The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-08

- There are coco homeless n'e,s
NO. sa :, the city Of New fcrk
So 4, army 81 coco that do nos
s,,oxv where they viii lay their hesus "
-,i,vh. / read the other DAY =.
- in a fit of insanity mnrnefsu Has
lie. ard three children How 90 We
.,aau, ], was insanity: They say nc =.
-. a r,anisc. And yet the poet teiis
- - -, che old hero Yirginius could
slav his child rather than SEQ IT, w.
honor,si. l. IL not poesiofe' Va w. =
,be~, frvaaeut horrors. they nav 49,
nr,.mntt,i no; by insanity. but ~ llie o
sna;r of love. ~ the her ana 'l,"'HoI
81 SOD on the brink and peerod over
abe awful abyss and preferred io an
,he;r OWN rather than to deliver them W
the l,.Il they saw open before theins
Snrh ,,overty is necessarily the mother
- agsrair-slesrlair grim and sulIen anu
S.,,,..fx;nv TIE man who fights with
-, I..9.o,nes an animal. IL 1t not bet
,er e.. die a man than To die brutes Siii.li
tbesa desperate people reason: Suicide
| becomes n luxury. The death OF chiia
r,nder such conditions is 3 JOY. not sor-
row They are gathered to the potters
field. but they rest They are CROWDED.
one ON to. of the other in the great
BLACK trenches, bGt they viii not lie
| roused in the gray twilight OF the morn
insr To duh. cc.sSeless toll. Their little
/ bodies molder together in the grave, but
| their little stomachs do not cry ier oIN$ld
! and for meat and for drink. Their httle
| faces do not grow pinched and wan any
| longer. There are some things worse
| than death. There are some things worse
| than the potter's field. 1t is the living
potter's field-it is the living death.
A pitiful case of restitution recently
| came TO light near New York. A police
| man of the Thirty-third precinct was pa
| trolling his beat on the outskirts OF the
city when IN lonely spot in the woods
near Hunts point he came upon man
| and woman and three children stretched
on the bare ground. The man and the
woman We're asleep. but the children
| were awake.and grooming.
When the,man was awakened, he said
he had no home, no means of subsistence.
During the winter and spring he mad
earned a scanty living as an oyster open
er, but at the close of the season was
thrown out of work. He fell sick, and
the little money he had saved was soon
| spent. Then the owner of the house IN
which he lived turned him out. He
tramped round, trying to find work, bat
failed. His wife and children had no
shelter, and he had not cent 10 find
them lodging Not knowing where TO
go, they went . the woods, where
they slept for time nights. 1t was three
days since they had eaten scrap of food.
. They were taken by the policeman to
the station house and given food, which
they devoured ravenously.
THE SUBMERGED SIXTH.
II In a year in New York city there were
80, $40 deaths "a ,059 died in hospitals, in
sane asylums and warehouses;. That is
, to say, more than one person i'll every six
] who died in this great city died in apub-
bic institution, and nearly 1000 of them
} who thus died We're thrown in the pot
| ters field for burial Talk about your
: submerged tenthr This is the SUBJ
merged sixth And this only represents
| those who actually die. Those who are
living in death cannot be numbered. In
} the great city of London there are more
than 300.0 600 souls that hing on the brink
of this gulf. whose life is a nightmare
Beneath then opens the pit of starva-
; ton. Still further down are 800, 900
! more, actually starving, where hunger
} gnaws day and night and every hour in
? the day is All agony. No one is better
5 entitled to speak on this subject from
| actual life than is Mrs. Campbell. She
= has given her whole life to this work
among the poor. wish to quote her ex-
act words as to what she knows Of the
conditions of the poor in this city:
eve pack the poor away in tenements
!. crowded and foul beyond al hing
known even to London, whose bitter
cry is less yours than ours And we have
; taken excellent care that no foot of
ground shall remain that means breath
I, ing space, or free sport to a child, or any
green growing thing. Grass pushes its
way here and there, but for this army of
weary workers it is only something they
may lie under, never upon.
There is no pause in the march. AS
t one and another drops out the gap fills
Instantly, every alley and byway hold
ing unending substitutes 1t is not la
Dor that profteth, for body and soul are
alike starved. 1t is labor in its basest
4 and most degrading form-labor that is
! curse and never blessing, as true
u work may be and is. 1t blinds the eyes:
, it steals away joy; it blunts all power,
: whether of hope or faith; it wrecks the
d body, and it starves the soul: it is waste
. and only waste. Nor can it below
= ground or above hold fructifying power
> for any human soul. 1t is as student.
: not as professional philanthropist, that
write, and the years that have brought
a experience have also brought a convic-
aon, sharpened by every fresh series of
J facts, that no words, no matter what
: power OF fervor may lie behind, can
! make plain the sorrow of the DOOR"
King Ohio Of Bavaria is now a hone
4 less maniac. In his lucid intervals only
3 he realizes his terrible position. But his
Q chief amusement seems to be shooting
!. peasants. 1t seems to amuse the mad
king to kill the peasants. OF course
. they do not let him really kill them, but
tney dress up man as peasant, and
ne passes before the window. and the
KING seizes the rife which has been load
ed with the paper shell, fires at his vic.
!, Tim, and the victim instantly falls with
Q dramatic effect and dies in great agony.
4 The king looks on with the utmost glee
J. at the result. What horrible amuse-
ment even for a maniac! And vet this
b Is practically the results of the kings OF
our economic world. They may be mad
1t Is the most kindly Interpretation to
i put upon their actions-and yet the re.
s suits OF their work is the Staying Of the
g weak. Not only is this fact, but it is q
t tact that could be remedied, and it is q
!. outchery that is useless and that is as
i destructive to the conservative forces OF
society as 1t is to the weak 1t is a need.
I less death. 1t is a needless butchery.