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Show Why Poverty KxMn. Mr. Carnegie boldly asserts the. probability that nineteen-twentieths of tho so-called charity of to-day is unwisely un-wisely spenW-"so spent indeed as to. produce the very evils which it proposes pro-poses to mitigate or cure." Surely this is- a statement which he will, upon fuller experience and reflection, cheerfully cheer-fully retract. No matter what efforts may be made by philanthropists and. social economists for the removal of poverty, we must make up our minds that poverty in one shape or another' will always exist among us. The words of Christ will be ever verified "Thoi poor ye have always with you." As. well attempt to legislate vice out of existence ex-istence as to legislate povertv and; suffering suf-fering out of the world. London is thai richest city in the world; it is also.the poorest. Berlin, with a population of 1,500,000, has 200,000 living from hand to mouth and verging on destitution. destitu-tion. It is in accordance with tho economy of divine providence thufcmen should exist in unequal conditions in society in order to exercise benevolent benevo-lent virtues. Cardinal Gibbons.. |