Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-06-06


THIS nation at heart, and who aboysl
Everything else hold the interests Of
Jour children and the rising genera
tion supreme hat kind Of a hus-
band do you expect q man who labors
kind Of father to those little children
who look to him for bread, and what
is more than that, who viii necessar-
lily take him as their chief example -
what sort OF a citizen do yo,i dare hope
that poor creature is going to make !?
Remember, too, thai these men,
whose lives are going lolt under y hese
}anarchistic breeding conditions are
almost entirely foreigners from south
ern and southeastern Europe who
have had mighty little educational ad-
vantages in their native land and none
here, men who are totally ignorant
of our lang uage, our people, our insti-
tutions, our government and our tra-
ditions, are thus introduced into
American society and ard thus being
prepared for the great privilege Of
American citizenship. II 4. t5} .%5i}
/ ''sMore than a hundred wears ago the
founders Of this republic ordained that
in this country every citizen should
through his vote become a Sovereign
Ian executive in the mana cement of tie
goyernment,-an if he is not native
born he may in the short period of five
years attain every privilege. If the
body of these late Gomers to Our
shores become citizens dsspising and
hating our system, as they necessar-.
4 lily will as the result of this brutaliz-
ling treatment, and their conditions
and surroundings from The time they
! enter our ports, Il tremb!e my friends,
flor the future of our country.
i 1--WE are not only permitting our
brother to be compelled to Labor under
ithess harsh, dangerous conditions,
IbutF his economic situation is such
1 that his child hardly more than out
!. of its sWaddling clothes, little more
than a prattling babe, must go forth
! in the world a producer and laborer
under conditions little less severe than
those under which the hope, ambi-
! ton and often times the health and
4 life of the parent is sacrificed upon the
alter of our industrial life.
4 Down in one of the Southern states
4 recently little ten year old girl was
q caughtsin machine on which she was
4 working and both her arms were pull
Jed out. Her parents brought suit for
4 damages and the highest court of that
Estate held that that little ten year old
I girl knew the dangers Of her work and
a had therefore assumed all the risks
and threw out her case. don't be
,.Ilieve in. that kind Of law and don't
1 believe, my friends, in the kind of a
court that held that little, helpless
armless child, damned into the indus
trial treadmill almost before she had
u ceased to nurse her mothers breast
! knew SO much about the dangers Of
4, her employment as to make it neces
III sary for her alone to assume 50 tire
mendous burden for her employers
the cotton industry, and society. 4
T. In the Civil war there were killed
& and wounded in the armies of rhe
J North, 3S5,000 men, while the Soutf
: lost in killed alone $4,000. The MAIN
ing or killing workman here AMI
: there in a community in these bus,
! times; does not give rise to any par
}: Eticular comment II 4 great battle
q were fought and half Q million If Oh
. fellows were killed anu wounded lii
4 tolx .e-E IL
Y in gloom and the public mind siunne;
: by the catasirophy Yet a very SAT-
: estimate of the number Of persona
Injuries suffered by worlimen in the. i'll
81 dustries Of this country would seen
a Ito be on less than 500. Ouo aEnualls
e Every day#5.in the year at least fift,
hard-w orking,, honest men, many Q
: them with a wife and family Of small
/ children, or other dependents, nice
9 death in giving us railroad transpol
: ttation and coal alone; and on the raj
\ roads of this country some employee
$ IS injured or goes down to death ever
+ lseven minutes of the year II
q 81 ben Butler, War is he'll, we -
a here is a record more astounding tina
il war itself. Nh 81 N. n. 5s$i.$ /
s The supreme court of the Unite
Q States, quoting the words Of Presider
4 Harrison in one Of his messages t
e.. congress, says VS. 55ss5. VI b 3
d s..It is. a reproach to our ciyilizi
g ton that any class Of American Worl
a. men in the pursuit of a necessary an
e. useful vocation should be subject
T. the perils OF life and limb greatertha
Of that of a soldier in time Of war K:
al Half a century ago neighbor worl
r ed for neighbor, making complete a
a. ticles of commerce like shoes clothe
n, wagons or furniture. The employe
a]Worked with his men, who were llsna
lily few in number There was j
id speeding mania. no complicated IN
Mt chimes. The families Of employer an
s. employee interma FRIED !; injury to Il
rs workman was infreqnenI and when
"a did occur there was a strong bond 1
NJ sympathy between the injured and 4
1T whole neighborh ood
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