1,750,000 of our chilrl labor children, ers-that she mlght help to buy food
Irrs; of the. downright goo
For never will be healed the harm enough to keep her infant body from
that child labor does to its pitiable vic- • a little white coffin and a baby's
ntious suspicion for anyt.l
tims; and generations must pass, after grave. Oh, you comfortable 1nen, you
f the saints and the excel
child labor has been stopped, before comfortable· women, who with hard
;hods of Christian assem
the harm done to the na.tion shall hea1 ts glibly justify want, suffering,
word. 'It was, therefore
have been eradicated. Child labor and death in your prating of eco, manner and method sh
rnbs the child of the playtime nec- nomic Jaw, read that heart-breaking
mchly and baptistic, and
ess·ary to physical growth. Like a story, and, If it does not melt you,
! c, public ·or p1:ivate.
vampire it drains more strength than then in the name of God, be dumb for
can be replenished. It rolls the boy eveimore. (Applause.)
ta Time.
of the educ2.llon that might fit him Do ,you hear the children weeplllg,
n d to be a tussle for sur
0 my brothers,
for industry most profitable to himg~ church for success; f
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
se'f and the community and for the
uccess is worshiped now
most useful citizenship. It so under- They are leaning their young heads
,vcd, almost any brand
against their mothers,
mines the child physically, so limits
gs it. Ford Hall had th
f'ame too late to get i~
111e, '.l'he fame of the
1111Jll•.mity, Those who
rl became radiant friend.
111rlay n'ght service, in ~
ptist,. and· eonducted wlluum,ml""";'
without a prayer, or, "gospel ·:
'-or collections-they would not i
11ileavored to throttle the meeting •.1
,dicer Under the unusual circm11. 1
111 to be expeeted and respected.'.'
of humor, a wise, sweet persist-.
o1·e of soul libertJ\ and n freo_, ,I
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s11ccessfully bearing at
heavy burden which
a.1·s upon a member of
e. In mill, factory, m1d
rly morning untll night,
work. And the patter
their tired feet, as they
l!as swollen to s.o cla1111ie of mournful sound,
1, nation has. turned at
ilb pitying eye at this
its maltreated children.
'o the children of mlll,
ii ne, I join the child
; tenements,
,ou be tolerant of this
tPll you that economic
1,s this sacrifice and
lie bome philosopliicalon the contrary, and
;sa1·y,-whlch it is not,
011 to be filled with re:1uce toward chiltl la·11lind you that a large
iese children are chil1nts. I would ask you
l1y looking upon your
and by remembering
lay down your lives
·ar oft' from them. I
a ttentlon to a recent
1"nt house conditions
which it is recorded
-faced toddleru four
comn\on among tenJi Id-workers.
And I
liat there is recorded
,t a mother and Iler
The o'.dest was folll'
worked long hours a
The next child-she
1e -was three years
, worked long hours
And then-O God
111lgest, an eighteen
1t worked with. tiny
11pon artificial flow.l1 t help to buy food
c•1· Infant body from
:omn and a baby's
1111fortable men, you
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ify want, suffering,
111' prating of ecol llat ht1art-brealdng
·loes not melt ·you,
1f God, be dumb for
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children weeping,
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·omes with years?
l l1eir young heads
· nrnthers,
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But that cannot stop their tears.
The young Jambs are bleating In the
meadows,
1'he young birds are chirping in
their nest,
The young fawns are p'.aying with
the shadows,
The young flowers are blowing
toward the west,
But tlie young, young children, O my
brothers,
1'hey are weeping bitterly!
They are weeping in the playtime of
the 'others,
Iri the conn try of the free!
For a little bread and a little meat,
For two poor soles for his weary feet,
I~or a tattered coat and a bed of rags,
And a curse or a lJlow if he ever
lags,
F'or a right to live as a worm may
live,
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f--le gives up all that a child may give.
I do not believe that under the·
IH'esent economic system child labor
can be totally abolished. (Applause.)
But I do believe that society can,
through an adjustment forced by legislation, maintain itself without the
labor of the children. Let us use our
influence and our votes-not waiting
for a fundamental economic change
-to tear this accursed thing out of
the life of the nation and to give the
children tneir birthright. (Applause.)
rt has been said of the children, "of
such is the kingdom of heaven." I
ask, should they not first have their
kingdom here upon earth!
