The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-04-14
REV OLU TON
BY JACK LONDON
(Continued from last week.

prosperous and most enlightened
country of the world. In the United
States there are 100000 people liv-
ing in poverty. BY poverty Is meant
that condition in life in which, thru
lack of food and adequate shelter,
the mere. standard Of working eff1c-
iency can not be maintained. In the
United States there are 100000 peo-
pie who can not keep the ordinorr
measure Of strength in their bodies.
This means that these 100000 peo-
pie are perishing, are dying, body and
soul, slowly, because they have not
enough to eat. All over this broad,
prosperous, enlightened land, are
men, women and children, who are
living m:serably. In all the great cit
les, where they are segregated in
slum- ghettos by hundreds OF thou-
sands and by millions, their misery
becomes beastliness. No cave-man
ever starved. as chemically as they
stare, ever slept as Wiley as they
eileen. ever festered with rottenness
and disease as they Tester, nor ever
toiled as hard and for as long hours
as they toll.
In Chicago there is a woman VINO
toiled sixty hours per week. she
was a garment worker. She seWed
buttons on clothes Among the Nal-
ian garment workers of Chicago, the
average weekly scale OF the oress-
makers IS 80 cents, but they work
every week in the year. The aver
age weekly wage of the pants finish
ers is S1.31, and the average NUMBER
of weeks employed in the year is
27.S5. The average yearly earnings
Of the dressmakers is $1,000; OF the
pants fnisners, S42.41. Such wages
means no childhood for the children,
beastliness of living, and starvation
for all.
Unlike the cave-man, modern man
can not get food and shelter by work
ing for it. Modern man has nrst 10
find the work, and in this he is OFTEN
unsuccessful. The misery becomes
acute. This acute misery is enron
ic1ed daily in the newspapers. Let
seeral of the countless instances ne
cited.
In New York City lived a woman
Mary Mead. She had three children:
Mary. one year old; Johanna, two
Years old: Alice, four years Old. Hel
husband could find no work. Ihey
starved. They were evicted from
their shelter at 100 steuben street.
Mary Mead strangled her baby Mary
one wear old; strangled Alice, tou1
years old: failed to strangle Johanna
two wears old, and then herself dooh
noison. Said the father to the Pc
lice: Constant poverty had draven l
nv wife insane. We lived at NO. -
steuben street until a week ago
when we were dispossessed. coulo
GOT M work. I could not even make
enough to put f9ad into our mouths :.
The babies grew i'll and weak. MY
wife cried nearly all the time.
"so overwhelmed is the depart
mont of charities with tens OF tnou
sands of applications from men ou'
If work that it finds itself unable &c
zone with the situation. New 4orh
Commercial, January II, 1905.
In a daily paper, because ne cal
not get work in order to get some
thing to eat, modern man adVertises
as follows: ,,,.
"Young man, good educat.on' un
able to obtain employment, Will SCI
to physician and bacteriologlst ~,
governmental purposes all rlght ano
title to his body. Address tor prize
box Pass, Examiner
crank A. Mallin went to the cen
+r,1 nolice station Wednesday nlsn'
and asked to be locked up vi
charge of vagrancy. He said ne mao
heen conducting an unsuccessful
search for work for so long tnat ne
was sure he must be a vagrant' LII
anv event. he was so hungry ne must
he fed. Police Judge Graham sen
fenced him to ninety days impriso'n'
ment"-San Francisco Examiner.
In room at the Soto house, 81
Fourh street, San Francisco, was
found the body of w. G. Ronoans'
He had turned ON the gas. ALSO was
found his diary, from which the 1oi'
lowing extracts are made:
march 3-No chance OF 8ett'ne
ANYTHING here. What viii do!N
March 7-Can not find anything
yet. - ,.s
"March 8-Am living on dou9nnutse
at five cents day.
March 9-My last quarter gone
for room rent.
March 1O-God help me. have
only five cents left. Can get nothing
to do. What NEXT? Starvation or!
I have spent my last nickel tonight
What shall I do? Shall It be steal'
beg or die? have never stolen, Deg
Red or starved in g. my NIFTY years
of life, but now am on the brink
death seems the only refuge.
March 11-Sick all day-0urnaoe
fever this afternoon. Had nothing
to eat since yesterday noon. MY