[The People of the Abyss by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe People of the Abyss CHAPTER XIX--THE GHETTO 10/29
Over her bony chest leaped and rolled hundreds, thousands, myriads of vermin!" If it is not good for your mother and my mother so to die, then it is not good for this woman, whosoever's mother she might be, so to die. Bishop Wilkinson, who has lived in Zululand, recently said, "No human of an African village would allow such a promiscuous mixing of young men and women, boys and girls." He had reference to the children of the overcrowded folk, who at five have nothing to learn and much to unlearn which they will never unlearn. It is notorious that here in the Ghetto the houses of the poor are greater profit earners than the mansions of the rich.
Not only does the poor worker have to live like a beast, but he pays proportionately more for it than does the rich man for his spacious comfort.
A class of house- sweaters has been made possible by the competition of the poor for houses.
There are more people than there is room, and numbers are in the workhouse because they cannot find shelter elsewhere.
Not only are houses let, but they are sublet, and sub-sublet down to the very rooms. "A part of a room to let." This notice was posted a short while ago in a window not five minutes' walk from St.James's Hall.
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