Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-08
A National Platform on
Poverty
Some of the Problems Political Conventions Fail To Solve

For two weeks this country has listened talking and
planning of the parties that pretend provide
tiona welfare.
In Chicago and in Baltimore those supposed know what
the country needs have met and fought and intrigued and
'dickered"
They their platforms and denounced what
they considered the great evils.
One SET denounced the high tariff because living
expensive
denounced the suggestion of free trade
destroy workmans opportunity good
wages
Gigantic great organizations monopoe the modern
dinosaurs and mammoths, received attention
single this Union could provide for the needs of
all the people the countryand for mOref the state
cultivated properly and the products properly distributed
The products of another great
lea have increased in a short period FOURTEEN HUNDRED
PER CENT the production of wealth of valuable needed
featured articles of that has increased TEN TIMES AS
RAPIDLY AS THE POPULATION.
That IS state of New York Yet while the production
of wealth rapid production Of
human beings the happiness of the people has not increased
Wealth multiplied by percentage times greater than
the of population should multiplication by
of webeng and general happiness But that does happen
The added wealth the accumulation of wealth
constantly the of those that have TOO MUCH
and little of make happier the lives of those
that carry the burden of TOO LITTLE.
This the real problem of the world the distribution Of
wealth and the increase of happiness And is the problem
about which, although they talk of and think that they
plan to remedy IT. the sOcaied big politicians and statesmen
feel all
u
the fairly well do against very we'll
They deeply interested the mechanic who has five dollars
day and in the manufactures who needs five millions
his business.
But of or plans sufficiently for the man
who has dollar dollar and half day for the children
whose playground is the gutter whose only knowledge govern
men the policeman with his club telling them that they
not play and must not be happy.
We have nation in which kept because
compete with them their labor glad work for
And each competing with the other the kept
too and the kept poor happi
and health.
And nobody plans seriously to change that condition
What shall be the tariff on steel and on lumberY
we punish that combine to change five millions
of profits into fifty millions by freezing competitors?
What shall we do to the railroads that give better
company than anoherf
These the questions conventions and states
men deal with
But they do deal with these other questions
What shall do prevent forty thousand children
IN ONE SINGLE CITY being infected with the of
tuberculosis
What shall do protect the health of children of
mothers that the children die unnecessarily
What shall do to the distribution of the
products that fair day work by those willing will
give a decent living to wife aud her chdren9
What shall do o protect that are herded in tene-
ment houses living without light arand dying
ilyf
What shall we life worth while to the vast mum
Der OF human beings whom il only worry
and discomfort
The few have TOO MUCH, the many have TOO LITTLE
vet PLENTY both if were only distributed
What party, what convention what gathering of
will work earnestly to solve that probem-THE INCREASED
DISTRIBUTION OF THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD now
that the problem of PRODUCTION has been absolutely?
Slowly the problem will be solved and the dreadful
become thing of the past
But the change will very slowly For it will come
only lifted up a whole fitted in classes as
one might lift the roof of building and the foundation
low
Education intelligent voting from below nnsel6sb action
and merely the profit will settle the o,cs
ton in time-A LONG TIME.