(Appia use.)
As members of a class-Immigrants-upon whom evrs such as
this bear so grievously, and as men
and women specially obligated to
good citizenship, let us be unyieldingly Intolerant towarrl them.
Let me reflect one more thought of
this nature. 'We are hearing a good
deal ·about the right of a man 01· a
. womun to be born under conditions
that shall make probab'e at maturit.y a sound body and mind and normal morals, Thinking men and women are pointing out that our horses,
our oxen, our hogs are the product or
selection of parents and birth condltlrms. For our domestic animals must
yield their maximum of market value
or of prize-taking VAiue. But man-?
vVe know that man commonly comes
without a special invitation, and frequently he comes un welcomed, hated,
and thousands and tens of thousands
of him, for themselves and for society, hAd better not have come at all
-so far as human judgment can de-
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termine. It is unjust to produce a
man who must limp, physically rnentnlly, morally, tlirough life, llideousJy unjust to him, and economical y
unjust to society, And it is worthy
of note, And of admiration, that woman, the motlrn1" of the race, is beginning to proclAim insistently the
right of proper parentllood, (Applause.) I know tliat the problem is
interlocked with other JH·oblems, but
we can begin with its simpler elements, and let them lead us on, vVe
build for posterity, nnd what better
•cou'd we do for posterity than to provide good parentage? Give men a
chance at the very gateway of life.
'fhere will then be less need to dema.nd it later. (Applause.)
Woman
ls thinking and saying that her offspring ls entitled to at least as favorable birth conditions as are provided
for a cnlf or a foal or a prize puppy
or an ango1:a kitten, And is she not
right? Applause,) For
What a viece of work is a man!
How nob'e in reason! How infinite
in faculties! in form and moving, how
express and admirable! in action, how
like an angel! in apprehension, how
like a god! tlle paragon ot' animals!
the beauty of the world!
vVe carn10t speak of woman nowadays-indeed wllen we read the English news we cannot even think of
her-without running head-on into
woman suffrage.
Straight from the
soul of democracy comes the demand
that woman shall have politlcAl
equality with man. {App 1ause.) And
the opponents of it might as well
stand on the shore of the resistless
sea and bid the rising tide turn back,
As to try with their impotent voices
to roll back the rising tide of triumphant democracy, (Applause.) I shall
not here argue this cause: there Is no
need of it, for this hall Is democracy's
temple, All over the civilized world
woman is coming into her political
own, And at least ten states of the
Amel'ican Union l?ave enfranchised
her.
May Massachusetts-freedom
loving· MAssachusetts-b~ spared tha
shame of being the last on the list;
and she will be spared if the standpat
legislators in yonder building can be
dislodged, (Laughter and applause,)
The United StAtes ls nominally a republican democracy, but it will not be
in reality a republican democracy until the remainder of the states shall
have given the franchise to the no~
exc·uded half-not the worse halfof their adult population, (Applause,)
1.Yoman of right ought to be the po-
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HARLES H. WATSON.
: ings rn remarkable) at1d rendered them., so· attractive to the \yot·thi~st ,'
five years old now, and knows -it, well, '\ among the working poor. There has been something in the vibrant.:
3 made an, indelible impression upon the , utmosphere_)hat. put everJ' speaker at his best, and that rnm.ethi11g .:,
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" ugo, when George
Coleman begi
1)0, to interpret the .heart of Daniel Sh!
, used to furnish a free and open for1
the purpose of bettering their condiH
l'..!I. sired, that it sprang full-formed il
mong the social and moral forces of I
PORD HALL FOLKS
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,f it and the fame of it are evei·ywhi
• complete identification of a man wit!
litical eqnal of 1111111. She Is his mor- of makers enslaved lo a class ot' takH'II George
Coletnun is mentioned,
al m1perlor, even though man was ers-when the crimes produced by
l Hall. When Fo1'd Hall is recalled, ri
made a little lower than the engels. poverty shall have disappearedSociety needs the political participa- when womanhood shall not be sold
the !iYe face of ;Father .Coleinun like•
tion of woman, and woman, for her for bread-when children shall not
,irthduy party ,was us. much for one
, own protection and lrncause it is her be driven in droves by the lash of
actual celebrntion, the man focused I
natural right, should be a pertlci- need-when the providing of food,
ratulution, In a certain sense, Ford ~
clothing, shelter,, shall not exhaust
pant.
