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A SOCIAL PROBLEM AND ITS PRO
GRESS.
There will be more or less re
monstrance against the opinion of a
Kansas City clergyman that it is not
desirable that people should have
equal chances in this world. It is
not quite apparent where the objec
tion to such an arrangement would
come in if the results could be made
to justify the opportiinities. But un
less humanity could bo made over it
would be wholly futile to start all
people out with the same layout. It
would not be forty-eight hours until
persons would be seen adding to their
equipment and others would bo seen
falling behind. Some people are
born with gifts which enable them
to got on in the world and in others
there is not apparently oven a germ
of such talent.
Nature is largely accountable for
the inequalities which the socialistic
reformers desire to obviate , and na
ture cannot bo changed. Of course
the fabric of society and the quality
of government have something to do
with it , but these causes cannot in
the opinion of the most profound
philosophers bo successfully modified
by any hard and fast rules or by the
enactment of laws. At the very best ,
such remedies would bo subsidiary
only to the greater and primal factor
of the voluntary spirit of human
brotherhood. How far one man can
be made his brother's keeper by the
authority of the government is a most
interesting and perplexing problem.
It would seem , by a careful study of
the progress of philanthropy during
the last half century , that the great
force in making riches subservient to
the public good has been the growth
and development of a more enlight
ened understanding of the responsi
bilities of wealth and individual
power. This has brought about a
great system of organized benevolence
for the benefit of those who are
poorly fitted to help themselves.
In addition to the multiplication of
public charities which are more par
ticularly for the behoof of the help
less and indigent , there is a growth
of institutions which gives encourage
ment to those who desire to bo self-
sustaining and independent. Capital
has interested itself in the provision
of cheap homes and shelter for wage
earners and in industrial enterprises
which give to workingmen a share
of the profits. The whole tendency
of the times is in the direction of a
broader and more , generous regard
for society as a mass with no percep
tible advancement of the idea that
anything like actual equality is pos
sible in a world where success de
pends so largely on natural gifts and
endowments. Kansas Oity Star.
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