New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-09-27
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A STRONG ARGUMENT.

| we reproduce the 10llOWlHg ar
ticle from the Albany Times.
Union relative to the wages
earned by the laborers in the
woolen mills which are always
demanding protection This ar
ticle was made a part of the Con
gressional Record and was offered
as argument by Senator Ashurst
in his speech in favor of free
wool. The article is as follows !:
The Impossible Man.
That American Woolen Co..
at Lawrence, Mass, which re.
Gently settle q strike in its mills.
triumphantly announces that it
gives work to 10000 employees
and has an annual pay roll Of
| $l3,0OO,OOO.
Let the reader make believe
that he is an average one of the
80. 600.
Then. YOU receive for year
work $433.33. Let's see what
You can do with yoHr money,
presupposing that you are really
wiling to get along with the
cheapest things. Now, the figures
we are going TO give are estl
mates based on average prices in
various localities. and the quan-
titles named will vary, too, ac-
tording to localities, so that these
figures will be most satisfactory
TO the reader if he compares
them with what be knows about
ices and quantities from his
own experience.
Cost of clothes per year. Hats,
So; two suits. $25; three pairs of
shoes SO; overcoat $40; three
suits underclothes, "a six shirts,
50; 10 pairs Of stocking, 81;
bedclothes and laundry, $52.
Total $109.
Cost of food per year: Three
loaves bread per week, at six
cents 1896; 4 pounds of meat per
week at Is cents, $34. 20; 8 pounds
potatoes per week at 6 cents,
*24.96. Total $65.52.
Cost of others things per year
House rent, at IS per month,
sac, water rent at 50 cents per
month &c. fuel at $3 per month,
$36. Total, $139.
Grand total, $312.52. Ipcame.
$433.33.
Glery hallelujah There's $120.S1
to put in the bank DO not
spend all your income is print
ed in big type on the back of the
envelopes of the American Wool
en- Co., and praise be, we've just
figured out how we can put $40
per month in the saving bank
But wait minute. Let's see
what sort of a workman, what
sort of a citizen of the United
States we've created in this
imaginary fellow.
First be is single man He Is
ruined if be marries, damned to
everlasting retrogression and
misery if he has children. There |
fore. while he may be the very |
sort of fellow the WOODEN com
pany wants, he is not the sort OF
Fellow that the United States
wants.
Secondly, our imaginary work
man has no collars, neekties,
handkerchiefs, rain coat, rub
hers. or umbrellas, and never
shaves or bsthes, for we've not
put the cost of these things in our
list Forsooth our imagination
has created an habitual slouch
citizen. He never rides on a
street ear, never goes to an
amusement, pevar buys book,
!, ga flower. He is just a work
lug fellow without ambition or
self-respect, and hence poor
animal
Fhirdly, we have created an
impossible man. We make him
leny himself tobacco, eeffee, milk,
lesI pickles, preserves, pastry,
and condiment of every sort. lie
never has to have the services OF
doctor or dentist. He does his
,wn cooking and housework.
But the American Woolen Co,
will say ''There's the $40 he's
saving monthlq. He is one Of our
workmen. We like
his Sort. Let's see,
Living the dogs life we have
pictured, he has got to save for
nearly three years to be able to
i've one year when accident, old
age, ar the wear and tear of just
bread, meat. ard potatoes, or dis
ease knocks him down. Else
else must support him
inally.
Thirty thousand employees at
Lawrence up against PROPOSE
i IN that is an impossibility to :
hem and which means to the
Nation race suicide and impov.
'rished old age!