The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-11-07

find acknowledgment Of the fact that child what it is
taught to be.
Nov suppose child deprived of this education Suppose
born in poor howell in poor slum. Suppose home
surroundings such that cleanliness and modesy we'll
nigh impossible Suppose the gutter it's play grounds the
its nusery the factory its college, the drunkard
exempar the ruan and the thief instructors Suppose
bad aursing bad air. bad water bad food dirt hunger ill.,
usage foul language and hard work its daily portion
Suppose had inherited poor blood dull spirits enfeebled
w.t. and sunted STATURE from it's fed untaught ovework
3D. miserable ignorant and unhealthy parents you ex-
pect that child to be clever and moral and thrifty and cean
and sober?
Again What next to their education and surroundings
makes welbred and welltaught children happy good
and industrious? Simply their good and pleasant
ment Lite is to them worth living They comfort and
love and knowledge andhope But the child of great
unwashed" has Of these things His lot labor and
poverty his pleasure is in drunkenness and gambling his
future gloomer than his horrible present talk about
the social vuee These poor not even food
or rest or air. light Now say give them food and air.
and light and leisure give them education and give them
hope and they will to be vicious and improvident
The poor The poor The poor The thrftlessness of the
poor The neperance Of the poor The ideness of the
poor Howtong have yet to listen this cackle How
long have - to e prat about the poor about the
working CLASSES who knew what poverty who never
knew what hunger MEANS who did of manual
labor and whose knowledge of he poor got from the po
and the novels and the essays of university swe
from fultve and unchartabe glapces public
steps the pawnhop door their exceences carriages
hurryng them through the outskirts of the sums
There is belief to the effect that poor were
all INDUSTRIOUS SOBER and thrifty they would to be
poor. This error arises from confusion of thought
II quite true thata sober will succeed better than
drunken man. but Ii not true that if all the people we're
sober their wages would increase
Suppose there ten clerks Office nine of whom are
unsteady and steady The steady will very likely be-
head clerk But this because he is steady but be-
the others not steady For you will observe that no
thinks OF promoting clerk because he honest for
few clerks being dishonest the honest clerk not singular
You must not suppose that because sober ndusr
will succeed-n trades-beter than drunk
and lazy that therefore the whole trade would sue
coed better by becoming abstaners and hard workers.
You fond Of acts" What the with regard to
thrift and industry amongst the workers?
The Hndoos amongst the abstemious and indus
rous people, and they about the people in
the world The immigrant Jews in the tailoring slipper
trades wonderfully thrifty SOBER and Industrious
work terribly long hours for shamefully low wages
Under competition the workers do gain any advantage
by being sober and Industrious They gain lower depth
serdom and harder task Of slavery If the Engshmen will
work for fifteen hours and live bread and cheese the
and that what your capitalists when they tell you
that Engshmen being pushed out Of the market by for
gners because foreigners will work harder and take pay