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

But allow quote statement of the caae oiven hv
me in my reply to the Bishop of Manchester:
I'm all foreign nations where standard of living ia low
OF than in England your lorshp will find that the wages
are lower also.
HAS your lorshp heard our manufacturers tall the
English workers that they emulate the thrift and o.
briefly OF the foreigner they might successfully oomrste
against foreign competition in the foreign Nv lord
what does that but that thrift enable our people
to live on less, and SO to accept less wages?
"Your lorhp knows that shirtmakers here in Man.
chester are miserably paid
Ths because capitalism always keeps wages down to
the lowest standard of subsistence which people will accent
$50 long English women will consent to work lonp
hours and live tea and Bread the law of supply and de-
mand will maintain the present condition of sweating in the
shirt trade
III all our became firmly convinced that they
could not exist without chops aud bottled the wages
must go up to price to pay for those things.
Because there would be oeriug to live on tea
and bread; and shirts must be had.
but what my lord is the result of the abstinence Of
these sisters of ours? Low wages Themselves and
for others?
young merchant wants dozen shirte. He pays $50
each for them He meets friend who only gave 81 for
his He goes the 90 shop 5000 This is clear
profit and he spends it in CIGARS champagne or in some
other luxury and the poor seamstrss lives and
Many shallow thinkers that if determined to
would not that the qualities of energy talent and
self denial which enable to improve his condition
would enable all to improve their conditions For the
one man only succeeds because of his superior strength and
SKILL but if all displayed strength ekil equal to his
he could not rise.
Inere Panlcn theatre and fight for egress big
strong man vii! force his the bodies the weak
Now don't you how is for that man to tell the
weak that they strong he they could get out
II tney were as strong he he could get himself
short time ago certain writer much esteemed for his
graceful style of saying silly things informed us ths the
remain because they efficient desire to be
anything else Is that tre Are only the idle poor? Come
with me and will show you where and women work
from morning till night from week to week. from year to
year. at the full strength of their power dim and fetio
den and yet are pooray deetue-have for their wages
crust OF bread and rags will show you where men work
IN dirt and heat using the strength Of brutes for dozen
hours day and sleep at night syes until brain and mus
ce are exhausted and fresh slaves yoked golden
car OF and the broken drudges filter through tho
union or the prison to felons paupers grave! And
will show you how and thus work and suffer and
FAINT and de generation after generaton and will show
how harder wreches toll the worse
their lot becomes and will show you the graves and find
poor men whose lives lives of toll and poverty and
whose deaths tragedies
And all these things due sin-but is to the sin Of
the snug hypocrtes who grow upon the robbery and
the ruin of their fellow creatures