Show PAUPERISM the extremes es of wealth and want exist in nil all nations especially in the older and more civilized countries england lias has its thousands its tens of thousands of not simply poor people but actual pau pers perv and its hundreds of poor houses filled willi with the in indigent dicent those naho are unable to earn for themselves one morsel of the bread they cat to prolong alifa a life of dependence E england lias has its millionaires and its mon cyless men tho extremes of wealth and poverty and as the gom and silver arc are locked up in the cof coffers fiers of tho the few rich the millions of poor have to suffer in consequence in the united states these extremes exist as 13 well ivell as in tho the old country here we have in the game city the man possessing from one million to seventy five million dollars and thousands of others who arc are reduced to begging not having BO so much as will ivill purchase one meal of food but pauperism is not so extensive in america as it is in england with tho the exception perhaps of new york it is not so discernible in this country as it ia is in london and bome other large towns in britain the statistician mr RP reporter Porter who has been in england visiting for some time has gathered some fi faures figures ures in relation to the pauperism of f that country from which we learn that E england and wales are divided into unions which number they vary in extent or area from 60 to square miles there is a workhouse or a place of last resort for the helpless poor in each of these unions and in in these establishments lish ments thousands of british in dicent aged people spend the last years of their existence and are carried thence to a haupers paupers pau pers grave Ac according cordina to the statements of sir porter the smallest workhouse in in britain is calculated t to give shelter and assistance to fifty persons while tile largest will accod paupers haupers pau pers mr ir porter says frequently of tho the population arc are put down in the blue book as paupers haupers pau pers and as there is plenty of room for moretha mo retho presumption ia is that the work workhouses bouses were built with the expectation that they would some day contain about half tho the population of the country nearly paid officials are constantly engaged in one branch or another of the poor tiomi and their aggregate salaries and rations came last year to over while the total main maintenance of indoor paupers haupers was only about at a careful estimate tho the total annual cost of pau purism and arid outdoor relief in great britain and ireland is nearly and this dark picture grows darker every year one trouble is that the pauper system actually tends to make poverty a blessing in a great number of cases the workhouses are too palatial and inviting A certain class of the people says mr ir porter absolutely look forward to the poorhouse as their final home and find fight just the same as at the other end of the social scale the sons and daughters of the queen look forward to parliament granting their annuity of a year on the celebration of their marriage it is a matter for congratulation and gratitude that pauperism docs does not exist in utah among the abused and said to be frequently married people of the mormon lormon population the organization is such that the temporal condition of every family can be ascertained and ad the actual needs of every in individual divi dudl supplied and there is no necessity for any to suffer for the want of the comforts of life in addition to the visiting teachers in the ecclesiastical ward those esti estimable mablo in institutions the ladies relief societies arc are valuable aids to prevent poverty tile members of these organizations arc are the good samaritans samaritana Samar itans of our towns and cities they do not only search out and relieve want but with the blessings of providence under their efficient arrangements there never can exist in utah such a condition of things as pauperism |