Date of Award

4-1936

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Social and Cultural Sciences

First Advisor

Paul J. Mundie

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

No reading on the subject of socialism or laissez-faire can give one quite the sort of knowledge which comes to one who day by day watches or assists in the enforcement of a splendid body of law like tenement house laws of the respective states out of this the fiery radical will come, from even a limited observation a sobered and more conservative man. Even the timid conservative will gain new courage to grapple with new problems. For that one may be considered dull if he has not learned how carefully, with great patience and long study each new advance movement of the social forces has been planned and executed. The conservative can hardly have failed to gain something of the hopefulness and high spirit of daring which have sustained the leaders of this particular advance movement in their long struggle. No one who has had the satisfaction of seeing a district "cleaned up," watching while ugly or unsightly and health-dangering masses of filth disappear, while old and defective plumbing is replaced by new, while walls are cleaned and rickity stairs repaired and wet cellars concreted and helpless tenants given light and air and means of escape from fire, will ever adhere to the cry of the reactionist that the tenement house reform movement is impractical, insincere, and ineffective.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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