Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1912 — In Hungry England. [ARTICLE]

In Hungry England.

Mr. Samuel P. Orth, in the series of articles about Socialism, calls England the “Land of Fulfillment.” Socialism there, he says! has fed upon the fact that England Is the land where the poor are the poorest and the hungry are the hungriest. "I went into Kensington garden one day last summer,” he says, “with some dry bread to feed the birds. A poor little chap, with dirty rags wrapped around him for clothes, scattered the twittering sparrows and pounced on the larger crumbs where they had fallen among the blades of grass.” Rowntree says that “30 per cent, of the people of the kingdom are below the bread level*—toe poorly paid to eat. One in every forty-four in the kingdom is a pauper. One in eleven in Ireland depends upon the state for bread. The towns are flowing over with the indigent populations that have exchanged the misery of the country for the miseries of the city.”—World’s Work. 'i , :