Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-16 | Page 15 | As to Charity

AS TO CHARITY, We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best anion? the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellions. They are quite rieht lo be bo. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously Inadequate mode of partial par-tial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent imperti-nent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist senti-mentalist to tyranlze over their private pri-vate lives. Why should they be grateful grate-ful for the crums that fall from the rich man's table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning begin-ning to know It. As for being discontented, a man who would not be discontented with such surroundings and such a low mode of life would be a perfect hnite. Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, i means original origin-al virtue, it is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor . are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and Insulting It is like advislnp a man who is starving to eat less. Man should not be readv to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. Soul of Man under Socialism.