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D. D., of New York,
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TOLSTOY, THE MAN*
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By LESLIE WILLIS SPRAGUE
f powerful preachers which New Engla ,l'llr""!:":W"::'i!HERE are a good many people wh~
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try. Yet he is no less at home on the pl:u-.
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trow on the
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man toward religion. All the great men
was defeated by the Russian winter on the
of the 19th as of other centuries have been march to Moscow, there was threatened in
·deeply concerned with the problems of re- Russia the extinction of a nation's life, with
ligion, and particularly with the relation- -the result that there was born a nationalship between religion and society; but istic spirit. You can find it in the beginnearly all but Tolstoy have been concerned nings of realistic literature, which started
with reinterpreting religion from the basis
earlier than in England and France, beand in the terms of modern civilization and
cause it was a protest against the social
Ideal of the that out
ds come
conditions then prevailing throughout Rustor the fact Amenc of other Ianha~ other present day culture. Tolstoy alone took his
cultures, new life st reams, t!~~e is coming stand upon what he believed to be the true sia. (Applause.) We must associate the
interpretation of Christianity, and then
name of Tolstoy with those of Tourgenieff,
still into !he made the strong, reinforced, determined de- Gogol and Dostoieffsky, for it was this movement with which Tolstoy was first allied.
and heart a
American mmd mand that modern civilization and modern
And yet Tolstoy was one of the few great
culture should be recast upon the basis and
souls of humanity who stand alone, unique.
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o-reat enkind- in the terms of what he believed to be a
chargisolated.
reared
Christianity.
with His genius
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c_ om- true or not is notWhether we agreeHe is in the arms wasaristocracy, Born andsoon rei o,
of
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him
the question.
vclted against the life in which he had
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manding contri- worthy of earnest study because of the
ideal
been trained. He left the university and
uniqueness of that position. I am sure the
-man
butions
from consensus of the opinion of the future will went to his -family estate at Yasna Polyana
many soui:ces. bear me out when I say that Tolstoy is suto change the condition of the serfs there.
premely worthy ol' our study, our regard, om· He then entered the army as a non-comThe Italian profound admiration and gratitude, because missioned officer, and just as he was about
comes with the
thought,
the he so supremely represents the man of ab- to be commissioned he resigned, and bepurpose, nt h e solute sincerity, fidelity to his convictions, came the chief spirit of anti-militarism.
Pa s si
of
and a great willingness to make sacrifices Soon his became the great name of Russian
O
Garibaldi s~r- for what he believed to be true and right. literature; and then, just as he had won the
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(Applause.) No man in all modern history laurel crown, he turned away , to Yasna
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.llte.. (Applause.) The German comes wi th has been more ready than Tolstoy to live Polyana-became weary of it all, and detert'- •Pirit that broke in '48 and sent to our· up to the very last opinion of his mind, mined to get close to the hearts of the
l_!Uch a noble army of those _who had. or has made so great a sacrifice for that moujiks. He was not satisfied with the free_
ing
serfs, but went to live with them,
he
be
laUed In their own land to achieve the which the believed to have the truth. And · and of the to think their thoughts, because
tried
llea)8 or liberty. The Frenchman c~mes
when
time shall
passed for the
1'1th the passion of humanity that Victor bickerings and banterings and deliberate he knew that mere legal liberty was not
He traveled over western Europe,
spite and hatred that so long shadowed his life.
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studied conditions, and then returned, to
.Illa.nae.) Illustrated and increased.
The Russian comes with (Ap- name and fame, the world will come to adthe
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ty heart-beat which, if you can hear, mire and be grateful for the splendid sin- start a school and develop a theory of education entirely his own. He devoted him(Applause.)
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- In It the words, "Leo Tolstoy." (Ap- cerity of the man. supremely of the Russian self to philanthropy, only to discover that it
Tolstoy was so
was only a patch on
411d. alth?ugh I think I know ~he Plrcb- life that we shall not be able to understand a new garment was a worn garment, where
needed.
the man or his message unless we see
the discouragements. the d1fficu ies. on a · background of Russian history. him
Tolstoy did not move with his time in
confront America as she looks forward.
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turned to the
-,'!__n~t au disconraged as to th~ oi!t_c~~~ shall ask you to remember that Russia lies religion. for comfort. yearsh he nn ..
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(Applause.) The German comes with
sptrlt that broke in '48 and sent to ourpch a noble army of those who bad
fu their own land to achieve the
liberty. The Frenchman comes
the passion of humanity that Victor
.illustrated and increased.
(Apa.aaue.) t The Russian comes with the
, heart-beat which, if you can hear,
in -it the words, "Leo Tolstoy." (Ap-
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although I think I know the probthe discouragements. the difficulties.
confront America as she looks forward ,
am iiot all discouraged as to the outcome
tbe ideal of life both for the ·individual
society when I realize the place which
men are taking, not only in the hearts
those who have come from these differ}ands i:o become our newer Americans.
In the hearts and thoughts of those of
wbo are descended from the Puritans.
Tolstoy ·is peculiarly worthy of our study
use of his Russian characteristics.
Tery virtue of Tolstov lies in the fact
tlat be was so essentially. the Russian, aml
lllli,Wonged to a civilization at least a hundred
11, if not 150 years. behind the movet of our own. And the value of Tol'1 setting in a ·civilization that is bethe movement of a more western life
that he has been able, from the vantage
~ of his nation's experience, to look
at. western Europe and America and see
modern cixilization means a·s our
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b~cv. to understand as well as to dis.,. all that is latent in our life.
Tl>!stoy. is worthy of our earnest study
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('l'e than we tonight in a cursory reot.his life ..and work could possibly
because of the unique attitude of the
and answers
uniqueness of that position. I am sure the
consensus of the opinion of the future will
bear me out when I say that Tolstoy is supremely worthy of our study, our regard, our
profound admiration and gratitude, because
he so supremely represents the man of absolute sincerity, fidelity to his convictions,
and a great willingness to make sacrifices
for what he believed to be true and right.
(Applause.) No man in all modern history
has been more ready than Tolstoy to live
up to the very last opinion of his mind,
or bas made so great a sacrifice for that
which he believed to be the truth. And
when the time shall have passed for the
bickerings and banterings and . deliberate
spite and hatred that so long shadowed his
name and fame, the world will come to ad:
mire and be grateful for the splendid sincerity of the man: (Applause.)
Tolstoy was so ·supremely of th~ Russian
life that we shall not be able to understand
the man or his message unless we see him
on a · background of Russian history.
I
shall ask you to remember that Russia lies
between the Orient and the Occident,
neither one thing nor the other. Christianity did not .come to it until the 9th century, and then from a church which had
become stereotyped-an externalized Christianity. There has never been anything in
Russia like the Protestant revolt, unles s
perchance Tolstoy in his late day has fulfilled somewhat the · function of a l\Iartin
Luther. In the l\Iiddle Ages, when all the
other nations were making read y for the
mighty outbreak that came at the dawn ·of
modern history, Russia was held under the
iron hand of Oriental despotism, in the
Mongol dynasty. Not until Ivan the Terrible became supreme over all the other
petty princes was Russia able to throw off
that despotism, so that even to this day
the upper aristocracy is peculiarly an idle
class. The result was that by the time
Russia awakened, western Europe was far
upon the road of modern history and industrial and social development. At the beginning of the 18th century Russia ·was 200
:vears behind the other countries.
Then
there w as a mighty movement from above,
when the Czars attempted to push upon the
people the customs and civilization of
France, England and Germany. But whatever is foisted upon a people will some day
be resented and thrown off. And so at the
opening of the 19th century, when Napoleon
been train~d~- He~!~ti th~ uni versity and
went to his family estate at Yasna Polyana
to change the condition of the serfs there.
He then entered the army as a non-commissioned officer, and just as he was about
to be commissioned he resigned, and became the chief spirit of anti-militarism.
Soon his became the great name of Russian
literature; and then, just as he bad won the ·
laurel crown, he turned away to Yasna
Polyana-became weary of it all, and determined to get close to the hearts of the
moujiks. He was not satisfied with the free_
ing of the serfs, but went to live with them,
and tried to think their thoughts, because
he knew that mere legal liberty was not
life.
He traveled over western Europe,
studied conditions, and then returned, to
start a school and develop a theory of education entirely his own. He devoted himself to philanthropy, only to discover that it
was only .a patch on a worn garment, where
a new garment was needed.
Tolstoy did not move with his ·time in
religion. For three years he turned to the
church for comfort, but he could not find
it. Then he went to the New Testament,
and then to the very words of the Master,
and here he alone, of all the thinkers of the
ages, said, "Here is the authority; to this
I cling." Tolstoy the Russian, the interpreter of this grea t , na tional movement, was
ye t a man apart, in the world, but not of it.
\Ve shall not understand his .writings without this double background.
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In the early years of Tolstoy's literary
life we have the picture of one who was
looking out at life as a very interesting
spectacle. He was restive under his own
freedom , and felt the need . of constraint.
Really, he was yearning for conversion.
We find his character at this time in "The
Cossacks," "Childhood, Boyhood and Youth,"
and "The Russian Proprietor." Vi7hen he
married he w ent to Yasna Polyana; it was
with a great longing within him to discover
not only the. right social arrangements, but
the meaning or life. He lived among the
people for their sake and his own. Now
he saw life, not as a spectacle, but as a
great problem .
During this time he wrote his greatest
works. . One of the greatest novels of the
world is Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina."
(Applause.) · It is . great because it states the
problem of the 19th century. It should be
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· Q: What is your opm1on of the doctrine
of Anarchism which Tolstoy preached?
A: Tolstoy' s theory was not unlike that
of Jefferson, that the best governed is the
least governed.
His political theory was
part of his rel igious message. He was not
an accredited Anarchist. My own attitude
is that that is the best government which
elicits the best self-government from the
man a nd the community. (Applause.)
Q:
Should w e not, in exalting Tolstoy,
remind ourselves of the dying Gorky?
A: I should ha ve.mentioned Gorky as a
later expression of the great realistic
movement of social protest. But he represents much less than Tolstoy did.
Q:
Would not Tolstoy have been a far
greater man in a free country, or did Russian oppression make him what he was?
A: T olstoy's was the greatness of the
man who moves against the current. He
would probably ha ve been more rounded
and more graceful in a different environment.
Q: Did not Tolstoy really consider the
common people superior to the useless aristocracy ?
A:
In "The Russian Proprietor" and
"The Power of Darkness" it seems to be
shown that he did not consider the com- mon people any better, _
but he found in them
the wa y for his own s elf-abnegation and service.
Q: What do y ou think of a man who refused to read George Kennan's account of
the Russian prison system, and said, "II
they believe in v iolence they should suffer
from it?"
A: I think he was a deliberate fool.
(La ughter. )
Q:
W as Tolstoy excommunicated from
the Russian church before his death?
A: Yes, about a decade before.
Q: What was Tolstoy's religion ? (Laughter. )
A : T olsto y was without a label. Shall
we call him a Chris tian ? That depends entirely on wh e th er our vocabulary is fixed or
fluid .
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will be.
His interpretation was a purely
personal one. Tolstoy's view of Christianity was static; ours is evolutional.
Q: When Tolstoy came out and said: " I
can't keep quiet any longer," why didn't the
Russian government arrest him ?
A : He was in very great danger from
the police for many years, but he was saved
because the government appreciated what
he had done for peace, and because his ar. rest would have aroused considerable discontent that the government didn't want set
loose.
Q: Did Tolstoy ignore or overlook the
fact that he was neglecting h is own home
duties when he became a recluse?
A : Tolstoy's attitude toward the family was limited and imperfect. His attitude
toward women is not by any means the best
thing about him. He became a recluse be-cause his own sins against women in the
past made him incapable of understanding
them.
Q : Do you believe that it is w ithin the
power of the Czar to compel reforms that
will do away with the persecution of the
Jews?
A : That is a long ways from Tolstoy,
and I am some distance from Russia.
I
hope it is within his power; some day it
will be within the power of some Czar.
Q : Should we not attribute a good deal
of Tolstoy's genius and religion to his · madness?
A: If you will study Tolstoy, and read
"What Is to Be Done ?" I think you will feel,
as I do, that Tolstoy was one of the sanest
minds of the 19th century.
Q:
Do you think Tolstoy's method of
helping the common people was effective in
his own country?
A: No, because you can't cure a social
evil with a personal remedy.
Q: Did Tolstoy believe that private property was wrong? (Applause.)
A : Tolstoy was not a Socialist nor an
organized Communist.
Q: W hy did Tolstoy fail to see the greatness of Shakespeare. whi ch we all f; PP ?
hands of church people and the army, w,
it not result -very soon in a great d.3se
of church and army, and a great adv
ment of the Kingdom of Heaven?
A : It might result the other way,
enkindle within the church at least a
ter type of Christianity.
Q : Is Tolstoy's son
stoy.? ·
A: Emphatically no.
Q: Wasn't Tolstoy an infidel, acco
to the Greek and Roman Catholic church,
A:
Well, orthodoxy is m y doxy,_:heterodoxy is your doxy, you know . . •
Q : What place will the future accord
Tolstoy in fiction?
A: I think Tolstoy will be the one
name from Russia to stand by the
name of France-Victor Hugo.
Q : Do you think Tolstoy could have'
still further if he had not been stopped
hindered by religion ?
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A: I don't see how he could have
stopped and hindered by religion. He
going a long road from a life of selfis
to one of sacrific e.
Q (Mr. Victorson) : Is not " Anna
ina" answered by_ Ibsen's " A Doll's Homi
A: That would be true if "A ~
House" were itself not the negative -of
negation. Let us turn to Browning for;
answer, and read " By the Fireside." ·
Q (Mrs. Blanchard):
Is Dr. Steill1
"Tolstoy the Man" a good authority?
A: Nathan Haskell Dole's biograpb1.
the best.
Q ( Miss Rogolsky):
the church because he could not
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thing in it, or because it was not Chn
as he understood· Christianity?
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A : Because he had said what he thO'
about it.
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Supreme Being ?
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thority of conduct and faith.
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Jacob Loni
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Frank Hali
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In " The Russian Proprietor" and
"The Power of Darkness" it seems to be
shown that he did not consider the common people any better, but he found in them
"the way for his own self-abnegation and service.
Q: What do you think of a man who refused -to read George Kennan's account of
t he Russian prison system, and said, "If
they believe in violence they should suffer
from it?" ·
A: I think he was a deliberate fool.
(Laughter.)
Q:
Was Tolstoy excommunicated from
the Russian church before his death?
· A : Yes, about a decade before.
Q: What was Tolstoy's religion? (Laughter.)
A : Tolstoy was without a label. Shall
we call him a Christian? That depends entirely on whether our vocabulary is fixed or
fluid.
Q : What do you think of Tolstoy's running away from his own )lome just before
his death?
A: He had wanted to get away from all
that bound him to his early life, and Yasna
Polyana belonged to the Tolstoy family His
final step is to be interpreted only as a last
protest.
Q: •
Should a - oy 13 or 14 years old read
b
Tolstoy? (Laughter.) .
A: Yes, my son; begin with "Childhood,
Boyhood and Youth," and then read some
of the short stories. When you get through
with those I will suggest something else.
· . Q:
Ar-e Tolstoy's works translated in
English, and can they be found in the Puhlic Library?
A: Yes, surely ; Nathan Haskell Dole's
translation is the best.
Q: Which religion do you believe is more
Christian, President Eliot's or Tolstoy's?
A: If !, could give Tolstoy Eliot's sanity
of outlook and could give Eliot all the
warmth and fervor of Tolstoy, I should not
care which one I had. (Applause.)
Q: Would a man like Tolstoy be admitted to this country under the Burnett-Dillin.g ham immigration bill? (Laughter and
Applause.)
A: Tolstoy was not an illiterate. (Laughter.)
Q: Are there any churches in America
that interpret · Christianity as Tolstoy did?
A. No, there are none, and there never
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Q (Mrs. Blanchard) :
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"Tolstoy the Man" a good authoritv? et,
A : Nathan Haskell Dole's biog~;Ph.r
the best.
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Q (Miss Rogolsky):
Did Tolstoy 1
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thing in it, or because it was not Chris
as he understood Christianity?
A: Because he had said what he tho
about it.
Q : Did Tolstoy think that Christ was i.,!
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Jlr. Arthur O. Taylor, Box 3507, Boston,
Chairman.
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)Ir. W. C. Ewing, 987 Washmgton St.
l[r. M. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
)(r. John H. Gutterson, P. 0. Box 134.
B. Gallup, 728 _Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
Mrs. E. D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
Miss Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles St.
}Ir. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.
]Ir. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y. M. C. A.
Mn;. L . B. Noyes, 146 Massac-husetts
Avenue, Boston.
Mr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 ·Marie Avenue,
Everett.
1-..igra.tion:
Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.,
, Boston, Chairman. ·
Mr. Lee Meltzer, 13 Williams Street,
· Chelsea.
l\lr. 111aurice Casper, 39 No. Russell St.
