| Show THE antipoverty ANTI POVERTY SOCIETY A society beating be arina the above sil si ant title has been formed in new york the two chief officers impart a little moie more in the way of significance to the organization they being rev dr mcglynn Pres president ideal and henry george vice fl president resident in a leable ee e way it seems to be an effort to show to 0 the world another instance of history repeating itself holding as they do is a form foria of slavery and that the first practical step toward the abolition of african slavery in this republic was the antislavery anti slavery society established by oliver wendell holmes wm lloyd garrison wendell philips and others who stood in the same relation to the slaves of 1857 that the two gentlemen named do to the auen of 1887 this is so an unfortunate comparison for the reason that the Ilber atlon of the blacks was accomplished through violence and bloodshed no indemnity being given or offered dereu by the liberators to 10 those to whom they originally sold the slaves for the money there was in the traffic besides as a question of humanity y and P progress ro the slaves ought to have been rocress fress liberated aber and we are I 1 hardly adly pre prepared to believe that mcglywn mcglynn and george gedrge expect to secure the of the laborers by any such means it if they do not they are more fortunate in the matter of theorizing and constructing utterly untenable premises than one would naturally look for in men of their mental calibre and great experience antipoverty anti poverty means opposed to poverty and we resume presume there is not a man in ge the world who could not conscientiously join or belong to a society bearing such a name so long as it was confined to sentiment or toe abstract agitation of the subject but it if the society meant going further and forcing an issue lew few there be who would conscientiously have anything to do with it this presents the double paradox ol of an organization being strong if it is weak and weak it if it is strong the poor can neither be legislated nor agitated out of poverty some men will under the ibe state of things be poor to their dying day no matter by what fortuitous circumstances cum stances they may be surrounded dispensing favors resources and advantages to te them isa is simply imply a question of how bow much water is id poured upon the sand it wall be ab absorbed sorted just toe same whether it be much or little they can hold and retain nothing because aney are constitutional non uon acquisitive others will receive in a year what the spendthrift squanders in a day and barring misfortune will be sel solidly idly prosperous and securely comfortable g before halt his bis generations span is passed do two such abstruse reason ers and educated as the priest aud and the author seriously think they can legislate im providence deuce out or providence in Y not then what do they propose to do the answer might consume a volumes breadth but bat stripped of verbiage ornamental rhetoric and elaboration it would be very apt to te mount amount to this the land like the water and the air are toe natural heritages bequeathed to all no one a right to more man he be can u use se there should be no unequal eq dul allotments the wealthy having and owning just so much as they require for their own sustenance and no more the poor having whist what they need to live upon and no less in other words enforced equalization of real property social leveling communism in its strictest sense suppose such a division were to be anade made with man in his present condi condition tiou would the soil cultivate itself would not some use their part lor for what it is worth and others neglect their part and this being the cane cage how long would it be before the thrifty would own it if all again but it may be said we would have no hardships and therefore no titles L to transfer only the t title e e of occupancy would exist the then you would make such portions of the ian land as were held by the shiftless totally valueless to them or any other persons they producing nothing ind not being able to gain so little as what they would realize from a sale and thus would the condition of things be made worse than before it requires too much space to tollow up the vagaries of those antipoverty anti alati poverty apostles A astles who would je eradicate the evil bp by y any other means than labor care honesty and frugality so we yield the subject dubec |
