Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1903 — Some Sort of Change Needed. [ARTICLE]

Some Sort of Change Needed.

Something is wrong with our superior civilization. A woman died lately in a New York hospital from starvation. When sne collapsed she was standing in a line of prisoners in a police court waiting to be tried for the heinous offense of asking help in the streets for her extremity of need. Professional begging is rightly classed by the law as an offense against society deserving of punishment, but there is some hauling over of the law required when real and abject poverty is dealt with as a crime.—Baltimore American.