Mr. Julius J. Shapiro, 115 Salem Street.
lliss Ida Goldberg, 19 Auburn Street.
Mr. Frank Boliver, 83 Chambers Street.
Mr'. George E. (Rower, Jr., 451 Walnut
o Avenue, Roxbury.
Edacation
Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind, 9 Allen St.,
Boston, Chairman.
Miss Miriam Allen deFord, 98 Tyler St.
l!r. Isaac Isaacs, 36 Allen Street.
.~ s Helen Veasey, 28 Shafter Street,
· Grove Hall, Dorchester.
""Mr. Louis Simons, 164 Union Street,
Everett.
Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belvidere Street.
Mrs. Jno. J. ·S ullivan, Weld Street, W.
B, . Roxbury.
OUin.g.
Mr. William C. Terry, P . O. Box 3347,
"Boston, Chairman.
llrs. Carrie G. Barr, 15 Joy Street.
llrs. Eva Hoffman, 125 Leverett St.
llrs. E . D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave,
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l(tss Elizabeth Hunter, 36 Hancock
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One thing Ford Hall wishes to do is Ii
drive into the minds of men and womet
that the race cannot be advanced by ~
ing those, who disagree with us, names
that have in them the elements of cursa
We want a fair and square discussion ct
plans. We want men to speak what to
them is the truth. But we see clearly that
we do not add to the truth of what we sar
by accompanying our statements with sentences suggestive of the gutter. We believe that even in a great political campaigJ
it is possible for men to be gentlemen. w,
know that in business no sane man hopei
to secure a position by carrying to his p~
spective employer tales of some competitor's unworthiness. In business such _
an
action would be considered bad form, unsportsmanlike. But in politics everything
that is cheap and sickening is apparentlr
excused by the average voter. If that is not
true, why will citizens allow competing can-_
didates to spend most of their time during
the campaign in exchanging personalities
that stink from rottenness? Are citizens so
low in the scale that they cannot under·
stand a discussion of principles and pur·
poses? At Ford Hall we hope to encour·
age people to demand the best in thought-:help them become bigger and better Amel'lcan citizens.
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will do away with the persecution of the
Jews?
A : That is a long ways from Tolstoy,
and I am some distance from Russia.
I
hope it is within his power; some day it
will be within the power of some Czar.
Q: Should we not attribute a good deal
of Tolstoy's genius and religion to his madness?
A: If you will study Tolstoy, and read
"What Is to Be Done?" I think you will feel,
as I do, that Tolstoy was one of the sanest
minds of the 19th century.
Q:
Do you think Tolstoy's method of
helping the common people was effective in
his own country?
A: No, because you can't cure a social
evil with a personal remedy.
Q: Did Tolstoy believe that private property was wrong? (Applause.)
A : Tolstoy was not a Socialist nor an
organized Comm unist.
Q: Why did Tolstoy fail to see the greatness of Shakespeare, which we all see?
A : Because he was looking from a very
partial and limited point of view.
Q (Mr. Sackmary): Are there any public
utterances of Tolstoy in reference to the
Jewish question in Russia?
A: I don 't know of any.
Q: Do you know as much about the life
of Abraham Lincoln as you do about Tolstoy? (Laughter.)
A : I think I should have to speak for
an hour to answer that question.
Q : ·was it not a fact that Tolstoy was
against government in writing "The Slavery_of our Time?"
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A: Yes, Tolstoy was a Tolstoyan Anarchist.
Q: What is your impression of Prince
Kropotkin?
A : I don't know · him as well as I do
Tolstoy.
Q : What would be the situation in the
United States government if Tolstoy were
. President? (Laughter.)
A: It would certainly be a policy ofwatching. (Laughter.)
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Q : What was the original incentive for
Tolstoy's realism, considering the fact that
he was born a nobleman?
A:
I can only say that there was a
movement that arose in the upper circles
of Russia against things French and for
things Russian, and Tolstoy represents
that.
Q: If Tolstoy's writings were put in the
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hands of church people and the army, w
it not result very soon in a great deserti
of church and army, and a gr,eat advaii,
ment of the Kingdom of Heaven?
A: It might result the other way,
enkindle within the church at least a
ter typ e of Christianity.
Q:
Is Tolstoy's son a follower
stoy.? ·
A: Emphatically no,
Q: ·wasn't Tolstoy an infidel, accord'
to the Greek and Roman Catholic church
A:
Well, orthodoxy is my doxy,
heterodoxy is your doxy, you know.
Q: What place will the future accord ·
Tolstoy in fiction?
A: I think Tolstoy will be the one
name from Russia to stand by the
name of France-Victor Hugo.
Q: Do you think Tolstoy could have g,
still further if he had not been stopped
hindered by religion?
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A: I don't see how he could have b,
stopped and hindered by religion. He ;
going a long road from a life of selfishn,
to one of sacrifice.
Q ( Mr. Victorson): Is not "Anna K
ina" answered by Ibsen's " A Doll's House
A : That would be true if "A Dolli
House" were itself not the negative •of
negation. Let us turn to Browning for·
answer, and read "By the Fireside,"
Q (Mrs. Blanchard):
Is Dr. Stein
"Tolstoy the Man" a good authority? ·
A : Nathan Haskell Dole's biography
the best.
Q (Miss Rogolsky):
the church because he could not find ·
thing in it, or because it was not Chris
as he understood Christianity?
A : Because he had said what he tho
about it.
Q: Did Tolstoy think that Christ was
Supreme Being?
A : He accepted Him as the
thority of conduct and faith.
CALLING NAMES.
One thing Ford Hall wishes to do II
drive into the minds of men and w,
that the race cannot be advanced by
ing those, who disagree with us, n,
that have in them the elements of clll ·
vVe want a fair and square discuss!O~
plans. We want men to speak wha
t hem is the truth. But ~
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FORD HALL TOWN MEETING RECORD
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OFFICERS.
Mr. George B . Gallup, 728 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Mrs. A. L. Rienzi, 171 Everett Street,
Allston.
William H. Foster, Moderator.
:-Iiriam Allen de Ford, Clerk.
Jacob London, Sergeant-at-Arms.
Edith D. Foster, Treasurer.
Frank Holiver, Messenger.
Committees.
Street.
Street.
Street.
LoweV
Liquor Lau; s.
::\Ir. George E . Rideout, 45 Milk Street,
Boston, Chairman.
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::\Ir. William White, 1437 Eastern Avenue, Linden.
Mrs. Anna M. Culliman, 3 Fairlee Street,
. W. Somerville. ·
Mr, Jonah Rabinow, 99 Myrtle Street.
Mr. E, H. McIntosh, 247 Beale Street,
· Wollaston.
Btidget and Appropriations.
Mr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Marie Avenue,
.Everett, Chairman.
Mr. George W. Coleman, 177 W. Brookline Street, Boston.
lliss Elizabeth Hunter, 36 Hancock
Street, Boston.
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M iss Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles St.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y. M. C. A .
lfr. J". J. Sullivan, Weld Street, West
Roxbury.
Mr. J". S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
•-iciJ)(Jl
Affairs.
Kr. Arthur 0. Taylor, Box 3507, Boston,
~airman.
~ W. C. Ewing, 987 Washington St.
• ·M. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
llr. John H. Gutterson, P. O. Box 134.
P lanning.
Kr. George B. Gallup, 728 CommonJI Wealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
~ E.. D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
l( 'BFreda Rogolsky, 357 Charles St.
-,/; 0 enry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.
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Ladd, ~o. 617, Y. M. C. A.
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B. ~ayes, 146 Massac-husetts
enue. Boston
~ G. ~fcKer;all , -n :\fari e Avenue,
5-•11:rett.
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Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belvidere .Street,
Boston, Chairman.
Mr. George Weitzner, 100 Brighton St.
Miss Turner.
Mr. Frank Holiver, S3 Chambers Street.
H ealth.
Cou.rtesies.
:-rrs. E. D. Foster, Chairm.all:.
nlr. James P. Roberts; 141 Milk
Velma L. Emerson, 82 Lincoln
l\Irs. Eva Hoffman, 125 Leverett
Mr. Henry Sc-hnittkind, 121
Street, Boston.
Ci t izenship .
Mr. Elmer Eldridge, 14 Harvard Place,
Brookline, Chairman.
Miss Gertrude S. Cohen, 44a Joy Street.
Mr. David Simpson, 3 Fairlee ·Street,
W. Somerville.
Mr. Samuel Segall, 15 Blossom Street.
Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsarge Avenue, Roxbury.
Play and R ecreation.
Mr. J. S. London, Y. M, C. A., Boston,
Chairman.
Miss Ida S. R. Gold.berg, 19 Auburn
·S treet, Boston.
Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsarge Avenue, Roxbury.
Mrs. J. J. ·S ullivan, Weld Street, W.
Roxbury.
Mrs. A. L. Rienzi, 171 Everett Street,
Allston.
Labor.
Miss Louise A. Grout, 154 N ewbury
Street, Boston, Chairman.
Mr. Peter E. Ti-mbley,
Mr. Simon Robinson, 34 Temple Street.
Mr. K. F . Lindblad, · 67 Sudbury St:i;-eet.
Law School, 14 Ashburton Place.
Mr. G. G. Mills, P. 0. Box 53, Watertown.
Mr. George E . Power, Jr., 451 Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury.
Mr. Clarence , arble, 197 Vine Street,
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Judiciary.
Mr. Herbert P. Ware,, care of Adams
& Glynn, 30 Court Street, Boston,
Chairman.
Mr. J. J. Freedman, 106 Union Park
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Street, Boston.
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Miss Bessie Kisloff, care of B. U. Law
School, 11 Ashburton Place, Boston.
Mr. Irving L . Hoffman, care of B. U.
Law School, 11 Ashburton Place, Boston.
Mr. Louis Chandler, 28 School Street.
Transportation.
Mr. Clarence Marble, 197 Vine Street,
Everett, Chairman.
Mr. D. F . Ladd, No. 617. Y. M. C. A.
Cal endar.
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Order N o. 1 referred to committee on city
planning. In committee.
Or der No. 2 referred to committee on education. Reported favorably, passed at
second reading.
Order No . 3 amended substitute order
·passed.
Bill N o. 1 referred to committee on play
and recreation.
In committee.
Re·
ported unfavorably. ·
Bill No . 2 passed without reference to
committee.
Bill No. 3 referred to co=ittee on play
and recreation.
Reported favora·bly.
Order N o. 4. referred to committee on
municipal affairs. Re-referred to committee. Reported unfavorably. Passed
at second reading. In committee.
Bill No. 4. referred to committee on labor.
In committee.
Bill N o. 5 referred to committee on labor.
In committee.
Bill No. 6 referred to committee on liquor .
laws. In committee.
·Bill N o. 7 referred to committee on education. In committee.
Bill N o. 8 referred to committee on housing. In - ommittee.
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Bill N o. 9 passed without reference to committee.
Order No. 5 referred to committee on municipal affairs. In co=ittee. Reported
unfavora- ly. Re-referred to committee.
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Bill No. 10 referred to committee on housing. In committee.
Bill No. 11 referred to committee on courtesies. In committee. Reported m::favorably.
· Bill N o. 12 referred to committee on health.
In committee. Reported favorably.
Bill No. 13 referred to committee on
health. In committee. Passed at second reading .
Bill ::-,.ro. 14. referred to committee on
liquor laws. In committee.
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tatements with senhe gutter. We be.
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:ered bad form, un~ politics everytbi.ng
ening is apparently
voter. If that is not
mow competing can>f their time during
1.nging personalities
iss? Are citizens so
!they cannot under•
principles and pur·
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:Mr. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y. M. C. A.
J. J . • ullivan, Weld -Street, West
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Roxbury.
. )Ir. J. s. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
,iiicipal Affairs.
JI Mr. Arthur 0. Taylor, Box 3507, Boston,
Chairman.
:Mr. w. C. Ewing, 987 Washington St.
Mr. 11{. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
Mr. John H. Gutterson, P . 0 . Box 134.
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Planning.
Mr. George B. Gallup, 728 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
Mrs. E. D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
Miss Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles S't.
Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y. M. C. A.
' Mrs. L. B. Noyes, 146 Massachusetts
.A.venue, Boston.
:Mr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Marie Avenue,
Everett.
latnigration:
· Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court .Sq.,
Boston, Chairman. ·
Mr. Lee Meltzer, 13 Williams Street,
Chelsea.
Mr. Maurice Casper, 39 No. Russell St.
Mr. Julius J. Shapiro, 115 Salem Street.
Miss Ida Goldberg, 19 Auburn Street.
Mr. Frank Boliver, 83 Chambers Street.
.Mr: George E. !Rower, Jr., 451 Walnut
.A.venue, Rox- ury.
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Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind, 9 Allen St.,
- Boston, Chairman.
Miss Miriam Allen deFord, 98 Tyler St.
Mr. Isaac Isaacs, 36 Allen Street.
Miss Helen Veasey, 28 Shafter Street,
· Grove Hall, Dorchester.
·Mr. Louis Simons, 164 Union Street,
Everett.
Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belvidere Street.
Mrs. Jno. J. -Sullivan, Weld Street, W.
Roxbury . .
BOIUing.
, . Mr. William C. Terry, P. 0. Box 3347,
Boston, Chairman.
llrs. Carrie G. Barr, 15 Joy Street.
Mrs. Eva Hoffman, 125 .Leverett St.
Mrs. E. D. Foster, 41 Huntington .Ave,
Mr. G. G. Mills, P. 0. Box 53, Watertown.
Mr. George E. Power, Jr., 451 Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury.
Mr. Clarence Marble, 197 Vine Street,
Everett.
laws.
In committee.
referred to committee on education. In committee.
Bill No. 8 referred to committee on housing. In committee .
Bill No. 9 passed without reference to comJudiciary.
mittee.
Mr. Herbert P . Ware,- care of Adams
Order No. 5 referred to committee on municipal affairs. In committee. Reported ·
& Glynn, 30 Court Street, Boston,
Chairman.
unfavora- ly. Re-referred to .committee.
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Mr. J. J. Freedman, 106 Union Park Bill No. 10 referred to committee on hous•
Street, Boston.
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ing. In committee.
Miss Bessie Kisloff, care of B. U. Law Bill No. 11 referred to committee on courtesies. In committee. Reported uri- ·
School, 11 Ashburton Place, Boston.
Mr. Irving L. Hoffman, care ·of B. U.
favorably.
Law School, 11 Ashburton Place, BosBill No. 12 referred to committee on health.
ton.
In committee. Reported favorably.
Mr. Louis Chandler, 28 School Street.
Bill No. 13 referred to committee on
Transportation .
health. In committee. Passed at second reading.
Mr. Dlarence Marble, 197 Vine Street,
Bill No. 14. referred to committee on
Everett, Chairman.
liquor laws. In committee.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y . M. C. A.
Bill No. 15 referred to committee on liquor
Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belvidere Ave.
laws. In committee.
Mr. -Samuel P . Levenberg, 23 Browning
Bill No. 16 referred to committee .on liquor
Avenue. Dorchester.
laws. In committee.
Mr. J. S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
Bill No. 17 referred to committee on health.
To Investigate Credit Uni ons. ( Sp ecial)
In committee. Reported unfavorably.
Mr. Leonard Martin, Chairman, AntiBill No. 18 referred to committee on rules
Saloon League, 344 Tremont Bldg.
and courtesies. In committee.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan, 24 Traverse ·Street.
Bill No. 19 introduced by committee on
Mr. K. F. M. Lindblad, 67 Sudbury St.
publicity. Passed.
Ways and Means.
Bill No. 20 introduced by committee on
Mr..James P. Roberts, 141 Milk Street.
publicity. Passed .
Mr. J . S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
Order No. 6 referred to committee on municj,pal affairs. In committee.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan, 24 Traverse -Street.
Bill No. 21 referred to committee on judiMr. Georg-e B. Gallup, 728 Commonciary. In C'ommittee.
wealth Avenue, Boston.
Bill No. 22 referred to committee on edullfr. D. F. Ladd. No. 617, Y. M. C. A.
cation, play and recreation jointly. In
Mr. Samuel P . Levenberg, 23 Browning
committee.
Avenue, Dorchester.
Dr. Jacob T. Pollock, 212 Chestnut St.,
Chelsea.
The persistence with which people hold to
Publicity.
the belief that under Socialism, Single Tax,
Mrs. George B. Gallup, 728 Common- Woman Suffrage, Anarchism, and a score of
other things, life would ·b e ideal, reminds
wealth Avenue. Boston, Chairman.
Mr. George W. Coleman, 177 W. Brook- one of what Thomas Huxley said about it.
"Life," •he said, "is like walking along a
line Street, Boston.
