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...Seventy-third Psalm David considers and solves the perplexity which has been troublesome to not a few, in all ages. Virtue with crosses and misfortunes is not rare while vice is often prosperous and comfortable. Here a poor seamstress earns enough to sustain life only by constant and painful labor and there a careless cumberer of the ground is quite content in everything; here a charlatan thrives and there a well-equipped practitioner has scarcely a patient; here a demagogue makes a fortune out of the people's fears and hopes and there a patriot is unheeded...
...anti-beggar Society, the members of which pledge themselves to give nothing to beggars. Instead of alms the tramp finds work at a station at the entrance of each town, where by chopping wood he can obtain food and lodging. But as this only served for temporary relief, the "labor-colonies" were instituted, of which there are twenty-two in Germany. They are situated remote from the towns and hence are free from all temptations. No man is forced to enter one, but by so doing he can find work there and later a situation. General Booth advocates very much...
Professor F. G. Peabody has an article on "The German Labor Colonies" in the February Forum...
...there good grounds for saying that that labor only is productive which results in an addition to material wealth? (Mill: Political Economy, Book 1, Chap. III; Roscher: Political Economy, sections 48-51; Clark: Philosophy of Wealth, Chapter...
...brought me much satisfaction. I congratulate you all on the work you have done, and as I look over the many movements in Europe for improving the condition of the working classes, I find myself more and more drawn to the kind of work which the Union represents. The labor question is, after all, a question of personal training and discipline. The millenium is not to come by some great social revolution, but by the education of the mind and conscience of individuals. The work you are trying to do seems slow, and is not showy...