Which text in this excerpt from Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams demonstrates the lack of concern for poor Immigrant co
mmunities that was frequently shown by politicians and others with influence? "One of the striking features of our neighborhood twenty years ago, and one to which we never became reconciled, was the presence of huge wooden garbage boxes" fastened to the street pavement in which the undisturbed refuse accumulated day by day. The system of garbage
collecting was inadequate throughout the city, but it became the greatest menace in a ward such as ours, where the normal amount of wasted was much increased by the decayed fruit and vegetables discarded by the Italian and Greek fruit peddlers, and by the residuum left over from
the piles of filthy rags which were fished out of the city dumps and brought to the homes of the rag pickers for further sorting and washing... "It is easy for even the most conscientious citizen of Chicago to forget the foul smells of the stockyards and the garbage dumps", when he is living
so far from them that he is only occasionally made conscious of their existence, but the residents of a Settlement are perforce constantly
surrounded by them. During our first three years on Halsted Street, we had established a small incinerator at Hull House, and "we had many
times reported the untoward conditions of the ward to the city hall." We had also arranged many talks for the immigrants, pointing out that although a woman may sweep her own doorway in her native village and allow the reuse to innocently decay in the open air and sunshine, "in a crowded city quarter, if the garbage is not properly collected and destroyed, a tenement-house mother may see her children sicken and die," and that the immigrants must therefore not only keep their own houses clean, but must also help the authorities to keep the city clean.
<span>The bonding agent function refers to the fact that political party is saddled with the responsibility of making sure that its candidates are well qualified and of good character. Essentially, </span>political parties function as “bonding agents”, to ensure the good performance of its candidates and officeholders.
