THE SOCIAL VALUE OF THE SAU .V
in a large degree, but at present a very snu 1 percenta6 of workingmen belong to trade unions and their demand forjacial expression is not thus supplied ; yet the reformer's greatest hope lies along this line, while his energies are larivlv u'iv r ore
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futile forms of social service. Of other organizations created for the purpose of ministering to this social need, most have been failures. They have come from the outside, splendid schemes to impress men, but alas ! not to express them. Hut they succeed only as they express the human energy which they seek to con- vert to better UK
Four churche-. a tew trade unions and impressive social forms cannot hope to meet the social needs of 48,000 people. Remem- ber that there are no music halls or theaters beside. "What else have they but the saloon." and to the saloon they go. It pr&fl created for this purpose and still functions to this want
The saloonko JM i u the only man who keeps ,,pen house in