: 'olenmn began, ,as did the real ColeJ
When man and ,voman are politi- the strength and kill the soul of the
0g!ln, Both bud existed before, but ·
cally equa', the vision of democracy worker-when men and women shall
they discover just what they were for,:
will become like an inspired pro- not In their old age c, awl almost
e Point of Meeting,
phecy. For every unit of democracy crustless to theh: graves-when abunwill be armed for the final long strug- dance shalt have replaced povertyI came together when he, ronfident I
gle with the most powerful weapon when reason, and music and art, and
nnined to feed· it, and when the hul
that the ·American dtizen can use- science, and nature-the mother of
ng und immediately filled it. Almost f
the vote! This is :i country of bal- us all,-and religion-the breath of
,c h!ls been crammed full of prepared 11
lots, and not bullets and bombs. Blind God,-shall beautify and glorify huing minds that were overleaping the 1
le!lders of the blind are they who man life and there shall be one vast
1mditions. They have the look of p~
would try to conquer the will and the brotherhood of the peo]Jles of the
0xpression for the deepest and true~
.judgment of the American peoJ)le by world. (Applause.)
a tive recognition und vinclic!I tion of j
Far-off, far-off will be the fulfillvloleiice. Futile would be their war1,., True, it is not a church audience/
J'are, and the chief result. would be to ment of this prophesy, but the race
,rhirh the average church has little JI
delay Indefinitely the victory of rea- though old Is young, Here in Amerir solemn trifling, too intelligent for
son, o[ justice, an<I of the golden ca, with its citizenship the noblest
r11le. For It has heen written in the on earth, and with ,a free democracy
t icul for platitudes, and have no bell
hearts of this J)eople from the very as Its exceeding rich endowment, we
1(•<1-rock reality, und a fetching responl
founding of the nation that the will face the beckoning future. Vi7e shall
• are i·eud,\; 911 the in stunt: the ans,~
educate our way toward It, and we
Qf the majority, freely made known
proof against the palpable thrill and
in democratic form, shall be recog, shall vote our way toward it. We are
,tcrestedly visits Ford Hull ever com
nized as the collective wl I of the peo- confronted at the outset by a choice
,n t of any other gathering, It is a
ple.
They believe that "freedom or two economic systems, each of
slowly hardens down, from precedent which, some of its respective advo) Struggle to Survive,
fo precedent." They are devoted to cates assert, is capable of giving rea '·
internal J)eace.
They know that izatlon to our vision. One of them
,,,. to pay for a thing so m1conventil
through the ballot wrongs can, In is the age-old competitive system,
fall. It do<Js not smoothly glide int
,
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time, be driven out. They will not and the other Is the alluring hut yet
like Cleopatra's barge with its freig
tolerate the snbstituUon of a reign of untried socialist system. (Applause.)
terror for the reign of law I And if the What should be our attitude toward
h the soft accompaniment of Siren sti
time should ever come wh!'m the pow- them? Shall we, while Ignorant of the
,ocl fight." It can ·hardly be good t111
er to express the popular will in or- merits or demerits of either or both
h,·n it huA "nrnde good" hy wiiming. o
derly manner was seriously menaced, of them, accept one and reject the
l,1· lose themselves in the throng
millions of them, il millions were other? Or shall we, sensible of the
often the period of triumph, becomes.
necessary, would rise, and, forgetting dignity of our political manhood and
nc of struggle.
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their own social wrongs and all else of our American citizenship, prepare
Ford H!lll us a Bltptist enterpriRe, o
save the clanger to their country, for our momentous choice by a carearon, of the Social Union Committee!
would ,strike down the enemies of ful study of the ]Jrinciples of both
ns a responsible body of leading B
peaceful progress, whether they were systems, so that ,vhen we by ballot
of a Bn.ptist trust. Also we must
foreign-born or native, For that rea- manifest our will, intelligence and
· of opinion '.freely issuing from the
son, if for none other, violence is conscience shall guide 11s, and each
madness,
And, too, already the shall speak for himself and not as a
Ihose vohwtary caretakers who have
preaching of it, and one case of the mere registrar of the opinion of anwn shoulders; of the downright good
extensive practise of It, has done ln- other man or of other men?
