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

When we have nothing else blessed happy land
batch of public Oficials-awmaker and law in
terpreters, and some of them also awbreakers.
We put all kinds of men into all kinds Of offices.
They proceed ndusrousy they canfrst FOR
THEMSELVES second for the few that and
don NEED help
Look at the picture the top of this page
Look at the chained the machine where he works
long as his eyes hold and the candle will burn.
Look the bed with child newborn beside
her. other children that must live, although many
prosperous he told his real thought would the
Frenchman said Il don { see the necessity.
Look at 1t accurate picture of many and
many socaed home in this land of money prosperity and
freedom.
When you are told that and whipped to
death China IN two with wonder that
educated people can bear it.
When you read that only recently in civilized European
lawsuits tortured to make them tell
though they known to be innocent
der thinking able produce great books and plays and
pictures could bear it,
Why don t you wonder for a change, how FREE AND
HAPPY AMERICA bear the sight of truthful picture like
this one?
What pitiful joke all our lawmaing includes
plan for the abolition of such misery as this
We write pretty poems liberty and vigorous denuncatons
of conditions in savage countries
We savages hymn books and advice
And home maintain system that keeps and makes possible
such homes Is this.
What the of the misery and the suffering this
ROOM that is a dwelling and a workshop?
The first brutal public ignorance selfish
ness and stupidity
We buy thing where buy cheapest, asking
how made what became of the maker.
And nothing in the world cheaper than this miserable
his machine with the children help work.
almost they walk and the mother the bed TO
MANUFACTURE NEW WORKERS, to be sweated to death
the older drop off.
If you talk about passing laws to establish minimum wage
you bowls protest You told that supply and demand
must rule
In other words you told that if this miserable mother
willing and able to SUPPLY the children, and business
DEMANDS that they be ground and slowly killed in sweat
shop methods YOU MUST NOT INTERFERE.
you say that it is just illegal to WORK to
death it is to BEAT him to death you called Socialist
and agitator.
If you say that picture this truthful duplicated
hundreds of thousands of times in this country of wealth.
disgrace every rich the country your the
Cain gave after killing his brother Am my
brother keeper?
Horrible this picture unpleasant to look at shocking
taste but it needs be printed 1T OUGHT TO BE
PRINTED EVERY DAY IN EVERY NEWSPAPER, until those
that prosperous those that live in the sunlight 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 to
courage them despite their individual ebeness and despair
and struggle and the language of the great Social Dem
ocratC Party of Germany demand place in the sunlight
One thing picture beauti-
fu-and that the patience and the goodness the the
slave fastened chains hunger and poverty to that machine
And infinitely beautiful is the love- eternal and uncomplan
ing of the will the last
children that Natures memorable law has thrust
upon her
Soon-ust her strength will permithe will be
again her feet working helping giving to the children in
that horrible all the affection within her all the that
any mother poor and ignorant THROUGH THE FAULT OF
SOCIETY possibly give
talk severely about and criminals The wonder is
number of criminals multiplied by thousand
greater miracle could you than the miracle of
HONESTY AND GOODNESS in this home?' You make
THAT into thief What miracle that he works and
slaves patiently enduring the brutal indifference of those that
prosperous.
How marvellous suffering struggle
children working patient
do NOT teach them to be pckpockets and thieves