The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-03-11
The Professional Philanthropist and
His Graft.


charity mongers, whose pickings have been
most beautiful lot, and who have been shown
up as one of the boldest and most heartless
band of grafters.
1t would seem that newspaper men, as usual
were the first to make the discovery that much
Of the money donated by the kind hearted, got
lost in the shuttle toward the "Worthy OBJ
jccts' for whom it was intended; it also tran
spires that many transactions IN valuable real
estate were only possible after particularly
narrowing tales of restitution, want and need,
among the city's poor, had been made public
through the press, and the inner history Of
many Of the bureaus" isn't pleasant reading.
It seems to have been a failing of many
Of the charitably inclined that, if their dona-
tons were to be given, it was with tentative
promise of much publicity, a photograph or
two, and more or less eulog1stic 'write ups"
that would pave the way for many of the
social climbers, this mode Of entering wedge
III the door of Society, being favorite one.
Back Of all this there is another phase that
is no less dsgraceful; statistics have been
cited to prove that, never in the history of
the Nation have the cities been so crowded,
the poor so poor, the needy SO needy, and the
charitable departments of the cities SO over
crowded.
1t would appear, to the casual observer that
now would be a good time to look at the cause
for so much effect, and it wouldn't seem hard
problem to solve. Overcrowding in the cities
of course brought about the result, and the
cessation of immigration, for at least short
PERIOD would seem desirable
In the Nations highest body of legislation,
the matter has been banded about like rub
Der ball; Hobbies were put to work, and right
well did they do their job, and the amazing
feature is, many of these so-called philanthro-
pists-professional spenders and grafters Of
other peoples money, worked hardest for the
defeat of this needed legislation.
The slums of any of the big Northern cities,
can give the slums of London and Paris
points, and beat them. Many of the bread
lines, the soup kitchens, the municipal lodg
ING houses and the homes under so many
names, crowded to the utmost limit, are feed
ing and caring for these from other countries,
to whom this pauper relief is an inheritance,
but which is degrading America, and lowering
the standard of all that should be vital.
The South, for many years, kept pure the
long line Of clean American ancestry. 1t was
this cleanliness, and the strength that went
with it that enabled her to fight so long,
against such great odds, and with such logged
persistence, in the Civil War.
Unrestricted immi gratiOn has vitiated the
Nation, and the South should see the hand
writing on the wall. She should demand of
her Senators and Representatives that the bar
should not be let down for the hordes of immi-
grants that are headed toward the Southern
States backed by bureau of professional
philanthropists, whose rale-of, in whatever
guise it may be, will be well worth the time
and trouble it has taken to get the States who
have promised to donate farms, stock and
homes to Europeans who will do more to lower
the standard of American principles, than
they will benefit those States.
If the everlasting dollar was not so plainly