The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-02

nice 10 have the laborers own their own homes I
No. SS. Il is for %'i tso eP Psb sS%SS saSSn sotarsn no a' g own
$4,000 or . $1,000 q year has not money enough
hut with as little sanitation as the law allows.
and he is evorlastingly afraid to spend anything.
sewer. or make any Improvement of any kind,
he 10 opposed because II will increase his taxes.
h As s ssS end ss Of sh se SS ySHr at h the w berl hsEf 2 o ho ssS
Saily makes tho quality of the homes Of the
Another phase OF the question. when there is
a movement in favoro OF n strike TO secure higher
homes who viii defeat that movement. They
won't join the union nor the movement, be-
were. to get blackiistod or, discharged; they
could not leave without losing their little
i SSgt5yt. h fsSSr sssSs;a II N as;ea EeslfSg BY th sS s%sil
| proportion of those who partly owned their
w homes, II the business OF the town be.
comes slack they cannot move TO the next
town. To own their own homes prevents them
from joining the procession. 1t destroys the mo-
TO the centre. Tho owning of homes blocks
this tendency.
Health. We want tho Board Of Health to DO &C.
tive, and when, a person owns bis wi house, Il
he is poor, he cheats the Board OF Health. He
Is reluctant to make Improvements because OF
the added expense. 1 know a woman who
bought a piece Of property from q family who
when she bought that house all the plumbing
to tho Board Of Health to investigate the mat.
ter, and they told me there that they had more
trouble with people who had gone to the iimit
other kind in the community. They had COM
garatively little trouble in the enements
work. The Board OF Health wants the santa
tion good. and the tenants want 1t good, and 1t
they join in the demand for Improvement.
"A great deal. is heard about the fancy hotels
T fpa th sr wG tse Of ren %loih nnyo IN too W for domes,ie ina:
provement. 1t has got so now that tho new
hotels during the last ten or fifteen years in this
city are SO good that nobody will stay in the
poorer ones. Those have to no converted into
apartment houses or something of the kind.
Everybody who stays in hotels is getting better
accommodations, because a higher standard has
estra ssst MI '0h hisR 1t prices ri es"' for or't those snsr' S sho
can can afford to pay oo for them ,, but when hen
nients of all of the hotels. Those appointments
are getting into the apartment hotels, The APP
be found in either of those family apartment
houses. In time those appointments will BIO
ment houses. To-day you can go into some of
the immense apartment houses, and find them
fitted up viii electric lights and open plumbing.
all rooms with windows opening on O street or q
mo iaborer who owns his W homo can get
these appointments. The investment of an I'M
mense capital brings within his reach the best
appliances and all there is of best expert talent.
want to build q little house; you cannot afford
to pay more than fifteen or twenty dollars for an
s ssst neSsin ta1siss'i NOR HG sn %iTl R Row give ,C m sGs the the
best use of the space and material at his COM
mand. In thS other case tho capitalist pays
expert Judgment on those points, and 30 on all
the way through.
tion Of tho world Is to be had in the cities; and
the rural life 10 the simple, static. content-cre,
be more contented in the country. TRe further
they arc removed the more contented they will
become; and they will DO less civilized; People
are very contented in Africa, contented for the
most part in China and in the interior OF India.
They get q little rice, a cotton smock, q little
Eruption; but you never hear of any progress
either, never, hear of any freedom, never hear
obiects, then tho Country IS the place in Which
TO live; but If progress and culture. and
a SiitS opa Ethical 81 life fh IS i6e obje sPee t6sm c PeFsiGi fe
is the life to choose. l therefore think that it is
always n mistake to attempt to de-urbanize pop
people will not 20 from the cities. The cities
create the problems, and statesmanship and
are solved the human race has made a gam.
Every time we have added to that which tends
i 10 tflno T TSe e citS m Is the = ple eoet Whsre such 10 MOVE Sovi,:
mcnts begin. and it is therefore the place where
the human race must come and ought TO come.
THAT is ono OF the reasonsSyhy l am so much
In favor Of a protective tariff. 1t is because I
want manufacturing and artistic industries de-
and SO set in motion the sociaiforces that operate
in cities. Take the South. forinstance. Though
pc, tic i1 press sure in nH the w world ria f1s'i applied. " we
can never do anything with TIE south
Cities will do for The south just what they
have done for every other people. and that is
over the country. SO that there shall not be a
hundred. nor even hfty. miles Of rural popula.
where the people can go frequently TO get city
ideas and city discomfort. and then they will get
city eiyiliS "a Iona and nt,s SO get out Of the nero
There is another fact shat is germano! We
talk about the ills OF the city. We'll; they keep
must be discussed. In the country problems can
be neglected and the people suffer indefinitely.
nous routine. and we say poor thing Insanity
among farmers wives is far greater in proper
s tho e dhRn IL Fiat inf Is because IN sn Of f ths So on Re6pis sn ad
their food. and the, lack of taste, comfort, and
variety in their environment.
What is the difference in the food as be-
tween the farmers and the poor people in the
food than is cooked on farms; we get food
cooked in the various, bakeries; and the result
is much better than the bread most poor people
know how 10 bake. The pies are not full of fat,
there Is less shortening used, modern methods
people very largely buy tho food ready cooked.
1t il scientifically done, and better done than
most of the farmers know how to do 1t. The
farmers will give us dyspepsia more quickly
than anybody else. J. have tried TO take my
vacations on horseback, and have found that
the thing most to be. avoided was the poor
country hotels. l had to make my stopping
places the first concern and seek largo towns.
"Of course there is one thing which must not
be overlooked. The city has. no doubt. more of
the shiftless element than one would normally
find in the country. but motto this, they arc not
the product Of tho city. The very, poor Of the
cities are not the product of the cities; they are
the product Of the rural country, chiefly Of the
rural sections OF foreign nations. The cities i'm
prove even the poorest of them. How is 1t that
we find SO many Of these degraded ones, like the
flies around n molasses jug because what little
sweetness there is is there. You cannot drive
them away. And SO 1t is that the city has to be
solving problems constantly that are not of Its
own making.
1T is true they get fresh air in tho country.
They do not always get as good water. and fresh
air is nearly all they do get. They do not get
nearly as good food, and not as good sanitation.
1t is only. n question Of timo when the popula.
ton will be crowded uptown in New York, and
business buildings will occupy all the lower part
Of the town. There Is a noticeable tendency in
the city will be separated entirely from the