Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-10
AIR, MORE AIR!
Louis Casabona Writes Of the
Misery of the Poor.
Ecenes in n New York Police Court-Is Not
Society RcsponsibIc?-. Indebtedness is
Hidden Description OF al Tenement
Housc-NIorc Air Needed.

lice courts of the great American me-
trorolie. That Wis affored mo the
opportunity of seeing such misery as
could not have imagined possible Of OK
istence. 1 have seen at times the most
sordid misery. but l am sure nothing
ran equal the impression made up n a
right thinking mind by the kind Of
criminals brought before that bar Of
Justice.
There were children of tender years.
women, men. young and Old. emaciatel
human beings. barely clad in ragged
garments, walking skeletons. living
ghosts that would make one SILVER.
SOCIETY'S RESPONSIBILITY.
And 1 could not help thinking that
when society confines or abandons to
such promiscuous depraVlty the flu
lure citizens of the mighty republic, II
becomes indeed a question whether it
Will have the right TO complain. ii later
pn, it finds out that it has bred in its
midst class of candidates for the
prison the almshouSe, the hospital and
the lunatic asylum. Has society the
right of Furnishing those transgresSors
of the future? The optimistic philoso-
pier. the philanthropist even, the poli-
tician, and in general the contented
and happy crowds that tread the
streets of the great st city of tn Amer
lean continent are all indifferent to
these conditions and some so so far us
10 deny them altogether.
ONE VIEW OF POVERTY.
They. or most of them, will contend
that we are enjoying general ana UNI
preccdcntcd prosperity; that We not
Only recognize the existence Of such n
thing as human happiness. but we have
made it a part of our constitutions. of
the fundamental basis of our political
structure; it is engraved upon our ma
tional instruments; ii blossoms gaily
colored on the flower bed OF our ma
tional garden
For them there arc no poor but those
who choose TO he SO: but those who in
spite Ct our phianthropic efforts in
their behalf live in poverty and destitu-
ton; they are blind to the light OF
moral and material Improvement, they
are stubborn, incorrleible; hence, why
DO they not let us alone.
MISERY Is HIDDEN
And how could they reason other
wise? New York. the pride of the great
American nation. hides its misery under
lying luxury just as woman would con
ceal underneath the velvet and laccs
of her fashionable dress the can CT that
enaws her sorrowful II art.
To soften the piercing cries arising
from its social hordcs, New York
browns misery's wailng Ny the sooth-
n,, ra1, ~ '.'e ~ Ia ui t'@ lieas-
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th,o,on ~, w. W.. pe "s't''
rorolitan gaycty and the jn.lng OF
the gold of trade.
And 50 most Of the misery ana
Indebtedness of Il great city remains
unnoticcd.
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