The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-18
REFORM COSTS A REF0RMER.
MRS. CHARLOTTE SMITH SAYS ONLY
THE RICH CAN ENJOY 1T.

Can spend a Million EasiIy-Talxes IA
Fortune For Lawyers and Detec-
tives Every Time You Attack IL
New City-"Parkhurst Is a Hum
Away.
Washington, July ia great many peo-
pie think that reformer is in the bust
ness for her health. That it costs her
nothing but ner time; that it is her pleas
ure and her joy to reform, and that she
accomplishes the work by a few words
and a little moral suasion. But l can tell
them that when other people sleep she
works. When others take their summer
vacations she keeps on Flooding just the
same, spending her money not at the sea-
shore, but at work.
l have been a "reformer' for the work
of industrial women for twenty years,
and for five years have devoted all my
time to unfortunate women. Just what it
has cost me I cannot tell. can only esti-
mate it in the lowest figures.
have put my hand in my pocket con-
tinually. Once 1 remember 10000 women
We're turned out in the streets; they had
no home no friends. j hired a house, put
N BEDS and sitting-room furniture and
hired cooks and servants. 1 had as many
as 10 new applicants a day. Soon my
mouse proved too small for the half of
them, even lodging them in cots and on
mattresses. Then l gave them money to
ge' lodgings and meals at q restaurant.
rms lasted about four years before all
-. settled in their proper places. / had
q mousse in Boston, and also a place in
New York
me experience might have cost me
s9Vp at the beginning, but before / got
pocket
Notwithstanding that I have spent so
mueh money, even if had spent thous-
1lus II would be only a drop in the bucket.
nave had more practical experience than
ous woman in the country. l get out cir
0o'ats ana pamphlets; have issued $1,000
oHeuiars' at cost of $3.50 a thousand. i
~ ABOUT 1900 letters in Albany and wrote
PERSONAL letters to each individual. What
matter. - 'N0
suppose l am what you would call
.u woman My present income from my
sr-"eDdha estate and by inheritance Is
V a. year, 1t used to be a great deal
lole, but as my work progressed / dis
tose4 o. property right and left to meet
demands. II / had saved my money,
~, " ! had lived upon my income, letting
~ tapilal increase In value, should have
- worth half a million to-day at a very
~" Summation. A million would be small
ts,t 5uinated properly. Notwithstanding
49, nave spent so much money, II Is
M crop In the bucket to what might
s1 H." Aeioany during March and April l Is
/. tbog.s,5V circulars at cost OF $3.50 per
br,r.ea" Ihey were to help along a
90 OF the work which every intelli-
e,,, man said was a necessary step.
tro5,.. 20 get a popular petition for in
ur1 'HE certain bill before the leglsla-
money ~ 'hihs without
bari s't out 5000 personal letters in Al
do55, 9Vp pamphlets, paid hundreds OF
& hein,5 ~ ueleetlVes, and, incidentally,
aH The girls who came 10 me.
q prl corners lawyers fees are vorv
can o.. iney eat up hundreds. No reform
Tho ~ "lthout lawyers and detectives.
"a dsr, ~ are useful In the way ~ evil
Vb,n ioa must get inside facts. then
"a him tele' ldee your senator you can tell
Il o0arae Shd that about himself OF
advice ~ ol you there must be legal
win. ~ frame petitions. draw nm biiis
ses.l tiers TO governors ana defesa 80,
III ~. iuAhgners In Albany this snrtng
RottIn. hie three months / spent SCI. 600
DAM, At1oany started in reform
ksep a. ugAete an earnest reformer ean
S3eo +, actual expense account. / snent
account wv ue iast four years that / can't
least d p,, Ay personal expenses are the
hover Is ~ ,thApenses. eat simple food.
N q coffee twine ,neater. roll and cup
sonsi week would be ampls "a n, 70 , Zen
laualIy oa.e live on 81 dav ind,.
aeyere outside Of car fare. pg, iu rav
"a! -are s55 per day-as last satur-
The loUessf, l ~. ollls also cat IN money
have buried pt'ise . Tor burying a baby Is ia.
sahg and Oh 9 n, sixty-five people.
dist..n ',',.lsinea take moneS tsaIs.
"a Boston for incidence ,a''I n