BRUDDER GARDINER'S CHARITY.
"Dar' am not an able-bodied man in America who can't aim sufficient to board, clotho, and school a family of six and send his wife to church on Sundays. Dar' am not a widder in dis kentry who • can't earn at least a dollar a day at some occupation. Dar , am not an orphan who has the shadow of a right to ask any man for a nickel." - "Our public charities am so many frauds nrpon taxpayers. De §25,000 raised by kix in Detroit falls into do hands of people Wio havo no biziness wid one shilling of it. to drunkards, an' idlers, an' prewho make it a duty to live from one y'ar to anoder. I most ardent philanthropist in dis , show me one case whar a city out to paupers has lifted r e axin' agin. De city which raises de moas' paupers, and yet philantropists anything." to-morrow an' han' solicitors of charity a dollar loft by r l spend a portion !L!1( 1 not 20 of , clothing." '' to
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3729, 28 June 1883, Page 4
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174BRUDDER GARDINER'S CHARITY. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3729, 28 June 1883, Page 4
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