(Ap·
,f conscientious suspicion for anythi
jmy to us of alien origin. ,vhat do plause.)
: order; of the saints and the excelle1
we hear?-"'l'hat's what comes of letAnd now, with this preparation for
and methods of Christian assembll
ting in these Ignorant foreigners, the ballot, and Inspired by this
11• divine word. •rt was, therefore,
They're a pack of anarchists, The vision, if you believe that from the
,rel Hall's manner and method shoul
gove1 nment ought to keep them out." republlc!ln party alone, with Its
Inusly churchly und baptistic, and. m
vVe shoulrl not be silent eoncernlng championship of a high tariff, and Its
l,latherskite, public 'or p,:ivate,
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this doctrine of violence. We should recognition of a concentrated capital
speak resolutely for peace. The coun- and Industry, can come salvation
A Year at a Time,
try is listening for our voice, Let It from Industrial evils, permanent conrn there hud to be a· tussle for surviv
be heard!
ten t1irnn t of wage-earners, and the
the avernge church for success; for
And what is this vision of de- ideal social state, then vote as a resort of succeas is worshiped nowacl
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mocracy? It Is the coming oA n clay publican.
it is !lchieved, 11,lmost any brand of,
when there shall ho no stffrvatlon
Or If you believe that democratic
that brings it. Ford Hall hud that '
line-when there shall not be a class principles-free trade or tariff for
ftentimes came too htte to get in,
,weting time, The fame of the me
lied the comm'.mity. Those who cn1
1Yinced and became radiant friends.
wus a Sunday n'ght service, in a
ninent Paptist,. and conducted with
mmetimes without a pmyer, or, "gospel7
or "cards"-or· collections-they would not I
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d to a class of tak·i 1ues produced by
a 1·e disappearedshall not be sold
<"hildren shall not
·1•s by the lash of
1,rnvlding of food,
sllall not exhaust
kill the soul of the
11 and women shall
age c, awl almost
~rnves-when abnnrnplaced poverty111 usic and art, and
1·u-the mother of
ion-the breath of
ry and glorify hu, ,ihall be one vast
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peoples of the
1·ill ]Je the fnlfillllesy, but the race
,g, Here in Ameri•nship the noblest
a free democracy
t('h endowment, we
, future, We shall
toward it, and we
toward it, ·we are
uutset by a choice
systems, each of
s respective advoa J,le of giving rea'.on. One of them
, 111peti live system,
H; alluring but yet
1 stem. (Applause.)
11r attitude toward
lile ignornnt of the
ol' either or botll
11e and reject the
·e, sensible of the
1ical manhood and
itizenshlp, prepare
1·holce by a care111•inciples of both
:llen we by ballot
intelligence· and
tide JIS, and each
1self and not as a
J1e opinion <if an,t her men?
(Aplis preparation for
inspired by this
•re that from the
,ilone, with its
·1 i gh tariff, and its
11nentrated capital
come salvation
s, permanent con·
-1•arners, and the
!11;11 vote as a re, that democratic
de or tariff fo1•
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revenue, restoration of competition,
decentralization of governmental authority-will raise ihe \\\age-earner
far above the starvation line, will
lead to a time when the. multitude
shall not be the enslaved wealth-producers for the few, and will reform
society through the enthronement of
justice, then vote as a democrat.
