Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

Capitolo 35

standard of benevolent society that only the "worthy poor man" it has to be
helped;  that temperance and economy are the virtues that receive the
plums of the benevolence. The old same lady is aware of this
criticism. Indeed, irate neighbors tell her his/her face what she doesn't do
in the least worths what she finds. To disarm them, and to the
same time to explain what would seem otherwise the goodness this way
colossal as her to be abnormal says theirs that during his/her stay in
the suburb she discovered a terrible family secret,--a horrible scandal
connected with the visitor of charity of long-suffering;  what in order is
to prevent the divulgence of this that she continually receives her/it
assistances. Some of his/her perplexed neighbors accept this explanation
as simple and offering a solution of this irritated problem. Undoubtedly many
of them has a look of the true state of business, of the love and
patience that administers to require disrespectful of value. But the
standard is too much tall for the most greater part of them, and it sometimes seems
unlucky to break the second standard that the takings that the people
"who dress again wicker the grumbler" it is not worthy of the charity, and that there is a
certain justice reached when they goes to the poorhouse. Certainly it is
dangerous to break lowers him, unless the tallest is done in clear way.

Only when our affection becomes great enough for it would appreciate the unworthy one
among the poor man as us we would appreciate the unworthy ones among our his/her own log, it is
certainly a question that makes perplexed. To say that you/he/she should be never so, it is a
makes comments on our democratic relationships to theirs which few of us would be
it will do.

Of what use is all this striving himself/herself/itself and the perplexity? It has any experience
value? It is certainly genuine, for him an occasional charity incites
visitor to live as simply as the other tenants in a house of tenement.
Guide others to give up visiting the poor complex, because, them
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