The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-11-09

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/ slavery. because the master is not held
responsible even for food and clothes
| and shelter. Is this true? 1t is said
! that during the winter months Of q re
cent year i'll three judicial districts III
| new York city over u 900 men. women
! and children We're eyicted for nOnpay-
/ Inent OF rent. and in the course OF the
! $500 families comprising not les than
/ $4,000 persons Were eyicted- in Ike
/ manner.
| \ Young man who attends my church
| services and who is q clerk in one OF the
| films which does this told me the other
| d. that hardly Il day passed over his
/ head that lis soul was not made sick at
| vi at he saw. He says tAat the poverty
/ a ii suffering Ol these poor families are
/ 50 intense that after he has executed his
| orders and turned them out hefrcquently
/ takes doIIa.. out Of his own small earn
| ines giva> tie mother to buy something
| 10 eat for at least a day or two for her
| self and her children. He told me that
the world would be amazed to know how
! many big tenement buildings with i'm
% ing fronts and apparently prosperous
| tenants hide fircIeSS, empty rooms, with
| one Old, broken chair, a mattress o" a
| pile OF rags as til" only furniture.
THE Very POOR CAN NOT 81: FREE.
1t is useless to tell these people they
! are free Liberty is to them Il faraWay
| ront,s dream. If is not il their world
| The troub @ is that this mass Of despair
inG manhood and WOmanhOOd fall easy
victims in such hours to the spell OF
/ ininal naGne. 5 cal ed anarchy. An
archv is ms litv-crimnal insanity. 1t
| lad IFS birth in the prison vOmit Of the
| last century, This stream OF deadiicst
pOiSOns has been pouring unheedcd into
0 r." social order fOr the past hundred
. airs. The progeny OF crime are pris-
o rcls for life. The hope OF liberty be
| ONES a madness It is madness that
is contagious when brought into contact
with hopeless, if respectable, poverty.
Here lies the danger OF threat Ofanarchy.
| Here is the Danger point of the future
| The poor ranklc under the fancied or
real sense Of Injustice. out OF work and
| the victim OF despair, he may 90 mad.
| Viii We have the love broad and deep
| enough to meet this issue Tor him IN
secing that a sane life is at least made
| possible?
| \ writer in the Hartford l1A,dM tells
Us how Lord LyttOn OF England be
/ haycd Whnl such an appeal was made to
him. \ laborer on the estate OF the
'I'!'I iuiNti titI 't t'i lttill Il'li II lot. Nv
n'IIili I'i"0'u - Pay H'''t nv "''l'"'l ~,
| Tor the "o.h. ne man l'9'9ie". ne
''."1Ih uif',.i"' 80 ~" "1',' ~, ''n
H'"'' "Htl' HH''nA ii' Hio'' Ai''l s'''lo'' q
| ptuP1F from ''iG rH'@,t rii' liot!l 'l1e
| n'iShpofhoo". ne hci't ,'Ii'15 MS lilell''9
| 'iiat some cay ne "0uio 3eI WHAT WIS
que MN lFo'i, i"e "ti-l'\ tto'! '7'",I
H'ii '"Th M'Ie''''l '""ic ~ 'Ii' '''''
|
| En'@IiSh cIilpitSSa3oi |" rance, '"i9
| '1pVr'i met nun on 'Ile roI' one uaH'
on are i-nFd l-H ttoh' oeii'''' H'
SillI respectfully
res =. ,,,,
men, il you l'Ie'9', "ouIh l'Nt you
| ~ pay an 'rCo!'h' "'''" mas ''''' "U'
me Ior Il 4"ll7 'I'l''
1,ofa l.Hitoh iooNr4 i'U the ''Gcou1''
ana az HIS request 'ile man '"Nl III,
Ni!oIe E'oFH' ne l'O1C MI9 very iiI"cl'
d'ItE ~ u, anu IlI9, ufo''i men i'e H',u
wen, VIII 90 Nil''1 I c1" 70 li'''hc 1t
! up 10 YOU r, It'll.
re WAS 90ou 't9 'iS ""'"' ne ',l''
D." mouse d, ''ie E!ty? VI ':lr l'"ih' pa. "a
lhd'i ana HIS lt'lihH Il,o IL anu SH't 1t
10 thenl, rent ift" WIZ "'h'r P'l4u,Sltt7'
so lIli3l ne was cnt'FGiN c"'i'l"r'do't l'l
'ile i''ii"iiioer "l HIS ""N9'
IIIE DUTY OF ,HE RICH
If orr DOVcrIul classes Of to-day would
| only moot tlp SI1rfprin,r and 1ocpair Of
| the nrrscnt with something like this
| spi. t there could be out one end Of every
| jssuo-rcace and fratcrna heIpiulnesS
Third-Thc issue for which the larger
number struggle and the one fraught
with more serious possibilities than any
other is the rimIIt TO n tOlerablc existence
70 the masses OF the people. it is a
question of debate as to whether the
condition OF the working masses is absO-
Iu' Nv better or worse than in the past
generation. Some affirm that the work
| mo nnonlr hfyr the hest Of the advance
| Of The civilization Of this nnriod
But so high an authority as +. Bnnia-
min Andrews. president OF Brown u1ivp..-
sijy. declares that lin many respects the
| ,c'linc. masses are no Whit better. oil to-
day than in ENGLAND four centuries ago.
and that '.tbo nasSinm Orthis age OF in
dustrial advance and Of worldwide land
affiliations. with so slinht cain in the
ordinary comforts of life on fine mart of
tIn lahoriuo. man. goes far to preclude
all hone OF great IMPROVEMENT Tor him
undr1 present economic conditions"
While if is q uucstion fo,. debate as TO
whether no has actnollv imnrovod rs
|
whnthor the lie nj the ,fst o9 manl,inl
has advanced
Under these circumstances the condi-
tinn of tho .l,inmn,n of to-daI i. Ln-
comino for him more and more nm intol-
cable one lie has q hundra1 wants
and asnirations nov; wherr he had one
n hundred wears 40 What his fathcr
was content with he will not accent. lie
Ii,-ns in y himmnr world Eo,.t,l ,-o,I.
aco the rostoaiicc Of Great Brjtain car
ricd 81 900 600 uowsnanors. Now if
carries $50, OOO. 900 ANNUALLY. The total
number of papers lis led in America is
estimated at 3.3GS. OOO. OOO annually.
or II copies for every inhabitant. The
masses OF the people now read. and this
for the first time in the history Of thn
|; world The preacher Of the nasf GENERA
ton could reach Il few hundred noonIe
a week. The printed sermons 81 this
pulpit reach millions. SO in every de-
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