The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-06-21

IRE large classes who find IL difficult
with the hard. st toll 10 make Nh honest
and sufficient livelihood. So II il.
"Thcre js,' incidentally said to me,
recently. u New York District Judge,
IA large class was about to say
mn aiority of the population of Now
York and Brooklyn who just live, and
to whom the rearing of two more chill
drcn means inevitably boy for tho
pententiary and Il girl for tho brothel.
\ partial rel ort Of charitable work in
New York city, pot embracing tho
operations of number Of important
societies shows ~, 900 families obtain
ing relief while it is estimated that
we're the houses in New York city con-
! tanning criminals and the recipients of
charity set side hy side they would
make street twenty-five miles long
| Onc charitable society in New York
city extended MD this winter to the
families Of 200 tailors. Their wages arc
SO small when they do work tint when
work gives out they must log. steal or
starve.
Nor is this state Of things confined to
the metropolis. In Massachusetts tho
stati>tician of the Labor Bureau dc-
clarcs that among wage ltborcrs the
earnings texclusivc Of the earnings of
mincrs) are less t'lan the cost of living;
that in the majority Of eases working
men do not support their families on
their individual earnings alone, and
that fathers are forced to depend on
their children for from onc-qlnrtcr 10
onctlird Of the family earnings, chill
dren under ID supplying one-eighrl to
ono sixth the total earnings Miss
Emma +. Brown has shown how
parents are forced to avado the law pro-
!, hibiting the employment Of Young chill
dren, and in Pennsylvania. where n
similar law has been passed, read
: how. forced by the same necessity. the
} operatives of mill have resolved to
boycott sturekeeper whose relative
! had informed that children under II
were employed. While in Canada last
winter it was shown that children under
J l3 were kept ut work III the mills from
J & in the evening to q in the morning, a
man on duty with strap TO keep them
awake.
Illinois is one Of the richest States
o. tile Union. Ii lS Stulttla YET i;iIi /.
. settled, for the last census shows the
male population in excess Of the female
: and wages are considerably higher than
4 in more Eastern States. In their las
9 report, the Illinois Commissioners O
: Labor Statistics say that their table o
t wages and cost of living are representa-
tive only of the intelligent workinsmei
!, who make the most OF their advantages
. and do not reach the confines Of tha
9 world Of helpless ignorance AMI desti
= tuition III which multitudes III all larg
: cities continually live, and whose onl,
. statistics are those Of epidemics, pau
+ perism and crime Nevertheless, the,
' 20 on to say. Fan examination Of thes
Q tables will demonstrate that one.half .
Q these intelligent workingmen OF lllinoi
/ are not even allie to earn enough 10
: their daily bread, and have to depen'
+ upon the labor of women and children
to eke out their mi.erable existence.
:. 1t is a fool who saith in his heart ther
:, is no God; but what shall we call tia
h man who tells us that. with this sort 9
Q world, God bids rs be content?