The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-04


such, change of influences is indispen-
sable, to all it is evidently Of tho highest
importance. The economical advan-
tages resulting from the greater variety
of labor thus attainable, the cheapness
of living in the country, the economy OF
raising their ewn vegetable supplies,
the increased efficiency of every mind
and muscle thus engaged, &C., must be
too obvious to all to require any COM
ments. t5
In consideration of the happy results
which have hitherto followed the prose-
cutiou, on humble scale, under the
most discouraging circumstances, and
with very inadequate accommodations,
Of the efforts and purposes of the Five
Points House of Industry and in view
of the greatly increased advantages to
be derived from its now City and Coun-
try Homes together with the accumu-
lated experience of over five years to
admonish and direct in its management;
and with that tide Of public sympathy
and beuevolence which has ever marked
its course, still at its food; may we not
with the blessings of HIM who has so
singularly upheld and shielded it in all
emergencies, and so graciously smiled
on its feeblest efforts, reasonably look
for correspondiugly increased usefulness
from its future operations. .tst
Particularly may We rejoice in the
prospects Of this Institution in view of
tho fact that it is founded Oh the very
broadest principals of benevolence I; un-
encountered by that sectarian prejudice
and bigotry, which has operated so ruin
ously on the efforts Of almost every sim
liar enterprise, attempted to be reared
on sectarian basis. Hero, every indi-
vidual--of achatere, persuasion or church
he may be, or be he of no church-ALL
who possess felow-feeling for suffer-
lug humanity, and desire to become the
agents for its relief, will, in so far as
this object is concerned, receive cor.
dial welcome as co-opcrators in the
work and may rest assured that their
bencfactions will be applied, free from
partiality or proselytism, directly for
the relief Of the suffering poor aud that
every dollar thus bestowed will tell, i'm
medlately, its tale in suffering relieved.
Another distinguishable feature OF
this Institution, and one which insurss
its permancy, and extensive usefulness
is, it is House of Industry 1t is =
fact, demonstrated by experience beyond
the possibility of a doubt, that the ref
ormation Of the wretched can be eff
ciently carried on only in connection
with active employment and change of
influences and such it is a prominent
object with this Institution to secure
Its hrst measure is to remouc the COM
pulsory alternative of vice or starvation;
aud make virtuous life by honest labor,
possible. 1t regards as absurd aud un-
christian, the offer Of doctrines to the
suffering poor instead Of the needed aid
or the injunctions Of morality, without
providing some way to reconcile them
with subsistence. 1t repudiates that
wasteful and debasing system Of Pauper-
ism which weakens the poor with de-
pendence, and a consequent sense of
degradation, (in this respect, even below
the poorest brute in existence, which
has an honest title to the food it eats.)
Instead OF invigorating them with hon.
orable and remunerative labor, inspiring
self-respect and self-relance. Such
Sys.ons afford the bumil.,;s- ssss,,::..!ence
OF lndolent dependence, beggary and
contempt and in place of o HOME. .
sort OF prison in place of merited earn
ings' morally equalling the receive,
with the giver, the bitter bread ~
public charity, how bitter--they only
can know who are compelled to receive
it. BY the noble spirited poor such
charity can only be excepted as the very
last and worst Of all the desperate sx-,
tremities to which they can be subject
ed on this side Of death and death it.
self even, to a very great extent, being
preferable "a fact demonstrated by tho
frequent suicides among the starving
poor, especially in our large cities, where