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...Joseph Clark, for many years a missionary in Congo, gave a very interesting lecture in the Union last evening on the "Congo Reform Movement." The lecture was illustrated by the stereopticon, and the slides showing the dismembered victims of King Leopold's cruelty bore out the lecturer's testimony of the horrible atrocities committed...
...Joseph Clark, a missionary in Congo for many years, will give a lecture on the "Congo Reform Movement" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...Joseph Clark will speak in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock upon the Congo Reform movement...
Unfortunately but few men availed themselves of the opportunity to hear Dr. Allen speak on municipal reform in the Union last evening. Those who were fortunate enough to be present heard a frank and sincere statement of what can be done practically to solve the burning municipal problem. There was no theory, no meaningless generalizations; simply a straightforward talk from a man, who, not content with the conclusion that municipal government is a failure, is working from the bottom up, by determining the defects that make possible political corruption in our cities...
...facts of the government becomes possible. Monopoly of information must precede monopoly of franchise. When all men are looking, corrupt politicians walk quite as straight a line as college presidents. As the Independent said recently, in urging a permanent endowment for the Bureau of Municipal Research, "Attempts at reform have failed in New York and elsewhere because the Republican and Democratic Tammany Halls of our cities have had inside information and have been able to make black look white because the general public was not informed. Reform is discredited in American cities because its devotees have informed neither themselves...