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where the average community was more self-de 

 pendent, and where even though the standard of 

 comfort was lower on the average, yet there was 

 less of the glaring inequality in worldly conditions 

 which we now see about us in our great cities. It 

 is not true that the poor have grown poorer; but 

 some of the rich have grown so very much richer 

 that, where multitudes of men are herded together 

 in a limited space, the contrast strikes the onlooker 

 as more violent than formerly. On the whole, our 

 people earn more and live better than ever before, 

 and the progress of which we are so proud could 

 not have taken place had it not been for the up 

 building of industrial centres, such as this in which 

 I am speaking. 



But together with the good there has come a 

 measure of evil. Life is not so simple as it was; 

 and surely, both for the individual and the commu 

 nity, the simple life is normally the healthy life. 

 There is not in the great cities the feeling of brother 

 hood which there is still in country localities; and 

 the lines of social cleavage are far more deeply 

 marked. 



For some of the evils which have attended upon 

 the good of the changed conditions we can at pres 

 ent see no complete remedy. For others the remedy 

 must come by the action of men themselves in their 

 private capacity, whether merely as individuals or 

 by combination. For yet others some remedy can 

 be found in legislative and executive action na 

 tional, State, or municipal. Much of the complaint 



