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

For two weeks this country has listened to the talking and
planning Of the parties that pretend to provide
tional welfare
In Chicago and in Baltimore those supposed to know what
the country needs have and fought and intrigued and
dickered
They have written their platforms and denounced
they considered the great evils
One set denounced high tariff because it living
expensive
denounced suggestion free trade
because it would destroy the womans opportunity good
Gigantic trusts great organizations monopoes the modern
dinosaurs and mammohs received attention.
single this Union could provide OF
all the people the countryand for many moref
cultivated properly and the products properly distributed
The products Of great
lea have increased in 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 the Of New York while production
of wealth has been times rapid than the production Of
human beings the happiness of the people has
Wealth multiplied by percentage times than
the increase of population should the multiplication
of webeng general happiness not happen
The added wealth the accumulation of wealth. goes
constantly increase the Of those that have TOO MUCH
and little any, of make happier lives of
that carry the burden of TOO LITTLE
This the real problem of the world the distribution Of
wealth happiness And it is the problem
although they may talk and think that they
plan remedy IT. the socaled big politicians and statesmen
feel not at all.
plans those that have enough They try to pro
ect the man fairly well to do against the well to do
They deeply interested in the mechanic five dollars
day. and the manufacturer who needs five millions
his business.
of plans sufficiently for the man
who has dollar dollar and half day for the children
whose playground is the gutter whose only knowledge of
the policeman with his club telling
play and must not be happy.
We have nation in which kept down because
compete with them in their labor glad to
And each competing with the other the
too to and the kept poor for hpp
and health
And nobody plans seriously to change that condition
What shall be the tariff and on mmber9
How shall we punish that combine ia chance Ave millions
of profits into fifty millions by freezing competitors
What shall do the railroads that give
company than another2
questions conventions and orr
deal with
But they do deal with other questions
What shall do to prevent forty thousand children
year IN ONE SINGLE CITY being infected with the faint
tuberculosis
What shall protect the health of children and Of
mothers that see the children die unnecessarily
What shall do to the distribution earhs
products that fair day by willing TO work will
give decent living to wife and her chidren9
What shall do to protect those that ene-
ment houses living without light arand dying
do to make life worth while to the vast mum
Der OF human beings TO whom only worry curse
and DISCOMFORT
The few have TOO MITCH the many have TOO LITTLE
yet there is PLENTY for both if it only distributed
What party what convention what gathering of
will work earnestly solve that problem-THE INCREASED
DISTRIBUTION OF THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD now
that the problem of PRODUCTION has solved absouey
Slowly the problem viii be and the dreadful contrast
become thing of the past
But the change will very slowly For if win come
only lifted whole lifted in classes as
one might lift the roof OF building and leave the foundation
low.
Education intelligent voting from below nnsel6sb action
from above the of machinery the all the people
and merely the profit few settle the ones
in time-A LONG TIME