INDISCRIAIINATE CHARITY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 179, 24 April 1908, Page 11

INDISCRIAIINATE CHARITY.

••vMK'.BURNS AND THE.SALVATION ARM"?.-' - . !>ln 'consequence of .the remarks recently madehy Mr. ; Johir.Burns' (President; of ;the:' .Board • of, ■.Trade) \ concerning, .'indiscriminate'. ..charity v and' the freo distribution of ■ soup made by ; - Army -lto": men: ivlio . aro-foiind ■. :the streets, in, the.eavly; morning;' .the.; Salyatiq'n. Army;:in' London gave; Vhat via# ■'..termed-.vi-demonstration. of;living; rssults". of . their system: at .Regent Hall, Oxford Circus: , - jAhodW'MO' : :in.eri ;.whb '.deciared. that 'owed , their'sopial salvation to itho Army's Thames - Embankment/effort"and its free breakfasts,. parailcd^/,the .;streets .of the neighbourhood \ for an - hour before fiio ; meet- . lng,, headed by a band: and followed by, .r: a .waggon filled with .sDup tins and' bread,' ou which wero placards inviting the public to be pi;esent; A iit the;'demonstration.'i.-Jv ' -, 1 • Commissioner ' Sturgess presided at "the :. mefetitag.- at which a'number of,the'men spoke,.- ' .'-teßtifying that', they liad bet®, saved from social ■ . ruin throtfgh the agenev of the Salvation .;: Airay: Sturgess' stated" that' the' .•'' men , present, out of .those who during' th 6 : i winter'bad;been-;rescued'by tlio'.Salvatidil Army' "flee food- work vupon- the Embankment'-and'at Elackfnars, . numbered 190:; T'hey, included : ;.(orier. a. goldmedallist : for . shorthand),; Rroims, porters, !drapers,':,co'm- . merfialxtrayellers, professional iiiusiciaiis,; fur 1 - nfers, ''potmen,i.sboem.il;eis, .- ciiginb . ■ drivers', "wtfSrei ■>chemists, ; carmen, ■' :';cooks,;.' ''waiters,fi;eucli. polishers, .co'mpositors, . butlers, atico'iin-.tantSis'-arid . nuiserymen.'.'Jfost of' them :'Had- : nptcbefen.-. out'longer ..than-three nights''before • . tflken.'Up-'.by, the Arnv. 1 and. p.vciii -?e-estjiblished.. The maioritv' ' were : - ■ Londoners'. x A third, of, the total ; 'fed''every'' El .° , new faces., Witliin a month the waole.of:,-the applicants fed' every night eh-tirely-changed.; This'year's .total -to.date 'who •;-'-'J' a^S- fel.hetween/midnight and 2 a.iiiV.waii V fi . ve y°^ rs ended . With the wiriter. of>i9oC-07, ;.the total ' number , of niidnteh't - , meals ."distributed . amounted. to-757,554. The total-percentage of;,those.' who 'bould be re- •. as respectable' members of society such "••• a» i those.-' - present.could never be known,-so lonir as -.there; were t not, sufficient funds to enable an effort: to be made 'witli all. who were willinK. • At rßlackfriars. 118,567 / free Sunday breakfast : bad been,given, and'during the five "years the men-converted and replaced, as .the -result of t«e, breakfasts alone numbered 7280. Alludinc . to iMr. -Burns s.'visit to; the Embankment lie said-the; agents knew he was there, and thel right hon. gentleman's visits to the soup kitcHon- were, reported -to, him- the next morning. Une of- the.men who spoke, and who had 'been picked up the previous night, gave his r:ame 'as Thomas, an engineer's labourer. He was he said a Welshman, and 20/ years ago .worked with tho; President of the Local, Government .Boa.id. at an electrical engineerihg shon. conducted by Messrs I;,ine ir - o * 1 ' ' i ,vni ! 'h . .Regency Street' Mr: -Burns - was at: that. time- an electrici'v . engineer's fitter.-' . '; . wuical ~ ll'r 1 ! 0 .fp.l'owing resointioii was' passed' on . .tne'• motion^'--of : ■ Sturgess' 'seconded by Commissioner Nicol:—"TliAt'this meeting; i epres.'nting 190 rhen whp have'bjen extricated from a. condition of starvation bv means ot the-Thames Embankment lieliof n o .' pot-'Ot jtlia Salvation Arriiv , and the free breakfasts .effort,- at. Blackfriars, with ' which ivii 1 i I'tj 6 '!' e 7 s P rcs s« 'its 'astonishment at tho Bi"ht Hon. John Burns, President of the L .P? a l .Governinsnt Boml, in adverselv ci-iti-cisirig : tn agency for meeting the temjiorary needs'of the homeless night waifs of this " great .city. And, further,, begs to . urge, upon the■ right lion, gentleman the necessity- of adopting' immediate measures for providinir jinictical •vo.k ir-r this particular class, or' failing -;thcrein, or being unable to do so : to render the Salvation Army such tangible sun port as will permit of this work-of . mere// o.® I ."® .'conn need .-in, the -in.-e.-im." Cainni't cioner. Stui-gess added amid cheers, "If men aro, compelled io. walk 'tho streets, they: nianot steal and tliey shall not starve." ! ' ME. JAMES BRIGGS SUFFERED SEVERELY : FHOM KHEU3IATISJI.' :■ QUICKLY' CURED BY BHEUMO. ': Mr. James Briggs,' of, s.s: "Aorerc, Wellington, testifies to; the', great benefit he received from Rlieumo. He writes from Wellington on' .September G, 1907"E0r a considerable time I suffered very severely from 'Rheumatics. I tried all kinds of liniments and pills, but they did me no good. I heard of several people who had laken Eheunio, and how-they had benefited, so I took a few bottles. I ,nn pleased to say it did • what you claim for itrelief and cure forii ltheumatics.'- All suffering. from Rlicumatics'and Gout should give it a trial, as I arn confident they will be cured. —JAMES BRIGGS." All chemists and storeß sell Rhetimo at 2s. Gd. and Is. Gd.