WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF: James W. Pryor, Esq., Secretary City Club, New York City; Sylvester Baxter, Esq., Boston Herald, Boston; Samuel B. Capen, Esq., President Municipal League, Boston; Mr. A. L. Crocker, Minneapolis; Victor Rosewater, Ph. D., Omaha Bee, Omaha ; Professor John Henry Gray, Chairman Committee on Municipal Affairs, EDITED BY SAMUEL M. LINDSAY, WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF: Professor F. H. Giddings (Columbia College), Professor W. F. Willcox (Corneli University), Dr. John Graham Brooks (Cambridge, Mass.), Dr. E. R. Gould (Johns Hopkins University), Mr. John Koren (Boston), Hon. Carroll D. Wright (Washing- ton, D. C.), Professor E. Cheysson (Paris), Mr. Robert D. McGonnigle (Pittsburg, Pa.), President John H. Finley (Knox College), Miss Emily Green Balch (Jamaica Plains, Mass.), Miss M. E. Richmond (Baltimore, Md.), and others. SUPPLEMENTS. ed, separately THE THEORY OF SOCIOLOGY. BY FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS. 80 Pp. CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA. Translated and sup- Supplement, September, 1894. CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM OF ITALY. Translated and supplied Supplement, November, 1894. THE FUTURE PROBLEM OF CHARITY AND THE UNEMPLOYED.* No clear word upon this ugly subject is possible without constant reference to a new social feeling which has at last become very intense. Democracy, with its passion for equality of opportunity, has now so far developed as to introduce into the questions of charity and the unemployed an element as new as it is formidable. By its newness I mean rather that a volume of social feeling has become conscious of itself in a new way. The masses have at last got political power so organized that it can be brought to bear on social legislation. The clear consciousness of this fact is intensifying the "social problem" at every point, and making it far *I am aware that the "Knights of the Panacea" will be impatient of the slow disciplinary influences offered in this paper. It seems safe to assume that whatever changes take place with the "economic rent," or along the lines of municipal socialism, ''to steady employment," etc., or for fewer hours, such agencies and especially such training as are here indicated will still be necessary. Whatever development socialism or the single tax may have, some kind of an "estate"-fifth or sixth?-will yet remain for any future which it is worth while to discuss. Meantime the remedies offered will not stand in the way of any increase in socializing rent, or profits, or interest. (1) |