Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-15
MIGRANT AGENT Law IS BEFORE SUPREME COURT

mind one Of Ruskin's finding that the
'unwisc nation let's its poor rot and
rave on the streets We have long
seen the rotting; now we distinctly
heaN the raving."
In late issue Of the Daily News Of
London is given an address by one
of the clcrgymen there, and will
quote only a part OF his forcible ar
raignment:
There are many sorrowful sides,
and many kinds OF sorrow here
There are the sorrows of Shorcditch
and Of Mayfair: of Bethnal Green and
Park Lane; Of Bormondsey and BOND
street; Of the Workhousc and Rotten
Row There are the sorrows Of pov-'
erty and luxury: OF the practical
slavery and ceaseless toll and the life
of callous and useless Incidence. This
is the most real and pathetic side of
l.ondons sorrow. the drifting Of la
Dor at the last To helpless poverty.
II is not true to say that the poverty
of tho poor is caused by their own
improvldcnCc. The majority of the
poor are simply socicty's sucked or
angcs, and II Is disCrcditablc to the
Justice and pity Of this great nation
that these bcatcn-down and worn-out
soldiers Of industry should NJ the last
be thrust into that prison of idlcness
we cynically call the workhousc.
What are the facts? Tho number
Of paupers in London AT the cud of
| last June was il5,9iS. or 2i.9 per
thousand of the population. The num-
| Der of paupcrs in London over sixty
years of age was $4,000, of l5S per
| cent Of the population OF the same
| age That II TO say that ono In every
seven above sixty years Of age is II
pauper. Among tho paupors OF Eng
land there were over 10000 members
of Friendly Societies who had been
compelled to suspend payments and
thus to run out Of benefit Twelve
hundred and siNty-fOur Of those had
paid for twenty wears before they
broke down: 2t2f had paid between
ten and fifteen years. Think Of the
unwrittcn tragedies Of these broken
lives, and cease siding with the cant
OF society that says these pathetic
social wrecks are duo to tho bad
steering of those who are hca'cn to
pieces by the breakers on the rocks"
After stating many remedies, tho
speaker went on to say:
But there is another plan. The
re-appropriation of tithcs and dole
charities to their original usc. When
tithes were given to the Church Ger
tain duties went with the money or
the land, and II is an ugly fact that
while the money has been kept tho
duties have been shirked In plain
English, II looks very much as
though the trustees had gone on with
the trust funds. These funds amount
OF about nine million pounds a year,
Just the amount required TO save the
| old people of England from the Work
house. These funds belong To the
nation. They were assigned for a
purpose, and It is for the nation tn
say whether that purpose is achieved
. The Church has had n long inning and
, Is deeply in debt to the poor with ar
rears"
, II this had occurred in America Wa
, should have heard from one end of
I the country to another, the cry OF
graft" for It is graft, and nothing
else. Tithes for the poor kept for tn,
rich.
Talk about municipal corruption in
, the United States. No matter how
fine London appears to strangers, Il
I Is only municipal maladministratior
Of the worst sort that allows miles
and miles of its heart to lie IN cor.
ruptiOn and rottenncss