Connecticut western news., 1893-06-08

among the poor. wish to quote her ex- act words as to what she knows of the conditions of the poor in this city:
 "We pack the poor away in tenements crowded and foul beyond anything known even to London, whose bitter cry is less yours than ours. And we have taken excellent care that no foot of ground shall remain that means breath ing space, or free sport to child, or any green growing thing. Grass pushes its way here and there, but for this army of weary workers it is only something they may lie under, never upon.
 "There is no pause in the march. As one and another drops out the gap fills instantly, every alley and byway hold ing intending substitutes. It is not la Dor that profteth, for body and soul are alike starved. It is labor in it's basest and most degrading form-labor that is curse and never blessing, as true work may be and is. It blinds the eyes; 1t steals away joy; it blunts all power, whether of hope or faith; it wrecks the body, and it starves the soul; it is waste and only waste. Nor can it below ground or above hold fructifying power for any human soul. It is as student, not as professional philanthropist, that ] write, and the years that have brought experience have also brought 8 convic- tion, sharpened by every fresh series of facts, that no words, no matter what power of fervor may lie behind, can make plain the sorrow of the poor"
 King Otho of Bavaria is now 8 hope less maniac. In his lucid intervals only he realizes his terrible position. But his chief amusement seems to be shooting peasants. It seems to amuse the mad king to kill the peasants. Of course they do not let him really kill them, but they dress up 8 man as peasant, and he passes before the window, and the king seizes the rife which has been load ed with the paper shell, fires at his vic tim, and the victim instantly falls with dramatic effect and dies in great agony. The king looks on with the utmost glee at the result. What a horrible amuse- ment even for 8 maniac! And yet this is practically the results of the kings of our economic world. They may be mad it is the most kindly interpretation to put upon their actions-and yet the re- suits of their work is the staying of the weak. Not only is this fact, but it Is a fact that could be remedied, and it is a butchery that is useless and that is as destructive to the conservative forces of society as it is to the weak. It is need less death. It is a needless butchery.
 KRUPP GUN ESTABLISHMENT.
 Wherever great hearts have been com ,l~ pose to labor with the masses for their benefit we behold great fortunes cre- ated and created in way that signify something to humanity. We see what might be done with true sympathy and cooperation in capital and labor in the great Krupp gun establishment in Ger many. The old Krupp was the father and friend of the great army of men that worked in his magnificent shops. He paid them full wages. He loved them. He lived with them and of them. He was their counselor, their guide, their father, their friend, and when he died the great army of workingmen mourned for him as though God had taken from their own home circle their best beloved.
 Out of their earnings and savings they raised the money to build on the grounds magnificent monument to his memory. When the monument was unveiled, the younger Krupp, who succeeded the father at the head of the company, pre- sided Around this monument were gathered thousands with tear stained faces to do honor to the memory of their friend. The young man rose to make the address to the people. He was so overcome by the evidence of their love that shone in their faces that he could scarcely speak.
 From every side rose the murmurs of approval and of love and of sympathy for the young man so like his father. "God bless him." one said; "he is the image of bis Eathsri he is our friend. e