The Marshall republican., 1910-06-03
Fears Social Revolution

Arcadia, Mo-, May 25.-Social con
dition in cities and in st. Louis
especially portend a bloody revo-
luton, according to Archbishop j,
j. Glennon of st ..ou.s, who, among
others, addressed the second days
session of the Mississippi Land
and immigration Congress in Iron
ton to-day.
awe have in st. Louis a group
Of twenty milionaires who hold
most of the wealth Of the city,
said Archbishop Glennon. We
have also 100000 working people,
slaves, who are herded in squalid,
unsanitariary tenements. They
are able to give those dependent
on them a bare living. Those civ
ic conditions have driven the poor
of the cities to desperation. The
situation portends a revolution, a
bloody revolt against such a state
of affairs. Steps must be taken to
anticipate such a crisis"
The archbishop argued that both
millionaires and the workmen
should be brought to the country,
there to have instilled into them a
different view Of life, that the con-
ditions of each may be bettered,
The po"r man never can hope
to W q nonir IL. the city. But
in the country there awaits him
not only a home but plenty to eat,
fresh air, and opportunities for
the full enjoyment of life.
His grace was followed on the
platform by Gov. Hadley, who re-
ferred forcibly to the fact that in
the recent past thousands of peo-
pie have gone to Western and
Southern States to homestead,
passing in ~traversing Missouri
through better land than they
could hope to find at their desti-
nation. Gov. Hadley, among other
things said:
"You are having a new expert
ence in looking upon a Republican
governor of Missouri. I'm sure to
the ladies present it is a new SEN
sation for there hasn't been a Re-
publican governor in Missouri for
forty years. Just now the cost OF
living is agitating the entire ma
ton. Newspapers and magazines
are attempting to aid in the solu-
ton of the problem. The high cost
of living is due to the lack of pro-
portion between supply and de-
mand. The country has developed
so rapidly that the number Of Pre-
ducers has not kept pace with the
number of consumers. There are
now three consumers for every
two producers, whereas it has been
only a short time since the pro-
portion was the reverse. In 1905
exports of food stuff from the Unit
ed States decreased $4,000, OOC
against 1903, while in the same per
iod the imports of food stuffs into
the United States increased $4,000
600. This has presented to the
people of the nation one of the
most important problems they ever
had to face.
"Today four-fifths of the Amer
icanpeople' do not make in excess
of $500 a year. Ona-tenth do not
get enough to eat. In Missouri we
have a question closely related ia
the national problem of the cost OF
living. People regard Missouri as
a state so widely exploited that
there is no longer opportunity
They go across lands in the state
better than they could hope to find
further on, and they settle in dis
tant commemorative. We are car
rying the message that Missouri
has more opportunities for inves-
tors and homeseekers than any
other state west of the Mississippi.
We have more opportunities foi
poor and rich to gain betterment
than any other state in theUnion
The governor enlarged on the
opportunity presented by the
Ozarks and by the Acadia Valley
for dairying, saying that this pos
sibility has been too much over
looked. He explained that the two
cows he owns, which together cost
him $40, pay him 6 per cent or
an investment of $4,000. The sol
and grass of this region he said
are ideal for dairying. This is but
one OF the many opportunities Mi
souri, offers. He concluded with