The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-12-11

fifty thousand persons working The one item
OF free labor gives the following results
50,0OOfr. ($10,000) profits per day.
500,000fr ($10O, 000) profits in 10 days
l,000,000fr. ($200000) profits in 20 days.
1,500,000ff. ($300,000) profits per month of
80 days.
10000 Oofr. (sa,ooo,OOO) profits per year of
800 days.
10000, ooOfr. ($so,Ooo,ooo) profits in 10
years of 800 days.
And, in addition to this, these inter-
est-bearlng. Now, let us bear in mind
that these figures represent simply the amount
OF wages that the Good Shepherd administration
would have to pay if it were on the same footing
with employers of labor outside, but which they
90 not pay. But We can not suppose that this
represents the whole value of the work done by
this unpaid labor. We can not believe that,
urged as they are watched as they are,
tasked as they are, to work at rate that is
positively muTderous, that these inmates of the
Homes of the Good Shepherd do not each one
day by day. gain at least average over and
above the cost OF their board and lodging at least
as much as our domestic servants or the nurses
that take care OF our children"
The more one looks into this Good Shepherd
concern, the more apparent does it become that
we nave to do.with an enterprise that is run for
business purposes only. They factories run
under the cloak OF religion They should be
subjected to inspection the same as all other
fa2to S.
IN view of the foregoing the readers of the
that, notwithstanding the fact that the Good
Shepherd people employed the best legal talent
they could secure and took the case from court
TO court until it reached the Supreme Court, Mile
Maria Lecoanet won her suit and what is more
TIE country and the French Government we're SO
scandalized by the revelations made that an order
was passed to suppress the Nancy House of the
Good Shepherd.
The trial took place at Nancy on the 4th, 5th
and 9Th Of February, 1903 Matre Eugene Pre-
vest was the prosecuting attorney. Maitre Men
gin, OF the Nancy bar the defending counsel
The final decree to suppress the House Of the
Good Shepherd at Nancy was issued on the 10th
OF March, 1903, and was signed by Emile Loubet
President of the French Republic, and BY E.
Combes, the Prime Minister. The final clause Of
the decree OF suppression reads follows:
The President du Conseil (Prime Minister)
nlinistre de fntefieur ct DIES Cultes minister of
the Interior and Of Worship, is charged with
the execution of the present decree, which shall
be published in the Journal Officiel and also in
the Bulletin DIES Lois
Finally, any one desiring further information,
can, presume, procure the volume from which
my information is drawn. It's title is Gle Process
du Bon PasteRr,' the price is one franc and it is
published at No. II rue Cujas, Paris, France by
LO Societe NCuvelie de Librairie ct d'EditiOn.
When. scandals like this OF the Home Of the
Good Shepherd at Nancy are made public the
Rom5sh papers have a way of shielding their
church by making vague statements about irregu-
larltes, and confirming their statements by refer
ring to the noble protests made by Mgr. Turinaz,
bishop Of Nancy, and score of archhishOps and
bishops who have expressed in very emphatic
manner their Indignation at the conditions pre-
valng in these Homes" and the efforts thew
made to ameliorate them