New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-17
THE LANDLESS MAN.
Slam Folks on Farms Would Fore
stall anarchy, Says DIR. Sha1c.

.'yy1,st does societv offer to the married poorr
asked Adjutant Arthur Desmond Shaw before the
monthly conference Of the Charity Organization
Society yesterday morning.
TT offers them nothing" he declared OuI 'Ae
brand of pauperdom- It puts the children In one
institution the mother in another ana the Iatnei'
possibly in a third and that without nope % U4N1
mate reunion Above the portals of each and every
one OF these institutions might be written tne
words Of Dante, Abandon hope, all ye VINO eii'eI
here Is 1t any wonder that the poor nate sSs
tenn and e society that tramples on the most SAcie
affections OF the hearth
Adtutant Shawss method Of assisting these people
would be the one which the Salvation Army mas
carried on so extensively, namely, the placing OF
the landIess man upon the manless lahd' anu III
this he thinks the government might Well take
hand, since a who "sees his wife starving
and his children crying for bread" IS pretty likely
90 become an anarchist OF the money now being
used FOR relief. Adjutant Shaw thinks that
great deal Of it might much more proftably be
employed In this way.
FIFTY million dollars" he said. lis annually
poured down the Threats of the American sub
merged without producing any appreciable differ
enoe beyond proIonging life under huniliating con-
ditions The same amount of money would place
900 men, women and children upon the land Inc
amount would be repaid in about ten years and the
money could be renvested in another series Of col
onies. The family tie would not be broken and
hordes of homeless would not be left to become
q prey TO the anarchist and a menace to society.
There is old bogie which came out OF tho ark
with Noah and which says that these people won't
leave the city They viii leave it under proper con
ditons Another boyle says that they won I work
They Will work and they do work and pay back
what has been advanced to them -
ut Is clear to every student OF sociology" Ad-
sutant Shaw concluded, that matters cannot go
on indefinitely in our Sums and tenements as they
are now doing. We have in New-Hork City two
extremes Of society. One class is deterioratIng
through supera Guidance Of luxury; the other
through semi-starvation. I told that there are
11lillonaIres in America who own plates Of solid
gold and china worth from 5000 70 $1,000 a
dozen. I believe IN spending money legitimate
ly, for music and pictures and architecture
hut to spend money in this way while millions are
peT1shing of want is to be worse than Nero VINO
shod his mules with gold. Nero may not have
known any better but these people live in a Chris
fien land. We are compelled to leave such people
TO themselves but surely the pathetic cry Of those
who are deterIorating through semi-starvatlon
must force itself every right thinking citizen.
Professor Morris Loeb addressed the conference
on the same subject and told how Jewish immi-
grants were distributed the United States
many Of them being settled successfully upon the
land in spite OF the fact that they had no previous
agricultural experience. He stated, however, that
the work attended with much dit1oulty and
that the real pauper was not successful as a
farmer.