AMERICAN PAUPERISM

NZ Truth, Issue 539, 16 October 1915, Page 4

AMERICAN PAUPERISM

l»» America there tiru from I& to '^0 milUutt jitojjlo who tti\j ulu'uytt underfed ami badly lioukchl. uad of thsae four nillUon urc public p:ui|u<rx. Llttlo chUUren to iho number of 1.700,000, «nd about tlvp million women, nre wagu tttrncra. Orto person In rwry u-r» who <lleu Jn New York nun v pauper funeral, untl ai the pn.?»*»nt ratio of Ut-iuhs frpm iubcrculo«l». ten millions will nuccumb to thai dlßca»t». which h* larfioly Uue to Snuufllclency of food. UkJu nnd air.

"\V« lmv<- bi*en nmlnly coneormHl with tin' rlKhiH «f woijifß to »>«< like men; we »r<? only now iH'Klnningr to und<*r«tfttsU ihn right* of women to bo unlike m«m."~~!ijivclock KHIn. \n, CSreai Hrltttln 9& p»»r com at n» total weaiDi. £11.500,000.000 jn uwnvil hy i>n*«ninih of iho pojiulniion; t3 j>^r cent of t hit i population, how«»v«»r hurt] i hoy moy work, however thrUty th«y may be, ttfp unab!« to cotiunaml nn lnctsriip »oltlc»*m t<» provide for a *t«ndard of u'orkhou*s« cxlsk'ncw. Thtrr tir<? nhvayfl ovsr a mlHivn uocropioyefl 1 imd one million pauyem.