Question

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?

Answer 1

to convince the public that people in poverty need help

Step-by-step 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.