East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-18

II is backed by statistics gathered by
the government and tabulated in the
records of congress. Then you must
admit that these children cannot get
the best education this government
can afford. In nearly every instance
these children have little or no edu-
cation whatever not because there
are no schools in that section, but
because they must toll every day in
order to buy enough to enable them
to work another day, TO get more
money to buy enough more food and
clothing to impart energy enough
within their pinched and dwarfed
bodies and minds to toll another day.
This great Cancer is oxidizing the
very foundation of this government.
The greatest opportunity that has
ever presented itself from the pre-
historic ages lost in oblivion, to the
present day is cast upon the poor
boys of today infested with ambition
for honor and justice, and not for tn
greed of wealth. The opportunity for
the poor boy of today does not lie in
the pursuit of business as it is carried
on today. His opportunity is not as
merchant for statistics prove that
S5 per cent of those who follow this
line of business go bankrupt. His OPP
portunity is not as a banker or as a
railroad magnate, but as a guardian
Of Gods laws of justice. His oppor-
tunity is that of a broad minded, far
sighted and human loving statesman
who is not afraid to speak the truth
and face the demagogue in his denun-
citation of that truth.
/ In the investigation of the money
trust of this nation the one great
money magnatte, ]. p. Morgan, stat
ed that twenty years ago he controll-
ed 100000, 900. Today he says he
controls in excess of $4,000, 000, 600
of wealth, or his daily increase with
in the last twenty years has been at
the rate of s3,493.150 per day, ac-
cording to his own testimony.
! A labor commission appointed by
congress a few years ago gathered
statistics and tabulated them in the
congressional records, filed with the
reports of that body which state and
prove that a man who labors dill
gently through one day at productive
labor produces something like $500
in wealth as measured by our medi-
um of exchange today. That produc-
| ton as measured by the laws of JUS
tice is honest production. Because
it was produced by the exertion of
| that mans mental and physical forces
and represents true production of
wealth. But this $3,493,150 secured
by Morgan and his interest in a sin
gle day was not honestly earned
money.
This is the fact that caused Mr.. w.
| II. L. d. to feel that there were no
opportunities for the poor boy of the
future and it was the oversight of this
fact that caused you, Mr.. Editor, to
hold that the world is teeming with
opportunities. And it is this fact that
causes me to say that the call of the
twentieth century is for a body or
men that can solve this great ques-
ton. And within this demand of to-
day lies the opportunities of the
young man of tomorrow. Knowing
there Is a cause for the present con-
ditions, the only opportunity for the
young man is to claw the matted wool
from his eyes and seek to awaken
the sleeping justice of God so long
dormant and inactive. until it belches
forth like a huge volcano, sweeping
down the fields of justice with cy-
cyone Of indignation. wiping forever
from the memory Of man the infamy
of wealth, that new order of So
ciety might arise out of the ruins of
| III.
the scaffold and depose wrong so
long on the throne of power.
CHARLES DESPAIR.