The representative., 1901-11-14

lpassed for good member of society. Eet
he was known to have wantonly killed more
than score of young women, coolly dis
posing of their bodies with chemicals, and
escaping detection for all of these crimes,
with nc other incentive than to rob them of
the wages due them for labor in his Office.
Had he not attempted to secure the insur-
ance he had placed on the life of victim
before killing him at later date, doubtless
all his former crimes would have remained
undiscovered.
The truth is mighty and must prevail.
And the truth of this matter is that the evil
and crime stalking abroad in the land is a
Legitimate product of a system of industry
which makes of sin and crime perfectly
natural condition. The commercia. spirit
which seems to permeate the majority of the
people is a product of the competitive sys-
tenn, and society is itself directly responsible
for more than ninety per cent of the evil
of the world today. Society brands the
gambler who deals cards across green
covered table, and receives with open arms
the greater gambler who deals in options
and futures, and who wrecks thousands
where the dealer at cards Injuries only him
self
THE TRAMP AND THE PARASITE.
Society demands that the tramp or vag-
rant, the social outcast upon the highway
of life, be arrested and locked up, because
he will not work. While the parasite in
broadcloth, who never worked day at
useful labor in his life, is permitted to bask
in the sunshine of plenty, for no better rea-
son than that he has been successful as
speculator in the necessaries OF life, and is
therefore able to occupy mansion on the
avenue of his chosen city. He may have &C
:umulated his dollars by questionable meth
)ds That matters not, so long as he has
them. And the doors of polite society
swing wide open to receive him, and ne IS
the much respected member of the four hun
dred.
Society makes standard for the meas
urement of the virtue of the women and
girls who are cursed by the sin OF our
mother Eve. Society is also responsible tor
the industrial conditions surrounding Our
sisters. and which offers to them a choice
between slavery and poverty with homer or
a glimmering hope of something better with
dishonor When one considers the envlr-
on1nent of ninety per cent of : e girls and
women in the stores and factories OF Our
great cities, is it any wonder that so many
of our sisters and daughters are to be tound
bartering their virtue for bread, or for COM
Portable places to live, or for decent clothes
to wear? Did the reader ever stop to think
that the competitive system of industry IS
entirely responsible for this growing evil
in every community, and that society Is en-
tirely responsible for the competitive sys-
tenn?
SOCIETY RESPONSIBLE.
Society makes a money standard for the
measurement of men and women. Society
is therefore responsible for the saloon, and
all it's train of ulcerating sores on the body
polite. The temperance people have taken
hold of the wrong end of the problem. They
are dealing with an effect of diseased sys-
tenn and not with the cause of the distress
and woe which follows in the wake OF the
saloon evil. No man or woman lives III
the world today who would engage IN the
manufacture or sale of liquor, or keep.
gambling house or brothel, were it not tor