Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-08-12
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
The Process of Making PAupers and
When FeeALng Them.

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Then Feeding Them.
Athens had no poorhouses. The rea-
son why she had none was that she did
not supply the material with which
poorhouses are filed. Rome had as
many prisons, pro rata Of her popula-
ton, as Boston. The reason why she
had as many was that she supplied the
material with which To fill them. Rome
thought she was doing well when she
apprehended her criminals and put
them into the Mamertine caves; Bos-
ton thinks so also. Rome and Boston
have both battered themselves with
the notion that they protect society
by first producing and then caging
their criminals, Paris has as many
almshouses as New York, and both
Paris and New York have made tho
wretches who cry at the doors or drift
in shoals along the streets. The reason
why Paris and New York have invented
the almshouse is because they first in-
vented the beggars. 1t is no doubt fine
thing to make pOupers and then to feed
theml
Observe how 1t worksI The magnih-
cent ladies of Fifth avenue hold char
ity fair; they put Thousands OF dollars
into the Golfer, to be used In feeding
the squalid wretches in their husbands1
tenement houses, They sleep that night
on their husbands breasts, thinking
how good they arel The great mer-
chants and greater gamblers organize
q mont-de-piete, In which the poor and
half-starved bankrupts may pawn their
goods in order to get the money to pay
rent to the very men who invented the
big shop. know of nothing more
beautifully 1t is positively romanticI
What does all this signify2 It sig4
mites that certain influences dominant
over man life and certain organized
powers In society have come down To
us from the middle ages, and that these
influences and powers are 80 depraved
that they must In self-defense do some1
thing to remedy the results OF their
own abuses. They must trammel up
the consequences little, to the end
that they may continue to despoilman+
kind, They must make q practical
apology to the human race by furnish
ing doubtful antidotes for the very dis
eases with which they have innoculated
the sons of men. They must save their
forfeited regulations by taking up and
fondling the poor wretches whom they
themselves have first begotten and then
disownedl
Monarchy is brute Of this kind. II
is monster that brushes down some
millions or billions of human BEINGS
enslaves them, robs them of their lib
critics, take away the fruits Of their
toll; consumes the residue in war and
lust--and then goes to work to make
the condition of the slaves so tolereble
that they may still live and have chili
brent
A. medieval church with its gothic
towers and marble palaces, with Its
swarm Of on-hangers and It's fa$men I'M
fashionable raiment, is another crea-
ture now busily engaged throughout
the world In trammeling up the con-
sequences of its own work. From hllI
ing the world with paupers and slaves
this splendid "Reminiscences of darkness
and despair now turns in self-defensel
to take care of It's own progeny. The
great "Reminiscences ought to do as
much, for 1t has never been regarded
as particularly meritorious to feed
ones own. How fine It Is for the fruit
full mother Of outcasts and beggars toj
give them a little counsel and cofHeeI
Plutocrscy that snstches the wealth
Of. the world from the hands of them
that produce 1t ia another such mon
ster-plutocracy that sponges up the
ocean in order to water Siberia with
six dropsl One drop is library; one
is colleges one Is q hospital. The Ii
brary is to perpetuatc the memory Of
the sponge; the college is to teach the
system Of political economy by which
the sponge sucked up the ocean; the
hospital 10 70 receive the BROKEN bodies
of those whose families the sponge
might otherwise have had to pay dams
ages.--John Clark Ridpath, in Arena.