The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-03
VERY NICE INDEED!

Does the man who tolls with his hands
III This country spend any time thinking
about the future: Does he pay any at
tention to what Is said to him in political
speeches! Does lie know that his wage
was higher and work more plentiful
under protection than it is since the
Democratic party came in!
Is he more satisfied with his condition
today than he was fire years ago. or ten
years ago: Does he realize that one set
OF men in this country are pulling with
all their might towards free trade:
| Ii he does not. he had better.
Tom Mann, the most trusted leader
day spoke at Newcastle-on- Tyne, in
beautiful free trade England, on Oct.
2Sth. 1898 and his testimony on the
/ splendors of free trade is interesting.
This is from an English paper:
] He was familiar with many men who
/ were working now regularly fourteen
| hours out of the twenty-fOur, six days 1,
week, AS long as the physical frame could
! stand 1t. lie knew that many of these re-
/ ceived such shocking remuneration that
how they tried and schrmed, and even
I lodged as they had to do. II. knew that
their wives aud families We're always
worrying as TO how To make ends meet
I There was no real development; no op.
por unity of developing the better aud
noblvr side Of their nature. Ii was always
a question of how TO get the bread that
, perIsheIh. There was no ohaLce for
mental development. They We're as COM
pIetely shut out from ali the real joys OF
| lie as though they We're absolutely in "a
Kennel. That was bad. But there were
living in the same houses, thousands
OF men WHO could not work at all
who could get no opportunity OF earn
Ing wages Tor many many months at u
5 reich. could get nothing that would en-
able them aud their families t. live with
out resortlug ID the wife gong out aud
doug "A bit OF chHrrlug and little odd Jobs
or getting the children 10 run aud sell pa
pers or matches, or 10 beg, and borrow
aud steal, and StaTve aud die T. at WAS
going on in every large town in Britain.
In London alone, there We're no less than
I'VE hundred Thousand people, or oue-tenJh
OF the whole population. He was not Us
lng figures lightly, he had good an op-
pottunity 10 come into direct Contact with
the facts OF the case as any man IN the
country, aud could prove evsr ~ : agemeuI
he made. There were five hundred Inous-
and men. women aud cAildreu IN the Me
tropo-ltssn area, who were low n state
OF Jurisprudence, who could net Get food t.
sustain their life Ii they disputed this
could they explain how il was That in many
districts men were cyIuE at the nv
erage age Of twenty five wears iu-
stead OF siAty-nve Or seventy years.
Could they explain bow sucl Il careful co..
hector OF facts a. NE. Chss. Booth tad
showu-auC he did nos know that any os.e
had challenged has stssenlsuIs-thaI Ia : as
whole metropolitan ARA there were - per
cent below The poverty llue Of - week.
Bnt II they went - the wurAlu: class ais
tricts. properly, they got from - 10 90 per
cent OF The pnpulati n under tast poverty
: line In Yorkshire the skilled
wos knan could ges on an average $ 30
per Week, and could only set food on the
table by his wife taking the baby from he
breast az half past i've az tue morning.
handing u over 10 another woman or g.rI
VINO would be paid 10 take charge OF il
while she went 10 the mill ~ g 0'CICCk 10
WORK along with the men, giving forth a.
mucn physical effort a. tue men: and rhea
1 a. meal times instead u sitting down WIKI