San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-05
RELIEF BY WORK.

relief the returns from which are
Just coming in and which shows
most gratifying results. Its main
feature consisted in helping the
unemployed to raise agricultural
products for themselves on the va
cant lands in and around the city.
For this purpose the use OF some
5000 acres was donated, but only
43O acres were actually taken as
the committee could not prepare a
larger number Of acres in the short
time allotted for the experiment.
The ground was plowed and the
seed for planting contributed by
the committee. There were over
5000 applicants for lots on which
to grow vegetables, and only the
best applicants, the most needy and
industrious, were selected. The
outlay by the committee was 3d.
600, raised by voluntary subscrip-
tion and the value of the product
raised was about $4,000 showing
that for every dollar given three
dollars additional were earned. AS
it was late in the season when the
experiment was tried it was ma
turally less satisfactory than il a
beginning had been made earlier
in the season, but as it was the re-
suits were most encouraging and
this year will see 1t introduced in
manyi..western cities, where the
numbers OF the unemployed are
constantly on the increase taxing
the resources Of public and private
charity, and this without coming
any nearer to a solution Of the
great problem "what shall we do
with our unemployed ?" AS prac-
tical charity that can be made avail
able in every state in the Union this
presents itself to favorable consid-
Grafton. 1t puts the unemployed
in the way Of doing something to
help themselves and thus cuts off
the fatal results of idleness; it
gives toihonest industry an oppor.
tunity to labor for itself and thus
preserves it's self-respect; it largely
increases the power OF charity by
making it the foundation upon
which larger measure of self.help
shall rest. 1t may not solve the
problem so generally presented to
the philanthropy of the day, but it
is good step in that direction and
comes. most OPPORTUNITY at time
when all the forces Of beneyolence
are taxed to their utmost to pre-
vent actual starvation in all our
considerable centers Of population.
The older Bismarck grows the
/ dearer does his memory become to
his nation. Never were such uni
versal honOrs paid to his memory
as on his last birthday, and could
he have shared them with the dear
old frau who for so many years was
the true holpmeet of his life his cup
of happiness would have been
trimming.
Belgium cries "pecavi" and re-
peals her discriminating duties
against American food products.
There be other countries will fol-
low suit, for they can draw their
agricultural supplies for the feed
ing Of their people more cheaply
from this country than they can
produce them at home.
The Japs have captured the
islands outlying from Formosa and
that island is the next meat for
them. Their next attack will be
upon its port cities. Formosa has
twelve harbors and four treaty
| ports. 1t is we'll fortified and may
give Japan some trouble, but the
"Fan-kingdom" does not stick at a
little thing.
| South Carolina is preparing to put
her cotton goods upon the market
OF Denmark. This is the way that
reprisals should be made upon
those old world markets that have