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Mayor William J. Gaynor
Charity Its Uses
and Abuses
By William J. Gaynor
Mayor of New York
THIS MATTER of taking cure of
the aged, tlio maimed ami tho sick
is a largo one and is of acute and
growing importnnre. I do not think it
ought to ho a matter of charity at all.
I think the community i in duty hound
to take en re of tlieni. It is their right
to ho taken care of by the community.
And it is my belief that in the fullness
of time all worthy people now de
pendent on charity in' he taken care
of by process of government.
I know of no reason why working
men and workingwomen who are in
jured by machinery or who become sick
and decrepit, or incapable through age,
should be turned out to depend on char
ity instead of being taken care of by
the community through some agency of
government. My conviction is that gov
ernment the community is bound
in morals mid irnnd conscience to take
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care of (hem. Some think that it would
be too vast a scheme. On the contrary.
It would he easy far easier to do it
well that way than to do it ill in the
way it is now done; namely, by volun
tary charity.
The Producers Should Pay
A SMALL tax on production, on
articles produced by manufac
turers, and mi railroad.-., and all indus
trial agencies, would lie Millicienl lo foot
(ho bill. And such a tax would hi1 a
decimal mi small that the public would
hardly be conscious of it. The em
ployers would pay il in tho tirsl in
stance, of course; but it would be one
of their costs of production, and would
he added by them lo the price of their
finished product. In that way, the
whole community would bear it. Such
a tax ndded to the cost of tho hat you
wear, for an instance, would bo so small
that you would not know you were pay
ing it. Under such a system, all those
hurt and disabled in industrial employ
ment, or who may grow unable to work
from age, would bo taken care of by the
community; that is to say, by govern
ment. 1
Much progress is being made in t lit
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CHARITY ITS USES AND AlUSES-7ora WILLIAM J. GAYNOR 3
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believe that inside of Itl'tcen years laws
to carry out this method will hae been
passed by every slate in the I'liion.
Several states have such laws already,
and though we passed a statute in New
York which was a mere beginning in
Ibis direction, the courts declared it
void. Hut I think (here will be no inure
.such court decisions. The courts of
other states have held such laws to be
valid, and the Congress of the I'nitcd
Stales is now passing one with lull as
surance that it will bo upheld by the
Supreme Court of the United States.
A Farm Colony for Trampt
A KIN to this general subject, I may
say that here in New York state
has just been established a Farm colony
Tor (ramps. The purpose is to teach
(ho (ramp fraternity habits of work.
Now Jersey, Georgia and Texas are now
considering a similar plan. In Ihc
same way the city of New York has cs
tablished a farm colony for inebriates,
tho purpose being lo cure I hem of the
liquor lialiil ami also lo teach them to
work. Connecticut now has a bill be
fore its legislature for (lie same pur
pose. Through its Department of Public
Charities, tho Cily of New York looks
after 13,000 children in the various
public eleemosynary institutions, the
system of public hospitals notably af
fording help to thousands of worthy
persons yearly who are unable to pay
for treatment.
The Small Share of the Poor
HP I IK contrast, however, between our
public charities and private char
ity associations presents tin unpleasant
condition. No less an authority than
the Commissioner of Charities for the
City of New York recently said of the
private charitable agencies:
"I come into cloe contact with pri
vate philanthropic organizations in this
city, and according lo what I see a large
percentage of the money sumo of them
colled goes not to the poor hul to pa,
salaries lo the charity workers."
The recent committee on congestion
of population in New York City re
ported that Ihc .1,500 private charitable
societies of the greater city collect $10,-
1000,000 a year from citizens and from
charitable society endowments. On the
other hand, an estimate made by a mem
ber of the Charity Organisation Society
is that only $600,000 of this huge total
goes to poor people in distress. Think
of it! A difference of $10,100,000!
This ought to be looked into as some
thing imperative.
If the Department of I'lTHMC Chari
ties had such a record, it would be
justly bitbjct ted to a storm of i ritii i-.ni.