Or if . yon believe that the dominance of prohibition principles would
usher in the golden age, vote as a
prohibitionist. And whether we so
vote or not if every man and woman
in the nation were to ado11t the chief
princip'e of the prohibition party as
a rule of conduct in his 01· her life,
society would undergo such a transformation, physical, mtral, mental,
financial, as probably nothing else
bnt an economic change could produce. (ApJ)lause,)
Or if you believe that the progressive party, with its adherence to au
equitable tariff and its aclmowledgment of the Inevitableness of caJ)i talistic and industrial combinittion, is
the one safe and sure route to social
justice, because also it is preJ)aring the
minds of the J)eople for still more radical social measures than it has yet
proposed, and is putting into the hands
of the people instruments for the introduction of those measures into the
national life, then vote as a progressive, Also, if you are of those who
believe that social evils must always
exist, that the poor must always be
with us, and that the enactment into
law of progressive measures already
proposed would be lilrn soothing the
agonized' nerve of society with a morphine pill, so tliat a genuine remedy
would no longer, or soon again, be demanded, then a'.so vote as a J)rogresslve. (Laughter,)
But if you believe that from the
competitive system cannot come the
cessation of class warfare and the
abolition of war among the •nations,
and that It cannot evolve a social
state in which the powers and aspirations of the members can have full
scope and a just and satisfying frnition; and if you believe that the ador,tion of socialists princiJ)les would
eventually give glorious reality to the
vision of the IJBOple, then, as a man
and as an American, do all in your
power,-by • voting as a socialist, or
by voting with any party that may be
advancin& the cause of socia1Jsm,-to
swell the million votes of the last election into a volume, overwhelming and
sustained, that shall bring man-the
heir of the ages-in triumph to his
destined heritage! (Applause.)
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I cannot take my Heat unlil I have
exalted this theine of human rights
unto the highest plane, In all ages
mankind has had gods or a god. And
in these latter days men of every religion and creed, and or no stated religion and no creed, a'n10st universally believe that there is a supreme being who is the life ot' all life and the
source of every ennobling ideal tllat
leads man steadfastly on and on amid
the encircllng gloom of the mystery
of human life, And although I cannot prove His existence to your satisfaction or my own, I am not ashamed
to name here the name of God, and
to acknowledge my belief that man
is made in his image, and to say that
justice must eventually reign in the
Jives of men because God is,
That God which ever lives and loves;
One Goel, one law, one element,
And one far-off, diviue event
To which the whole creation moves!
( P1 olonged applause.)
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS.
Q, 'How can we ca"J A1nerica so
free when conditions existed such as
we have seen in La \Vl'ence?
A. If that were genernl all over
America, I would say that we caunot
call America free. It. happens In isolated c"ases,
I do not think that
)lroves that America is not free. (AJJlause.)
Q. rs
capitalism going to be
strong enough to prevent such legislation as is necessary to wipe out
child labor?
A. No, it is not,
Pnl511c opinion
is against it, In my statement I said
I do not believe under the present
economic system, child labor could
ever be totally abolished, 'I'hat was
my statement. (Applause.)
Q. Are not
the
English suffragettis justified in using force hecause that ls the only thing an rnnglis4man can understand? (Laughter
and applause.)
A, I think if the rnnglish suffragette used just enough mild force
to resist the IlJnglish government, it
would not do much harm, but when
It comes to destroying the railroad
and cutting tele1ihonu lines I do not
believe that it is right.
Q, What does the speaker think
of the immigration liill that is now
before the Senate?
A, 'I'hat is the il:iterncy test.
It
has been vetoed bv the President
·what little I have 1;ead about it, I do
not like that illiteracy test, It seems
to me that ,tt would keep out men and
>rd Ha,)l's Birth, da,y party
,
u;ese 1elem~i1ts got into tM mr,,nnn.v·
,ahct;
lhe1melves witli,,ot.1,jers vitally q1ristiim
the
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BY CHARLES H. WATSON,
, ings rn remarkable> and rendered them, so. attractive to tl10 1rort1uest '.
oston, is five years old now, and knows •it, well, , amo11g the working poor. There has been something in the vibrant:·
,f Feb. 23 made an indelible impression upon tho \ ati!1osphe,1~e that put .every spcnke1; at}1is
a~da~,l~at_E~~1;::_t~i1~f
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ite another and 1111 older proposition, but "Jl
flve years ago, when George ·w, Coleman bej
.Jain people, to interpret the heart of Daniel Sl
hat it be used to furnish a free and open for
>le with the purpose of bettering their condil
\\'as so we]} sired, that it sprang full-formed,
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FORD HALL FOLKS
, giant among the socinl and moral forces of
,, form of it and the fame of it are everywl
women of character and ability just.
