Excerpt from The Housing Problem in Texas: A Study of Physical Conditions Under Which the Other Half Lives
This pamphlet is issued by the publishers of The News to supply a demand for copies of a series of articles written by George Waverley Briggs, a member of The News staff, dealing with housing systems that prevail in the leading cities of Texas, to note their deficiencies and advantages, and to suggest means of correcting present evils and preventing future complications. The series was originally published in The Galveston-Dallas News November 19-December 17.
Pointing his index finger into the attentive faces of a mass meeting of Dallas men last Sunday, Dr. Charles Stelzle of New York fervently exclaimed:
"I insist that you give the workingman a square deal!"
Unquestionably the doctrine of the square deal is the secular creed of the American people. Founded upon the principle of "equal rights to all, special privileges to none," the Nation has unbarred its doors to the world's downtrodden and oppressed, with the invitation: "Come and find refuge here." In the American heart the milk of human kindness is not congealed. Sympathy for the poor and the lowly is an emotion universally latent and quickly stirred under impulse, though it has not borne in its practical, helpful expression the fruits of constancy.
The workingman does not desire pity. His American independence revolts at paternalism. What he wants is co-operation. Ail he asks is a chance to win his way by his own thrift and industry - a chance which, when given him, becomes the embodiment of the square deal, the practical and most commendable expression of that sympathy which is latent in the American heart.
It is deplorable, yet true, that this chance is often denied him. The policy of the square deal is more the professed than the practiced creed of the people, though their vaunted allegiance to it is the resonant shibboleth of their democracy. And yet their temperament, their invariable response to worthy agitation, their private charities and philanthropies, undeniably establish as true the proposition that their indifferent attitude is neither studied nor heartless, but is rather the consequence of ignorance of conditions and of unintentional neglect of them in their phantom chase of business.
These National characteristics are exemplified in the people of Texas. The State has enjoyed abundant prosperity. Its population has increased rapidly under the lure of its fertile fields to the homeseeker from colder and less pleasing climes. Throughout its vast and fertile farming areas the jocund God of Plenty has filled its cup of fruitfulness. The boundless ranges of the West have made way for little farms where happy, industrious families abide, content in the joy of wholesome work and righteous living.
Factories have come to its cities. Railroads have contributed to its commercial importance in the marts of the world. Big business and little business have assisted its prosperity and made of it a land of commercial and industrial richness and productiveness.
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