The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-07
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but who cling to the cities as reaches do to
the boards of q decayed dwelling house,
could be removed, or would remove them
selves 10 the country or the smaller towns,
they could readily be supplied with fresh
air, food and work, and could easily be
made self-su5taining; bnt in the absence
OF compulsory statute they will not 60
Poor or idle persons are rarely seen in
manufacturing or mining towns, except
on the occasion of q strike or some I'M
toward ebullition abnormal in its nature.
To obviate the latter, | would have an
arbitration. board, or quasi-court TO settle
promptly all difficulties arising between
employer and employed established at
every point where large numbers of men or
women are mployed, who could consider
the difficulty promptly as soon as the dis
affection begins, and before great losses
often ruins entailed upon employer and
employed, and many times in the interest
OF hot-headed or oyer-ambitious men. The
first duty ofan employer is the welfare and
comfort of those under him, and he has
no right to become millionaire on their
poorly-paid labor. The greed of the en-
ployers in their haste to get rich and
the determination of those who buy
to purchase ut the lowest possible price
has had much TO do in grinding down
the laborer 4 nation is prosperous
only so far as every individual of her
commonwealth is OTOspered 1t is a
inals in our penal institutions are men,
and more than one-haif of those in work
houses and pauper asylums. This leads
TO another conclusion. namely, that the
drink and tobacco habits have much to do
with the pauperism and crime of the
country. as much the larger proportion
addicted to these habits are men. Both
act on the nervous Centers, destroy vi
tality and efficiency, intlame passion,
weaken the intellect and consume for
tunes. They lead to pauperism and crime.
The tramps of today are largely the aban-
doned children Of. criminal parentage,
who have grown up without education or
habits of work.
Fourth-A sound currency and plenty
of the circulating medium tor all of the
necessities of trade and commerce have
much 10 do with the financial success of
the business portion of a community, and
this always involves all the smaller
dealers and depositors who depend upon
the larger ones in the case Of n money
stringcncy. 1t would not have taken
much Of a prophet TO foreteli that the
last wear would be fraught with bank
failures and financial disasters. and that
they would carry with them ruin and dis
may to many house Of heretofore unim-
peaChed standing The withdrawal of
bonds from the national banks in the pay
mCnt Of the public debt and the necessary
contraction of the currency engendered
thereby has borne It's legitimate results.
There is no reason why the general gov
eminent Itself should not issue ali of the
money necessary for the use Of the
country and be responsible for its re-
demption.
Fiith-rhe education of our children is
10 very large extent wrong, and especial
~ that Of the female portion. and III a
largo number OF instances entails upon
them poverty and misfortune | would
| have compulsory education and Comuul-
| sorry labor taught the child. commencing
| with his seventh year. The industrial
school : undoubtedly to- become the
school oi The future. Both mind aud
body OF the child should be cultivated,
and at the expense of the state, As the good
OF the state requires it. Every child Of
| the commonwealth, whether OF rich
| or poor parents, male or female,
should be taught some trade or
| profession by which he may be
| able 10 earn u livelihood, and be made
| proficient IA It. They should learn the use
! OF money. be taught economy, and self
/ denial II necessary, learn the effects of
/ alcoholic stiilulauts and narcotics on the
! human body, and that exercise only viii
perfect the human system. The pauper Is
| either the incompetent man or woman, or
! Is slave In appetite aud vice. The child
/ who earns money Is taught economy At
| the same time lie appreciates its value
| He Viii speld his fathers money like
/ water, but not his own. The question Of
! wealth and poverty is soon to become =
/ great national one. Wealth i acquired
! quite ass mach by knowing how 10 save it
| Is hoy 10 acquire Il.