Mr. J. -S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
crowded street; there always seem to be
Mr. A. D. Skelding, Boston Post.
fewer obstacles to getting along on the oppoMr. Wm. V. Bottom, 121 St. Stephen St. site pavement; and yet if one crosses over
Miss Freda Rogolsky, Peabody House.
matters are rarely mended,"
Bill No. 7
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THE POSSIBILITIES OF OUR TOWN
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There would seem to be a virile propagating power in the idea that is behind the
Ford Hall Meetings. Not only has this
force been felt abroad in the establishment
of at least a score of similar forums but it
has also manifested itself at home • sugby
gesting and bringing to fulfillment new
ideas for the extension of the work in Ford
Hall.
The latest of these inventions is a school
for the study and practice of democracy
known as the Ford Hall Town Meeting. It
has been a surprising success from the start.
This immediate success is no doubt due in
large part to the training we have had during the last few years in thinking together
upon the great issues of our common life.
The Town Meeting held every Thursday
night in the Ford Building is a little world
in itself. It includes all sorts of people,
young and old, men and women, radicals
- <i'ld conservatives, believers and un- elievers
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in all the well known religions, political
and economic creeds. Among its citizens
are - eople of culture and privilege and
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folks of little education and scanty resources, those of native stoclc and those
foreign born, but all are eager, alert, earnest and sincere in their desire to make the
best use of their own lives in promoting
the general welfare.
The Town Meeting is shot through and
through with the ideals of a pure democracy.
It was insisted at the very first election of
officers that the choices should be made
t1!1·ough the use of the preferential ballot,
something that many of the dtizens had until then never heard about.
Every one
clearly understands that there is no guiding hand behind the scenes directing the
course of affairs and that the Town Meeting is wholly subject to the will of its citi• -•--••
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''Some time ago, when I was feeding
pigeons, I threw a piece of bread upon
dirty sidewalk of Huntington avenue,"
gan Mrs. William Horton Foster, in o
ing her account of the proposal to op
free lunch for unemployed'. "Along ell
an old man; before he had· straightened
munching that piece of stale bread, I
up my mind that I would pay more a
tion to conditions and less to money."
Mrs. Foster interested Miss Louise·
Grout, and together they canvassed sev,'i!
bakeries and restaurants with the re:
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that thirty gallons of· sou·p were prorii
for each day for four weeks. Their inv
gation led them to the conclusion that
coffee,-and probably a place to serve th,
LAST WEEK 'S TOWN MEETING.
-would become available, in case ;
Town Meeting wished to place its appr,
We are very proud of our new baby, this
upon the undertaking.
two-page insert, though we know it is not
Hardly had Mrs. ·Foster completed her
nearly so good as it will be later on. If any
port when. the fine work began.
citizen has ideas about what he or she would
Citizen William C. Ewing touched off
like to see in these pages, the Moderator and
first sky rockets. "Those who are at f;'
the Clerk would be glad to consider them.
should pay for the result of their folly ·
Some of the biggest things that are happen- ignorance," was his first epigram. "S04
ing in Ford Hall today-the Town Meeting causes unemployment; society should "
itself among them-came originally from the bills."
people in the audience. Bring your suggesThereupon the suggestion was made tions to us. They will all be welcomed even
if we can't promise that they will all be the city's home at 30 Hawkins street
other charitable institutions and org:
used.
tions, public and private, were well abI
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take
One of the finest things about our Town · ist. care of all the destitution that maY
Meeting-a thing which Mr. Coleman has
The mention of 30 Hawkins street 13:
noticed also in the question hour Sunday
night-is the perfectly frank way in which rious citizens to question whether or.,
we can discuss the most delicate subjects the out-of-work men of Boston there rece!·
arising in connection with some bills. As a square deal and to more than question,
our Moderator says, our discussion is sanitary conditions there prevailing. -~'
always "pure and sweet," and it is our over, insisted Mrs. Hoffman, the manL
t!l
earnestness and high ideals that have made get only four days of work a month, wit!l
this possible. I think everyone of us hopes payment in groceries, no matter how
and intends that this condition will always his need.
continue.
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ORDER OF THE DAY.
Boston will be a mighty fine city when we
get through with it. We are getting ready
to do everything, from feeding the unemMarch 12th.
ployed to cleaning the streets,· and from establishing evening school centres to closing
1. Bill No. 19-tin plate law.
o "'t r<><>t ~"' ~- nlave:round for
chiidren.
then will be strongly felt throughout the
city. Their action on matte·r s affecting the
welfare of the community will have a vital
bearing on municipal affairs.
Our Sunday evening meeting will remain
the spiritual power house where we generate ideals, and our Thursday evening organization will ·be the place where we will
develop methods for translating those ideals
into every day practical results. When our
Town Meeting is six years old, as our ·Sunday evening Forum is, we may - e as much
b
surprised with the results then achieved as
we would have been in 1908 if any one had
told us what the Ford Hall Meetings would
be in 1914.
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gesting and .br1ng1ng tu J. uw11.lll~u L uc
ideas for the extension of the work in Ford
LAST WEEK'S TOWN MEETING.
Hall.
.
The latest of these inventions is a school
V•le are very proud of our new baby, this
for the study and practice of democracy two-page insert, though we know it is not
known as the Ford Hall Town Meeting. It nearly so good as it will be later on. If any
has been a surprising success from the start. citizen has ideas about what he or she would
This immediate success is no doubt due in like to see in these pages, the Moderator and
large part to the training we have had dur- the Clerk would be glad to consider them.
ing the last few years in thinking together Some of the biggest things that are happenupon the great issues of our common life.
The Town Meeting held every Thursday ing in Ford Hall today-the Town Meeting
night in the Ford Building is a little world itself among them-came originally from
in itself. It includes all sorts of people, people in the audience. Bring your suggesyoung and old, men and women, radicals tions to us. They will all be welcomed even
~"ld conservatives, believers and unbelievers if we can't promise· that they will all be
·
in all the well known religions, political used.
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and economic creeds. Among its citizens
One of the finest things about our Town
are people ·o f culture and privilege and
folks of little education and scanty re- Meeting-a thing which Mr. Coleman has
sources, those of native stock and those noticed also in the question hour Sunday
foreign born, but all are eager, alert, earn- night-is the perfectly frank way in which
est and sincere in their desire to make the we can discuss the most delicate subjects
best use of their own lives in promoting arising in connection with some bills. As
1:>ur Moderator says, our discussion is
the general welfare.
The Town Meeting is shot through and always "pure and sweet," and it is our
through with the ideals of a pure democracy. earnestness and high ideals that have made
this possible. I think everyone of us hopes
It was insisted at the very first election of
and intends that this condition will always
of11.cers that the choices should be made
t1!1·ough the use of the preferential ballot, continue.
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something that many of the citizens had un*
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Boston will be a mighty fine city when we
Every one
:----- -- til then never heard about.
get through with it. We are getting ready
clearly understands that there is no guiding hand ·b ehind the scenes directing the to do everything, 'from feeding the unemcourse of affairs and that the Town Meet- ployed to cleaning the streets, and from esing is wholly subject to the will of its citi- tablishing evening school centres to closing
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zens in every res·pect. This direct responsi- a street as a playground for children.
t
bility not only adds zest to everything that Whether all our laws at first have any effect
is done - ut also inspires caution and careful 'On the world outside or not-and many of
b
them have already had such effect-sooner
consideration.
Those ' who are participating in this won- or lat er our opinion will have · such effect
derfully interesting experiment are getting on the persons or - rganizations concerned.
o
an education of priceless value. Not only
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-is it developing powers and faculties that
So fa'.r we have not a committee room, and
might otherwise have lain dormant but it a.re meeting at chairmen's homes and beis also developing social consciousness, fore the Town Meeting in Kingsley Hall.
eommunitY\ feeling and mutual responsiOur committ ee of one, the doughty Serbility. Let this work go on for a time and
geant-at-Arms, is endeavoring to interest
we will develop a company trained in the
the trustees of the building in this urgent
art of citizenship that any community could
need of the Town Meeting committees.
well -be proud of.
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And ·this suggests my last point. These
Let eyery Town Meeting citizen rememFord Hall Town Meeting citizens will not . ber that next week is our sixth anniversary
wait for the completion of their course in number, and that we shall all want extra
the study and practice of democracy ·b efore copies to send to our friends.
they will apply their newly required knowledge and experience in the actual affairs of
the city of Boston. .And llere · is . the· very THE TOWN MEETING SOUP KITCHEN.
finest •opportunity for our women who are
By Warren Dunham Foster,
soon to receive full enfranchisement to begin to prepare themselves for the .g reat re,
The Ford Hall To wn Meeting will operate
sponsibilities that will some day be thrust
a soup kitchen. At the meeting Thursday
upon them.
These Town Meetings, although now only evening, after a spirited discussion, the
a few weeks old, have in them possibilities citizens voted to establish a committee of
of immense usefulness. -Some day, if they five to co-operate with other agencies in recontinue the way they have - egun, we shall lieving the temporary distress caused by the
b
need the large hall to accommodate thos e present acut e condition · of unemployment
who will wish t-o attend. Their_ influence within the Commonwealth. ·
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- would become a;ail~ble, - ~ --~~~l.ll. •
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Town Meeting wished to place its app
upon the undertaking.
Hardly had J\Irs. Foster completed her
port when the fine work began.
Citizen William C. Ewing touched orr
first sky rockets. " Those who are at
should pay for the result of their folly
ignorance," was his first epigram. "S
causes unemployment ; society should
the bills."
Thereupon the suggestion was made
the city's home at 30 Hawkins street
other charitable institutions and orga
tions, public and private, were Well able
take care of all the destitution that may
ist.
The mention of 30 Hawkins street led'
rious citizens to question whether or
the out-of-work men of Boston there recei
a square deal and to more than question
sanitary conditions there prevailing. M
over, insisted Mrs. Hoffman, the man
get only four days of work a month, with
payment in groceries, no' matter how
his need.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
a~~t~·
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1,«:ause lbeY
;;~gine the
1
~ trom ~~ink~ he would die
· _.iness ~h~e gave up squeezing
~ en "·ho need them more
•_ _m
· ~ ! and women ·always make _me
--.tltlDP should Jove to do if I
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0.. dm:avel travel, travel every--14and se~ and see everything
have made-just from
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bunting in the Arctic regions.
':, calling in the black belt of
stc
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in
w,
fli
microbes through a
lD an aeroplane.
own in a submarine.
read for days and. days in
as
ti,
H
n !or weeks and weeks at a
ent station.
to the Newfoundland Banks
r fisherman.
down into the deepest of coal
T:
March 12th.
tch surgical operations as long
Bill No. 19-tin plate law.
2. Bill No. 20--injunction law.
3. Bill No. 27-State farm.
4._ Resolution of sympathy with Ass
tion for Prevention of Infant Mortality,
1.
"When once you have learned that It
as sure a sign of wisdom to say you do !
know as to say you do know, when you~
learned that it is pretense and not ignora
that is shameful, when you want to be
teemed for nothing except what you r~
are, and to hate nothing so much as to
praised for what you are not, then yo\!
be at ease in any company, everybody
servant to savant will enjoy you and, as
said to Robert Burns, you will be eq
at home in the society of farm laborers
the polite world. Genuineness and mod
are the keys of friendship."-Frank Crall'"Only slaves die of overwork.
·w eariness, a danger, forsooth! Those
say so can know very little about it.
is neither cruel nor ungrateful ; it r~s
the strength we give it a hundred-fold
unlike your financial . operations, tbe
enue is what brings in the capital. PU~n
into your work and joy and health " 1
yours! "-Martin Luther.
·let me.
:YOnldn't I do if I only had the
· just for the sheer fun of it.
ly had the leisure -and means,
ahouldn't do one of these things,
ting as they are, it is so
interesting to be doing your
world wherever God has placed
life and influencing it for all
, th toward what you believe to
r
way. The more deeply •ine in the life of men, the more
rbing do I find it. And the
d the magazines and books
·ors in which, for a few
kinds of worlds.
ese squanderers of leisure! A
man, working sixteen hours a
ety o! tasks, gets more joy from
than they get from a year's
· unions," says J. Laurence_
going to accomplish the good
110t by an abuse of power, but
responsibility, and by square
gs with those whose interbly bound up with their
apital must work together.
e wise leaders and capital
with them in bettering the
make for the good of all."
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FORD HALL FOLKS
FORD HALL TOWN ~1EETING RECORD
[Everyone in the Ford Hall Town .Meeting knows who its F ·irst Citizen is.
Here
is what our First Citizen thinks of iis.]
THE POSSIBILITIES OF OUR TOWN
MEETING.
By George W. Coleman.
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There would seem to be a virile propagating power in the idea that is behind the
Ford Hall Meetings. Not only has this
force been felt abroad in the establishment
of at least a score of similar forums but it
has also manifested itself at home ·b y suggesting and bringing to fulfillment new
ideas for the extension of the work in Ford
Hall.
The latest of these inventions is a school
for the study and practice of democracy
known as the Ford Hall Town Meeting. It
has been a surprising success from the start.
This immediate success is no doubt due in
large part to the training we have had during the last few years in thinking together
upon the great issues of our common life.
The Town Meeting held every Thursday
night in the Ford Building is a little world
in itself. It includes all sorts of people,
young and old, men and women, radicals
~ -- - ~:rtd conservatives, believers and unbelievers
in all the well known religions, political
and economic creeds. Among its citizens
are - eople of culture and privilege and
p
folks of little education and scanty resources, those of native stock and those
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foreign born, but all are eager, alert, earnI'
est and sincere in their desire to make the
best use of their own lives in promoting
the general welfare.
The Town Meeting is shot through and
through with the ideals of a pure democracy.
It was insisted at the very first election of
offl.c·ers that the choices should be made
ti!,·ough the use of the preferential ballot,
something that many of the citizens had un·1
til then never heard about.
Every one
clearly understands that there is no guiding hand behind the scenes directing the
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··some time ago, when I was feeding .m,
pigeons, I threw a piece of bread upon the
dirty sidewalk of Huntington avenue," began Mrs. vVilliam Horton Foste_ in ope~
r,
ing her account of the proposal to operi.1
free lunch for unemployed. "Along camt
an old· man; before he had straightened ·111
munching that piece of stale bread, I mad!
up my mind that I would pay more atta
tion to conditions and less to money." .:
Mrs. Foster interested Miss Louise· ' I.
Grout, and together they canvassed seven!
bakeries and restaurants with the resii
that thirty gallons of sou·p. were promisM
for each day for four weeks. Their investigation led them to the conclusion that roils,
coffee,-and probably a place to serve these,
LAST WEEK'S TOWN MEETING.
-would become available, in case . ~
,Town Meeting wished to place its approlil
We are very proud of our new baby, this
pon the undertaking.
two-page insert, though we know it is not
Hardly had Mrs. Foster completed her_
r
nearly so good as it will be later on. If any
port when the fine work began.
J
citizen has ideas about what he or she would
Citizen William C. Ewing touched 01! tlle
like to see in these pages, the Moderator and
first sky rockets. "Those who are at fa~
the Clerk would be glad to consider them.
should pay for the result of their folly aj!I
Some of the biggest things that are happen- ignorance," was his first epigram. "Societr
ing in Ford Hall today-the Town Meeting
causes unemployment; .society should ·W
itself among them-came originally from
the bills."
·•• ·
people in the audience. Bring your suggesThereupon the suggestion was made ~
tions to us. They will all be welcomed even
the city's home at 30 Hawkins street aijj
if we can't promise that they will all be
other charitable institutions and organiJlused.
tions, public and private, were well able ti
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One of the finest things about our Town · take care of all the destitution that maY/ 1£·
ist.
-11.
Meeting-a thing which Mr. Coleman has
The mention of 30 Hawkins street led.fl'
noticed also in the question hour Sunday
night-is the perfectly frank way in which rious citizens to question whether or fl#
the out-of-work men of Boston there recei~
we can discuss the most delicate subjects
arising in connection with some bills. As a square deal and to more than question .
llUr Moderator says, our discussion is sanitary conditions there prevailing.
.
always " pure and sweet," and it is our over, insisted Mrs. Hoffman, the man
get only four days of work a month, wi~
earnestness and high ideals that have made
payment in groceries, no matter how g.co"".
this possible. I think everyone of us hopes
·
and intends that this condition will always his need.
continue.
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ORDER OF THE D~Y.
Boston will be a mighty fine city when we
get through with it. We are getting ready
to do everything, from feeding the unemMarch 12th.
then will be strongly felt throughout the
city. Their action on matters affecting the
welfare of the community will have a vital
bearing on municipal affairs.
Our Sunday evening meeting will remain
the spiritual power house where we generate ideals, and our Thursday evening organization will ·be the place where we will
develop methods for translating those ideals
into every day practical results. When our
Town Meeting is six years old, as our ·Sunday evening Forum is, we may - e as much
b
surprised with the results then achieved as
we would have been in 1908 if any one had
told us what the Ford Hall Meetings would
be in 1914.
