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Illustrated Times (Newspaper) - February 17, 1866, London, Middlesex AT THE POST OFFICE NEW TICK OF AJP 1LL.UHTHAT10X8 18 No. 570.-Vol. FEB KIT ANY 17, 180�. Price 3d.-stampko, tn AIOS TO They do but greenly who exercise their benevolence to as to undermine men's self-respect and sense of personal responsibility while they Afford the best kind of help who give men the opportunity of helping We used to and we hear occasionally a great deal of talk about elevating the working and much it effort was expended to that Bat little ever came of There was too too much much of the eleemosynary element - too much patting on the back and my good man - too much treating of grown men as that kind of effort for it to be Genuine working men are as desirous of elevation as any other class but they dislike patronage and abhor All they ask is fair The rest they can and ought to be left to for that if they are made of the stuff that is worth elevating at if they are no effort whatever will raise Honett industry and worthy ambition scorn canting patronage and the ever thickly those nauseous pills may be sugared Almsgiving and charitable institutions are not for lusty manhood but for age or impotent Hitherto philanthropists have not realised and hence the failure that has attended most efforts at * They have been anxious to confer not to afford and their boons have generally come back to Better is beginning to break upon the public mind in these Men don't found hospitals to maintain people who can and ought to maintain nor endow schools to educate the children of parents who have ample if they to do their own work we are beginning to recognise the fact where such institutions their benefits are generally abused and Benevolent effort the direction not of a thing for nothing - but of providing article required and charging fair price for it. Efforts to do good way thus be benevolent their design and profitable in their By combining kindness with stimulating by the prospect of a we confer a real do a real and ytt in no degree vitiate the recipient's self do his in the world is a very different doing it for The one is the other is the one will the must In former times benevolent societies were formed for ike purpose of taking duty off people's the establish now only at helping the worker with bis at from hie This by far the most salutary The institution of savings banks and granting small Government annuities are two ways in which of late we have endeavoured to g ve aids to Building dwellings for the working and charging fair rents for is another means by which the same object is attained in a In none of these movements is there any thint of the eleemosynary A advantage let 1, and a certain price charged for the THE LATK JOHN A BY J. parses aret in the savings the Government the tenant of a model given equivalent for what he he roakes a he fox a he does not take the same profit la obtained by serving The principle on which the of magnificent gift are administering the fond is a sound because it aims at making investment remunerative 1 The system of recuperative power an indefinite And the efforts of and his and will be as useful in future as in present It is true that money devoted to for the is not so highly reproductive as are some other kinds of investment; but it is and yields at least a fair There is a large demand for the and the speculation of providing it can be made to The dwellings are occupied as soon as and rents are punctually This state of things may well encourage Government to lend public help to so excellent an and we trust that the introduced into Parliament the other night by Mr. at once and be the means by-and-by of much The purpose of that is to authorise the Treasury to lend at moderate Intel to like that presided over by Mr. A fine field is evening for enterprise of this The of houses consequent on the making of railways in large and the carrying out of other is rendering Workmen and their families must be lodged when dispossessed of existing they will gladly become the of dwellings built by Mr. tomatoes and with the aid of tike funds furnished on loan by the Working men are every day becoming better able to pay for comfortable and with improved will arise the desire for improved a feeling that is worthy of all For we hail with satisfaction the movement for erecting improved dwellings for the industrious upon the sound principle of making them There it a in obtaining Most of the ground within the metropolis is already and workmen's of must not be too far But why should not the Peabody and the directors of building companies commence a career of improvement on their own account Why leave all the demolition to be done by the railway companies Why not buy up some of the many dilapidated tenements now in and erect are in London whole tures on their sites ere perfect sinks of physical and of disease and of tenements on which can be of comparatively little and the rem vM of which would greatly improve the atmosphere in every Why not go to work upon and sweep away the rookeries which them? The operation would certainly and would infallibly be We have left ourselves but little space in which to refer to other modes of affording the means of self-help to those who

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