Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-23

terpreters, and of them also lawbreakers.
We put all kinds of into all kinds of Offices
They proceed work ndustrousy they canrst FOR
THEMSELVES second for the few that prosperous and
don NEED help.
Look at the picture a the top of this page.
Look chained the machine where he works
long as his eyes hold and the candle will burn.
Look at the the bed with child newborn beside
her. and children that must live although many
prosperous told his real thought would the
Frenchman said Il don IT the necessity
this It accurate picture of many and
many home this land of money prosperity and
freedom.
When you are told that and whipped to.
China and cut with wonder that
educated people bear it.
When you that only recently in civilized" European
witnesses lawsuits tortured to make them tell
the truth though they known be innocent you
der that thinking able to produce great books and plays and
pictures could bear it.
Why don you wonder, for a change how FREE AND
HAPPY AMERICA sight of truthful picture like
this one?
What pitifu joke lawmakng when includes
plan for the abolition of such misery this.
We write pretty poems liberty and vigorous denuncations
of conditions in savage countries.
We send avages missionaries hymn advice
And home maintain system that keeps and makes possible
such homes" as this.
What are the misery suffering this
room, that is a dwelling and a workshop?
The first and chief is brutal public ignorance selfish
and stupidity.
We buy a thing where buy cheapest, asking
how it was made what became of the maker
And nothing in the world is cheaper than this miserable
creature machine with children help work.
they walk and the mother the bed TO
MANUFACTURE NEW WORKERS, be sweated death
the older drop off.
If you talk about passing wage
you hear hows protest You told that supply and demand
must rule
In other words you are told that this miserable mother is
willing able SUPPLY the children, and if business
DEMANDS that they be ground up and slowly killed
shop methods, YOU MUST NOT INTERFERE
When you say that it is just illegal to WORK
death it to BEAT him to death you called Socialist
and agitator.
If you say that picture such as this truthful and duplicated
hundreds of thousands times in this country of wealth.
disgrace every rich the country your is the
that Cain gave after killing his brother, Am my
brother keeper?
Horrible is this picture unpleasant to look at shocking to
refined taste needs printed OUGHT
PRINTED EVERY DAY IN EVERY NEWSPAPER until those
that prosperous those that live the sum- and the
warmth reach down and pull up their poorer brother.
ought be done also make the poor and the unhappy
know THAT INJUSTICE WEIGHS UPON THEM, and
courage them despite their individual febleness and despair
unite and struggle and the language of the great Social Dem
Ocrac Party of Germany demand place in the sunlight
One thing in this dreadful picture marvellous and beaut
and that the patience and the goodness of the the
slave by of hunger poverty that
And infinitely beautiful the love- eternal and uncompain-
ing the mother whose feeble heart will work the last
ment
upon her.
Soon-just her strength will perm-she will be
again her feet working helping giving to the children
that horrible all the affection within her all the that
any mother poor and ignorant, THROUGH THE FAULT OF
SOCIETY possibly give
We talk severely about and criminals The wonder
the number of criminals multiplied by
What greater miracle could you than the miracle
HONESTY AND GOODNESS in this hOme?" You make
THAT a thief. What miracle that he
slaves patiently enduring the brutal indifference those
prosperous
How marvellous that he and the suffering struggle
teach those children be hard working patient and
do NOT teach them to be piCkpockets and thieves.
This world holds together and the very Portable
weed position the the top made possible only
THE PATIENT SUFFERING OF THESE POOR CREATURES
THE BOTTOM