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~ 30 H~wkins street le?
t quest10n whether or
len of Bos.ton there receit
l to more than question
~s there prevailing. M
-s. Hoffman, the man
?f work, a month, With
nes, no matter how e-.
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tin plate law.
injunction law.
State 'farm.
of sympathy with Ass~
r on of Infant Mortality;
E
~ u have learned that it i
f wisdom to say you do 111
rou do know, when you hilt
f pretense and not ignoraiut
J., when you want to be et
fing except what you realb'
! nothing so much as to bi
t you are not, then you ca
t
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1y company, everybody fr111
ff will enjoy you and, as u
Burns,· you will be equalb'
society of farm laborers 3lli:
·Genuineness _
and modest!"
iendship."-Frank Crane.
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aie of overwork. Work 1
nger, forsooth! Those no
' very little about tt. Lab«
nor ungrateful; it re,sto!!J
r give it a hundred-fold aDI.
iancial . operations, the ret
fngs in the capital. Put soul
land joy and health will bl
Luther.
ti heavens through a big
re
look at microbes through a
_._._. gaze at
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up in an aeroplane.
go down in a submarine.
and read for days and. days in
JD,rarY.
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weeks and weeks at a
experiment station.
go to the Newfoundland Banks
er fisherman.
go down into the deepest of coal
ing business men of today! They live like
worms so that their children may be butterflies. But who dares say that they, living
as they do, are not obeying the Great Executive, even as the cabbage caterpillar obeys
Him! "
day, !\larch 10, and .l<'riaay, l\larcn
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P. M. , The Evolution of the Art of Music,
by Walter Raymond Spalding. Thursday,
March 12, at 8 P. l\L, Scientific lVIethod in
Kingsley Hall, Thursda y, March 12, 7.45
P. :\1., Ford Hall Town Meeting.
NEW CHU~C~ LECTU~ES
You are cordially invited to attend a course of three free lectures in
FORD HALL
Thursday evenings, March 12th, 19th, and 26th, at 8 -0'clock, when the following questions
spend entrancing hours in the
will be answered from the standpoint of the New Church:
I. Could God Write a Book? (March 12.)
1 "l(Oll)d watch surgical operations as long
II. C-Ould . God Become Man? (March 19.)
1tw YOU!d let me.
All. ,rut wouldn't I do if I only had the
III. Can Man Discover Imm-0rtality?
(March 26.)
11a9?,-and just for the sheer fun of it.
The lecturer will be the Rev. Julian Kennedy Smyth of New York City, who is the
81d if I really bad the leisure -and means,
official head of the New Church in the United States and Canada.
J ,rollablY shouldn't do one of these things, ·
SEATS FREE.
NO COLLECTION.
~ - - fascinating as they are, it is so
Jiaela more interesting to be doing your
~ la th. world wherever God has placed
e
, - . watching life and influencing it for all
,-. are worth toward what you believe to
Ford Hall Folks
.. tile better way. The more deeply inCOME!
Edited ·by Thomas Dreier.
wind I become in the life of men, th·e more
Commencing March 1st at 4 P. M., in th
alllbaaclngly absorbing do I find it. And the
lecture room, 136 Bowdoin St., and c-ontinu ·
UBLISHED weekly by the Ford
..ar papers and the magazines and books
ing through the month, to discuss the Dis
Hall Associates, whose work
...,._,, the mirrors in which, for a few
coveries of Emanuel Swedenborg in Scienct
is . to create, assemble, and
&llllta. I see- all kinds of worlds.
and Religion. Free-No Collection.
'listribute ideas that will help
. GIit
these squanderers of leisure! A
men and institutions grow more
naD7 llve man, working sixteen hours a
helpful in serving society, and which
ADVERTISING
- - at a variety of tasks, gets more joy from
will promote "peace on earth, good
A space of ·this size-one inch high and
a . .,.. work than they get from a year's
will toward men." It is the official
two and one-half inches wide-can be bad
publication of the Ford Hall Meetfor advertising purposes for one dollar per
ings, which are held, under the direcissue. For information regarding advertis,
labor · unions," says J. Laurence.
tion of George W. Coleman, every
ing apply to ·J acob London, Room 707, Ford
-Ve going to accomplish the good
Sunday GYening during the months of
Bui:ding, Boston, Mass.
- ·
at. not by an abuse -0f power, but
October to May, in Ford Hall, Ashof responsibility, and by square
·burton Place, Boston, Massachusetts.
"The chief advantage that would result
dealings with those whose interAll bufiness communications should
from the establishment of Socialism," says
fnextricably bound up with their
be sent to Miss Mary C. Crawford,
Oscar Wilde, "is undoubtedly the fact that
and capital must work together.
Treasurer Ford Building, Boston,
Socialism would relieve us from the sordid
choose wise leaders and capital
and all comm uni ~ations intended for
,rate with them in bettering the
the editor to The Thomas Dreier Sernecessity of living for others which, in the
vice, University Press, Cambridge.
. which make for the good of all."
present condition -0f things, · presses so
ce Laughlin.
hardly upon everybody."
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THE STORY OF MR. COSGROVE.
By Mary C. Crawford.
Several times this winter interesting
questions about Mexico and the Mexican
situation have been asked at our meetings
by a gentle-voiced, light-haired young man
who sits in the right-hand gallery. This
man is totally blind-although that fact is
not immediately obvious-and he lost his
sight as a result of a plot against Americans
made by Mexican mine workers. A very sad
and terrible story his. Yet he tells it without bitterness and adds that his sympathies
always go out to the Mexicans even though
they are responsible for his irreparable _loss.
The Americans down there are usually over.
bearing and insolent, he says, and while
they bear away wealth with them, the natives remain to suffer every kind of poverty
and want. Moreover, the plot which cost
him his sight was not aimed at him personally; and it grew out of the deep superstition in which these people have been
plunged since time immemorial.
Born in Massachusetts, young Cosgrove
heeded the call of the West, and after spending five years in the gold and silver mines
of California, went to Arizona, and thence
to Mexico to prepare himself for a position
of importance in the copper mining district.
The town in which he settled down there
as called Navidad (Spanish for Christmas)
the very place, I believe, in which the present insurrection had its birth. The Mexicans
are "religiously insane every day of the
year," according to many reports. But the
fourth of May, Cross Day-when a new
Cross is set up in every Mexican mine-is
of all days of the year to them most sacred.
The exigencies of work in Mr. Cosgrove's
!I'.ine made it necessary for him and an
English comrade to collect some samples of ore on this most ~acred day,
hcwever, and so the two made their way
in a cage to a point several hundred feet
below the surface of the mine to do their
assaying. They had their drilling tools with
them, but chancing to find a hole already
drilled, made use of it. As a result the
E1;-glishman was kil]ed and Cosgrove
blmded. The hole, it:'. appears, had been
filled with dynamite and topped with high
pressure caps, so that only a few light
strokes of a hammer were necessary to
m~kP it immP<li ::J rPlv rli::>, !l th.rlo,;,li ..... o-
ing all the time in mines; but they need
not be so terrible in their results, · he insists, if Capital provides proper medical attendance at once. Yet he is not a bitter person when he talks of Capital any more than
when he talks of the Mexicans who did him
so grievous a wrong. - He declares that he
is very happy, too, and finds plenty of things
with which to make his days interesting as,
attended only by his cane, he comes to Ford
Hall functions and to Committee hearings
at the State House over the way. In four
years he has missed but two Ford Hall
meetings, and his voice breaks with · deep
feeling as he tries to express what the discovery of us meant to him. "You were joy. ously talking here," he says, "what I had
long been silently and sadly thinking!"
drag us through great chapters of econo
and sociology; and I call that consum
art. Here, in this - ook, two dead in sfi;
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are raised again through love and sacrifici
of self.
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This was the lesson Tolstoy had
and the lesson he taught. And that is {Ji;
only point or meaning of this world
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the world to come.
LITTLE LETTERS FROM THE
'PEOPLE.
Evidently He Wins.
Feb. 24, 1914..
As a constant attendant ·of the Ford Hal
meetings, and also as a member of the.'11.
S. military service, I should like to offer·
TOLSTOY, THE MAN.
a little clearing up statement, since tlie
Army and Navy are so often the objects".ct
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hostile criticisms.
For spe1 if. ationlr.
·compared with Goethe's "Faust," which is shall confine myself to a ques n appearthe story of the 18th century. The prob- ing in the Magazine on Feb. 22, 14, as !allem of the 18th century was intellectual- lows:
Q: "Don't they keep the army in
what to think?-and Faust, the man, meets
· Mephistopholes, the denying spirit, and is ance so that they will be willing t
undone. The problem of the 19th century their fellow-beings, and isn't it this
ignorance which causes them to co
is social.
When democracy came into
venereal diseases?
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power there was let loose in the world a
A (Mr. Cummings): "You have put yo
force for evil as well" as for good. What
is to be the effect of mob mind upon the finger on a real fact. The . question is a !At,
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I am a marine stationed at the Nani
effect of social expectation upon the life of
Prison, Navy Yard, and if the partiesi ll
each one of us? "Anna Karenina" answers
these questions in a woman's story, because this interrogatory will come over I will slio9
19th century life centres in the woman's
them the marines' library and read!Df
heart. 'That is what was concerning Tol- room, containing hundreds of volumes ,'!,
stoy in this period.
all varieties, from Jack London's "~
But the problem became greater and Heel" to Dr. Eliot's six-foot shelf of fl.~
greater; and drove him almost to destruc- vard classics. Then I'll take . them do WR II
tion. Still he knew he had missed some- the prison ·library and show them over tllf
how the point of living. He must find the hundreds of volumes which are read by -~
prisoners. There they will find the "Jungfe;
answer, and he found it when he came to
accept his own interpretation of Christian- by Upton Sinclair. · And if that is too ~
I'll hand them a copy of "War, What FO!·
ity as the way of life for him, and, he believed, for the world. Then came a great by Mr. Kirkpatrick. And if they will co'!t'
time of self-expression, when he wrote on Friday morning I will show them h::
tracts and pamphlets for the common · peo- ing in the mail rack, with my name
ple and appeals to the world at large. In ten on the yellow label, in plain sight ,J.
everybody, the "Appeal to Reason" and :
this last period we find Tolstoy's chief
ideas which really started in the beginning "Boston Leader." Does this, look like ,
military is trying to suppress informatfOII►
of his literary work.
Tolstoy's conversion is a sublime illus- I?- ad?ition to _this I hold a card on tl~e put,
he Library with far more leisure time
tration of Emerson's words: " It is easy in
the world to live after the world's opinion, read than the average workingman.
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sonally; and it grew out of tne aeep superstition in which these people have been
plunged since time immemorial.
Born in Massachusetts, young Cosgrove
heeded the call oft¥ West, and after spending five years in tlie gold and silver mines
of California, ·went to Arizona, and thence
t,o Mexico to prepare himself for a position
of importance in the copper mining district.
The town in which he settled down there
~ called Navidad (Spanish for Christmas)
the very place, I believe, in which the present insurrection had its birth. The Mexicans
are "religiously insane every day of the
vear," according to many reports. But the
fourth of May, Cross · Day-when a new
Cross is set up in every Mexican mine-is
of all days of the year to them most sacred.
The exigencies of work in Mr. Cosgrove's
xr.ine made it necessary for him and an
English comrade to collect . some samples of ore on this most sacred day,
however, and so the two made their way
in a cage to a point several hundred feet
below the surface of the mine to do their
assaying. They had their drilling tools with
them, but chancing t6 find a hole already
drilled, made use of it. As a result the
·Englishman · was kWed and Cosgrove
blinded. The hole, it.;:,.appears, had been
filled with '
mite and topped with high
pressure ca
so that : only a few light
,strokes of
ammer were necessary to
make it imm .liately death-dealing.
For so much of our friend ' s troubles we
. may blame the ignorant superstition of insanely wrong-headed natives. But immediate medical assistance would have alleviated, if no.t cured, his particular case. And
the American owners of these rich and productive mines had not thought it worth
while to provide a resident doctor. Hence
horrible, indescribable suffering on the part
of this innocent worker. Almost his eyes
were removed from his head by main force
at the clumsy hands of an orderly who had
once -had some distant connection with a
hospital!
Of course it was too late for successful
operation when, nearly four weeks later,
young Cosgrove, traveling with infinite pain
in a stage-coach drawn by four mules, managed to achieve the mountain journey of
eighty-six miles, which set him down in the
presence of an oculist. So, as soon as he
could again get. together strength enough
he set out, alone and blinded, on the journey of 3500 miles back to his native Massachusetts.
That -wa·s seven years ago.· During these
·years he has taught himself Braille, though
he does not use it much, and studied Socialism. _<\.ccidents similar to this are happen-
tne story of tne Hitn century. J. ne pruulem of the 18th century was intellectualwhat to think ?-and Faust, the man, meets
Mephistopholes, the denying spirit, and is
undone. The problem of the 19th century
is social.
When democracy came into
power there was let loose in the world a
force for evil as well as for good. What
is to be the effect of mob mind upon the
life of the individual? What is to be the
effect · of social expectation upon the life of
each one of us? "Anna Karenina" answers
these questions in a woman's story, because
19th century life centres in the woman's
heart. That is what was concerning Tolstoy in this period. .
But the problem became greater and
greater, and drove him almost to destruction. Still he knew he had missed somehow the point of living. He must find the
answer, and he found it when he came to
accept his own interpretation of Christianity as the way of life for him, and, he believed, for the world. Then came a great
time of self-expression, when he wrote
tracts and pamphlets for the common · people and appeals to the world at large. In
this last period we find Tolstoy's chief
ideas which really started in the beginning
of his literary work.
Tolstoy's conversion is a sublime illustration of Emerson's words: " It is easy in
the world to live after the world's opinion,
in solitude, after one's own; the great man
is he who ,n the world lives after his own
opinion. " Tolstoy, alone, could live the life
of a Stoic, but in the army and in St. Petersburg he found it impossible. But in 1881
he said : ''Be it known to all the world,
henceforth I live .after Tolstoy's opinion."
(Applause.) This idea we find most clearly
in "Ivan Ilyitch." In this period, too, he
poured out a great deal of bitterness, in
"The Kreutzer Sonata' and "The Power of
Darkness."
Those books prove he turned
to the common people, not because they
were better than the aristocracy, but because they were more hopeful.
''The
Kreutzer Sonata" is the most drastic arraignment of the age for its most deadly
sin, the social evil; and in "The Power of
Darkness" he shows the same thing in the
common people. The difference is that in
the former book there is a mind corrupted,
and in the latter there is no mind to corrupt.
Tolstoy's whole message, read small, and
yet how large, is in "Master and Man." He
wished al ways that he could escape from
his art, but he could not. One of the greatest pieces of human art in existence is Tolstoy's "Resurrection." Here he has told a
little tale that might have been told in
twenty pages, and has used that story to
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venereal diseases?
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finger on a real fact. The question is a ,.'!
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Prison, Navy Yard, and if the parties ~
this interrogatory will come over I will sh0y
them the marines' library and readin.
room, containing hundreds of volumes -~
all varieties, from Jack London's "l~
Heel" to Dr. Eliot's. six-foot shelf of Ha:.
·vard classics. Then I'll take . them down ia
the prison library and show them over the
hundreds of volumes which are read by th!
prisoners. There they will find the "Jungle •
by Upton Sinclair. And if that is too taine
I'll hand them a copy of "War, What For?"
by Mr. Kirkpatrick. And if they will come
on Friday morning I will show them hang.
ing in the mail rack, with my name Written on the yellow label, in plain sight of
every.body, the "Appeal to Reason" and the
"Boston Leader." Does this look like the
military is trying to suppress information!
In addition to this I hold a card on the Public Library with far more leisure time to
read than the average workingman.
As a Magazine of Neighborliness, I hope
you will print this and thereby strike out
the fir st two letters of the word "abuse." A
few of the questioners at Ford Hall might
do well to remember th a t the military has
no monopoly on ignorance. I was not surprised at the question, but very mnch so at
the answer.
GEORGE A. MORGAN
Private, U . S. M. C.
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March 15-Rev. Harry Ward, "The Challenge cif Socialism to Christianity."
March 22-Rev. Frank 0. Hall of
York, "The Moral .Law."
March 29-John Cowper Powys
land, "The Economic Aspects of
Suffrage."
April 5-Symposi um, cm "Journalism.'
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York, probably the leading Universalist body
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topic this time being '' Tl1e Economic AsjJec!s of Hloman Sulfrage . 11 ~I
Powys is in many ways the most remarkable
speaker who has ever appeared on this platform.
