THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM
A valiant battler with the slum.
THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM
BY
JACOB A. RIIS
AUTHOR OF "THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN," "HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1902
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1902,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped October, 1902.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
(p. v) PREFACE
Three years ago I published under the title "A Ten Years' War" aseries of papers intended to account for the battle with the slumsince I wrote "How the Other Half Lives." A good many things canhappen in three years. So many things have happened in these three,the fighting has been so general all along the line and has so heldpublic attention, that this seems the proper time to pass it all inreview once more. That I have tried to do in this book, retaining allthat still applied of the old volume and adding as much more. The"stories" were printed in the Century Magazine. They are fact, notfiction. If the latter, they would have no place here.
"The Battle with the Slum" is properly the sequel to "How the OtherHalf Lives," and tells how far we have come and how. "With his usualhopefulness," I read in the annals of the American Academy ofPolitical and Social Science of my book three years ago, "the authoris still looking (p. vi) forward to better things in the future." Iwas not deceived then. Not in the thirty years before did we advanceas in these three, though Tammany blocked the way most of the time. Itis great to have lived in a day that sees such things done.
J. A. R.
Richmond Hill,
August 27, 1902.