People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — No Tragedy Like Poverty. [ARTICLE]

No Tragedy Like Poverty.

There is no tragedy like that pf poverty. No pain can grind the human heart like that which comes to the husband and wife when they face the cold fact that he is out of work, and then look at the tender faces of the little one 3, so confident that the father can take care of them. Yet we know that in thousands of homes in the happy land of America this tragedy is being enacted. If we knew that some fiend was passing from house to house killing women, and dashing children’s brains out, how long would the good people permit it to continue? Yet poverty is worse. The low, dull agony at heart, the fair ; er of expectation when retr t are heard, the ts —sh v i heart when she i '--i • -to work!” This is P id happy woman 1 ust feel it—one 1 precious a dol--1 nd what real ze what it •y in a city >eople who sy, who revel 5 ® light and • ’ut of which r , in order to real hearte. • f land in the t’reed from paying the income tax by the decision of the Supreme court. The me*’ who are drawing Salaries that are paid by the people of this country are taking mighty good care of foreigners.