Show POVERTY recognized AS SOCIAL DISEASE leaders of thought say its disappearance will in ti time e be effected by adoption of wise social party mfred adfred W greeley greatly 1 in pennsylvania grit it IS IB not to d die or even to 31 of hunger that bat makes as anan n fetched retched many men hioe have died all ansen must most dl lie so but ali it la I 1 to kiv live adar miserable we know not why y t to is work r aare aind and yet t eala I 1 mm 1 to be b beolk heat worn r weary id el s isolated no un girt ot 1 in with r cold aa moora I lale Is s ill te tylre thomas carlcie art I 1 1 IS s beginning to be recognized util IT that t the gt g t bulk bulb of the bu burden den of poverty is as unnecessary and preventable alfil an ai smallpox or pub tuberculosis just as tuberculosis la is a physical disease so poverty is a it dis S ease of the social organism it is in probably the greatest but baiden den humanity staggers stagger under tinder and ad it edicta directly and indirectly its toll from all meno mem bers bars of society why should there be hungry mouths risen the pieper cohl lation of even an one state of the union would could furnish sufficient food far for our whole population lution hi should mil ill ill lions shiver every winter ob when we are re able to furnish textiles far or the whole Is world why should there be glim gi ini periods of neut ment with vast rest natural res resources auca yet untouched ilma and ad similar ques than eions are beginning to demand so an a answer that mut mat be mole moie than a smug of the responsibility lity upon P providence poll poverty ly never essential the conquest of poverty la is now an ce economic maule p it iv is within elfin rh reach if 0 we S are Is willing fill g to pay for far it and ad arly da desire its ID achieve able ve ment the campaign many of its ile tea anro turcs now 1 in 1 Is do mainly illy one n of social and ad economic emmin fic frzik f or ahe th correction of social injustice for far the increase of the earning power of labor and capital not act one but both as 1 a unit of colit efficient cot production for the prolongation of human fife through public sanitation and hygiene hv giene glene tol together letho with preventive medicine clue in a war on de preventable ch disease sense tor for ill the salvage I 1 n ge of the deficient and defect defective ve chis classes a of soc leti and tor for the eaf action of underpayment slid and tile the prevention 0 of f unemployment understood as loved D it tury tary idleness of competent workmen Orli cien I 1 bece very factor of at human betterment I 1 doing it ita part directly or indirect indirectly I 1 y in 11 this 1 war or upon imbry poverty t social octal surplus a necessity the success of this battle v till ith im pov art erti is ia up upon n the existence of a social of surplus tile the b babii son of all social I 1 va veil being that is is a netlon sri we must produce goods or services much in excess of m ivr immediate needs of subsistence and we are dome dolny today upon a scale never before known in a the world it has bus made ad us the rich rell set cst nation with wealth estimated nt at close 1 to it is 11 an a intolerable condition that when him there is in can enough D alfi nd in more or the than a enough gh so 0 o flotd all that any should hunger burger dave perhaps the chronically lv criminal ind and th ill of various anti iau kocl i tip ill 2 civilization his bis hept C P pace with th in ID eased d economic production product st start rt ing from n rude role social let order wherein sherila here bare and uncertain existence was baa the most at that man a could it wrest fr from nature r society 0 acty his attained an inbred c teg ible bj economic n orale productivity by the it development dipre ent of intellectual force and manual deter ltv bj b the in effi efficient clart arrangement of its oun on powers and most of all 11 b by y the disco discovery lery and utilization of natural energies the diffusion of comforts the possibilities of 0 luxuries the rise of arts and ad letters letter the spread of culture in a word tha he development of civilization civilisation la is tha consequence of increased economic p production and further moi e we ile can place no a limit to the future rite of increase in production clearly assignable tile the history of the united states illustrates the working of this principle which has ousted if the gloomy peW prophecy of malthus from soo ISDO to laoo the population increased per cent while adle the tied production pio di of f the eight great cereals in increased r ed 4 09 per cent and u what hat la Is true of our agri cultural cult uial products Is 19 also due even to text a greater extent of iron iran and steel textiles and other manufactures manufacture our per capita wealth in 1850 was 3 07 it 1 Is now supposed to be about lson 1800 or 2000 2 workers worker condition bettered battered together with this great In increase creane in national at I 1 production and ad wealth balth with mith the cren creation tion of a great unprecedented social surplus has haa 9 ione a wonderful bottei ment in ho the condition of the w 01 king classes mages have risen billum expenditures e have Imre ned cd for far non I 1 phi secal 1 satisfaction crumn the deposits in n laings banks have augmented I 1 tho the per cilita consumption of wheat sugar and meat have hane gifun the death rate to line has declined and taken SI altogether D th there re has haa be been a steady and ad unprecedented 1 bcd improvement to in the condition of the but the creation of this huge social octal surplus he has not act removed the challenge of want it has not desti oved the the au men ice of f pat ell it has ha only 11 made D a solution off of a bitter problem possible po at lit utah anle there it no I 1 doubt that tho the intensity of poverty Is I 1 less today the than 1 in the past even clen lu in tilt this S co country antry let the challenge of poverty poty and ad its e consequent I 1 n miery still stands at i our threshold thie thle in tile the words of probes arafe sor her tile tiie root mot of the problem lips deepu Po veit scitt like cee tain of its primary causes Is 18 a phase phae of modern findus industry arv tile the very cry far forces ab makh ch increase the nations nil 1 product ind ad cut ire ars tile the saal if left to then the iseli ev et breed ns of want rite far flona diminishing with the tha inastri A tiam so such it causes a 1 3 s I 1 Is s 1 lu the face of social smi inaction likely y t to 0 and ad intensity intensify society may gl glow richer civilization may ad advance re and ad vet let P poverty continue to gnaw cancer it like at t 1 its I vitals vital kc CD our amol s Dl tonal wealth with H its unprecedented social wi surplus sur pus our or v vist t natural t 11 r a CS chich we a or are ID conserving imi er 1 g in time our national ideals suit and foi fin social mf al political and ad justice m aie the factor factora which oldell sooner he or lot inter may give ni 11 the unique distinction of being the worlds arld s first nation to abolish poverty |