The midland journal., 1896-06-12

to realize all this, and are demand
ing change. United American.
Our Civilization Under the Gold Rule
English Jew Money System
or Rothschild Plan.
The following is a especial" from
New York to daily paper:
"The number of the unemployed
in New York city far exceeds
20, 900, and this army is increasing
at terrible rate. In factories, men,
women and children are MANNED by
machinery, sometimes killed, and
their families are the greater suf
ferers. Innumerable lodging houses
accommodate thousands of wrecked
eXistences and miserable wretches.
In the homes of the poor the moth
ers and wives lead life of terrible
drudgery and untold misery. In
factories white slave girls toll from
early dawn till late in the night,
being fined heavily for laughing,
talking, lounging or sitting down.
i Harsh treatment, continuous over
work and miserable pay soon reduce
the fresh and plump country girl
to mere skeleton. Upon the
streets swarms of beggar children
are roaming about, selling flowers,
paper, etc., as blind. There is
fearful mortality in the tenement
house pest holes. Death reaps a
rich harvest among the babies of
the poor during the sweltering
summer months. Instead of being
in school, there are 10000 children
in ill-ventilated, unhealthy, unsafe
factories, shaving as seldom did a
slave in the south or a serf in the
middle ages. Too much work for
some, no work for many; low wages
and long hours are the price of a
bare existence. Short lived men,
sickly women, puny children of
stunted growth, are toiling at home
and in the shop, week days and
Sundays, day and night. In vain
men and women are fighting against
competing machines run by tiny
children. The rents for the poor
are higher in New York than any
where else, the evictions are num-
erous and as heartlessly executed as
in Ireland.
estate bread is the staple food.
The poor pay more for their bushel
of coal, in comparison, than the
millionaire for his tens of tons.
The necessaries of life are adulter-
ated. The grocer seems to think
that milk and water, butter and fat,
sugar and sand, mashed potatoes in
bread, do not hurt the stomachs of
those who do not protest, cannot
protect themselves, and do not
know how to get their rights. The
clothing of the poor are considered
rags by better todo people. Shoes
in summer and socks in winter are
considered luXuries many cannot
afford. Incompetent and careless
, medical treatment in hospitals is
killing the poor by hundreds. If
hospitals could talk, they would
tell many tale of cruelty, neglect
and fiendishness. The rich man
gives bail, but the poor witness is
sent to the house of detention,
. while his family starves.
"The poor of the people, the out
casts of society, the pariahs of mod
ern civilization, are becoming more
irritated every year. Bread and
work are what they want. In Lon
don, Berlin, Vienna and New York
the army of the unemployed, the
dissatisfied, the starving, is grow
ing from month to month. Char
tiles of every kind have been tried
and found unavailing. Never has
there been so much suffering as
now. With all the facilities imag-
Unable to make the life of every
individual happy and secure, some
competent Observers have pro-
nounced our system of society a
gigantic failure.
''Nor is this state of affairs pecu-
liar to New York. From all the
great centers of population, not
only in America, but throughout
the world, come reports of similar
suffering and an alarming increase
in misery. What great mind will