The Peril And Preservation of the Home Being the William L Bull Lectures for
The Peril And Preservation of the Home Being the William L Bull Lectures for
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914
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I would that in this I might yo Oar Fight for the Home be a true prophet ! We can face the other problems of our day with confidence, if the home be safe ; for there we have backing. And now let me take you to my own city, to the metropolis, as typical of most of the large cities of our country. We struggle with the same evils in Boston, in Chicago, in New York, in Buffalo, in St. Louis, in Washington. It was only the other day that I looked upon some alleys in the national capital, under the v...ery shadow of the big gray dome, in which the crowding was as vile and as wicked as it ever was in the one-room houses of Glasgow. Though you boast of less crowding upon the land here in Philadelphia, yet we have the testi- mony of your public-spirited men and women that the sanitary condition of your alleys is far from good. That means dark- ness and dirt. In other words, you are no stranger to the pigsty of which I spoke as being the enemy of the home and of American citizenship. How came it about?
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