37 THE LETTER THAT 



PROMPTED THIS BOOK 



dreds of cheap dance halls an evil which the 

 papers are loudly decrying where the children 

 of these poor workers go of an evening to seek 

 amusement, but in reality to be thrown into dens 

 of vice and iniquity and started on the down- 

 ward path. 



While going to a lecture one Sunday by Prof. 

 Felix Adler, of the Ethical Culture Society, I 

 saw a man on the corner evidently suffering 

 greatly from the cold. The saloons were closed 

 and he probably would not have been a welcome 

 guest at the meeting of the society, broad-minded 

 though its aims are, even if he had been in a mood 

 to listen to an abstruse lecture. 



NO REAL SUFFERING AND DESTITUTION ON 

 FARMS. 



A short time ago I was on a visit to the South 

 and I took particular care to note the conditions 

 surrounding the living quarters everywhere. 

 Perhaps the farmers of the South are not very 

 prosperous; as a rule they do not appear to be 

 as hard-working as those of northern latitudes; 

 yet I saw no suffering such as even the most 

 casual observer sees in any city. There are no 



