. Beauty for ashes. the slums falls not only upon theindividual, but upon the city, in all its interests andactivities. It falls upon the city in losses of lives and money,taxes paid for pauperism, for crime, for the cost ofdisease. It falls upon the civic organisations that ignorethe slums, by the blight of their very ugliness andmeanness, which frightens renters and buyers fromthe neighbourhood, and injures all adjacent property. It falls upon them, too, by breeding a class ofcitizens that are a dead weight to civic progress. It falls upon the business interests by killing orweakening valuab
. Beauty for ashes. the slums falls not only upon theindividual, but upon the city, in all its interests andactivities. It falls upon the city in losses of lives and money,taxes paid for pauperism, for crime, for the cost ofdisease. It falls upon the civic organisations that ignorethe slums, by the blight of their very ugliness andmeanness, which frightens renters and buyers fromthe neighbourhood, and injures all adjacent property. It falls upon them, too, by breeding a class ofcitizens that are a dead weight to civic progress. It falls upon the business interests by killing orweakening valuable working men, whose loss is felt intraffic, trade and manufacture. It falls upon the churches by raising up thosewho defeat and defy them, by lowering themoral tone of the whole community, and increasingthe resistance to the powers of good. These are theways in which we are scourged by the slums, anduntil we learn our lesson we must continue to suffer, as the poor. The PoorM There passes before me a proces-.
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