The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-24
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No people in the world earxy bdgotsx Il M
sneftlsse the aac1I1efti16 u 50 go
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III the parish funct Ionafz u s q < :. 81 3'f I'M
!, proceedings against the Sistkss 81 Nazaxetf
House is the latest exemplifcation. This cd.
adjustment supports three hundred persons.
from tottering old age to the most helpless in.
lancy, without any other resource than the be-
nevolent offerings of daily charity and the uu
RENTED labors of body of religious ladies'.
Yet the Poor Law Guardians lately seized and
distrained even the chairs upon which the
cripples sat, and the bed of the Sister Superior.
to satisfy hideous tax. The circumstances
has called forth much feeling and at public
meeting recently held on the premises many
Protestants took part, expressing their insiip
nation at the cruel spectacle which presented
itself to their yision-and ali under color ~
law. Talk of the persecution of the Poles nv
the Russian Government What could exceed.
what could equal, the treatment these ladies'
have received from Englishmenf Well has q |
Protestant paper remarked that off those who |
give to the poor lend to the Lord, those who |
despoil the poor commit O robbery not of the
poor alone" One London paper-the Dailv
Telegraph, has given repression to the feelipcs
OF all just-minded men, whether Protestant
or Catholic, in an article, q part of which we
append:
Mr: Faed has painted touching picture en-
titled, The Poor Helping the Poor ia beg-
gar, at the door of q very humble laborer'a coz
StaSge, relieved by poorly clad little child.
v. " mat the painter presents before us with ar
as to lights and shades that distinRaishea a
work OF art from photograph Is, as every one
knows, q common incident of our daily life
a a,n the charities of the poor towards each
tytv VA htr& h,,,
often need help Themselves make q truly gold |
en- chapter in the story of humanity. But some 2
Tnas with more in him of Hogarth than of !
faed should paint for us another scene--a Z
parish baiiif seizing the chairs and tables and 7
beds OF the poor helping the poor" stopping Q
me. Work, and striking twice-at the poor who 4
nc CHARITABLE and the poor who are helped. y
lhis would be no fancy picture. Hammersmith p
properly part Of London itself Il is nearly !,
continuous line of houses, unbroken TO the n
light and almost unbroken in feet, links IT Z
v w the Bank and the other centres of town q
ne ne rains omnibuses and steamers run to il; o. o.
ursions" advertised to see an asylum for the Of
geo Poor seized by parish bailiffs-to see q o.
'ork o. CHARITY stopped by law-to see women q
eYotea to deeds Of mercy bullied by Bundle n
lmseli-to see chairs taken from the Door. ~
eipIess old folk, who have actually to be lifted d
ne snem ey Two menAto see tables and beds =,
ave their pound of flesh " the law allows II ei
i ma the Court awards it," 1t is of no use to W
- SoSe .vca1 Solons that, In enforcing the
t LIT OF the Poor-law, they act against its ~
brit The object of the poor-law ia 10 relieve nc
leyitable suffering and actual want, but in "a
zen way that idlehess shall not be encour- ~
geo, and that the self-respect of the self on on
'Iping poor ehan be preserved Every wise ~ ~
Iency which gives carefully Disseminated as 10,
stance watch with the aid bestowed ningles LII
curry, tenderness, morality and care, is q ~
rect help to the guardians themselves. 1t ~
conds them in two ways; by preserving the, -.
'edy who are assisted from the pauperiziDO 90
9OCiatiOna of ha |
,epin0 down the rates. Yet In the Tasa ~ TO
ESQ obvious considerations, the guardians of ln'
ammersmieh have seized the 9nrnienra " mn
Q Sisters of the Poor ut Nazareth Honss "a thl
we thus, to q great extent arreS4eI 4hsi. ga
mile and kindly ministratious. If tboaa No ho
1--WE TO the poor lend to the Lord J" those who wc
{ on tho poor alone Nor AZ ~, SeaeAihy adj
nuns are the persons robbed. That, hapDi-
ior theIIis impossible They have no ooods /
their own. They beg for bread from door Of