Milford chronicle., 1903-09-11

good fathers; one day per week to
teach man his duty TO his fellow men
and to his state; one day out Of every
seven to teach a man how his life may
be spiritual and his death glorious
Rest, Rest" A Sabbath for sacred
rest and worship should be the cry Of
the church. May this Christian pulpit
on this Labor Sunday help TO be the
means of leading the church and the
labor unions to clasp hands in the holy
conspiracy Of capturing the Sabbath
for God. recapturing it for physical
and mental and spiritual rest and in
vigoration.
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a consecrated and gospelized ballot
box Is also TO be u great factor in teach
ing the laboring classes how to spend
their evenings. This means that by
the election of the proper health otii
cials and district attorneys and munic-
bDal representatives the better classes
saall be able TO so into the city Sums
and clean out The vile formations and
accumulatioas OF fifth. Jacob A. Riis
IN his great book, How the Other Half
Lives" declared that in some of New
Yori;'s back alleys, a-choke with refuse
piles the light Of the sun. as in Devil
canyon, in Arizona, can never shine.
lie declared that the walls Of one tene-
mcnt in Blind Mans alley" were So
covered over with filth that though II
caught fire six times in winter it could
not burn. The filthy incrustations ac-
cumulatcd upon the walls of that tene-
ment did literally smother the flames.
1t means that these elected officers
shall see that each family must haye
rooms for Itself. No moral lessons can
ever be taught where there are four or
five married couples, with their chill
dren, occupying the same apartment.
A Du2lin missionary said that once he
found five different families all living
within the same four walls Of one
room-one husband and wife for each
corner and one family for the center OF
the room-and "Oue Of those families
was taking in boarders" 1t means
that no criminals as a class shall be
allowed to collect in one region These
haunts If necessary shall be RACED to
the ground and turned into parks. as
New York city is now constructing
small parks Mt street corners which
We're once famous for their infamies.
The Uncrowned King.
But some one again interrupts me:
In these charges against the city ten
ements are you not slandering our Ia
boring classes? You surely do not COM
pare the American army Of labor with
those wild, desperate crowds Of fren-
zied men who. emerging from the eel
lars and foul haunts of Paris. started
on their famous journey to Versailles.
which ended in the death of Louis
NYI and Marie Antoinettc. the
queen, Maria Theresa? DO you charge
the laborihR classes with being tue
physical and spiritual menace OF tie
word:" Oh. no. my brother l am in
no way slandcring the iaboring classeS
believe that some OF the most cleanly
and moral and refined homes of the
world are found among the laOorers rs
Wei as among tie capitalists. Ent TINS
is what l 10 assert: The laboring man
is the uncr0wned king Of the American
ballot box What he votes is law. 1t
rests upon his shoulders. to Il great eX-
tent low our cities and counties are
to be ruled 1t rests with him whether
the sewers shall be clean. whether the
tenemonts shall be made sanitary and
not overcrowdod. whether the million
immigrants who landed in the country
last year some Of whom come as the
most degraded and ignorant of Euro
pean inhabitants. shall be made TO OBJ
serve decencies. and whether sin itself
shall skulk ana hide in the darkness.
How Tie laboring man spends his even
ings is decided 20 great extent by the
question whether the laboring man
shall license sin and let leering eyed
temptation stAlE through our cities and
towns. like the Indian juggcTn9ut
which crushed its victims mt every turn
of the fatal wheels