The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22

stroy the reign of thinking ineptitude.
The need of the hour is a Salesman
charity's Doles
Read between the lines, there is not
much difference between this address
of the polished man of letters to cul-
tured intelligence and the speech of the
demagogue to the victims of hard times
and social conditions Both regard the
present ministry with contempt. Both
are IN agreement that it is emfnent1y
desirable something should happen
which would compel serious effort to
prevent such stupendous misery and
destltutlon. Instead Of resting content
with the doing out of charity that thus
far has barely sufficed to stave off ac-
tessI starvation among thousands
Winter in London is always accom-
panied by heartrending scenes of mis-
cry and distress but not for long years
mas there been anything approaching
the present deStitution. Many Of the
leaders of the various relief agencies
predict that matters will become much
worse before the winter ends. Already
the warehouses are filed. Thousands
are IN receipt of outdoor relief. Every
charitable organization is straining its
resources to the utmost and issuing
pltlable appeals for funds to enable
1t to meet the Increasing demands
upon it.
The Salvation Army and the Church
army keep a legion of poor wretches
from famishing. The several Metropol-
ltan Borough councils have started re-
lief works. A mansion house fund has
been opened, to which the king has
contributed $762.50: Lord Tveagh. the
brewer, $25, 1000, and the Messrs. Roth
Schlld $4,000. All that charity can be
lnduced TO do is being done. And yet
Wlthal, according to one authority, Dr.
Horton, 100000 ill-clad and underfed
chlldren appear daily at the free schools
10 Wrestle simultaneously with ele-
ihentary education and. hunger.
Trade Expands, Destitution Increases
The destitution is not confined to
London. 1t is spread all over the unit
ed Kingdom. 1t has been estimated
that at the present time there are more
tnan 100000 men out of work in what
are termed the provinces. In another
coiuinn OF the same paper which pub
hshed these figures appeared the board
oI trade returns for the last eleven
months, gleefully paraded as proof that
land.
The figures for these months show
mat imports have increased by nearly
sao'o @ 'ooo'000 and exports by nearly
@oN,ouV,ouo IN comparison with similar
period for 1903. The expansion in
trade mas not been confined to few
months; 1t is spread over all of them
Inc ngures of November, when the
black clouds of distress had cast a
gloom over the land, show better trade
condluons-as as finaneiers are accus-
toned to interpret figures-than in the
previous November.
Trade mas expanded simultaneously
Win d great increase of the unen-
pioyed. simultaneously appear loud
procianatlons to the world at large,
oased on statistics, that England is
prosperous and holding her own with
eommerclal rivals, and frantic appeals
TO charitable folk at home to succor the
multitude who are ON the verge of
starvatlon-for help to starve Off hun
ger madness and bread riots.
obviously it would seem that there
is something horribly wrong in the in
dustrlal system which brings prosperity
10 the lew and hunger to the multitude.
Anynew, that is how it strikes the null
tltude and many others in England who
things drift.
2,5oo,0oo in the Coils of Hunger.
certainly lent point to the appeal
made by several members of parliament
10 ts, summer, special SEES
s' sloil ~ consider the mafter--to treat 1t
as q national question and strive to
ueeise slsA some remedy for it other than
Nere temporary stop-gap measures.