Hartford labor., 1894-10-20

zens of Hartfotd, to read such continents
 upon those data as with your knowledge
 of local conditions you are, no doubt bet.
 ter htted to make than I am. Considering
 my own city of New York, which in the
 growth and
 Concentration of It's Wealth
 IS the highest expression of American
 capitalism, here is, however, what I can
 report In the 13 years, 1SS1-1Se3, inclu-
 s1ve, the increase of its population was
 over 6oOO0O. Thirty per cent of this num-
 per were children of the legal school age
 q. e., from to IS year,, while 22 per cent
 or over 13O,00o, were children between E and 14-a period which may be taken as the actual school age, under present con- d1t1ons, and which is recognized as such
 By Our Sham State Law
 on compulsory education In those 13 years, however, the increase of attend ance at the public schools was only 2s,52s, leaving more than 100000 children to be accounted for in addition to the large number which in 1880 represented the quantity of ignorance already then manu- factured by the capitalistic system Taking into account the number of chfI- dren between 6 and IA in the parochiaI and private schools, it is safe to assert that
 No Less Than 10000 Children of that age receive no education whatever Yet, in school hours, with the exception of 'boot-blacks'' and newsboys, you can see but few children on the streets Where are they? Some. unquestionably, noto- riously, are in factories in violation of our other sham law on factory inspec- tion, while the much greater number are in commercial establishments, which the operation. Indeed, it would not do
 To Deprive the CapitaIfst Class of such valuable labor as that of children. It's effect upon the general labor mar ket'' is felt as well from it's flowing into commercial establishments as it would if allowed to flow openly and freely into factories. It supplants there labor which must sell itself elsewhere. Thus is the capitalist class the creator of abundance, untiB the product of its industry and ab- stinence-by proxy-bursts into a glut of human beings. Some years ago, when succeeded in stirring little, for short time, the authorities of New York, by agitation on our stupendous lack of school accommodations, the Chil- ing of having exported to other States, farmed out,
 Given Away Inxo Practical Slavery, from the, date of it's foundation. eighty thousand, g0,000) of the indigent children of the American metropolis; and it com plained of the inadequacy of it's financial resources for the increasing work of this noble character which it's wealthy and benevolent members had undertaken to 10. Their benevolence, in fact. is so in- adequate that then. society Is heaviiy .ity to thus cart away. out of sight. the human refuse of a. system under which, to your bold assertion. "one mans wealth is not the cause of another nan's poverty
 I Referred tp the Newsboys. Not only is this little mass of active, in> lustrious,, hungry, ragged. barefooted' ig- torrance most important factor in the dissemination of s.Tntelligence::', not only s it to those grifny little slaves that the wealthy idIer, who has mastered the of letters and capitalfstic lrithmetbc at Yale or in any other great institution of learning, is indebtedf for ,eing served at his well-garnished table with the~scandals of the day and thenQuo- ations Of his stocks; but
 It is Hrosa, Tfsedr Puny Shoulders. hat have been reared the magnificent piles of. brass dome Journalism. Every ,ne of them has< contributed thousands ,f bricks to those modern pyramids by hat part of hiss unpaid exertions which vas retained ass s.profit', in the pocket ,f sonae enterprising speculator on the. products and requirements of the Ameri- ,an .istellect.'' Hence. we don't hear much oS such facts as have just stated. But I say, as, have said many times 
 Shame Upon That Great Press, he so-calledl bufwark of our liberties .nd torch bearer of progress which thus hriwes upona the misery and ignorance If the little children of America! I hear vou repeat for the third time. as if ,a6 produced no evidence in rehnttaf. hat the waste of the wealthy is a bene- aetion to the poor. So probably, said lie Pharaohs who built the pyramids; snd so would you think, quite honestly doubt not, if some wealthy man
 AnxfDus to Perpefuate Nnnae otherwise deserving of oblivion, wanted vou to duplicate in cur Nineteenth Cen ury environment one of those monstrous to human depotism and vain ,lory That 'it would employ labor youlB be your stereotyped answer and he general proposition l iald m my