The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-11-08
NoBUSINRSs TO BE POOR.

Five persons, enc Of whom was the
chief officer Of the police, met at the
cesncil rooms Friday night TO discuss
ways and means Of Prov 'a@ tor the
care of the poor OF the ely this. win
17. A preacher, physician. dry
goods man, an agricultural implement
~an. and the city marshal iaade ur
wholly the vast crowd which attend,
ri the meeting. Thus bat one minis
fer Of the fifteen ia Sedalia, whose
particular business is Gods oua char.
;tv of heart and hand, found time To
attend, although the meeting had
l.een called in public manner
through the public press. Even the
little company who did manage to get
together In obedience 10 the MAYER
call seem to have undertaken little
more thOn to show that our city is re-
nsrkably happy in having no poor to
speak of, aud. therefore no provision
al consequence is necessary. The
BAzoo wishes there were no poor.
But there are. They are all around
as; they are everywhere. .. .s The Book
by which we live says that We have
them always. Right now, here, in
our little city, there are twelve or fif-
teen destitute and suffering families
Probably they have no business to be
poor, but that's what they are, just
che same. As the rigors of winter
come on, these people must be taken
care Of. There is Not much doubt on
THAT point. At present nobody knows
how its going TO be done. In all
probability We shall loiter over this
matter till too late. Some time,
along in the early winter, when it j.
cold enough 10 freeze a door knob.
orr community will be startled nv
reading ID the morning press some
dissraceful account of death from cold
and hunger. Some mother, NAV be,
who has fought long and well
against the grim spectre which
daily took a seat within her
scsntv premises, has succumhcd at
last. Only the stitfened corpse and
three on four miserable children are
left sole tenants of some squalid ap-
-rtment. Then everyone Of Our citi-
z"ns viii saIdler and say. How PHI
ful! How shameful, They will 20
down into their pockets when il too
ate TO save the life which might have
eeen saved, but vet time "a save Ia
others miserable existence. For a
rcw DAYS We shall suffer-, a we de
serve, the chargiu and shame which
we might have spared ourselves. How
it Is that not until the .
shadow Of great crime l. lowering
over Us will We do our duty To Gods !
poor.
1t Is noble TO give 10 the poor. ,
Never is man so Christ-like as when /
lie, in tenderness and pity, diSpe Uses
hat charity which the Master of Life !
Himself has taught us. The poor We
ave ALWAYS. 1t would be difficult to
ind any community Of even small size
~here the sick and unfortunate poor
10 not abound. Ii will not do for
ur people to go along needless Of the
nv Of distress which Is rising around
hem. Another meeting should be
allel by Mayor Craycroft. Every
he of the ministers of Sedalia, the
eutenants of charity, every me reliant
f means sufficient to enable him to
ive freely, should crowl the council
,ons to sufocation. Arrangem entS
pkin. II IA. thorough : relief Of the
DIT of the city should he made. The
oor should not be left to shift for
nothing 10 shift
it'll. Il Is all very well to say that
le Lord temper- tn swind 10 the
iorn lamb. Tne party who wrote
he line probably never gave a penny