Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1910 — TO RID ENGLAND OF POVERTY. [ARTICLE]

TO RID ENGLAND OF POVERTY.

Way to Prevent Poor Dying; In Workhonse, Prison or Gntter. He who is born in a workhouse will prbbably die in a workhouse, says TitBits. Not certainly, for there are wonderful exceptions, but probably. The same thing is true of many places, districts, which are not workhouses In the technical sense of the term, but are, nevertheless, the houses in which the work people live, in which, because of their poverty, they are compelled to live. He who is born In one of these places will probably die workhouse, or in the prison, or in the gutter. Again, not certainly, but probably—.most probably.

As Sir John Gorst, a minister tor education under a tory administration, said recently, you cannot blame the babies for being born, or for not making proper provision for their upbringing. “At present many of them had no chance, even before their birth, for their mothers were driven to work until almdst the day when they came into the world.”

fie has also said—perhaps he exaggerated; we shall see whgn we come to look into the matter more closely, but, anyhow, he said it—that the “great mass” of the children in our public schools were in a state of de- ; generacy and neglect. Now, if throughout the greater part of a man’s school life he is in a state of degeneracy and neglect, the odds are high that ne will end his days in a workhouse, a prison or the gutter. What we have to do, then, is to rout out and finally to abolish those workhouses that breed paupers, and afterward —let us hope not long afterward —to rout out and abolish those other places that breed paupers, too.