It was a very bad night when he came to us last
year and he was utterly unknown in Boston; so he
had only a fairly-filled house to greet his talk on
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every person who was there has been sounding this
man's praises ever since and there will be a r ecordbreaking crowd on hand to welcome him on this
occasion . :Mr._ Powys is fresh from England and
will doubtl ess have some light to throw on the
·situation there among the militants. But this will
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APRIL 5.-A . J. PHILPOTT of th e Boston Globe will lead our Symposium
Ivlr . Philpott knows the newspaper business from the ground
a\lho11~h I ti
up, having served on the Globe alone for more than
twenty years . He has .b een a reporter in New
York, Philadelphia and Chicago, and has travdled ,
in the course of his work, from Canada to Mexico
and Guatemala, meeting on the way practically all
the people of importance in the country. Few men
have done a greater variety of journalistic work
than he or understand the newspaper business more
thoroughly from both the writer's and the printer's
point of view. We shall all be more intelligent
concernin g the powers of the press after we have
heard him speak. The editorial end of the subject
will be covered by~GEORGE PERRY MORRIS, now of
the CJ1rislian Science 'Jlionifor, and formerly on the editorial staff of the New
Yor,~ ,11ail and Express. Practically all of 11fr. Morris' work has been as an
editorial writer, : just as nearly all of Ivlr. Philpott's has been at the news end .
Together the/should be able to give us a well-rounded understanding of the
newspaper as a social instrument.
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TOLSTOY, THE MAN*
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By LESLIE WILLIS SPRAGUE
f powerful preachers which New Engla ,l'llr""!:":W"::'i!HERE are a good many people wh~
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:!ans that he is the kind of man sure fo
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trow on the
3ut this will
man toward religion. All the great men
was defeated by the Russian winter on the
of the 19th as of other centuries have been march to Moscow, there was threatened in
·deeply concerned with the problems of re- Russia the extinction of a nation's life, with
ligion, and particularly with the relation- -the result that there was born a nationalship between religion and society; but istic spirit. You can find it in the beginnearly all but Tolstoy have been concerned nings of realistic literature, which started
with reinterpreting religion from the basis
earlier than in England and France, beand in the terms of modern civilization and
cause it was a protest against the social
Ideal of the that out
ds come
conditions then prevailing throughout Rustor the fact Amenc of other Ianha~ other present day culture. Tolstoy alone took his
cultures, new life st reams, t!~~e is coming stand upon what he believed to be the true sia. (Applause.) We must associate the
interpretation of Christianity, and then
name of Tolstoy with those of Tourgenieff,
still into !he made the strong, reinforced, determined de- Gogol and Dostoieffsky, for it was this movement with which Tolstoy was first allied.
and heart a
American mmd mand that modern civilization and modern
And yet Tolstoy was one of the few great
culture should be recast upon the basis and
souls of humanity who stand alone, unique.
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o-reat enkind- in the terms of what he believed to be a
chargisolated.
reared
Christianity.
with His genius
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c_ om- true or not is notWhether we agreeHe is in the arms wasaristocracy, Born andsoon rei o,
of
he very
him
the question.
vclted against the life in which he had
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manding contri- worthy of earnest study because of the
ideal
been trained. He left the university and
uniqueness of that position. I am sure the
-man
butions
from consensus of the opinion of the future will went to his -family estate at Yasna Polyana
many soui:ces. bear me out when I say that Tolstoy is suto change the condition of the serfs there.
premely worthy ol' our study, our regard, om· He then entered the army as a non-comThe Italian profound admiration and gratitude, because missioned officer, and just as he was about
comes with the
thought,
the he so supremely represents the man of ab- to be commissioned he resigned, and bepurpose, nt h e solute sincerity, fidelity to his convictions, came the chief spirit of anti-militarism.
Pa s si
of
and a great willingness to make sacrifices Soon his became the great name of Russian
O
Garibaldi s~r- for what he believed to be true and right. literature; and then, just as he had won the
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(Applause.) No man in all modern history laurel crown, he turned away , to Yasna
bar .,.ino- hi S
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.llte.. (Applause.) The German comes wi th has been more ready than Tolstoy to live Polyana-became weary of it all, and detert'- •Pirit that broke in '48 and sent to our· up to the very last opinion of his mind, mined to get close to the hearts of the
l_!Uch a noble army of those _who had. or has made so great a sacrifice for that moujiks. He was not satisfied with the free_
ing
serfs, but went to live with them,
he
be
laUed In their own land to achieve the which the believed to have the truth. And · and of the to think their thoughts, because
tried
llea)8 or liberty. The Frenchman c~mes
when
time shall
passed for the
1'1th the passion of humanity that Victor bickerings and banterings and deliberate he knew that mere legal liberty was not
He traveled over western Europe,
spite and hatred that so long shadowed his life.
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studied conditions, and then returned, to
.Illa.nae.) Illustrated and increased.
The Russian comes with (Ap- name and fame, the world will come to adthe
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ty heart-beat which, if you can hear, mire and be grateful for the splendid sin- start a school and develop a theory of education entirely his own. He devoted him(Applause.)
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Tolstoy was so
was only a patch on
411d. alth?ugh I think I know ~he Plrcb- life that we shall not be able to understand a new garment was a worn garment, where
needed.
the man or his message unless we see
the discouragements. the d1fficu ies. on a · background of Russian history. him
Tolstoy did not move with his time in
confront America as she looks forward.
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turned to the
-,'!__n~t au disconraged as to th~ oi!t_c~~~ shall ask you to remember that Russia lies religion. for comfort. yearsh he nn ..
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Boston Globe will Jead our Symposium
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(Applause.) The German comes with
sptrlt that broke in '48 and sent to ourpch a noble army of those who bad
fu their own land to achieve the
liberty. The Frenchman comes
the passion of humanity that Victor
.illustrated and increased.
(Apa.aaue.) t The Russian comes with the
, heart-beat which, if you can hear,
in -it the words, "Leo Tolstoy." (Ap-
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although I think I know the probthe discouragements. the difficulties.
confront America as she looks forward ,
am iiot all discouraged as to the outcome
tbe ideal of life both for the ·individual
society when I realize the place which
men are taking, not only in the hearts
those who have come from these differ}ands i:o become our newer Americans.
In the hearts and thoughts of those of
wbo are descended from the Puritans.
Tolstoy ·is peculiarly worthy of our study
use of his Russian characteristics.
Tery virtue of Tolstov lies in the fact
tlat be was so essentially. the Russian, aml
lllli,Wonged to a civilization at least a hundred
11, if not 150 years. behind the movet of our own. And the value of Tol'1 setting in a ·civilization that is bethe movement of a more western life
that he has been able, from the vantage
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at. western Europe and America and see
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Tl>!stoy. is worthy of our earnest study
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('l'e than we tonight in a cursory reot.his life ..and work could possibly
because of the unique attitude of the
and answers
uniqueness of that position. I am sure the
consensus of the opinion of the future will
bear me out when I say that Tolstoy is supremely worthy of our study, our regard, our
profound admiration and gratitude, because
he so supremely represents the man of absolute sincerity, fidelity to his convictions,
and a great willingness to make sacrifices
for what he believed to be true and right.
(Applause.) No man in all modern history
has been more ready than Tolstoy to live
up to the very last opinion of his mind,
or bas made so great a sacrifice for that
which he believed to be the truth. And
when the time shall have passed for the
bickerings and banterings and . deliberate
spite and hatred that so long shadowed his
name and fame, the world will come to ad:
mire and be grateful for the splendid sincerity of the man: (Applause.)
Tolstoy was so ·supremely of th~ Russian
life that we shall not be able to understand
the man or his message unless we see him
on a · background of Russian history.
I
shall ask you to remember that Russia lies
between the Orient and the Occident,
neither one thing nor the other. Christianity did not .come to it until the 9th century, and then from a church which had
become stereotyped-an externalized Christianity. There has never been anything in
Russia like the Protestant revolt, unles s
perchance Tolstoy in his late day has fulfilled somewhat the · function of a l\Iartin
Luther. In the l\Iiddle Ages, when all the
other nations were making read y for the
mighty outbreak that came at the dawn ·of
modern history, Russia was held under the
iron hand of Oriental despotism, in the
Mongol dynasty. Not until Ivan the Terrible became supreme over all the other
petty princes was Russia able to throw off
that despotism, so that even to this day
the upper aristocracy is peculiarly an idle
class. The result was that by the time
Russia awakened, western Europe was far
upon the road of modern history and industrial and social development. At the beginning of the 18th century Russia ·was 200
:vears behind the other countries.
Then
there w as a mighty movement from above,
when the Czars attempted to push upon the
people the customs and civilization of
France, England and Germany. But whatever is foisted upon a people will some day
be resented and thrown off. And so at the
opening of the 19th century, when Napoleon
been train~d~- He~!~ti th~ uni versity and
went to his family estate at Yasna Polyana
to change the condition of the serfs there.
He then entered the army as a non-commissioned officer, and just as he was about
to be commissioned he resigned, and became the chief spirit of anti-militarism.
Soon his became the great name of Russian
literature; and then, just as he bad won the ·
laurel crown, he turned away to Yasna
Polyana-became weary of it all, and determined to get close to the hearts of the
moujiks. He was not satisfied with the free_
ing of the serfs, but went to live with them,
and tried to think their thoughts, because
he knew that mere legal liberty was not
life.
He traveled over western Europe,
studied conditions, and then returned, to
start a school and develop a theory of education entirely his own. He devoted himself to philanthropy, only to discover that it
was only .a patch on a worn garment, where
a new garment was needed.
Tolstoy did not move with his ·time in
religion. For three years he turned to the
church for comfort, but he could not find
it. Then he went to the New Testament,
and then to the very words of the Master,
and here he alone, of all the thinkers of the
ages, said, "Here is the authority; to this
I cling." Tolstoy the Russian, the interpreter of this grea t , na tional movement, was
ye t a man apart, in the world, but not of it.
\Ve shall not understand his .writings without this double background.
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In the early years of Tolstoy's literary
life we have the picture of one who was
looking out at life as a very interesting
spectacle. He was restive under his own
freedom , and felt the need . of constraint.
Really, he was yearning for conversion.
We find his character at this time in "The
Cossacks," "Childhood, Boyhood and Youth,"
and "The Russian Proprietor." Vi7hen he
married he w ent to Yasna Polyana; it was
with a great longing within him to discover
not only the. right social arrangements, but
the meaning or life. He lived among the
people for their sake and his own. Now
he saw life, not as a spectacle, but as a
great problem .
During this time he wrote his greatest
works. . One of the greatest novels of the
world is Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina."
(Applause.) · It is . great because it states the
problem of the 19th century. It should be
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· Q: What is your opm1on of the doctrine
of Anarchism which Tolstoy preached?
A: Tolstoy' s theory was not unlike that
of Jefferson, that the best governed is the
least governed.
His political theory was
part of his rel igious message. He was not
an accredited Anarchist. My own attitude
is that that is the best government which
elicits the best self-government from the
man a nd the community. (Applause.)
Q:
Should w e not, in exalting Tolstoy,
remind ourselves of the dying Gorky?
A: I should ha ve.mentioned Gorky as a
later expression of the great realistic
movement of social protest. But he represents much less than Tolstoy did.
Q:
Would not Tolstoy have been a far
greater man in a free country, or did Russian oppression make him what he was?
A: T olstoy's was the greatness of the
man who moves against the current. He
would probably ha ve been more rounded
and more graceful in a different environment.
Q: Did not Tolstoy really consider the
common people superior to the useless aristocracy ?
A:
In "The Russian Proprietor" and
"The Power of Darkness" it seems to be
shown that he did not consider the com- mon people any better, _
but he found in them
the wa y for his own s elf-abnegation and service.
Q: What do y ou think of a man who refused to read George Kennan's account of
the Russian prison system, and said, "II
they believe in v iolence they should suffer
from it?"
A: I think he was a deliberate fool.
(La ughter. )
Q:
W as Tolstoy excommunicated from
the Russian church before his death?
A: Yes, about a decade before.
Q: What was Tolstoy's religion ? (Laughter. )
A : T olsto y was without a label. Shall
we call him a Chris tian ? That depends entirely on wh e th er our vocabulary is fixed or
fluid .
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will be.
His interpretation was a purely
personal one. Tolstoy's view of Christianity was static; ours is evolutional.
Q: When Tolstoy came out and said: " I
can't keep quiet any longer," why didn't the
Russian government arrest him ?
A : He was in very great danger from
the police for many years, but he was saved
because the government appreciated what
he had done for peace, and because his ar. rest would have aroused considerable discontent that the government didn't want set
loose.
Q: Did Tolstoy ignore or overlook the
fact that he was neglecting h is own home
duties when he became a recluse?
A : Tolstoy's attitude toward the family was limited and imperfect. His attitude
toward women is not by any means the best
thing about him. He became a recluse be-cause his own sins against women in the
past made him incapable of understanding
them.
Q : Do you believe that it is w ithin the
power of the Czar to compel reforms that
will do away with the persecution of the
Jews?
A : That is a long ways from Tolstoy,
and I am some distance from Russia.
I
hope it is within his power; some day it
will be within the power of some Czar.
Q : Should we not attribute a good deal
of Tolstoy's genius and religion to his · madness?
A: If you will study Tolstoy, and read
"What Is to Be Done ?" I think you will feel,
as I do, that Tolstoy was one of the sanest
minds of the 19th century.
Q:
Do you think Tolstoy's method of
helping the common people was effective in
his own country?
A: No, because you can't cure a social
evil with a personal remedy.
Q: Did Tolstoy believe that private property was wrong? (Applause.)
A : Tolstoy was not a Socialist nor an
organized Communist.
Q: W hy did Tolstoy fail to see the greatness of Shakespeare. whi ch we all f; PP ?
hands of church people and the army, w,
it not result -very soon in a great d.3se
of church and army, and a great adv
ment of the Kingdom of Heaven?
A : It might result the other way,
enkindle within the church at least a
ter type of Christianity.
Q : Is Tolstoy's son
stoy.? ·
A: Emphatically no.
Q: Wasn't Tolstoy an infidel, acco
to the Greek and Roman Catholic church,
A:
Well, orthodoxy is m y doxy,_:heterodoxy is your doxy, you know . . •
Q : What place will the future accord
Tolstoy in fiction?
A: I think Tolstoy will be the one
name from Russia to stand by the
name of France-Victor Hugo.
Q : Do you think Tolstoy could have'
still further if he had not been stopped
hindered by religion ?
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A: I don't see how he could have
stopped and hindered by religion. He
going a long road from a life of selfis
to one of sacrific e.
Q (Mr. Victorson) : Is not " Anna
ina" answered by_ Ibsen's " A Doll's Homi
A: That would be true if "A ~
House" were itself not the negative -of
negation. Let us turn to Browning for;
answer, and read " By the Fireside." ·
Q (Mrs. Blanchard):
Is Dr. Steill1
"Tolstoy the Man" a good authority?
A: Nathan Haskell Dole's biograpb1.
the best.
Q ( Miss Rogolsky):
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thing in it, or because it was not Chn
as he understood· Christianity?
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A : Because he had said what he thO'
about it.
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Supreme Being ?
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thority of conduct and faith.
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shown that he did not consider the common people any better, but he found in them
"the way for his own self-abnegation and service.
Q: What do you think of a man who refused -to read George Kennan's account of
t he Russian prison system, and said, "If
they believe in violence they should suffer
from it?" ·
A: I think he was a deliberate fool.
(Laughter.)
Q:
Was Tolstoy excommunicated from
the Russian church before his death?
· A : Yes, about a decade before.
Q: What was Tolstoy's religion? (Laughter.)
A : Tolstoy was without a label. Shall
we call him a Christian? That depends entirely on whether our vocabulary is fixed or
fluid.
Q : What do you think of Tolstoy's running away from his own )lome just before
his death?
A: He had wanted to get away from all
that bound him to his early life, and Yasna
Polyana belonged to the Tolstoy family His
final step is to be interpreted only as a last
protest.
Q: •
Should a - oy 13 or 14 years old read
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Tolstoy? (Laughter.) .
A: Yes, my son; begin with "Childhood,
Boyhood and Youth," and then read some
of the short stories. When you get through
with those I will suggest something else.
· . Q:
Ar-e Tolstoy's works translated in
English, and can they be found in the Puhlic Library?
A: Yes, surely ; Nathan Haskell Dole's
translation is the best.
Q: Which religion do you believe is more
Christian, President Eliot's or Tolstoy's?
A: If !, could give Tolstoy Eliot's sanity
of outlook and could give Eliot all the
warmth and fervor of Tolstoy, I should not
care which one I had. (Applause.)
Q: Would a man like Tolstoy be admitted to this country under the Burnett-Dillin.g ham immigration bill? (Laughter and
Applause.)
A: Tolstoy was not an illiterate. (Laughter.)
Q: Are there any churches in America
that interpret · Christianity as Tolstoy did?
A. No, there are none, and there never
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Q (Mrs. Blanchard) :
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"Tolstoy the Man" a good authoritv? et,
A : Nathan Haskell Dole's biog~;Ph.r
the best.
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Did Tolstoy 1
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thing in it, or because it was not Chris
as he understood Christianity?
A: Because he had said what he tho
about it.
