Show MISERY S MILLIONS lost legions of tl e great abyss in bondon london london s wealth Is ever before us it t takes care that it sh shill all be but london s poverty is h adden away tway in tabt areas of agony with which rank and wealth and fashion are as enfa millar as they are with I 1 ranz J joseph oseph land lind or central africa the moment that a small contingent from the mean streets of working class london reveals itself to the eyes of the IN V est tt tl ere Is an outcry fashion turns shuddering away and complains of the men with the begging boxes wealth buttons its pockets and c calls ilis upon the authorities to withdraw then countenance and the bodyguard of police bioni a pack of imposters and fashion and wealth are perhaps wise in their pro test if these unemployed workers are allowed to parade in search of sym pathy we may one day see a I 1 the lost legions of the great abyss crawling forth flom the alleys and the slums to give the west an object lesson in the poverty that thit the great city hides away in its nooks and crannies the women and the children the one room mom helots of unspeakable slums the diseased and di desperate sperate gutc outcasts ests of our great guilt gardens may form up in one mig mighty aty mass of misery and surge into the crowded thoroughfares and aristo cratic streets which fashion regards as its own picture if you can london given up for one day not to the gay pageants ants which on great occasions gladden our eyes and mal e our hearts swell with pride at the vastness of our empire and the splendor of our court but to a dead march of london s lost ones crowd balcony and ind win lo 10 ion s with rank and fashion with the wor d of w wealth balth and the middle class clash well to do give to the fair maidens and matrons who lead a life of pleasure and of ease the front places on the line of route then let the millions of misery land lind creep byl such a spectacle if it could be arranged would be a revelation which would shock the nit national ional conscience as it has hag never been shocked before arom the windows and the balconies the women of luxury would shrink back ng white faced terrified 4 nd the men the busy gatherers of gold and the ille squanderers of it would feel a shame hime that no written story of the city s q want and ind woe has ever made them feel before even as one pictures what such a scene as this procession ro cession would mean one feels the horror of t for the comfort of the prosperous citizen that sort of thing must be kept within its own area to be looked upon only by those who are of i the company of woe alen and women |