| Show THE POOR AND RICH OF NEW YORK The estimates of the number of homeless aud unemployed un UD- employed ed people in New York City range all nil all the teachers in th that t. t way from to The in lD city report likewise that a great many children in in inthe the time schools come como daily without havin having had any breakfast before coming This last is worse than the fir fist first t. t Grown Grow n people accustom themselves to priva- priva priva privations trees but t think Mink of a hungry ho boy or girl getting up in in the morning from a hard couch going to school and then sitting through the morning hours without lt a t morsel to cat and doing this day dUj after du day If Ii such sucha a r turns out badly y of course it will be put down downto to depravity and axed if caught in some petty offense he will go through the shame Rhame of a first trial and con conviction conviction conc c- c tion and then be he sent where bere his associates can give The whole business iness is him his next le lesson in crime horrible And stretching away west of New York T for and millions of acres thousands of miles are arc acres I that every year produce bread enough to feed half halfa a world Some more of these wretches should be sent out outon outon on the lands Some more of the food that grows on these lands land should be forwarded cast east Every year ear 1 there comes a cry crr from India or Russia or China or Japan or some other foreign land that people in a 1 certain section arc are starving and the generous people peo pee 1 pie pic of this country contribute food and clothing by ship loads and send them away to the suffering ones But they read that very man many children in New ew York j go o every morning to the public schools break fasti ess J New York ought to take a census of her poor quarters every autumn learn the conditions make 1 estimates of the number that will win need help to pass J the winter inter and provide for it But how it may be he asked We Ve would say b by a new apportionment of the money r received from taxation and then by br es es- establishing establishing and enforcing a discriminating and progressive progressive pro pro- income tax In some cases we would tax bequests bet be be- I t quests I For instance when a n morning paper published pub pub- lisped that Mr rr Carnegie had given for a I library to Oshkosh osh or Nasby Four Corners we ve call the Scot j jand would have the assessor upon canny and say Mr Mr Ir Carnegie I notice that from your nn- nn I earned increment you have bestowed on such or such a town for fora a public library And Andy I I the people there not half of them can read not half of them will ever eyer draw a book from your library But right here in New York are arc scores s of children who go to school to learn to read without I Im having ing had any bread these bitter mornings The st suite state te has been considering the matter and has has' decided ed that for every you give for glory glor you ou must pay another 10 per cent of that amount to give the children who i want to learn to read rend here a warm br breakfast before going to school Ten thousand d if you ou please And the same for Mr fr Rockefeller A A million to a university John that is good that levies an assessment assess assess- ment ent of for the children who want breakfasts breakfasts break break- I fasts here and the poor women who have no suppers and no DO place to sleep What do you ou say Let them take care of themselves I have had to all my life John John He that is without sin in the Standard Oil Oi cast the first firs stone An even John The rhe law awards it An income tax tag an inheritance tax a supervision that will insure just and equal taxation then a better distribution of the people and get the awfully poor where the they can earn their bread brea for it is infinitely more merciful to place a man luau where he can earn a dollar and save sav his pride and self respect ct than to give him the dollar |
