Evening star., 1894-01-20

Find or make work for some of the un-
employed, Practical benevoience and busi-
ness common sense drive home this injunc-
tion to every man and woman whose re-
ceipts bear that relation of superiority to
expenditures, which, under Micawber's
theory. leads to happiness.
The municipality must do its part 1t can
accomplish cheaply much municipal i'm
provement, and at the same time relieve
destitutfon in manner which involves no
harmful consequences whatsoever by antici-
pating next summers work as far as may
be practicable. Through its woodward the
opportunity to pay for relief is already
granted to a limited extent. II its local
legislature. Congress, will pass the measure
now pending. anticipating next summers
suburban grading. Washington will be en-
abled to add its name to the list of Ameri-
can cities which have adopted this wise
method Of benefiting both the public and
the individual
Citizens. as well as the city, must make
work Washingtonians are already in large
numbers acting upon this principle. The
building trades propose to reduce prices, and
the suggestion has also been made of a
slight temporary reduction in wages, en-
couraging building operations and causing
the same amount of money to furnish work
to larger number of the unemployed; and
the building public is reasonably expected
on its part to reciprocate these concessions
and build extensively and Immediately.
Other kinds of work are to be encouraged
or devised and pushed by individuals. In
one Of his books ]. C. Holland states the
case very clearly and convincingly:
IF there Is a time in rich mans life
when he should indulge in luxuries or, per-
haps, ] should say, use his money in such
q way as to give people work to do, Ii is a
time Of depression like this. If he has
building to do. let him build Materials and
labor are cheap. and he never will have SO
good a time again. He certainly will not if
he waits until better times arrive. Instead
or this ne shuts up his purse, curtails his
expenses and waits while people starve.
The truth is that half the evils which the
poor are feeling now come from the rich
mans short-sightedness and cowardliness.
Every luxury that he indulges in gives
work to somebody. Every enterprise that
he engages in, puts bread into hungry
mouths l should say that every rich man
VINO cuts on his luxuries in time like this,
or fails to devise all possible schemes to
keep the poor employed, and then sits down
and doles out his money to keep them from
starving. most lamentably fails of doing his
duty. I'm not a rich man, but if any of my
good friends have more money than they
know what to do with. 1 advise them to
spend 1t for something that will give work
to idle hands-to do this at once and to do
II all the time. The work that produces a
garment which you procure as a luxury Is
TO the person who makes 1t a necessity
The house which you build in a time of de-
preston helps to bring the better time
when you can get good rent for it,
he fact is the good time we are all waiting
for Is locked up, in the form of money in
the Golfers of those who refuse to use it to
their own advantage and the advantage of
tnose VINO are suffering for lack of labor"