People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — No Tragedy Like Poverty. [ARTICLE]

No Tragedy Like Poverty.

There is no tragedy like that of 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 ones, so confident that the father can take care of them. Yet we know that in thousands of homes in the happy land of America thia 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 slow, dull agony at heart, the faint flicker of expectation when returning feet are heard, the death weight on the heart when she reads on his face "no work!” This is pain which no rich and happy woman can understand. One must feel it —one must know how cruelly precious a dollar can seem—to understand what real suffering is. One must realize what it is to be cold and hungry in a city full of happy, careless people who 1 waste their precious money, who revel 'in and grow tired of the light and I warmth and food, for want of which .little children are dying, in order to know the meaning of a real heartache.—Rockville Tribune. The alien owners of land In the United States were freed from paying • the Income tax by the decision of the Supreme court The men .who are drawing salaries that are paid by the people of thia country are taking Mgtty good ears of foreigners.