Article January 23, 1904 Issue

Curing Poverty

The Boston Evening News

It has come to be generally recognized by those who have made a study of poverty that economics alone is not enough to explain the poor who are always with us.

The unthinking regard poverty as the result, as it were, of a chance throw of the dice of ill luck, fate, misfortune, and countless other indefinite things which persistently overlook the vital thing, which is the personal equation.

Through bitter experience it has been learned that charity for the poor which does not at the same time demand something from the poor is a practically useless expedient. It is like attempting to bail out the ocean with a bucket.

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