The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-01-17
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROBLEM
sy<%JAs. EH.SBRoWER. in Chicago sooiaiist

When McGinnts met. =. Murphy at
hoohhan's store the morning after the
coal baron's cave, Murphy, a stout
supporter of private; property rights,
accosted him thus, =;
McGinnis, I~suppose be TIL look an
yer Ameraoanized: eountenance, yez
IRE well PLACED wild the graceful sur
randher iv the operators
Bedad," McGinnis rep1ied I'm "
tn opinion that the graeefulness " the
surrindher is tn only, redamin' feaeh-
ure w in the :proceedins'. .: = But me
Board, man! e The Boardl Ye're easy
A4urphS-ye're easy. Look at tn con-
dittons.-Wan " tn Commissioners is
TO be naitnber av tn royal artillery
an high nogsA in th art Nv butcher
IN IN unifornn-annyway it's wan iv tn
perduisitions--an tn wife " me boss
says wfin nnintio1lin' a necessary arti-
cle-that he be q nai,nber iv tn war
Flor illiment iv society, an shure it's
tn man iv blood beatin' his brains Until
submission to tn voice iv tn dove "
PEACE.
An tn sicond man, Murphy
What's tn sicond MANI No, yez don't
made to look 1t up in tn paper-rve
got hsrn IN me minds eye, an I'll show
him til yez.
He's sochialologist, an he's to be
on tn Board to smell out tn unsani-
tary conditions that's runnin' rampant
IN tn miners palatial residences, in
tn interests II the plumbing trust"
Il don't behave wan word iv it-th'
Boards to be free to do anything
they wiA-yez may take my word f'r
that-ftsB a conspiracy against our free
inafiuch1ons
THE paper yez hev in yer hands
says he's to be a sochialologist ~ ma
shonal rep,1tation--wan we'll up in tn
grade, or he wont be acciptible to tn
operet1ohfsts-in a word, he must
not only be smeller out iv uncovered
Stop jars an other denominations
amongst tn benighted miners, but he
must be able to squirt a conclusive
load iv logic Until tn rist iv the Board
an take it his remarks 'ud .rade
like this
II find that me inchuitive science
(whativer the divvle that may be- in
clines me to tn opinion that many dis
turbin iv tn social life Nv tn minspa
be tn introduction Nv more close an
better homes, wild a consequint increase
IN tn hdmber Nv dishes an the table,
which same wud imply a. relatively
larger assortment av vichtuals, wud
tind TO create condition iv socfial un-
rist at pristnt unknown amongst tn
miners. T'day be tn erase Nv God an
me frind Baer. TIL miners hev all iv
%o1~ es+ie
Gus struggle for existence, an the
QUESTION iv social pre-inminence does
not disturb tn placid clein Nv, there
'ves"--an' he casts his sochialologtcal
eye&*over tn. assimbled +, Board an
=, praYely gpracee ds.:z.sM anst 81 all
miners family to be Elevated Until TIT
sthratum iv society where th'&aquistion
is, which is tn biggest toad in tn ring
in all iv Hell's Hollow, is tn all-ab-
sorbin' QUESTION, an y ,hev added an
other link to tn chain that's bein'
welded to pull down tn free instituch-
ions iv legitimate undhertakins' in TIL
land" and wanst more tn sochialolo-
gist casts his eye over the Board an
proceeds--It's me opinion, honorable
sirs, that it's betther to lave tn mis-
guided people iv tn mimi disthricts
in tn comparative quiet iv tn present
state than to Elevate thin be wage
scale Until the disasthrous' conditions
is sochial rivalry. TIL only recon-
,nendations I'm inclined to make at
Their me arjuous labors in behalf Nv tn
people and this most august Board is
that a system iv sewers an sanitary
closets, wild sinks be tn side Nv them
be put Until tn homes iv TIL miners
an that tn same be paid for be tn