The Rich Do Not Consider the Poor.
l\one do so little for the very poor of New York as its very rich. Efficient workers among the poor are at present generally drawn from the poor themselves or from, the middle and professional class. No ono need wonder at this. Effectual charity work and the requirements of modern .society do not easily consort. A very STnail proportion of those who possess enormous wealth in the city subscribe liberally to its various charities; comparatively few can be counted on for a ready support in any properly conducted and hopeful yhilaathropic movement, and fewer still are found willing to fulfil the more diflicult, the ra&"8 necessary duty of gaining personal know 1 * edge of the needs and wrongs of the poor through personal study of their situation and friendly intercourse with themselves. I say such attention, such knowledge, are net likely to be given by the very riciau. To win fortune today implies a singleness of purpose, a concentration of all tho faculties of the man lo thnuoing of one things The very rich man must bo a very busy man if be would wake largo saw or jtMQ large sums of money.—Dr. \V. ft Sainu* ford in Harper's Weekly.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 4 (Supplement)
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