Show PROGRESS AND POVERTY What h tiic Cause of the Later Communicated I Progress and Poverty seems today t b the subject agitating the public mind Father McGlynn following in the wake of Mr George is trying to invent i in-vent a cure I is the duty of each member of society to advance the first progress and retard the secondpoverty There is no need that tho two should be S associated nay civilization should like sunlight drive shadows away and what darker cloud can exist than poverty But that it has been with us shows there must be a cause i a cause there a cure AntiPoverty societies Lan1 Leagues special legislation will not eradicate it No drunkard ever was reformed re-formed by act of Congress In this fair land of America every oneshould be neither too rich nor too poor each should have sufficient each worship in the temple tem-ple of labor and on his altars sacrifice S present ease and laziness and receive a blessing For the worshipers of labors shine unlike the devotees of other gods receive exactly in proportion to their adoration But to continue One of the causes of this poverty comes from the same fount in which generates the goodness Home in the race for wealth and luxury Woman Wo-man has striven with man not as his helpmeet but a his competitor hence the name Home as understood by our fathers as a haven of rest willl soon lose its endearing associations and be but another an-other name for hotel Even today what poverty exists in socalled palaces hearts longing and starving for that love which casts out all fears Children with affections drying up like their tears on soothed pillows waiting for a mothers love never to bo theirs childless husbands hus-bands seeking happiness in the arms of the harlot Why Because women ladies la-dies God save the mark wishing to occupy the positions which tneir fathers used to do cannot will not become mothers even in name Tis not lady like say they children prevent social enjoyments and are a great tie Today the positions of typewriters lecturers I teachers etc are filled by ladies and womans throne is deserted fine dresses rich costume dirty dishes neglected I children gratified dudes rich fees for divorce lawyers and yet we complain of I poverty and laud progress I B |