The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-07
OLIVER Tv asT.

Charles Dickens's Success in Improy
ing the Low Jewish Quarters OF
London.
When ''Oliver Twist was published,
the leading Jews were 70 MORALLY
ashamed of the picture drawn by the
popular novelist Of Fagin and the low
Jewish quarters in London that they
formed themselves at once into an or.
ganiaation to remedy so disgraceful a
state of things. a writer in the Con.
temporary Review says: The numbers
to be dealt with amounted to those of a
populous town, with the additional diff
ficulty afforded by immigrant Jews ar
irving in large numbers from the CON
tinent in a state ofgreat restitution. The
investi .ation of every case requir-
ing relief was undertaken by volunteer
workers, assisted by skilled officers,
and was not i'll the steam pig-killlng
style, but patient and exhaustive, with
true human brotherhood; in deserving
make a guardians hair stand on end,
but was given with a view ofhelping the
man to q means of.livelihood. Especial
ly this wise liberallty was shown in the
treatment of their widows. While Mr..
Peek had no better suggestion to offer
than that the widows children should
be removed to the pauper Darrack
schools, to herd with the lowest chill
dren of casuals, a system which Mr..
Peek himself strongly condemns, the
Jews recognized that the mother, if
well-conducted. was the proper person
to have the care of them, and that her
place was at no e. They therefore either
provided these widows with indoor work,
! or, when that was impossible, relieved
them on a sufficient scale to enable them
to look after their children at home; the
consequence being that instead of feed
ing the outcast class, as the neglected
| children of our widows toe often do they
| grow up productive and well conducted
members ofthe community. If, however,
a family was found overarowding, all re-
| lief was steadily refused until they CON
scented to live a human life, assistance
being given to 10Y to a larger tene-
ment. By these wise and thoughtful
methods in the coursr of 3 single gener.
alton the Jews haye worked up the peo-
pie from a considerable lower level to
one decidedl, ABOVE our own, To be
| sure, the jew does not drink. Give the
most destitute Jew IS down and at the
end OF the year yon shall find him a
small capitaliSt, having considerably de-
spoiled the Egyptians meanwhile. But
the intemDerance III onr Deol lie j. large
ly caused nv overcrOWln = aul as meir
amusements and fecrenliaD.roon, ''v,ng
in the hands OF those who make theiy
profit not by the entertainment Ut by
the drink %traGiic, and indefinite improve
ment NAV be brought about by wiser
regulations that have the good If the
people, and not the fattening # pnblic.
ans and brewers, at heart. surely the
success of the Jewish and FlElertield ef.
forts proves that the problem OF the re.
duction of pauperism and Inc inducing
of healthy HABITS of tariff aud self
helping in the people is soluble, and
with that army of devoted christian
workers in our midst to whose nntirinl
efforts we owe it that social disaster has
not already overtaken us, it must be
possible tor US to carry on the same i'm
provement, if Birmingham o of our
public spirited towns would lead the
way.