The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-10

| all hotels. Those appointments are get ting into the apartment hotels. The l appointments of the best hotels, partic- ularly, can be found in either of those family apartment houses. Tn time those appointments will be transferred on some feasible scale to the tenement houses. To-day you can go into some | of the immense apartment houses and find them fitted up with electric lights and open plumbing, all rooms with win dows opening on street or court yard.
 | "No laborer who owns his own house can get these appointments. The in vestment of an immense capital brings within his reach the best appliances, and all there is of best expert talent. For instance, take the architect. Sup pose you want to build little house; 1 you cannot afford to pay more than | fifteen or twenty dollars for an archi- tect's services. He will not give you the best appointments nor know how l to make the best use of the space and material at his command. In the other case the capitalist pays we'll for the plans, and he can get the very best ex- ] pClI JuuS illGHl oll lIOSC POliilC, anu oO on all the way through.
 My contention is that the best social education of the world is to be had in the cities, and the rural life is the sim pie, static, content-creating condition l There Is no doubt people will be more contented in the country. The further they are removed the more contented l they will become; and they will be less civilized. People are very contented in Africa; contented for the most part in China and in the interior of India, They get little rice, cotton smock, little opium to smoke, and you never hear of an irruption; but you never hear of any | progress, never hear of any freedom, never hear of any social event. If con- tentedness is the object, then the coun- try is the place to live; but if progress and culture and development of charac- ter freedom, personality and ethical life is the object, then city life is the life to choose. I therefore think that it is always a mistake to de-urbanize popu- lation; and it is fortunate for mankind that people will not go from the cities. The cities create the problems and statesmanship and Journalism will solve the problems. When they are. solved the human race has made a gain. Ev- cry time we have added to that which tends to refine we have made contri- button to civilization The city is the place where such movements begin, and it is therefore the place where the hu- man race must come and ought to come.
 That is one of the reasons why am so much in favor of a protective tariff. It is because I want manufacturing and artistic industries developed. This tends to centraliZe ppulation and so set in motion the social forces that operate in cities. Take the south, for instance. Though all the force bills and all the re- strictions and political pressure in the world are applied, we can never do any, thing with the south until we introduce a more disciplinary form of industry, that is, manufacture Cities will do for the south just what they have done for every other people, and that is why want to see manufactures scattered all over the country, so that there shall not be a hundred, nor even fifty miles of rural population that does not have an urpanizing center where the people can go frequently to get city ideas and city discontent, and they then will get city civilization, and so get out of the mere monotony of crude, primitive living.
 There Is another fact that is ger- mane. We talk about the ills of the city. We'll, they keep themselves be- fore us. They are problems that must be discussed In the country problems can be neglected and the people suffer indefinitely. The farmers wife can go insane by the monotonous routine, and we say poor thing Insanity among farmers wives is far greater in propor- tion than the insanity in any grade of people in the city. That is because of the monotony and utter drudgery of their lives, the poorness of their food and the lack of taste, comfort and va riety in their environment.
 What is the difference in the food as between the farmers and the poor peo- pie in the city? Undoubtedly in the city we get better food than is cooked on farms; we get food cooked in' the various bakeries; and the result is we have expert cooks and bakers bread that is much better than the bread most poor people know how to bake. The pies are not full of fat, there is less shortening used, modern methods of raising flour are used, and the very poor people very largely buy the food ready cooked. It is scientifically done and better done than most of the farm CTS know how to do it. The farmers will give us dyspepsia more quickly than anybody else I have tried to take my vacations on horseback, and have found that the thing most to be avoid. ed was the poor country hotels. I had to make my stopping places the first concern and seek large 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 note this, they are not the product of the city. The very poor oi the cities are not the product of the cities; they are the product of the rura country, chiefly of the rural sections of foreign nations. The cities improve even the poorest of them. How is il that we find so many of these degraded . ones, like the flies around a molasses jug? Because what little sweetnes. there is is there. You cannot drive them away, and so it is that the city has to be solving problems constantly that are not of it's own making.
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