T of the complete identification of a man wi
bPcause they did not know their southerners that education of the
nre, \Vhen George \V, Coletnan is mentioned
A B Cs, but who knew the a 'phabet of negro industrially Is the only soln•
.tion of _the problem, '·. think we shall
R of Ford Hall.
When Foi'd HaU is recalled, !
morals and useful life, and for that
find there will be lef. of that in the
'Pntcr is the liYe face of ;Father Colehrnn lik
reason I do not like it, (Applause.)
South. It is a proble1n whose end no
great birthday party ,was ns_ much for on
Q. If the Puritan ln11nigrnnt was
man can see and one of
•L in the actual celcbrntion, the mnn focused
not tolerant of the Indian that he problems of the coun l1 J'. the great
,.]ming grntulation, Ju a certain sense, Fon!'
found here, how can we expect our
Q.
vresent. day immigrants to be toler- which How are you going tQ decide
1·ge \V. Coleman begun, _as did the real Col
political partj, we want, In
ant of the native minority who seek view of the fact that there is so much
Hall began. Both had existed before, bu1
to rule and eont.rol? (Laughter.)
nos, did they discover just whnt they were foi
ability in all of them and each o[
A. I do not ask !Jim to be to!er- them c'.aims to be lhe whole thing?
The Point of Meeting.
ant. I simply suggested the need of (Langht.er,)
"ord llall came together when he, ronlldcnt
tolerance toward nnv man wl1ose soA. All you cnn do
study the
,,r, determined to feed• it, aml when . the h
da! remedy differs f;·om onr own and situation and use your is lo judgment.
own
of feasting nnd immediately filled it, .:Almost
the need of opening our ears and eyes
(Applause.)
It ls autocracy or dethe house has been crammed full of prepared
to the knowledge that vast numbers
m.ocracy, Democracy will in · the long
of those who do not work with their run do less harm to tl1e body politic
hespeaking minds that were overleaping the
hands are wage earners· like ourRocial conditions. . They have the look of !
than autocracy will.
selves; therefore they are brothers.
finding expres.si,on for the deepest nnd tru,
Q. Don't the
Progressive party
They, too, like we, are suffering under
a.11thoritative recognition and •vindicntion of
give us the II bolition of child labor,
present conditions. .I do not ask him
, stmggle. 'frne, it is not a church audienc
woman suffrage 111HI several other
or anybody e'se to be tolerant under
1y for which the average church has littlE
t.he present. conditions,
I distinctly good things?
r;1est for solemn trilling, too intelligent for
A, There is no doubt about iL
said, let us be intolerant towards
.oo practicnl for platitudes, and have no be!
evil.
(Laughter and apvlause.)
:u t for bed-rock realitr, and a fetching respo
Q, In view of the value we put on
Q. Doesn't the speaker think that
!'RS thcr are ieadJ; c;m the instant: the ans
individual liberty, why do we dls- some fine moming he is going to
onld be proof against the palpable thrill and
cl'imlna.te against the negro race in
wake up and find himself a socialist?
the South?
(Applause,)
·ho disinterestedly visits Ford Hall ever co;
A, That Is a. question of racial
with thut of any other gathering. It is.
A, I don't mind saying that o[ all
antipathy, That Is the root of it. It parties, the sbcialist party should be
extends all over this world-races do
most to'era.nt toward the Progressive
The Struggle to Survive.
not rub well. It was the root of the
varty,
(Applause.)
The Progress a price to pay for a thing so unconvenl
struggle in the South, But through
sives are made up of men and women
Ford Hall. It does not smoothl,y glide h
education of the negro and through
whose minds are breaking away
a growing sense on the part of the
from the old opinionS',
iirntion like Cleopatra's barge with its fre
nncl with the soft accompnniment of Siren
in "a good fight." It can lmrdly bf,l good t
11ml when it Jrns "mnde good" by winning:
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n•ds oftentimes came too late to get il'
,.fore meeting time. The fame of the;
!errs, filkd the comm:mity. Those who e
"''e convinced nnd became rndiant frien~
hat it was a Sunday n'ght service, in
n prominent Paptist,. and conducted witllOUt'71~---"
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