The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-04
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The human species-of all the anil mal kingoom-is the only one in which the parents are parasites upon the tender bodies of their children. The cubs never hunt for the tiger; the fledgelings do not forage for the robin, but the child of seven or elght-a-J soon as it can tie a thread, !, pack sardine, or pick slate from coai-is put to work to help main- tain the parents. And this unnatural and monstrous condition is brought about by ignor- ance and economic necessity.
 Why an Operative is Obliged to Drag His Wife and Children Into the M.u.
 Under our present unjust and cruel system, the mill-worker iss so miser- drag his wife to labor with him in order to secure sufficient income wherewith to sustain themselves and the children.
 1 l in effect--an economic competitor of her own husband; and finally, the children-as soon as they become able-are pressed into the unsuitable service of the Machine God. These observations are suggested 1 by the horrors of the present strike 1 in Lawrence, and by the refusal of ! the mill-owners to accord their em-
 ployes any moiety of justice. The hearts of these mill-owners-- on the atavistic principle which Her i bert Spencer laid down-have under gone a dessicating and shriveling pro-
 cess, beginning from the time these ancestors used to celebrate their ignorance and general cussedness by burning innocent old women-whose chief crime consisted in the fact that 1 they had gray hair and no teeth. | Some critics will !nterpose Aren't
 they just as bad, or even worse in the South ?''
 That doesn't excuse New England.
 
 holdership has not been completely obliterated by the results of our latc successful attempt to change chattel slavery into industrial slavery-for economic reasons best understood by the business progenitors of these New Fnglanders-who are now distinguish ing themselves by extra-vulture cruel- ty.
 A Shareholders Mind. ''The club is mightier than the Con- stitution." said Inspector Schmitt- berger, of the New York Police force. And another great authority-Gen
 eral Sherman Bell. of the Colorado , Militia. has furnished our gentle Lawrence Marshal with a precedent when he exclaimed in x-defying- the-lightning style-''Habeas corpus be damned! We'll give them post mortems instead!"
 Senator Miles Poindexter. Judge Ben Lindsey, and a host of other critics of the action of the Lawrence police and militia, do not recognize the fact that precedent. for the &C., tions of which they complain has been clearly established by these great hearted and clear-headed interpreters of the law quoted above. It would seem that any one of ordi- nary intelligence ought to see that i without express permission from the official hirelings of the mill-owners- , no man has a right to send his chill dren away to friendly arms-where they may receive food, clothing and shelter
 They don't do things that way in Ru7sia; therefore why should they be expected to do so in the United States?
 Why It Is Wrong to Send the Ch;I- l dren Away. Some ndividuals-with lot of perfervid Fourth of July enthusiasm in their systems-seem to think that , this is a free country; and that the shrewd framers of our Constitution intended, in that hoary, archaic docu- ment, to convey the impression that all men were created equal before the law. also that we possess certain in- alienable rights-among which are free speech and the right to life. lib- erty, and the pursuit of happiness: It has been decided by the highest
 living authority that the Constitution simply doesn't exist-between friends 1 It was writ ironical.
 That's why they can't send children away from the besieged city. It would
 be taking an unfair advantage of the
 poor mi'l-owners who have nothing
 except chill penury, gaunt starvation,
 and the Frost Giant to help them in
 their unequal fight against horde of
 avarice-b bitten upstarts of operatives. i No true man, with bandit blood in his veins, would tolerate this. l That's why the police and militia are so eager to keep them there. DIR. EDWIN F. BOWERS.