The truth is that pauperism grows in the tenements as naturally as weeds in a garden lot. A moral distemper, like crime, it finds there its most fertile soil. All the surroundings of tenement-house life favor its growth, and where once it has taken root it is harder to dislodge than the most virulent of physical diseases. The thief is infinitely easier to deal with than the pauper, because the very fact of his being a thief presupposes some bottom to the man. Granted that it is bad, there is still something, a possible handle by which to catch him. To the pauper there is none. He is as hopeless as his own poverty. This passage would have been used for what purpose?

to convince the public that people in poverty need help

Explanation:

Based on the scenario being described within the question it can be said that this passage would have been used in order to convince the public that people in poverty need help . This is an excerpt from by Jacob A. Riis, 1890, and Riis spent his entire life trying to expose the unfortunate circumstances of urban areas in order to force the government to intervene.

i believe that the answer to the question provided above is that the role of campaign committees is to act as a bridge between state and local campaigns.

the following men who did not in the unification of italy were.

a) giuseppe mazzini

c) alexander ll

the other two men were camilo cavour and giuseppe garibaldi they the unification of italy by yielding territories in the italian unification. in 1861 italy was declared a united-nation state under the sardinian king victor immanuel ll.