The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11
"THEY ARE OUT IN THE
STREET, BUT WHO WILL
CARE FOR THEM :"

paper from New York City gave an
account of a most extraordinary cas'
of unusual suffering and pitiful desti'
tuition in the heart OF the grea
metropolis. A sick mother and
maniac daughter, made so by suffer.
ora miserable tenamenthovel, naked,
emaciated and uncared for. L
was 30 extreme a case, even for q
large and densely populated city, q
world of humanity within itself, that
it attracted the attention of newspa
per reporters, who are accustomed, in
large cities. to daily seeing filth,
poverty, want, suffering and destitu-
ton in all their different and aggra-
waited forms. The dispBtch to the
st. Louis paper closed with the words
"They are out in the street, but who
will care for them ?"
A woman and girl out in the
street; the great highway of rushing
humanity; the resor. of the gamin.
the urchin, the footpad, the pickpocket,
the sandbagger, the robber, the
thief, the slugger the SUBWAY of
filth and poverty and unhappiness
and wretchedness and disease /; the
sewers through which all the refuse
and degration of humanity in a large
city course their way. Out in the
s.-ee. Unsheltered, unmatched, un-
cared for. No place to lay the weary,
throbbing head or rest..the tired limbs;
to be jostled and Jared and run over
as q stone or a stick no kindred in
the wide world, no home; no hal
lowed spot. no abiding place. Go
where they may, dire misery con-
fronts them. There is no escaping
it, no place to flee to; hell on earth |
Does it occur to the comfortably |
clothed and fed reader that these
poor people are human that they
are just as the rest ofus in many res
poets They have the same aches
and pains, the same faculties of sense,
the same faculties for suffering, enjoy
ment, the same vision, the same
feeling, the same heartaches, the
same appetites, the same yearnings
Ind desires, the same souls-immor.
al souls. They are just simply pee
VINO love rest and contentment and |
brink from the cruelties of the world.
They suffer the pain and anguish
md unutterable misery you ,
Fould were you in their place. t
he mother, wretched mother, feels i
Or her offspring as your mother does e
r did in her lifetime. The wells of O
and the fountains of love a
re still in her breast. They can new a
dry up. But she is unable to pro- o
ct her offspring. She, in turn, once 7
I'd proud and fond mother who c,
1t as she does. They once had II
pines and hopes and ambitions. But b,
ley are out in the street and you are OF
1t. IT'S they, not you. tt
What q lesson such an incident pt
aches! You, who are comfortably | liz
FUSED and clothed and fed, who have lie
'ur petty vexations and annoyanees til
I'd troubles, who worry from Gods th
essed morn to restfal night about "a
,ur condition, think of those who are se
It ia the street. Compare your lot tic
th theirs. FIR,
People who live in the great, glor- sti
Us, wide West, people who live in wi
e country and in country towns, who 90
e in the morning to breathe Gods tie,
,sh country air, view the sun in its of
by and the sky in its majesty; peo- ers
: who have something to do and do eli,
whe can cara living b. mental or
anual labor, who see the daisies and
. green grass, the prairies and d.
the glad flowers and the Tb
'ened fruit; who can inhale pure at. ;Pt
,sphere and have place to repose 81,