The Nether Side of New York; Or, the Vice, Crime And Poverty of the Great Metropolis
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The St. Giles unfortunate became an outcast and (vorse. In New York and in London the same causes produce the same effects.
Only the rum traffic could make the tenements of Greenwich and Cherry streets possible, and only the profligate debauchery produced by it could cast ten thousand children out of a million of people, in such a country as this, homeless upon the world. Every agent of every organized charity engaged in the labor of saving these children will bear witness that he has found the... pa- rents, If living, drunken wrecks, or if dead, the victims of intemperance. Ordi- nary prudence and industry will enable any adult in the United States to earn sufficient to keep those dependent upon him from want, and I dare affirm the same of a place so exceptional to the country at large as New York. But there is not ordinary industry and prudence in the mass of the population of a city which has 7,500 grog-shops, or one to every one hundred and twenty-six of its people. At least $15,000,000 are swallowed up every year by these grog 126 THE NETHER SIDE OF NEW YORK.
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The St. Giles unfortunate became an outcast and (vorse. In New York and in London the same causes produce the same effects.
Only the rum traffic could make the tenements of Greenwich and Cherry streets possible, and only the profligate debauchery produced by it could cast ten thousand children out of a million of people, in such a country as this, homeless upon the world. Every agent of every organized charity engaged in the labor of saving these children will bear witness that he has found the... pa- rents, If living, drunken wrecks, or if dead, the victims of intemperance. Ordi- nary prudence and industry will enable any adult in the United States to earn sufficient to keep those dependent upon him from want, and I dare affirm the same of a place so exceptional to the country at large as New York. But there is not ordinary industry and prudence in the mass of the population of a city which has 7,500 grog-shops, or one to every one hundred and twenty-six of its people. At least $15,000,000 are swallowed up every year by these grog 126 THE NETHER SIDE OF NEW YORK.
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