Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-12
h THE PARIS SLUMS,
| cty Within a City Where
1 All Are Hungry.
RAPID SPREAD.
|.uper; Kennel in the Gay Metropo-
lis and Starve.
Or,AlOR THAT TASKS BELIEF.
I, of 10000 Begsar. In a CITY OF
w ooo. 900 and You Picture the aiis-
CRY Beyond Human Telling
RAPID SPREAD.
OuALoR THAT TASKS BELIEF


PARIS. August 1.
rr,,vtblng claims to be a scepoe In
~ aavs-.eveu medicine. Crimlnologv
n. commentators and the laws OF public
4 IN have been laid down with Euclldlan
| ,etltude. There remains for the ambl-
4. seientist only one unharrowcd field
1 as,rlsm. One might have expected that
5s,b.rt Spencer In his principles OF So
f,l6yy" would devote chapter or two
tbls subject He has nothing to say.
No sure. there arc philanthroplsts who
IN and philanthr0pists who laugh at that
f,,isn Of the population which wears
IN brooches and illls its belly with the
IN wind. Poets and noyelists ind In
kupsrdom excellent literary material. But
Ne Is the science Of the untitled paunch?
"a comes no answer for the Psychologists
n chewing the bitter root Of all evil; the
I,tpm-nakers, who are as selfish as the
Inanthropists. are discussing the re
|arlbutlon Of wealth" In the meantime
|, a the ragged breeks. dimes innutrltiyely
Il tho north wind. and has not even a
|tlame On 1.-THE Science OF Indulgence" to
L,sr himself wlthal.
knlli uut NIlAt tHAn uVVhs Tue laupNiS
know do not deserve It. These arc merely
hw facts-discolored It may be by i'm
|rssions-about the underworld Of Paris.
In London. one out OF every forty OF the
EQUATION is a pauperj in Paris the ratio
one to every eighteen Inhabitants
within Paris there is second city-tho
by OF the damned--the city OF paupers
Psns has over 100000 Inhabitants. In
Hi tho City Of Paupers registered 123,S2i
nhabltants. A promising city. upon my
smd and one that is sure to increase In
,epulaton Have no doubt Of thatl II
.feeds and Increases; II is fed by immlgra-
ion from the provinces and inoreaseH;
'ily there drop into 1t those who are weary
4 the struggle In the upper world; day by
by the needy enroll themselves among the
aupers, for the weight Of social conditions
ifeisss upon them aud they ahirk tho uso-
,x labor and stink away into the great in
'iaerenee Of the City Of Dreadful Night.
)nly there Is there equality and fraternity
. spite Of the heiadhgaqf the fysten-
acngers In the City OF she Damned all
10 equal All are reduced TO a common
there is complete equality OF
icpelessness, degradation. hunger, suffer-
ng, brutishness; it is oquallty-but the
lack reverse OF the equality OF which Jean
icques Rousseau dreamed II Is the ideal
{ tho encyclopedias read backward.
his hack rot OF poverty spreads through
he great cl.ies OF France as the phylloxera
preads through a vineyard. Keeping step
ia Il has been the increase In rent. in
b cost Of food. in taxation on food prod
eis Withal France grows richer. Her
ahllc wealth waAes She Is the richest
iuhtry In Europe. And 80 tho morose-econ-
nlsis chant the old, sad formula, Every
" the rich grow richer aud every day
y poor grow poorer"
But am not concerned with the dcduc-
'ns Of the morose philosophers; the facts
y themselves morose enough II the
zionist wishes to take up the eudgels FOR
4 Particular formula. the best he can say
mat the increase OF public wealth has no
aAuence for or against the dlminutlon Of
alperism, And that Is pesslmism enough.
Before the old pnrls--the Paris Of your
Yhood and Of mino-was Haussmanized
VI 81 existence the beggars hlved in the
@aft OF the old city. The centrifugal force
'nee there is in every great agglomera-
len Of human atoms has thrown them out
no a wider and wider circumference 1t
VI In the Paris that you knew best that you
sed look for the ragged burghers OF the
NY Of the Damned The asphalt boule-
Hda' nattered by tho electric lights, are
hy as OF old. You may stroll under the
aekeHng gas Jets. dreaming of Plato or
midas II you win. and nothing shall dis
VIZ you save the brushing OF perfumed
'OeA or the enrichment OF silver laughter
~ blown kisses. Paris has all her haunt
y 'oquetries, all her wanton opulencles;
the Paris OF your youth-the heart OF
30 worlds desire.
nus round about her is a black girile OF
lAeFy. This is the City OF the Damned.
ius hegira OF the paupers began years ago.
sey Installed Themselves in the plains OF
y Denis-this hldeous prairie OF rotting
-4iAet gardens. garbage heaps and refuse,
ri ri which the decaying rags OF the rag
.sAeEs sway They oyerran the villages OF
,nSny and Levallols. On tho other side
70 hamlets where the poets dwelt thirty
- ago have been invaded; the pauper
M VA n4A annexed homainvllle. Les Lllas
~ fres-saint- Geryals. Long since Mon-
.r,ssuSe and GENTLY, Malakoff were captured.
~ lhe bourgeois have been driven from
~ gsiyaAant villages along the Marine and
~. ~s,ue the invostlture Will DO complete. IL
NJ me days Of the Commune come again
~, Iasged outskirts viii compete With
'nsle and Montmarte. even as these
y. snatched the scepter OF revolt from
n suslueF 81. Merri and tho old Faubourg
!. .. course there turks little of the old
on,1,sa o.l-the old poverty and degrade
~ ~ the heart OF Paris. II rots IN tho
~. IN Of the ancient buildings along mo riRht
ISr,s " INC Seine. II Is spread through the
Il W., ~ Iondlssefnont-that OF the Pantheon
a. r. nave dlned at the Cafe Vaehette, In
81, Douseyafd st. Michael-and | assure
If,,.sAe ONES there very well for three
IN, and nifty ocntlmes-you are near
, ti,,y WAFER OF the pauper city. Once upon
lna s.t snis was the quarter Of tho converts
even now the homes OF the
~ fhass AN the Ladies' OF Saint Michael
preserves Tue hill " ST. Genevieve sun
n,tv something Of the scholastic dig
az. Nhleh 4 had when Abelard argued
IN hut the last thirty years--eyeu the
a ~ feara--has awebt AWAY thu traees
V,i,,s gers registering Latin quarter.
IrI,n,, AAohS The now streets one seeks the
-ther Alini Prison, nlanchettc. Rougotte
ma y aafe vanished for ever. Another
q ihe,rs.f e f race haunts the gllded cafes
student ~ boulevard ST. Michael. II your
~ ~ Aaaw the Latin quaFter--ip M deesd.
tknn, oe SURE, bu; ere is fail. Thc
4 n. w sireets-they were az familiar
gsnish ~ shpners We draw on a. nlrht
MI N Az The pAupara' camp AZ the
Qr1rs 9 u ueneyigve; they hive aions Inc
III Nam bore i Tho Place siaubertg Zone.
But XXX q. 0srmain disomboweIed il.