Show THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY I 1 general booth of salvation army kame fame in a letter to the now new york world states some of his bia impressions impression of the ibe conditions prevailing in the united states and his bia plan for the redemption af J les ablis the conditions in this country mr booth says save are essentially the same as those la in darkest england our civili bation to is advancing on an inclined plane the millionaire is on top and the great crowd is in struggling beneath in misery poverty la in breeding orime crime and crime begets poverty and the benj will be a revolution in which it Is by no means certain certai u that the modern will restrict themselves to the use ot of the ballut ballot 8 blust this peril impend lag ing t tie ie general is concerned for the american people he had expected tum guem to be wise politically but he lays 4 1 I dont dons think chink I 1 ever saw aaa so much hu anere is so much claptrap Jap trap so much appealing to prejudice so little of wound mound reasoning and calm uto decision ision in maters mh tiera affecting pub lie lic safety further yours is the cou country meant to be tree free yours la is a instituted to lo guard every aaland d right to life and it guros trio the right to life anu and nap of every man and woman oman the pour poor fellow in the tenement house bouse as a well aa the millionaire then there will be no darkest america and no darkest new york Dis discussing cuming a fis feasible sible plau ar the re dempt iun lun ot of the poor anu ana ullen some means of making good citizens of tue unfortunate oies the be famous philan plat remarks that society is under obligation to rescue the tramps the criminals we the gamblers calling them oad names does not cancel cenoel that responsibility Bellamy Bella 4 plan would work well in an angelic government but now new yorkers are not aage angels henry georges proposition involving the confiscation of property left perhaps to a widow with children to provide for to Is incomprehensible then the salvation dal army echeme is in outlined the generals general nau baw twenty thousand acres of land in view in the united states on this land be would like to einab lish limb colonies of poor people in abl abic country as well as importations from holland germany and nd belgium fhe colonists colonis tg would 11 live in 10 little villages village each man being allotted six or eight acres with a common jor uis cow there would be hovels for pigs and chickens enot and carts would come around at regular intervals and take the produce to market the colonists would not own the land the would like to have the government gov give him a deed in trust to twenty thousand acres of land with the privilege of alienating it IS or disposing of it in cases cans where it is would be absolutely necessary for the success of the scheme the colonists would have the use uee of the land free an long as aft they chose to work it the money to build the cottages etc would be advanced to them sod and deducted from their earnings earning s sa that in case came any one should decide to run away he would only escape from his own proper ty ly leaving the managers of the scheme that much wealthier this Is IB in brief the plan of general 11 booth for the adjustment of the inclined planets plane on which our civilization Is ia said to be advancing the remedy against poverty and crime and a means of averting avert log the threatened repetition in this country of the french revolution any honest effort to save modern society from the fate of em pires and republics long ago overthrown by forces a milar to those now at work at the foundations of the abe governments ern ments on both sides of the atlantic deserves deserve consideration and encouragement the general principle ink the plan outlined will be recognized as an right atio poor should be helped to help themselves A great many for lack of enterprise or ap preci aaion of the possibilities surrounding them or for want of influential friends in this age of nepotism or for other causes find bud themselves unable to pave for themselves a road to business independence they depend on their more fortunately situated fellow men for work and bread this falling failing poverty misery orline crime suicide or the jail are but too oten of en the successive chapters of a career that might have had a happier nation surely barely if a plan to Is feasible whereby self help can be provided for those depending on their fellow men it should be given a fait fair trial even it if a small portion ot of the he accumulated wealth of the other class were to be applied for that purposed purpose aa it now is fr the maintenance of poorhouse poor bouses jails ails anti aal penitentiaries aries general B plan has several objectionable features one of them to is the proposition to accommodate tile abe unfortunates of europe BUXOM on land owned by the government of our ajun country try but the defects are immaterial and could easily be remedied if the scheme itself were deemed worthy of consideration it seems to us however to be one with which state legisla legislatures turm should deal because they could do so more effectively than private philanthropic organizations |