The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-24
0 OF PAUPERIsM.
Feeding she wretched After Making
Them 60 use and Eject.

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Them 7lIserabje-Cauec and Effect.
Athens had no poorhouses. The reason
why she had none was hat she did not
supply the material with which poor
houses are filed. Rome had as many pris-
ons, pro rata of her population, 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
we'll when she a-pprenended her criminals
and put them in the Mamertine caves;
Boston thinks so also. Rome and Boston
have both flattered themselves with the
notion that they protect society by first
producing and then caging the criminals.
Paris has as many a~lmshouses as New
York, and both Paris and New York have
made the wretches who cry at the doors
or drift in shoals along the streets. The
reason why Paris and New York have in
vented the almshouse is because they
first invented the beggars. 1t is no doubt
a fine thing to make paupers N then to
feed them.
observe how it works: The magnificent
ladies of Fifth avenue hold a charity
fair; they put thousands of dollars into
the Golfer, to be used in feeding the
soualid wretehes in their husbands tene-
ment houses. They sleep that night on
new s nusD Ibe pr psea Ssar .s1iintsss and ar Suuu
er gamblers organize q mont-de-piete, IN
which the poor and half-starved bank
rupts may pawn their goods in order to
Who invented the big shop. know Of
nothing more beautiful.it is positively ro-
mantle!
that certain influences dominant over
MANTLE, and certain organized powers in
society, have come down to US from the
Middle Ages, and that these influences
in self-defence do something to remedy the
results of their own abuses. They must
tranlmel up the consequences a little, to
the end that they may continue to despoil
mankind. They must make q practical
apology to the human race by furnishing
doubtful antidotes for the very diseases
with which they v inoculated the sons
of men; They mNt save their forfeited
regulations by taking up and fondling the
poor .wretches whom they themselves
Meenarchy Is a brute Of this kind. 1t is
a monster that brushes down some mill
ions or billions Of human beings, enslaves
s sasss' F tRe fr rnsm 81 of t thslr 1 aoii, eons anhss
the residue in war and lust-and then
goes TO work to make the condition of
s sae s Hay sn So b 5olsra ebi1a That they may
tewers and marble palaces, with its
SWEfiH OF III mango ana It's tat men III
fashionable raiment, IS another creature
now busily engaged throughout the world
in trammelling up the consequences of
with paupers and slaves. this splendid
Renaissance of darkness and despair
now turns in self-defence to take care of
its own progeny. The great Renaissance
ought to do as much. for it has never
been regarded as particularly meritorious
to feed ones own. How fine it is for the
fruitful mother of outcasts and beggars
to give them a little counsel n cof-
feel
Piutoeraey that snatches the wealth Of
the world from the hands OF them that
| produce it is another such monster-piu-
tocracy that sponges up the ocean in Or
der to water Sahara with six dropsl One
drop is a library; one is a college; one
is a hospital. The library is to perpetu-
ate the memory of the sponge; the coll
lege is to teach the system of political
| economy by which the sponge sucked up
the ocean; the hospital Is 70 receive the
| broken bodies of those to whose families
the sponge might otherwise have had to
pay damages.-The Arena.