Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-08
A National Platform on
Poverty


For two weeks this country listened the talking and
planning of the parties that pretend to provide
tional welfare
In Chicago and in Baltimore those supposed what
the country needs have and fought and intrigued and
sdickered
They have written their platforms and denounced what
they considered the evils
One denounced the high tariff because it makes living
expensive
And the other set denounced the suggestion of free trade
would destroy wormans opportunity good
wages.
Gigantic trusts great organizations monopoes modern
dinosaurs and mammohs received attention
this Union could provide for the needs of
all the people the and for more the state
cultivated properly and the products properly distributed
The manufactured products Of another Amer
lea increased IN short period FOURTEEN HUNDRED
PER CENT the production Of wealth Of valuable needed
featured articles of that state has increased TEN TINES AS
RAPIDLY AS THE POPULATION.
That the Of New York Yet while the production
of wealth has rapid than production of
human beings the happiness of the people has increased
Wealth multiplied by percentage ten times greater than
the increase of population should the 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 any it goes 10 make happier the lives of those
that carry the burden of TOO LITTLE.
This is the real problem Of the world the distribution Of
about which although they may talk of and think that they
plan to remedy IT. the socaed big politicians and statesmen
feel a all
ect the fairly well to do against the very we'll 10 do
They deeply interested the mechanic who has dollars
day, and the manufactures who needs five millions to
his business.
of them thinks or plans sufficient, for the man
who has dollar dollar and half day for the children
whose playground is the gutter whose only knowledge of
ment the policeman with his club telling them that they
not play and must not be happy
We have nation which kept down because WON
compete with their labor glad starvation
And each competing with the other the kept
too to and the kept too for happ
and health
And nobody plans seriously TO change that condition
What shall be the tariff OF steel lumber
How shall we punish that combine to change five millions
of profits INTO fifty millions by freezing competitors
What shall we do to the railroads that better
company than another?
These the questions that and
men deal with.
But they do deal with these other questions
What shall do to prevent forty thousand children
year IN ONE SINGLE CITY being infected with the Of
tuberculosis
shall we do to protect the health Of children and Of
mothers that see the children die unnecessarily?
What shall we do to the distribution of the
products 50 that fair day work by those willing work will
give decent living to a wife and her children2
What shall do protect those that herded in
ment houses living without light airand dying
What shall do make life worth while to the vast mum
Der OF human beings to whom is only worry
The few have TOO MUCH the many have TOO LITTLE
yet there PLENTY for both if it only distributed
What party what convention, what gathering Of
DISTRIBUTION OF THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD now
that the problem of PRODUCTION solved aisoutaIvq
Slowly the problem viii solved dreadful contrast
become thing of the past
But the change viii very slowly For will come
only men are lifted mp a whole lifted classes as
one might t the roof OF building and leave the foundation
Education intelligent voting from below unsefsh action
from above the use of machinery the of all the people
and not merely the profit Of few will n
time A LONG TIME