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

we elect new batch public oicia-aw1nakers and law
terpreters and some of them also lawbreakers.
We put all kinds Of men into all kinds of offices.
They proceed indusrously they can-fr FOR
THEMSELVES for the few that prosperous and
dom NEED help.
Look at the picture at the top of this page
Look chained the machine where he works
long as his eyes hold out and the candle will burn.
Look at the bed with child new born beside
her and the children that live, although many
prosperous American his thought would say the
Frenohman said 4 don t the necessity
Look at this It accurate picture of many and
many home in this land of money prosperity and
freedom.
When you are told chat men whipped
death in China in with you wonder that
educated people bear it.
you read that only recently in civilized European
countries lawsuits tortured make them tell
the truth though they known be innocent you
der that thinking able produce great books and plays and
pictures could bear it.
Why don you wonder, for change, how FREE AND
HAPPY AMERICA sight of truthful picture like
this one?
What pitiful joke awmabng when it includes
plan for the abolition of such misery this
We write pretty poems liberty and vigorous denunoatons
of conditions in savage countries.
We send to the savages missionaries hymn
maintain system that keeps and makes possible
such homes as this.
What the of the misery and the suffering in this
room, that is a dwelling and a workshop?
The first and chief public ignorance selfish
and stupidity
We buy thing where we buy cheapest, asking
how it was made or what became of the maker
And nothing the world is cheaper than this miserable
creature his machine with the children help work.
almost as they walk the mother the bed TO
MANUFACTURE NEW WORKERS, to be sweated to death
the older ones drop off.
If you talk about passing laws to establish wage
you bowls protest You told that supply and demand
rule
thatif
willing and able SUPPLY the children and if business
DEMANDS that they be ground and slowly killed in sweat
shop methods, YOU MUST NOT INTERFERE
When you say that just illegal to WORK a
BEAT him death you called Socialist
and an agitator.
If you say that picture such as this duplicated
hundreds of thousands of times in this country of wealth.
disgrace every the country your is the
that Cain gave after killing his brother, Am my
brothers keeper"
Horrible this picture unpleasant to look shocking to
refined taste but needs to 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 done make the poor and the unhappy
know THAT INJUSTICE WEIGHS UPON THEM, and to
courage despite feebnes despair
and struggle and the language of the great Social Dem
ocrac Party of Germany, demand place in the sunlight
One thing dreadful picture beauti
fuand that the patience and the goodness of the the
fastened by chains of hunger and poverty that machine
And infinitely beautiful the love eternal and uncompan
ing of the mother whose feeble heart will work the last
children that memorable law has
upon her.
soon-just her strength will permit-she viii be
again her feet working helping giving 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 thousand
greater miracle could you than the miracle
HONESTY AND GOODNESS in this home?' make
THAT into thief. What miracle that he works and
slaves patiently enduring the those that
prosperous
How marvellous that he and the suffering struggle
those children to be hard working patient and
do NOT teach them to be plckpockes and thieves
This world holds together and the very comfortable warm