The representative., 1901-03-28

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ThEGREATH HALFARMY
The Patient Intelligence of Woman
Has Socialixed the World.
There lies In the center of each mans
heart
pure;
And II but an atom, or larger part,
l tell you this shall endure-endure-
After the body has gone to decay
Yea, after the world has passed away.
The longer l live and the more see
OF the struggle Of souls toward the
heights above,
The stronger the truth come home to
That the universe rests on the shoul-
ders of love;
A love so limitless, deep and broad.
That men have renamed it and called
lt-GOd.
And nothing that ever was born or
evolved,
Nothing created by light or force,
But deep In its system there lies dis
solved
A shining drop from the Great Love
Source;
A shining drop that shall live for aye
Though kingdoms may perish and stars
decay.
Kindly inform me through the COL
umns of the Journal whether l have a
MORAL right to get married. making
only 81 week in average. l wish TO
call your attention to the fact that the
average wages of all hard-labor men is
about the same as mine. All the statis-
tics will prove 1t to you. And If have
no right to lead a family life, no one of
the great mass of workingmen> has q
right to have happy home for himself.
Is this JUSTICE?
No, this is not justice. Justice is not
system.
Yet things are better than they used
to be, and all the world is waking up to
the necessity of still further improve
ing our social structure.
When | say things are better than
they used to be, my mind goes back to
historical events and the conditions Of
the poor before the days Of the French
revolution. The man who today earns
81 week Is a prince of finance when
compared with the man in the same
station Of life in any European country
during that era.
Nevertheless the .world-especially
our grand new Democratic world-ought
to make swifter progress than it has
made in the last century toward adjust
ing the relations of the laborer and the
capitalist.
We have taken some important strides
forward in the way Of power and mater
ial progress but we have allowed our
selves to lurch backward during the
last so years in the line of justice and
equity.
Nevertheless, our very errors are to be
stepping stones to better conditions.
The masses Of the people are more in
telligent than ever before in the worlds
history-thanks to the penny library
the daily newspaper-accessible to
every man.
This intelligence leads the people to
an intelligent revolt against the unfair
distribution Of the results of their la
bors, and against the unfair favoritism
shown the wealthy classes in matters of
taxation.
There Is discomfort and Indignation in
the whole Industrial air today, and there
is already an organized movement ON
foot for Peoples trust" headed by Mr..
Bradford Peck, of Lewiston, Me-, who
has the good of the workingmen at heart
and no mercenary or selfish motive be-
meath.
Mr.. Peck Is a man of wealth, and
might have ranked himself among our
greediest millionaires had he so chosen.
Instead, when his large department
store business began to coin wealth, he
turned 1t into a cooperative concern,
and allowed his employees to share the
profits.
Once he established the fact that such
movement could be made a practical
success, he turned his attention to intro
ducing the system elsewhere and organ
izing a universal peoples trust" and
making "all the world a department
store" The company is already formed
and anyone desiring further informa-
tion Of this splendid move in the right
direction can write to Mr. Bradford Peck
OF Lewiston, Me. God speed him. The
only way to hight the trust evil is with a
greater trust-the peoples trust Mr..
Peck does not believe Il u the highest