The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

fine houses, riding in expensive auto
mobiles and at the same time paving
their working girls from four to seven
dollars per week and men trying to
support family on from sS to S12
per week? / know there are many
people poor because of extravaganza
and dissipation. Many are kept poor
by the greed of others | have 1t from
no less authority than Washington
GLADDEN., that in the leading trades
wages are low. Hear what be says:
In the textile trades, With 661,451
workers, the average weekly wage
of all workers is SCOT; of the men
over sixteen, s7.63; of women, $5.1S;
of children under sixteen, s2.15. In
the iron workers trade, rrith an army
of 222,607 workers, the average week
ly wage is s10.46. In the boot and
shoe workers trades, with 1892
work the average for all is $780,
For men over sixteen, SOIL; for wo-
men, $6.13: for children under six
teen, $40. In mems clothing trades,
with 120,950 workers, the average for
all is s7.06, for men s1u.90; for wom-
en- s4.SS and for children $2.61. Often
the weekly wages is higher but for
many weeks the workers are nnem-
ployed. Is this all these workers
ought to have? In many instances it
may be all the employer can afford to
pay. On the other hand look at the
immense fortunes that are being built
up in these trades. Say what we please
the clothes people wear, the food they
eat. the sounds they hear, the sights
they see have something to do with
their morals and morals make charac-
ter and character determines destiny.
| have dwelt upon this phase of the
social problem because I believe out
of selfishness comes the greed for
gold and out of this grows many per-
picking problems. Such as opp-es-
sion spoilation, trickeries, frauds,
authorizations, cut-throat competitions,
financial piracies, swindling schemes
which infest the world of commerce
and finance. Amid such conditions
And the question is:
"a Because she is at least indi-
rectly responsible for the spirit of
social unrest. She can not afford to
neglect her duty or run away from
it. Jesus was disturber of the
peace He came not to bring peace
but sword" There are no social
problems in darkest Africa. The So
cial unrest with its many evils is a
sign of progress and prophesies the
coming of a better day. The mission
aries going into foreign lands whose
inhabitants are bound fast with law
and hazy customs, hold up before the
people higher ideals and teach them
better way to live, create new
problems because the people become
dissatisfied with present conditions.
What should be her relation to
these conditions which make up what
we call the social problem? Has the
church any responsibility in the TIat-
ter? Yes.
The teachers in Roberts College
did more to bring on the crisis in
Turkey than any other cause. The
church is responsible for the social
unrest of the twentieth century She
has gone into the mines. mills and fac.
tories with the teachings of Jesus
Christ. This teaching has produced
the belief that God is the Father of
all men, hence all are brothers. The
church has started fire that has al.
most gone beyond her control. She
has not; changing the figure, kept
up with her message.
The laboring men and women have
been looking to the church for help
in their struggle for better social con-
ditions. They are asking more earn
estiy than ever. Is it any of the
business whether we have
clean, sanitary conditions in the
midst of which we live purer food and
the just reward for our labor? Has
1t anything to do with eIecting clean,
honest men to govern our cities?
Has it any rebuke for the men in IT'S
own ranks who are covetous and sell
fish? Who cut the wages of the la
boring men in order to pile UP for
tunes for themselves? In spite Of the
past indifference of the church or IL
not Indifference a failure to recognize
her duty to the community, the pee
pie love her. 1t is true. many labor
ing people confess that their faith in
the church has been weakened. Yet