This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...precedent to precedent." Life and limb, health and character, must be the object of the legislator's jealous care and assiduous attention. Of those measures which affect the dependent members of society we can speak better at a later point; as, for example, of the system of public relief, or poor law. The institutions ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...precedent to precedent." Life and limb, health and character, must be the object of the legislator's jealous care and assiduous attention. Of those measures which affect the dependent members of society we can speak better at a later point; as, for example, of the system of public relief, or poor law. The institutions of education, whose blessings all enjoy, will be given a position of honorable mention. Free libraries and reading-rooms, parks, municipal music, recreation grounds, are not the peculiar advantages of wage-earners, but the common wealth of all citizens. The care of dwellings, sanitation, clean streets by cities and by state boards of health, is not a class interest, although such protection is most of all required by those who are obliged to occupy rented rooms and houses, over which they have no control, and in which they may be exposed to unwholesome conditions. Compulsory insurance is hardly yet within the range of practical politics in the United States. The German Empire has in recent years developed a system of accident, sickness, and old-age insurance which commands the attention of all governments, but it has not stood long enough to reveal all its possibilities. In England several plans of pensions for the aged poor have been seriously proposed and publicly debated. At present the question has merely theoretical interest in the United States. Many of us believe that the soldiers of labor are entitled to a pension in helpless old age, if they have never received alms and have supported themselves, on the same principle on which pensions are paid (not "given ") to soldiers of war. As a matter of fact we do pension all helpless, penniless, and friendless old people, --in the country almshouse. But that cannot be considered ...
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Add this copy of Social Elements: Institutions, Character, Progress to cart. $23.22, very good condition, Sold by Story Shop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Elwood, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1898 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
