Merchants' Association review . rity. That is what the Associated Charitiesstands for. In the next place, the Associated Charitiesstands for scientific knowledge. It asserts thatit is just as true in charity as it is in chemistry,that you cannot do a job unless you know whatyou are trying to do. Most people suppose thatcharity is something wholly different, and thatif you can get a warm feeling in your heart anda tear in your eye and a dollar in your hand, thewhole thing is accomplished. PAUPERISM AND POVERTY DIFFER. The Associated Charities comes to the peopleand says: There is a vast differe
Merchants' Association review . rity. That is what the Associated Charitiesstands for. In the next place, the Associated Charitiesstands for scientific knowledge. It asserts thatit is just as true in charity as it is in chemistry,that you cannot do a job unless you know whatyou are trying to do. Most people suppose thatcharity is something wholly different, and thatif you can get a warm feeling in your heart anda tear in your eye and a dollar in your hand, thewhole thing is accomplished. PAUPERISM AND POVERTY DIFFER. The Associated Charities comes to the peopleand says: There is a vast difference betweenpauperism and poverty; they are two very distinctproblems. A man may be a pauper, because hetakes public relief; that makes him a pauper. Hemay be a pauper and not be poor. Every alms-house keeper, upon the death of a pauper, huntsl carefully through the rags to find if a wad is notstowed away, and there are so many people whodie in the almshouse having a lot of money that itis the usual thing to make these DR. SAMUEL G. SMITB, There are men who know what it is to go on onemeal a day, who know what it is to suffer, andyet who would rather lose their right arm thanto take the aid of any man, public or private. It is one thing to be a pauper and another thingto be poor. The poor are by no means paupers,and the paupers are by no means always is a bit of scientific knowledge that theAssociated Charities insists upon. The Associated Charities insists upon lookingupon human nature just as it is, with open insists on looking at these problems with justthe same kind of Intelligence—dry intelligence—that the business man looks at his problems. Itinsists that it takes just that kind of businesssense that it does to deal with any practical im-portant business question. When it has the tramp Question to deal with,the Associated Charities says, We must knowwhat this tramp business means, A county inthe State in which I live experimented on thetram
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