Q : Did Tolstoy think that Christ was i.,!
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Jlr. Arthur O. Taylor, Box 3507, Boston,
Chairman.
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)Ir. W. C. Ewing, 987 Washmgton St.
l[r. M. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
)(r. John H. Gutterson, P. 0. Box 134.
B. Gallup, 728 _Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
Mrs. E. D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
Miss Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles St.
}Ir. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.
]Ir. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y. M. C. A.
Mn;. L . B. Noyes, 146 Massac-husetts
Avenue, Boston.
Mr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 ·Marie Avenue,
Everett.
1-..igra.tion:
Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.,
, Boston, Chairman. ·
Mr. Lee Meltzer, 13 Williams Street,
· Chelsea.
l\lr. 111aurice Casper, 39 No. Russell St.
Mr. Julius J. Shapiro, 115 Salem Street.
lliss Ida Goldberg, 19 Auburn Street.
Mr. Frank Boliver, 83 Chambers Street.
Mr'. George E. (Rower, Jr., 451 Walnut
o Avenue, Roxbury.
Edacation
Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind, 9 Allen St.,
Boston, Chairman.
Miss Miriam Allen deFord, 98 Tyler St.
l!r. Isaac Isaacs, 36 Allen Street.
.~ s Helen Veasey, 28 Shafter Street,
· Grove Hall, Dorchester.
""Mr. Louis Simons, 164 Union Street,
Everett.
Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belvidere Street.
Mrs. Jno. J. ·S ullivan, Weld Street, W.
B, . Roxbury.
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Mr. William C. Terry, P . O. Box 3347,
"Boston, Chairman.
llrs. Carrie G. Barr, 15 Joy Street.
llrs. Eva Hoffman, 125 Leverett St.
llrs. E . D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave,
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One thing Ford Hall wishes to do is Ii
drive into the minds of men and womet
that the race cannot be advanced by ~
ing those, who disagree with us, names
that have in them the elements of cursa
We want a fair and square discussion ct
plans. We want men to speak what to
them is the truth. But we see clearly that
we do not add to the truth of what we sar
by accompanying our statements with sentences suggestive of the gutter. We believe that even in a great political campaigJ
it is possible for men to be gentlemen. w,
know that in business no sane man hopei
to secure a position by carrying to his p~
spective employer tales of some competitor's unworthiness. In business such _
an
action would be considered bad form, unsportsmanlike. But in politics everything
that is cheap and sickening is apparentlr
excused by the average voter. If that is not
true, why will citizens allow competing can-_
didates to spend most of their time during
the campaign in exchanging personalities
that stink from rottenness? Are citizens so
low in the scale that they cannot under·
stand a discussion of principles and pur·
poses? At Ford Hall we hope to encour·
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will do away with the persecution of the
Jews?
A : That is a long ways from Tolstoy,
and I am some distance from Russia.
I
hope it is within his power; some day it
will be within the power of some Czar.
Q: Should we not attribute a good deal
of Tolstoy's genius and religion to his madness?
A: If you will study Tolstoy, and read
"What Is to Be Done?" I think you will feel,
as I do, that Tolstoy was one of the sanest
minds of the 19th century.
Q:
Do you think Tolstoy's method of
helping the common people was effective in
his own country?
A: No, because you can't cure a social
evil with a personal remedy.
Q: Did Tolstoy believe that private property was wrong? (Applause.)
A : Tolstoy was not a Socialist nor an
organized Comm unist.
Q: Why did Tolstoy fail to see the greatness of Shakespeare, which we all see?
A : Because he was looking from a very
partial and limited point of view.
Q (Mr. Sackmary): Are there any public
utterances of Tolstoy in reference to the
Jewish question in Russia?
A: I don 't know of any.
Q: Do you know as much about the life
of Abraham Lincoln as you do about Tolstoy? (Laughter.)
A : I think I should have to speak for
an hour to answer that question.
Q : ·was it not a fact that Tolstoy was
against government in writing "The Slavery_of our Time?"
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A: Yes, Tolstoy was a Tolstoyan Anarchist.
Q: What is your impression of Prince
Kropotkin?
A : I don't know · him as well as I do
Tolstoy.
Q : What would be the situation in the
United States government if Tolstoy were
. President? (Laughter.)
A: It would certainly be a policy ofwatching. (Laughter.)
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Q : What was the original incentive for
Tolstoy's realism, considering the fact that
he was born a nobleman?
A:
I can only say that there was a
movement that arose in the upper circles
of Russia against things French and for
things Russian, and Tolstoy represents
that.
Q: If Tolstoy's writings were put in the
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hands of church people and the army, w
it not result very soon in a great deserti
of church and army, and a gr,eat advaii,
ment of the Kingdom of Heaven?
A: It might result the other way,
enkindle within the church at least a
ter typ e of Christianity.
Q:
Is Tolstoy's son a follower
stoy.? ·
A: Emphatically no,
Q: ·wasn't Tolstoy an infidel, accord'
to the Greek and Roman Catholic church
A:
Well, orthodoxy is my doxy,
heterodoxy is your doxy, you know.
Q: What place will the future accord ·
Tolstoy in fiction?
A: I think Tolstoy will be the one
name from Russia to stand by the
name of France-Victor Hugo.
Q: Do you think Tolstoy could have g,
still further if he had not been stopped
hindered by religion?
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A: I don't see how he could have b,
stopped and hindered by religion. He ;
going a long road from a life of selfishn,
to one of sacrifice.
Q ( Mr. Victorson): Is not "Anna K
ina" answered by Ibsen's " A Doll's House
A : That would be true if "A Dolli
House" were itself not the negative •of
negation. Let us turn to Browning for·
answer, and read "By the Fireside,"
Q (Mrs. Blanchard):
Is Dr. Stein
"Tolstoy the Man" a good authority? ·
A : Nathan Haskell Dole's biography
the best.
Q (Miss Rogolsky):
the church because he could not find ·
thing in it, or because it was not Chris
as he understood Christianity?
A : Because he had said what he tho
about it.
Q: Did Tolstoy think that Christ was
Supreme Being?
A : He accepted Him as the
thority of conduct and faith.
CALLING NAMES.
One thing Ford Hall wishes to do II
drive into the minds of men and w,
that the race cannot be advanced by
ing those, who disagree with us, n,
that have in them the elements of clll ·
vVe want a fair and square discuss!O~
plans. We want men to speak wha
t hem is the truth. But ~
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OFFICERS.
Mr. George B . Gallup, 728 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Mrs. A. L. Rienzi, 171 Everett Street,
Allston.
William H. Foster, Moderator.
:-Iiriam Allen de Ford, Clerk.
Jacob London, Sergeant-at-Arms.
Edith D. Foster, Treasurer.
Frank Holiver, Messenger.
Committees.
Street.
Street.
Street.
LoweV
Liquor Lau; s.
::\Ir. George E . Rideout, 45 Milk Street,
Boston, Chairman.
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::\Ir. William White, 1437 Eastern Avenue, Linden.
Mrs. Anna M. Culliman, 3 Fairlee Street,
. W. Somerville. ·
Mr, Jonah Rabinow, 99 Myrtle Street.
Mr. E, H. McIntosh, 247 Beale Street,
· Wollaston.
Btidget and Appropriations.
Mr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Marie Avenue,
.Everett, Chairman.
Mr. George W. Coleman, 177 W. Brookline Street, Boston.
lliss Elizabeth Hunter, 36 Hancock
Street, Boston.
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M iss Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles St.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y. M. C. A .
lfr. J". J. Sullivan, Weld Street, West
Roxbury.
Mr. J". S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
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Affairs.
Kr. Arthur 0. Taylor, Box 3507, Boston,
~airman.
~ W. C. Ewing, 987 Washington St.
• ·M. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
llr. John H. Gutterson, P. O. Box 134.
P lanning.
Kr. George B. Gallup, 728 CommonJI Wealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
~ E.. D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
l( 'BFreda Rogolsky, 357 Charles St.
-,/; 0 enry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.
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Ladd, ~o. 617, Y. M. C. A.
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B. ~ayes, 146 Massac-husetts
enue. Boston
~ G. ~fcKer;all , -n :\fari e Avenue,
5-•11:rett.
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Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belvidere .Street,
Boston, Chairman.
Mr. George Weitzner, 100 Brighton St.
Miss Turner.
Mr. Frank Holiver, S3 Chambers Street.
H ealth.
Cou.rtesies.
:-rrs. E. D. Foster, Chairm.all:.
nlr. James P. Roberts; 141 Milk
Velma L. Emerson, 82 Lincoln
l\Irs. Eva Hoffman, 125 Leverett
Mr. Henry Sc-hnittkind, 121
Street, Boston.
Ci t izenship .
Mr. Elmer Eldridge, 14 Harvard Place,
Brookline, Chairman.
Miss Gertrude S. Cohen, 44a Joy Street.
Mr. David Simpson, 3 Fairlee ·Street,
W. Somerville.
Mr. Samuel Segall, 15 Blossom Street.
Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsarge Avenue, Roxbury.
Play and R ecreation.
Mr. J. S. London, Y. M, C. A., Boston,
Chairman.
Miss Ida S. R. Gold.berg, 19 Auburn
·S treet, Boston.
Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsarge Avenue, Roxbury.
Mrs. J. J. ·S ullivan, Weld Street, W.
Roxbury.
Mrs. A. L. Rienzi, 171 Everett Street,
Allston.
Labor.
Miss Louise A. Grout, 154 N ewbury
Street, Boston, Chairman.
Mr. Peter E. Ti-mbley,
Mr. Simon Robinson, 34 Temple Street.
Mr. K. F . Lindblad, · 67 Sudbury St:i;-eet.
Law School, 14 Ashburton Place.
Mr. G. G. Mills, P. 0. Box 53, Watertown.
Mr. George E . Power, Jr., 451 Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury.
Mr. Clarence , arble, 197 Vine Street,
M
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Judiciary.
Mr. Herbert P. Ware,, care of Adams
& Glynn, 30 Court Street, Boston,
Chairman.
Mr. J. J. Freedman, 106 Union Park
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Street, Boston.
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Miss Bessie Kisloff, care of B. U. Law
School, 11 Ashburton Place, Boston.
Mr. Irving L . Hoffman, care of B. U.
Law School, 11 Ashburton Place, Boston.
Mr. Louis Chandler, 28 School Street.
Transportation.
Mr. Clarence Marble, 197 Vine Street,
Everett, Chairman.
Mr. D. F . Ladd, No. 617. Y. M. C. A.
Cal endar.
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Order N o. 1 referred to committee on city
planning. In committee.
Or der No. 2 referred to committee on education. Reported favorably, passed at
second reading.
Order No . 3 amended substitute order
·passed.
Bill N o. 1 referred to committee on play
and recreation.
In committee.
Re·
ported unfavorably. ·
Bill No . 2 passed without reference to
committee.
Bill No. 3 referred to co=ittee on play
and recreation.
Reported favora·bly.
Order N o. 4. referred to committee on
municipal affairs. Re-referred to committee. Reported unfavorably. Passed
at second reading. In committee.
Bill No. 4. referred to committee on labor.
In committee.
Bill N o. 5 referred to committee on labor.
In committee.
Bill No. 6 referred to committee on liquor .
laws. In committee.
·Bill N o. 7 referred to committee on education. In committee.
Bill N o. 8 referred to committee on housing. In - ommittee.
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Bill N o. 9 passed without reference to committee.
Order No. 5 referred to committee on municipal affairs. In co=ittee. Reported
unfavora- ly. Re-referred to committee.
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Bill No. 10 referred to committee on housing. In committee.
Bill No. 11 referred to committee on courtesies. In committee. Reported m::favorably.
· Bill N o. 12 referred to committee on health.
In committee. Reported favorably.
Bill No. 13 referred to committee on
health. In committee. Passed at second reading .
Bill ::-,.ro. 14. referred to committee on
liquor laws. In committee.
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:Mr. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y. M. C. A.
J. J . • ullivan, Weld -Street, West
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. )Ir. J. s. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
,iiicipal Affairs.
JI Mr. Arthur 0. Taylor, Box 3507, Boston,
Chairman.
:Mr. w. C. Ewing, 987 Washington St.
Mr. 11{. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
Mr. John H. Gutterson, P . 0 . Box 134.
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Mr. George B. Gallup, 728 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
Mrs. E. D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
Miss Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles S't.
Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y. M. C. A.
' Mrs. L. B. Noyes, 146 Massachusetts
.A.venue, Boston.
:Mr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Marie Avenue,
Everett.
latnigration:
· Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court .Sq.,
Boston, Chairman. ·
Mr. Lee Meltzer, 13 Williams Street,
Chelsea.
Mr. Maurice Casper, 39 No. Russell St.
Mr. Julius J. Shapiro, 115 Salem Street.
Miss Ida Goldberg, 19 Auburn Street.
Mr. Frank Boliver, 83 Chambers Street.
.Mr: George E. !Rower, Jr., 451 Walnut
.A.venue, Rox- ury.
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Bdvcation
Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind, 9 Allen St.,
- Boston, Chairman.
Miss Miriam Allen deFord, 98 Tyler St.
Mr. Isaac Isaacs, 36 Allen Street.
Miss Helen Veasey, 28 Shafter Street,
· Grove Hall, Dorchester.
·Mr. Louis Simons, 164 Union Street,
Everett.
Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belvidere Street.
Mrs. Jno. J. -Sullivan, Weld Street, W.
Roxbury . .
BOIUing.
, . Mr. William C. Terry, P. 0. Box 3347,
Boston, Chairman.
llrs. Carrie G. Barr, 15 Joy Street.
Mrs. Eva Hoffman, 125 .Leverett St.
Mrs. E. D. Foster, 41 Huntington .Ave,
Mr. G. G. Mills, P. 0. Box 53, Watertown.
Mr. George E. Power, Jr., 451 Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury.
Mr. Clarence Marble, 197 Vine Street,
Everett.
laws.
In committee.
referred to committee on education. In committee.
Bill No. 8 referred to committee on housing. In committee .
Bill No. 9 passed without reference to comJudiciary.
mittee.
Mr. Herbert P . Ware,- care of Adams
Order No. 5 referred to committee on municipal affairs. In committee. Reported ·
& Glynn, 30 Court Street, Boston,
Chairman.
unfavora- ly. Re-referred to .committee.
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Mr. J. J. Freedman, 106 Union Park Bill No. 10 referred to committee on hous•
Street, Boston.
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ing. In committee.
Miss Bessie Kisloff, care of B. U. Law Bill No. 11 referred to committee on courtesies. In committee. Reported uri- ·
School, 11 Ashburton Place, Boston.
Mr. Irving L. Hoffman, care ·of B. U.
favorably.
Law School, 11 Ashburton Place, BosBill No. 12 referred to committee on health.
ton.
In committee. Reported favorably.
Mr. Louis Chandler, 28 School Street.
Bill No. 13 referred to committee on
Transportation .
health. In committee. Passed at second reading.
Mr. Dlarence Marble, 197 Vine Street,
Bill No. 14. referred to committee on
Everett, Chairman.
liquor laws. In committee.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, No. 617, Y . M. C. A.
Bill No. 15 referred to committee on liquor
Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belvidere Ave.
laws. In committee.
Mr. -Samuel P . Levenberg, 23 Browning
Bill No. 16 referred to committee .on liquor
Avenue. Dorchester.
laws. In committee.
Mr. J. S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
Bill No. 17 referred to committee on health.
To Investigate Credit Uni ons. ( Sp ecial)
In committee. Reported unfavorably.
Mr. Leonard Martin, Chairman, AntiBill No. 18 referred to committee on rules
Saloon League, 344 Tremont Bldg.
and courtesies. In committee.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan, 24 Traverse ·Street.
Bill No. 19 introduced by committee on
Mr. K. F. M. Lindblad, 67 Sudbury St.
publicity. Passed.
Ways and Means.
Bill No. 20 introduced by committee on
Mr..James P. Roberts, 141 Milk Street.
publicity. Passed .
Mr. J . S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
Order No. 6 referred to committee on municj,pal affairs. In committee.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan, 24 Traverse -Street.
Bill No. 21 referred to committee on judiMr. Georg-e B. Gallup, 728 Commonciary. In C'ommittee.
wealth Avenue, Boston.
Bill No. 22 referred to committee on edullfr. D. F. Ladd. No. 617, Y. M. C. A.
cation, play and recreation jointly. In
Mr. Samuel P . Levenberg, 23 Browning
committee.
Avenue, Dorchester.
Dr. Jacob T. Pollock, 212 Chestnut St.,
Chelsea.
The persistence with which people hold to
Publicity.
the belief that under Socialism, Single Tax,
Mrs. George B. Gallup, 728 Common- Woman Suffrage, Anarchism, and a score of
other things, life would ·b e ideal, reminds
wealth Avenue. Boston, Chairman.
Mr. George W. Coleman, 177 W. Brook- one of what Thomas Huxley said about it.
