The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-30
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THE POOR AMONG Us-FACTs FOR THE CON
SHERATON or THE BENEVOLENT AMI
PHILANTHROPY,

THE POOR AMONG Us-FACTs FOR THE CON-
SHERATON or THE BENEVOLENT AND
PHILANTHROPY.
We have been admonishcd by the hints
thrown out during the past week, that win
ter, with its accustomed severity, will soon
be upon us. The weather hitherto has been
unusually mild, even in this temperate eli
mate, where the extremes Of the north and
south arc never felt. But we cannot argue
its continuance. The time is quite at hand
when cold, biting weather will necessitate
the use of fires and heavier clothing. How
are those families in our midst, who are
now destitute, who even during our balmy
and sprnglikc weather. found it II hard
struggle to provide the food that kept the
wolf of starvation from the door--how are
these families, in addition to that food, to
provide themselves with the fuel and
heavier clothing that are to prevent actual
sufering2 For period Of nearly sixty
days, every kind Of business was
quite at stand still in our city. There was
little work for the laboring man or mechanic,
among these poor, and many who
had accumulated small sum Of
money ahead to provide against
the seventies Of the winter, felt called upon
to cxpend the last tarthing Of ii in placing
themselves and dependents, beyond the
reach of danger. Because of this expendi-
turc and the protracted season Of enforced
idleness that preceded it, never before in
the history of Cairo, were there so many
families who viewed the approach of winter
with such grave misgivings-never before
were so many of our citizens, men, women
and children, in such need on the threshold
Of winter. That the sharp, cold biting
nights and mornings Of December and Jan.
uary will bring keen suffering and actual
want, to dozens and scores of homes, j 5 too
evident now, to admit Of questioning
In view OF this painful certainty, would it
not be wise to provide for it in advanced
Should not our charitable organizations
and chartably disposed ladies, make an eff
fort to secure the control Of means that will
enable them to promptly furnish relief, on
the demand of the nccdyl When
the emergency is upon us, when
the winters trosts and winds are freezing
the thinly clad and poorly lodged; when
gaunt hunger is abroad and when sickness
adds its pains and tcrrors to the prevailing
wants-at such juncture there will be lit
tie time to hunt from door to door and
house to house for the means wherewith TO
supply needs that brook no delay without
exacting their penalty.
1t has been well said that Charity is
never out Of place. but it can never be
more timely than at the commencement Of
a season Of cold and stormy weather. If
our people of wealth, our prosperous mcr-
chants and men of comfortable incomes
would pool their contributions, depot
of cheap flour, potatoes, corn meal, meat
and coal might be established, from which
the poor could be supplied at a little more
than half the cost that attends the retail
purchase Of articles to supply the indiyid-
ual cases as they arise. With coal at Il
per ton, meat at 6 cents, -four at s. per
barrel and potatoes at 80 cents bushcl,
the money that might be realized from Il
single entertainment, by the VI. H. Of K.
would provide a store that would supply
twenty or thirty families for whole month
These Suggestions are entitled to serious
consideration, otherwise We should not feel
called upon to make them.
The appearance Of poor women upon our
streets trying to sell some simple article Of
household goods for money wherewith to
buy bread; the abject poverty to be seen in
out-of-thc-way hovels the ragged, barefoot.
ed and hungry children one meets every
day all assure US that Cairo, like every
other city on earth, has its share Of the
poor and needy; and the advent of chilly
days and freezing nights admonish the bet
tcr-to-do among us that they have a duty
to perform in the premises, which the calls
Of humanity demand shall be performed
quickly.
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