TWO BLACKS DO NOT MAKE ONE WHITE
Because people are burned to death in New York and other American cities that is no reason why the Metropolitan fire brigade should not be not only criticised, but severely censured for the recent holocaust in Queen Victoria street, which was principally due to two causes, first, the lack of an up-to-date system of sending an alarm of fire, and, second, the absence of ladders long enough to reach up fifty feet and accomplish rescue work thereby. In New York, at least, when lives arc lost, it is not through any defects in the fire service system, but through neglect on the part of some one to turn in an alarm, through the fault of those who are too panicstricken to wait for the arrival of the fire department, or because of something altogether outside of the purview of that department, such, for instance, as an explosion, suffocation from chemicals, a firetrap house, or the like. But, even if New York, Chicago, and other large cities on this side of the Atlantic were morally or actually guilty of the deaths of those who perish by fire, that would not excuse those blunders in method and tardiness in adopting modern improvements in fire service which are so conspic only evident in those who are supposed to administer the affairs of the Metropolitan fire brigade. Two blacks never yet made one white.
Because people are burned to death in New York and other American cities that is no reason why the Metropolitan fire brigade should not be not only criticised, but severely censured for the recent holocaust in Queen Victoria street, which was principally due to two causes, first, the lack of an up-to-date system of sending an alarm of fire, and, second, the absence of ladders long enough to reach up fifty feet and accomplish rescue work thereby. In New York, at least, when lives arc lost, it is not through any defects in the fire service system, but through neglect on the part of some one to turn in an alarm, through the fault of those who are too panicstricken to wait for the arrival of the fire department, or because of something altogether outside of the purview of that department, such, for instance, as an explosion, suffocation from chemicals, a firetrap house, or the like. But, even if New York, Chicago, and other large cities on this side of the Atlantic were morally or actually guilty of the deaths of those who perish by fire, that would not excuse those blunders in method and tardiness in adopting modern improvements in fire service which are so conspic only evident in those who are supposed to administer the affairs of the Metropolitan fire brigade. Two blacks never yet made one white.
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