The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-02-24

which is today so seriously agtating
the minds OF milIons Of people with
long appetites and short purses. They
have SO wound themselves up in the
artificial complications Of congested
city lite that like the calf they can
no longer reach the fooa that must
be got from Mother Earth.
No way has yet been discovered
for producing beef except by feeding
cattle something that grows out Of
the ground. You cou.d not very we'll
raise cattle in Central Park in New
York City. You have got to 90 to
some place where the Keep Oft the
grass signs are not necessary, either
for cattle or children. So you must
raise cattle in the country. But ap-
parently there are great many MIL
lions OF people who don't want to i've
in the country. They prefer to live
where they can't get any beef except
FROM me Deet trust. E.a.. g.. -.
They cannot be happy without the
glare and confusion Of the congested
city. So they live in fats or tene-
ments for which they have to pay so
much rent that they don't have
enough left to buy food, and what
they do buy is transported so far, and
handled by SO many who must each
make profit out Of it before it final
ly gets to the consumer that the
jewellers In cities have to pinch and
squeeze their slim purses to get
enough to Iappease their hunger.
They are forced to get along without
meat In order to save the money to
pay the rent. : c. -, {
AZ congestion increased in New
York first they had to have elevated
railroads, then subways, then bridges
across the East river, and tunnels un-
der, the Hudson river. and q labyrinth
Of sewers and conduits and pipes I'M
der every street. and water works.
and parks galore. Tammany had to
be supported, and that cost many
mil.ion Now new subways must be
built and the great Asokan dam is
just being finished. 1t was estimat-
ed last fall that in addition to all the
.Diiiions already spent, New York
would need 1922, 100000 for new pub
lie improvements Immediately. The
people that live in New York must
pay for It all. Y - - -. tT,% "
q And the fool that lives in an East
side tenement or a West side fat, or
a Morningside apartment and hangs
onto q strap for an hour back and
forth every day to, earn y few dollars
to cover rent, food and clothing,
imasines that all1he pays fol-. the priv
ilege of being straphanger is the
five cents he pays FOR fare. He
doesn't see that when the elevated
road had to be- built he was one Of
those who: had to. pay for 1t. He
couldn't pay for it any other way, so
he paid q little, more for rent. That
left little less, for food So he
took q slice off his beefsteak and
handed it. back to- the. beef trust be-
cause he, couldn't AFFORD to eat thar
much meat. He had to have the
money for rent. When the subways
were built, the beef trust got back
another slice of his beefsteak. Every
new great expenditure made neces'
sary by the growth of population
makes rent higher and the beefsteak
thinner. Soon the sstraphangers will
not be able to afford meat at all, and
will turn sfor relief to the Canned
life."s4 That will last while, as the
Irishman succeeded in teaching his
mule to live On saw dust. But the
mule died just as, he was getting
used te it. That is what will happen
to the tenement dwel.ers: ,It2 is not
to be expected that those who have
become inoculated with the microbe
of the tenement life. wili ever pull out
of it in any large number. They are
IKE dope fends who cannot control
their abnormal appetites. But peo-
pie in the country towns can stay
there, where they can have beef to
eat and fresh air to breathe.