"Life," •he said, "is like walking along a
line Street, Boston.
Mr. J. -S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
crowded street; there always seem to be
Mr. A. D. Skelding, Boston Post.
fewer obstacles to getting along on the oppoMr. Wm. V. Bottom, 121 St. Stephen St. site pavement; and yet if one crosses over
Miss Freda Rogolsky, Peabody House.
matters are rarely mended,"
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[Everyone in the -Ford Hall Town Meeting knows who its First Citizen is.
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THE POSSIBILITIES OF OUR TOWN
MEETING.
By George W. Coleman.
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There would seem to be a virile propagating power in the idea that is behind the
Ford Hall Meetings. Not only has this
force been felt abroad in the establishment
of at least a score of similar forums but it
has also manifested itself at home • sugby
gesting and bringing to fulfillment new
ideas for the extension of the work in Ford
Hall.
The latest of these inventions is a school
for the study and practice of democracy
known as the Ford Hall Town Meeting. It
has been a surprising success from the start.
This immediate success is no doubt due in
large part to the training we have had during the last few years in thinking together
upon the great issues of our common life.
The Town Meeting held every Thursday
night in the Ford Building is a little world
in itself. It includes all sorts of people,
young and old, men and women, radicals
- <i'ld conservatives, believers and un- elievers
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in all the well known religions, political
and economic creeds. Among its citizens
are - eople of culture and privilege and
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folks of little education and scanty resources, those of native stoclc and those
foreign born, but all are eager, alert, earnest and sincere in their desire to make the
best use of their own lives in promoting
the general welfare.
The Town Meeting is shot through and
through with the ideals of a pure democracy.
It was insisted at the very first election of
officers that the choices should be made
t1!1·ough the use of the preferential ballot,
something that many of the dtizens had until then never heard about.
Every one
clearly understands that there is no guiding hand behind the scenes directing the
course of affairs and that the Town Meeting is wholly subject to the will of its citi• -•--••
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''Some time ago, when I was feeding
pigeons, I threw a piece of bread upon
dirty sidewalk of Huntington avenue,"
gan Mrs. William Horton Foster, in o
ing her account of the proposal to op
free lunch for unemployed'. "Along ell
an old man; before he had· straightened
munching that piece of stale bread, I
up my mind that I would pay more a
tion to conditions and less to money."
Mrs. Foster interested Miss Louise·
Grout, and together they canvassed sev,'i!
bakeries and restaurants with the re:
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that thirty gallons of· sou·p were prorii
for each day for four weeks. Their inv
gation led them to the conclusion that
coffee,-and probably a place to serve th,
LAST WEEK 'S TOWN MEETING.
-would become available, in case ;
Town Meeting wished to place its appr,
We are very proud of our new baby, this
upon the undertaking.
two-page insert, though we know it is not
Hardly had Mrs. ·Foster completed her
nearly so good as it will be later on. If any
port when. the fine work began.
citizen has ideas about what he or she would
Citizen William C. Ewing touched off
like to see in these pages, the Moderator and
first sky rockets. "Those who are at f;'
the Clerk would be glad to consider them.
should pay for the result of their folly ·
Some of the biggest things that are happen- ignorance," was his first epigram. "S04
ing in Ford Hall today-the Town Meeting causes unemployment; society should "
itself among them-came originally from the bills."
people in the audience. Bring your suggesThereupon the suggestion was made tions to us. They will all be welcomed even
if we can't promise that they will all be the city's home at 30 Hawkins street
other charitable institutions and org:
used.
tions, public and private, were well abI
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take
One of the finest things about our Town · ist. care of all the destitution that maY
Meeting-a thing which Mr. Coleman has
The mention of 30 Hawkins street 13:
noticed also in the question hour Sunday
night-is the perfectly frank way in which rious citizens to question whether or.,
we can discuss the most delicate subjects the out-of-work men of Boston there rece!·
arising in connection with some bills. As a square deal and to more than question,
our Moderator says, our discussion is sanitary conditions there prevailing. -~'
always "pure and sweet," and it is our over, insisted Mrs. Hoffman, the manL
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earnestness and high ideals that have made get only four days of work a month, wit!l
this possible. I think everyone of us hopes payment in groceries, no matter how
and intends that this condition will always his need.
continue.
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ORDER OF THE DAY.
Boston will be a mighty fine city when we
get through with it. We are getting ready
to do everything, from feeding the unemMarch 12th.
ployed to cleaning the streets,· and from establishing evening school centres to closing
1. Bill No. 19-tin plate law.
o "'t r<><>t ~"' ~- nlave:round for
chiidren.
then will be strongly felt throughout the
city. Their action on matte·r s affecting the
welfare of the community will have a vital
bearing on municipal affairs.
Our Sunday evening meeting will remain
the spiritual power house where we generate ideals, and our Thursday evening organization will ·be the place where we will
develop methods for translating those ideals
into every day practical results. When our
Town Meeting is six years old, as our ·Sunday evening Forum is, we may - e as much
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surprised with the results then achieved as
we would have been in 1908 if any one had
told us what the Ford Hall Meetings would
be in 1914.
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gesting and .br1ng1ng tu J. uw11.lll~u L uc
ideas for the extension of the work in Ford
LAST WEEK'S TOWN MEETING.
Hall.
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The latest of these inventions is a school
V•le are very proud of our new baby, this
for the study and practice of democracy two-page insert, though we know it is not
known as the Ford Hall Town Meeting. It nearly so good as it will be later on. If any
has been a surprising success from the start. citizen has ideas about what he or she would
This immediate success is no doubt due in like to see in these pages, the Moderator and
large part to the training we have had dur- the Clerk would be glad to consider them.
ing the last few years in thinking together Some of the biggest things that are happenupon the great issues of our common life.
The Town Meeting held every Thursday ing in Ford Hall today-the Town Meeting
night in the Ford Building is a little world itself among them-came originally from
in itself. It includes all sorts of people, people in the audience. Bring your suggesyoung and old, men and women, radicals tions to us. They will all be welcomed even
~"ld conservatives, believers and unbelievers if we can't promise· that they will all be
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in all the well known religions, political used.
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and economic creeds. Among its citizens
One of the finest things about our Town
are people ·o f culture and privilege and
folks of little education and scanty re- Meeting-a thing which Mr. Coleman has
sources, those of native stock and those noticed also in the question hour Sunday
foreign born, but all are eager, alert, earn- night-is the perfectly frank way in which
est and sincere in their desire to make the we can discuss the most delicate subjects
best use of their own lives in promoting arising in connection with some bills. As
1:>ur Moderator says, our discussion is
the general welfare.
The Town Meeting is shot through and always "pure and sweet," and it is our
through with the ideals of a pure democracy. earnestness and high ideals that have made
this possible. I think everyone of us hopes
It was insisted at the very first election of
and intends that this condition will always
of11.cers that the choices should be made
t1!1·ough the use of the preferential ballot, continue.
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Boston will be a mighty fine city when we
Every one
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get through with it. We are getting ready
clearly understands that there is no guiding hand ·b ehind the scenes directing the to do everything, 'from feeding the unemcourse of affairs and that the Town Meet- ployed to cleaning the streets, and from esing is wholly subject to the will of its citi- tablishing evening school centres to closing
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zens in every res·pect. This direct responsi- a street as a playground for children.
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bility not only adds zest to everything that Whether all our laws at first have any effect
is done - ut also inspires caution and careful 'On the world outside or not-and many of
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them have already had such effect-sooner
consideration.
Those ' who are participating in this won- or lat er our opinion will have · such effect
derfully interesting experiment are getting on the persons or - rganizations concerned.
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an education of priceless value. Not only
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-is it developing powers and faculties that
So fa'.r we have not a committee room, and
might otherwise have lain dormant but it a.re meeting at chairmen's homes and beis also developing social consciousness, fore the Town Meeting in Kingsley Hall.
eommunitY\ feeling and mutual responsiOur committ ee of one, the doughty Serbility. Let this work go on for a time and
geant-at-Arms, is endeavoring to interest
we will develop a company trained in the
the trustees of the building in this urgent
art of citizenship that any community could
need of the Town Meeting committees.
well -be proud of.
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And ·this suggests my last point. These
Let eyery Town Meeting citizen rememFord Hall Town Meeting citizens will not . ber that next week is our sixth anniversary
wait for the completion of their course in number, and that we shall all want extra
the study and practice of democracy ·b efore copies to send to our friends.
they will apply their newly required knowledge and experience in the actual affairs of
the city of Boston. .And llere · is . the· very THE TOWN MEETING SOUP KITCHEN.
finest •opportunity for our women who are
By Warren Dunham Foster,
soon to receive full enfranchisement to begin to prepare themselves for the .g reat re,
The Ford Hall To wn Meeting will operate
sponsibilities that will some day be thrust
a soup kitchen. At the meeting Thursday
upon them.
These Town Meetings, although now only evening, after a spirited discussion, the
a few weeks old, have in them possibilities citizens voted to establish a committee of
of immense usefulness. -Some day, if they five to co-operate with other agencies in recontinue the way they have - egun, we shall lieving the temporary distress caused by the
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need the large hall to accommodate thos e present acut e condition · of unemployment
who will wish t-o attend. Their_ influence within the Commonwealth. ·
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Town Meeting wished to place its app
upon the undertaking.
Hardly had J\Irs. Foster completed her
port when the fine work began.
Citizen William C. Ewing touched orr
first sky rockets. " Those who are at
should pay for the result of their folly
ignorance," was his first epigram. "S
causes unemployment ; society should
the bills."
Thereupon the suggestion was made
the city's home at 30 Hawkins street
other charitable institutions and orga
tions, public and private, were Well able
take care of all the destitution that may
ist.
The mention of 30 Hawkins street led'
rious citizens to question whether or
the out-of-work men of Boston there recei
a square deal and to more than question
sanitary conditions there prevailing. M
over, insisted Mrs. Hoffman, the man
get only four days of work a month, with
payment in groceries, no' matter how
his need.
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Bill No. 19-tin plate law.
2. Bill No. 20--injunction law.
3. Bill No. 27-State farm.
4._ Resolution of sympathy with Ass
tion for Prevention of Infant Mortality,
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as sure a sign of wisdom to say you do !
know as to say you do know, when you~
learned that it is pretense and not ignora
that is shameful, when you want to be
teemed for nothing except what you r~
are, and to hate nothing so much as to
praised for what you are not, then yo\!
be at ease in any company, everybody
servant to savant will enjoy you and, as
said to Robert Burns, you will be eq
at home in the society of farm laborers
the polite world. Genuineness and mod
are the keys of friendship."-Frank Crall'"Only slaves die of overwork.
·w eariness, a danger, forsooth! Those
say so can know very little about it.
is neither cruel nor ungrateful ; it r~s
the strength we give it a hundred-fold
unlike your financial . operations, tbe
enue is what brings in the capital. PU~n
into your work and joy and health " 1
yours! "-Martin Luther.
·let me.
:YOnldn't I do if I only had the
· just for the sheer fun of it.
ly had the leisure -and means,
ahouldn't do one of these things,
ting as they are, it is so
interesting to be doing your
world wherever God has placed
life and influencing it for all
, th toward what you believe to
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way. The more deeply •ine in the life of men, the more
rbing do I find it. And the
d the magazines and books
·ors in which, for a few
kinds of worlds.
ese squanderers of leisure! A
man, working sixteen hours a
ety o! tasks, gets more joy from
than they get from a year's
· unions," says J. Laurence_
going to accomplish the good
110t by an abuse of power, but
responsibility, and by square
gs with those whose interbly bound up with their
apital must work together.
e wise leaders and capital
with them in bettering the
make for the good of all."
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FORD HALL FOLKS
FORD HALL TOWN ~1EETING RECORD
[Everyone in the Ford Hall Town .Meeting knows who its F ·irst Citizen is.
Here
is what our First Citizen thinks of iis.]
THE POSSIBILITIES OF OUR TOWN
MEETING.
By George W. Coleman.
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There would seem to be a virile propagating power in the idea that is behind the
Ford Hall Meetings. Not only has this
force been felt abroad in the establishment
of at least a score of similar forums but it
has also manifested itself at home ·b y suggesting and bringing to fulfillment new
ideas for the extension of the work in Ford
Hall.
The latest of these inventions is a school
for the study and practice of democracy
known as the Ford Hall Town Meeting. It
has been a surprising success from the start.
This immediate success is no doubt due in
large part to the training we have had during the last few years in thinking together
upon the great issues of our common life.
The Town Meeting held every Thursday
night in the Ford Building is a little world
in itself. It includes all sorts of people,
young and old, men and women, radicals
~ -- - ~:rtd conservatives, believers and unbelievers
in all the well known religions, political
and economic creeds. Among its citizens
are - eople of culture and privilege and
p
folks of little education and scanty resources, those of native stock and those
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foreign born, but all are eager, alert, earnI'
est and sincere in their desire to make the
best use of their own lives in promoting
the general welfare.
The Town Meeting is shot through and
through with the ideals of a pure democracy.
It was insisted at the very first election of
offl.c·ers that the choices should be made
ti!,·ough the use of the preferential ballot,
something that many of the citizens had un·1
til then never heard about.
Every one
clearly understands that there is no guiding hand behind the scenes directing the
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··some time ago, when I was feeding .m,
pigeons, I threw a piece of bread upon the
dirty sidewalk of Huntington avenue," began Mrs. vVilliam Horton Foste_ in ope~
r,
ing her account of the proposal to operi.1
free lunch for unemployed. "Along camt
an old· man; before he had straightened ·111
munching that piece of stale bread, I mad!
up my mind that I would pay more atta
tion to conditions and less to money." .:
Mrs. Foster interested Miss Louise· ' I.
Grout, and together they canvassed seven!
bakeries and restaurants with the resii
that thirty gallons of sou·p. were promisM
for each day for four weeks. Their investigation led them to the conclusion that roils,
coffee,-and probably a place to serve these,
LAST WEEK'S TOWN MEETING.
-would become available, in case . ~
,Town Meeting wished to place its approlil
We are very proud of our new baby, this
pon the undertaking.
two-page insert, though we know it is not
Hardly had Mrs. Foster completed her_
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nearly so good as it will be later on. If any
port when the fine work began.
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citizen has ideas about what he or she would
Citizen William C. Ewing touched 01! tlle
like to see in these pages, the Moderator and
first sky rockets. "Those who are at fa~
the Clerk would be glad to consider them.
should pay for the result of their folly aj!I
Some of the biggest things that are happen- ignorance," was his first epigram. "Societr
ing in Ford Hall today-the Town Meeting
causes unemployment; .society should ·W
itself among them-came originally from
the bills."
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people in the audience. Bring your suggesThereupon the suggestion was made ~
tions to us. They will all be welcomed even
the city's home at 30 Hawkins street aijj
if we can't promise that they will all be
other charitable institutions and organiJlused.
tions, public and private, were well able ti
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One of the finest things about our Town · take care of all the destitution that maY/ 1£·
ist.
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Meeting-a thing which Mr. Coleman has
The mention of 30 Hawkins street led.fl'
noticed also in the question hour Sunday
night-is the perfectly frank way in which rious citizens to question whether or fl#
the out-of-work men of Boston there recei~
we can discuss the most delicate subjects
arising in connection with some bills. As a square deal and to more than question .
llUr Moderator says, our discussion is sanitary conditions there prevailing.
.
always " pure and sweet," and it is our over, insisted Mrs. Hoffman, the man
get only four days of work a month, wi~
earnestness and high ideals that have made
payment in groceries, no matter how g.co"".
this possible. I think everyone of us hopes
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and intends that this condition will always his need.
continue.
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ORDER OF THE D~Y.
Boston will be a mighty fine city when we
get through with it. We are getting ready
to do everything, from feeding the unemMarch 12th.
then will be strongly felt throughout the
city. Their action on matters affecting the
welfare of the community will have a vital
bearing on municipal affairs.
Our Sunday evening meeting will remain
the spiritual power house where we generate ideals, and our Thursday evening organization will ·be the place where we will
develop methods for translating those ideals
into every day practical results. When our
Town Meeting is six years old, as our ·Sunday evening Forum is, we may - e as much
b
surprised with the results then achieved as
we would have been in 1908 if any one had
told us what the Ford Hall Meetings would
be in 1914.
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of sympathy with Ass~
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nor ungrateful; it re,sto!!J
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land joy and health will bl
Luther.
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go down in a submarine.
