The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-21
MISS. MoRRow's POSITION.

MISS. MoRRow's POSITION.
She Answers Criticism Published In
Tuesdays Review
Miss Morrow, who addressed the
union park meeting last Sunday even
ing, requests the publication of the
following answer to the Review of
Tuesday:
EDITOR DENIsoN REVIEW
In the writeup of the park services
last Sabbath evening the writer has
evidently failed to comprehend the
point l endeavored to make. l am
quoted as saying the condition OF the
poor is because of low wages received
and that failed to show that it was
because of the improper use of their
earnings that the laboring man had q
hard time.
1t was not my purpose to discuss the
question as to how the laboring man
should spend his money, but rather to
show that the laborer today does not
receive full return for his labor.
So long as three-fourths of the wealth
of the country is owned by less than Is
per cent of the people; so long as the
wealth-producing class does not receive
the full returns on their labor, so long
is their injustice done the wealth.pro-
Queer. The question before us is not
what will the laboring man do with his
money!. but rather how can we so adjust
conditions so as to prevent one man
from taking the product of another's
labor. No matter if the wage Garner
i spends his earnings for the most trifling
and useless things, it does not in any
way change the fact that he is entitled
to the full reward of his labor. The
IprOblem of educating him to spend his
money for that which will be for his
best physical, mental and spiritual de-
velopment is an all together different
Iquestion, and there is a difference of
opinion as to what is involved in the
word ''best''.
d Prof. Ely, we'll known authority on
social economics, says in 1.-The Labor
Movement in America: Drinking is
most prevalent among working people,
where the hours of labor are long.n
We are not asking for an equal dis.
tribution of wealth, and to charge So
cial economics with such claim is un-
just. We ask for equality of oppoltun-
, ity.
A careful perusal of the works of
Prof. Richard I. Ely, Washington
GLADDEN.. Prof. Heron, Victor Hugo's
.sLes Miserables", and also his 1.-The
3 Man Who Laughs" will be of great
benefit to those, who are seeking earn
!. estly and conscientiously to know more
about the social conditions and to settle
, these vexed problems.
81 He who is willing to be convinced
and to follow where his convictions
lead him, hath already found the way
to liberty. for we are told to know the
3 truth, and the truth will make us free
l would be pleased to converse witt
/, any one on these problems while an
in Denison. Truth can always be dis
! cussed. M. LENA MORROW.
! -Denison Bulletin.
We publish with pleasure the above
from Miss Morrow. The REVIEW doe.
not object to Miss Morrow expressing
her opinion and to great extentagree.
/, with her. The mere statement of fact,
!, tending to create discomfort without
the suggestion of a remedy does M
!, Igood however. We all realize that We
are far from the millennium and we al
wish we could live to see it, We d.
: believe, however, that there never wa.
. a time in history nor a country in tn,
world where the worker received ,
larger proportion of the fruits of hi!
toll than he does in America today
!, Forty years ago in good old Buchanan
times men got SO cents day. Under
!. the Cleveland administration meI
were glad to get dollar and today 20,
cannot employ man in Denison fol
!, less than $3.50 for days labor and tn,
!, price usually paid is from $1.75 to 50 90
Mayor Kemming informed US yester
, day that it was almost impossible tt
get men to work on the streets. Will
this condition existing the professional
agitator who simply seeks to arous,
discomfort has but very little place il
the world.
AS a lecturer Miss Morrow is doubt
less all right but we sometimes doubt
. the propriety of having our pulpit
given up to every agi ator or lecture
who comes along. If they must tall
r let them hire hall and go at it.
l A Second Letter.
EDITOR REVIEW:
The address given by me at the parl
: last Sabbath evening seems to be tn,