You are here
قراءة كتاب A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"
A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
A TEN YEARS' WAR
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM IN NEW YORK
BY
JACOB A. RIIS
AUTHOR OF "HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES"
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY JACOB A. RIIS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO THE FAINT-HEARTED AND THOSE OF LITTLE
FAITH THIS VOLUME IS REPROACHFULLY
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
COLONEL GEORGE E. WARING, JR.
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | The Battle with the Slum | 1 |
| II. | The Tenement House Blight | 30 |
| III. | The Tenement: curing its Blight | 68 |
| IV. | The Tenant | 104 |
| V. | The Genesis of the Gang | 139 |
| VI. | Letting in the Light | 169 |
| VII. | Justice for the Boy | 204 |
| VIII. | Reform by Humane Touch | 239 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A TEN YEARS' WAR
I
THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM
The slum is as old as civilization. Civilization implies a race, to get ahead. In a race there are usually some who for one cause or another cannot keep up, or are thrust out from among their fellows. They fall behind, and when they have been left far in the rear they lose hope and ambition, and give up. Thenceforward, if left to their own resources, they are the victims, not the masters, of their environment; and it is a bad master. They drag one another always farther down. The bad environment becomes the heredity of the next generation. Then, given the crowd, you have the slum ready-made.
The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy. It was a losing fight until conscience joined forces with fear and self-interest against it. When common sense and the golden rule obtain among men as a rule of practice, it will be over. The two have not always been classed together, but here they are plainly seen to belong together. Justice to the individual is accepted in theory as the only safe groundwork of the commonwealth. When it is practiced in dealing with the slum, there will shortly be no slum. We need not wait for the millennium, to get rid of it. We can do it now. All that is required is that it shall not be left to itself.