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weeks and weeks at a
experiment station.
go to the Newfoundland Banks
er fisherman.
go down into the deepest of coal
ing business men of today! They live like
worms so that their children may be butterflies. But who dares say that they, living
as they do, are not obeying the Great Executive, even as the cabbage caterpillar obeys
Him! "
day, !\larch 10, and .l<'riaay, l\larcn
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P. M. , The Evolution of the Art of Music,
by Walter Raymond Spalding. Thursday,
March 12, at 8 P. l\L, Scientific lVIethod in
Kingsley Hall, Thursda y, March 12, 7.45
P. :\1., Ford Hall Town Meeting.
NEW CHU~C~ LECTU~ES
You are cordially invited to attend a course of three free lectures in
FORD HALL
Thursday evenings, March 12th, 19th, and 26th, at 8 -0'clock, when the following questions
spend entrancing hours in the
will be answered from the standpoint of the New Church:
I. Could God Write a Book? (March 12.)
1 "l(Oll)d watch surgical operations as long
II. C-Ould . God Become Man? (March 19.)
1tw YOU!d let me.
All. ,rut wouldn't I do if I only had the
III. Can Man Discover Imm-0rtality?
(March 26.)
11a9?,-and just for the sheer fun of it.
The lecturer will be the Rev. Julian Kennedy Smyth of New York City, who is the
81d if I really bad the leisure -and means,
official head of the New Church in the United States and Canada.
J ,rollablY shouldn't do one of these things, ·
SEATS FREE.
NO COLLECTION.
~ - - fascinating as they are, it is so
Jiaela more interesting to be doing your
~ la th. world wherever God has placed
e
, - . watching life and influencing it for all
,-. are worth toward what you believe to
Ford Hall Folks
.. tile better way. The more deeply inCOME!
Edited ·by Thomas Dreier.
wind I become in the life of men, th·e more
Commencing March 1st at 4 P. M., in th
alllbaaclngly absorbing do I find it. And the
lecture room, 136 Bowdoin St., and c-ontinu ·
UBLISHED weekly by the Ford
..ar papers and the magazines and books
ing through the month, to discuss the Dis
Hall Associates, whose work
...,._,, the mirrors in which, for a few
coveries of Emanuel Swedenborg in Scienct
is . to create, assemble, and
&llllta. I see- all kinds of worlds.
and Religion. Free-No Collection.
'listribute ideas that will help
. GIit
these squanderers of leisure! A
men and institutions grow more
naD7 llve man, working sixteen hours a
helpful in serving society, and which
ADVERTISING
- - at a variety of tasks, gets more joy from
will promote "peace on earth, good
A space of ·this size-one inch high and
a . .,.. work than they get from a year's
will toward men." It is the official
two and one-half inches wide-can be bad
publication of the Ford Hall Meetfor advertising purposes for one dollar per
ings, which are held, under the direcissue. For information regarding advertis,
labor · unions," says J. Laurence.
tion of George W. Coleman, every
ing apply to ·J acob London, Room 707, Ford
-Ve going to accomplish the good
Sunday GYening during the months of
Bui:ding, Boston, Mass.
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at. not by an abuse -0f power, but
October to May, in Ford Hall, Ashof responsibility, and by square
·burton Place, Boston, Massachusetts.
"The chief advantage that would result
dealings with those whose interAll bufiness communications should
from the establishment of Socialism," says
fnextricably bound up with their
be sent to Miss Mary C. Crawford,
Oscar Wilde, "is undoubtedly the fact that
and capital must work together.
Treasurer Ford Building, Boston,
Socialism would relieve us from the sordid
choose wise leaders and capital
and all comm uni ~ations intended for
,rate with them in bettering the
the editor to The Thomas Dreier Sernecessity of living for others which, in the
vice, University Press, Cambridge.
. which make for the good of all."
present condition -0f things, · presses so
ce Laughlin.
hardly upon everybody."
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THE STORY OF MR. COSGROVE.
By Mary C. Crawford.
Several times this winter interesting
questions about Mexico and the Mexican
situation have been asked at our meetings
by a gentle-voiced, light-haired young man
who sits in the right-hand gallery. This
man is totally blind-although that fact is
not immediately obvious-and he lost his
sight as a result of a plot against Americans
made by Mexican mine workers. A very sad
and terrible story his. Yet he tells it without bitterness and adds that his sympathies
always go out to the Mexicans even though
they are responsible for his irreparable _loss.
The Americans down there are usually over.
bearing and insolent, he says, and while
they bear away wealth with them, the natives remain to suffer every kind of poverty
and want. Moreover, the plot which cost
him his sight was not aimed at him personally; and it grew out of the deep superstition in which these people have been
plunged since time immemorial.
Born in Massachusetts, young Cosgrove
heeded the call of the West, and after spending five years in the gold and silver mines
of California, went to Arizona, and thence
to Mexico to prepare himself for a position
of importance in the copper mining district.
The town in which he settled down there
as called Navidad (Spanish for Christmas)
the very place, I believe, in which the present insurrection had its birth. The Mexicans
are "religiously insane every day of the
year," according to many reports. But the
fourth of May, Cross Day-when a new
Cross is set up in every Mexican mine-is
of all days of the year to them most sacred.
The exigencies of work in Mr. Cosgrove's
!I'.ine made it necessary for him and an
English comrade to collect some samples of ore on this most ~acred day,
hcwever, and so the two made their way
in a cage to a point several hundred feet
below the surface of the mine to do their
assaying. They had their drilling tools with
them, but chancing to find a hole already
drilled, made use of it. As a result the
E1;-glishman was kil]ed and Cosgrove
blmded. The hole, it:'. appears, had been
filled with dynamite and topped with high
pressure caps, so that only a few light
strokes of a hammer were necessary to
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ing all the time in mines; but they need
not be so terrible in their results, · he insists, if Capital provides proper medical attendance at once. Yet he is not a bitter person when he talks of Capital any more than
when he talks of the Mexicans who did him
so grievous a wrong. - He declares that he
is very happy, too, and finds plenty of things
with which to make his days interesting as,
attended only by his cane, he comes to Ford
Hall functions and to Committee hearings
at the State House over the way. In four
years he has missed but two Ford Hall
meetings, and his voice breaks with · deep
feeling as he tries to express what the discovery of us meant to him. "You were joy. ously talking here," he says, "what I had
long been silently and sadly thinking!"
drag us through great chapters of econo
and sociology; and I call that consum
art. Here, in this - ook, two dead in sfi;
b
are raised again through love and sacrifici
of self.
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This was the lesson Tolstoy had
and the lesson he taught. And that is {Ji;
only point or meaning of this world
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the world to come.
LITTLE LETTERS FROM THE
'PEOPLE.
Evidently He Wins.
Feb. 24, 1914..
As a constant attendant ·of the Ford Hal
meetings, and also as a member of the.'11.
S. military service, I should like to offer·
TOLSTOY, THE MAN.
a little clearing up statement, since tlie
Army and Navy are so often the objects".ct
(Continued from Page 1.)
hostile criticisms.
For spe1 if. ationlr.
·compared with Goethe's "Faust," which is shall confine myself to a ques n appearthe story of the 18th century. The prob- ing in the Magazine on Feb. 22, 14, as !allem of the 18th century was intellectual- lows:
Q: "Don't they keep the army in
what to think?-and Faust, the man, meets
· Mephistopholes, the denying spirit, and is ance so that they will be willing t
undone. The problem of the 19th century their fellow-beings, and isn't it this
ignorance which causes them to co
is social.
When democracy came into
venereal diseases?
·
power there was let loose in the world a
A (Mr. Cummings): "You have put yo
force for evil as well" as for good. What
is to be the effect of mob mind upon the finger on a real fact. The . question is a !At,
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life of the individual? What is to be the one. ' '
I am a marine stationed at the Nani
effect of social expectation upon the life of
Prison, Navy Yard, and if the partiesi ll
each one of us? "Anna Karenina" answers
these questions in a woman's story, because this interrogatory will come over I will slio9
19th century life centres in the woman's
them the marines' library and read!Df
heart. 'That is what was concerning Tol- room, containing hundreds of volumes ,'!,
stoy in this period.
all varieties, from Jack London's "~
But the problem became greater and Heel" to Dr. Eliot's six-foot shelf of fl.~
greater; and drove him almost to destruc- vard classics. Then I'll take . them do WR II
tion. Still he knew he had missed some- the prison ·library and show them over tllf
how the point of living. He must find the hundreds of volumes which are read by -~
prisoners. There they will find the "Jungfe;
answer, and he found it when he came to
accept his own interpretation of Christian- by Upton Sinclair. · And if that is too ~
I'll hand them a copy of "War, What FO!·
ity as the way of life for him, and, he believed, for the world. Then came a great by Mr. Kirkpatrick. And if they will co'!t'
time of self-expression, when he wrote on Friday morning I will show them h::
tracts and pamphlets for the common · peo- ing in the mail rack, with my name
ple and appeals to the world at large. In ten on the yellow label, in plain sight ,J.
everybody, the "Appeal to Reason" and :
this last period we find Tolstoy's chief
ideas which really started in the beginning "Boston Leader." Does this, look like ,
military is trying to suppress informatfOII►
of his literary work.
Tolstoy's conversion is a sublime illus- I?- ad?ition to _this I hold a card on tl~e put,
he Library with far more leisure time
tration of Emerson's words: " It is easy in
the world to live after the world's opinion, read than the average workingman.
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sonally; and it grew out of tne aeep superstition in which these people have been
plunged since time immemorial.
Born in Massachusetts, young Cosgrove
heeded the call oft¥ West, and after spending five years in tlie gold and silver mines
of California, ·went to Arizona, and thence
t,o Mexico to prepare himself for a position
of importance in the copper mining district.
The town in which he settled down there
~ called Navidad (Spanish for Christmas)
the very place, I believe, in which the present insurrection had its birth. The Mexicans
are "religiously insane every day of the
vear," according to many reports. But the
fourth of May, Cross · Day-when a new
Cross is set up in every Mexican mine-is
of all days of the year to them most sacred.
The exigencies of work in Mr. Cosgrove's
xr.ine made it necessary for him and an
English comrade to collect . some samples of ore on this most sacred day,
however, and so the two made their way
in a cage to a point several hundred feet
below the surface of the mine to do their
assaying. They had their drilling tools with
them, but chancing t6 find a hole already
drilled, made use of it. As a result the
·Englishman · was kWed and Cosgrove
blinded. The hole, it.;:,.appears, had been
filled with '
mite and topped with high
pressure ca
so that : only a few light
,strokes of
ammer were necessary to
make it imm .liately death-dealing.
For so much of our friend ' s troubles we
. may blame the ignorant superstition of insanely wrong-headed natives. But immediate medical assistance would have alleviated, if no.t cured, his particular case. And
the American owners of these rich and productive mines had not thought it worth
while to provide a resident doctor. Hence
horrible, indescribable suffering on the part
of this innocent worker. Almost his eyes
were removed from his head by main force
at the clumsy hands of an orderly who had
once -had some distant connection with a
hospital!
Of course it was too late for successful
operation when, nearly four weeks later,
young Cosgrove, traveling with infinite pain
in a stage-coach drawn by four mules, managed to achieve the mountain journey of
eighty-six miles, which set him down in the
presence of an oculist. So, as soon as he
could again get. together strength enough
he set out, alone and blinded, on the journey of 3500 miles back to his native Massachusetts.
That -wa·s seven years ago.· During these
·years he has taught himself Braille, though
he does not use it much, and studied Socialism. _<\.ccidents similar to this are happen-
tne story of tne Hitn century. J. ne pruulem of the 18th century was intellectualwhat to think ?-and Faust, the man, meets
Mephistopholes, the denying spirit, and is
undone. The problem of the 19th century
is social.
When democracy came into
power there was let loose in the world a
force for evil as well as for good. What
is to be the effect of mob mind upon the
life of the individual? What is to be the
effect · of social expectation upon the life of
each one of us? "Anna Karenina" answers
these questions in a woman's story, because
19th century life centres in the woman's
heart. That is what was concerning Tolstoy in this period. .
But the problem became greater and
greater, and drove him almost to destruction. Still he knew he had missed somehow the point of living. He must find the
answer, and he found it when he came to
accept his own interpretation of Christianity as the way of life for him, and, he believed, for the world. Then came a great
time of self-expression, when he wrote
tracts and pamphlets for the common · people and appeals to the world at large. In
this last period we find Tolstoy's chief
ideas which really started in the beginning
of his literary work.
Tolstoy's conversion is a sublime illustration of Emerson's words: " It is easy in
the world to live after the world's opinion,
in solitude, after one's own; the great man
is he who ,n the world lives after his own
opinion. " Tolstoy, alone, could live the life
of a Stoic, but in the army and in St. Petersburg he found it impossible. But in 1881
he said : ''Be it known to all the world,
henceforth I live .after Tolstoy's opinion."
(Applause.) This idea we find most clearly
in "Ivan Ilyitch." In this period, too, he
poured out a great deal of bitterness, in
"The Kreutzer Sonata' and "The Power of
Darkness."
Those books prove he turned
to the common people, not because they
were better than the aristocracy, but because they were more hopeful.
''The
Kreutzer Sonata" is the most drastic arraignment of the age for its most deadly
sin, the social evil; and in "The Power of
Darkness" he shows the same thing in the
common people. The difference is that in
the former book there is a mind corrupted,
and in the latter there is no mind to corrupt.
Tolstoy's whole message, read small, and
yet how large, is in "Master and Man." He
wished al ways that he could escape from
his art, but he could not. One of the greatest pieces of human art in existence is Tolstoy's "Resurrection." Here he has told a
little tale that might have been told in
twenty pages, and has used that story to
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"Don't they keep the arm y in ign .
ance so that they will be willing to O!their fellow-beings, and isn't it this sa~
ignorance which causes them to cont~
venereal diseases?
A (Mr. Cummings): "You have put Yo
finger on a real fact. The question is a ,.'!
one."
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I a m a marin~ stationed at the N~r
Prison, Navy Yard, and if the parties ~
this interrogatory will come over I will sh0y
them the marines' library and readin.
room, containing hundreds of volumes -~
all varieties, from Jack London's "l~
Heel" to Dr. Eliot's. six-foot shelf of Ha:.
·vard classics. Then I'll take . them down ia
the prison library and show them over the
hundreds of volumes which are read by th!
prisoners. There they will find the "Jungle •
by Upton Sinclair. And if that is too taine
I'll hand them a copy of "War, What For?"
by Mr. Kirkpatrick. And if they will come
on Friday morning I will show them hang.
ing in the mail rack, with my name Written on the yellow label, in plain sight of
every.body, the "Appeal to Reason" and the
"Boston Leader." Does this look like the
military is trying to suppress information!
In addition to this I hold a card on the Public Library with far more leisure time to
read than the average workingman.
As a Magazine of Neighborliness, I hope
you will print this and thereby strike out
the fir st two letters of the word "abuse." A
few of the questioners at Ford Hall might
do well to remember th a t the military has
no monopoly on ignorance. I was not surprised at the question, but very mnch so at
the answer.
GEORGE A. MORGAN
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March 15-Rev. Harry Ward, "The Challenge cif Socialism to Christianity."
March 22-Rev. Frank 0. Hall of
York, "The Moral .Law."
March 29-John Cowper Powys
land, "The Economic Aspects of
Suffrage."
April 5-Symposi um, cm "Journalism.'
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April 19-Prof. Walter Rauschenbusch,
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just now. Dr. Hall belongs to that impm
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has contributed to New York. He was born
Connecticut and served a parish in Cambri
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charge, the'' Church of the Divine Paternity,~
York, probably the leading Universalist body
this country. Yet he is no less at home on the pl
form of Cooper Union than in his uptown p11l1
which fr1eans that he is the kind of man
score a big success here.
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topic this time being '' Tl1e Economic AsjJec!s of Hloman Sulfrage . 11 ~I
Powys is in many ways the most remarkable
speaker who has ever appeared on this platform.
It was a very bad night when he came to us last
year and he was utterly unknown in Boston; so he
had only a fairly-filled house to greet his talk on
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every person who was there has been sounding this
man's praises ever since and there will be a r ecordbreaking crowd on hand to welcome him on this
occasion . :Mr._ Powys is fresh from England and
will doubtl ess have some light to throw on the
·situation there among the militants. But this will
not be a stereotyped suffrage lecture by any means .
There is nothing ste reotyped about this man. He is as unique as he is dynamic
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Ivlr . Philpott knows the newspaper business from the ground
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up, having served on the Globe alone for more than
twenty years . He has .b een a reporter in New
York, Philadelphia and Chicago, and has travdled ,
in the course of his work, from Canada to Mexico
and Guatemala, meeting on the way practically all
the people of importance in the country. Few men
have done a greater variety of journalistic work
than he or understand the newspaper business more
thoroughly from both the writer's and the printer's
point of view. We shall all be more intelligent
concernin g the powers of the press after we have
heard him speak. The editorial end of the subject
will be covered by~GEORGE PERRY MORRIS, now of
the CJ1rislian Science 'Jlionifor, and formerly on the editorial staff of the New
Yor,~ ,11ail and Express. Practically all of 11fr. Morris' work has been as an
editorial writer, : just as nearly all of Ivlr. Philpott's has been at the news end .
Together the/should be able to give us a well-rounded understanding of the
newspaper as a social instrument.
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