The Detroit times., 1909-04-28
|hl On People in
he Smith.Fox Home
Lived Too Long
~ lnstitutiop Was ilIsoitInate
ogd . Gamble In Which the Old
polko Won But lost-No
Huom for Such MONIES
In Detroit.

Detroit ! we stop to consider that the coal
that is being dug out OF the
ana ALA h,ory, =. uh to them as individuals
grown immensely sale and who will never become
ehjees Of charity.
tough too stop think that they entitled 70
every that John Rockefeller has maoe
put the earth by God Almighty any more
1ksfsr these 20 unforunates who are homeless
te1ay N the midst Of plenty for others
IT, tough them without homes when the timber In the iore'
@ which it is the lumber baron
there little Of it left because OF um
IN who have quite rich by cutting anu sens
The Creator expected share alike in what He
put In the earth and on the earth
few to turn the natural
resources He gave to millions themselves while
sfhsrs became homeless hungry.
Doesn't you just grotesque when hear the
orse this home for old people appealing tor AID Tor them
when you Morgan and Hartman who have
money lifetime for their own 'ustenance
were they live 1000 yearf
DOESN'T IT STRIKE AS TRAGIC THAT HERE IN DETROIT
THERE PEOPLE PRACTICALLY IN THE STREET
AND WANT FOR THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE WHEN ANDREW
CARNEGIE VIOLATING THE EGHT.HoUR LAW IN TRYING TO
GET OF HIS MONEY so HE CAN DIE PooR'
He long do this while the trouble
people and the smithFOx home seems to BE- THE OLD
PEOPLE HAVE LIVED TOO LONG THE INVESTMENT ON
uTHER SIDE SUCCESS
The smith, home wa. an institution resulting the
inequality Of which have spoken.
Conditions made -condtons the few grab all
Ae wealth and the many bring dependents old
Our poorhous legitimate institutions suggested by such
conditions
honorable and worthy was " the same
time subjectng to the bad Judgment
poor business ability foresight the of its founders and
managers.
subing all of of these unfOrtunaes to a scheme
could appeared practical any one VINO would
rive proposition careful thought
THE sMTH-FoK HOME WAS A GAMBLE AND THE STAKES
WERE LIFE AND DEATH
Its inmates played life, its management for death
was conceived gain boarer paid
y advance life had to die
The sooner the better for the institution
That's quite plain way Of putting il, but isn't it so'
people who sought the home as general thing
doubtless preferred it to the poorhouse
They were still possessed which satisfy their pride
possibly relatives who just be
exhibiting least
Old people fancy pohoue and having
their bodies bring up in the picking vat
The only legitimate which the smthFox home could have
taken these bders by the week. paying
by the week charges the from the time they
handed all they had.
The public understood this appealed for
charity forthcoming when sought from such
Money paid by dsipated litigation
and effort losing venture and
but obligation the institution
msa Of the would have
come long before it did.
The city will providing for the regulation of
responsibility the institutions
20 investigate other
existing the conditions them and the
Of the inmates.
Coupled of nhumanty which have
and which almost impossible Of belief
probing the board health other such
Improvement hygienic conditions will