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

batch Of public oficas-lawmakers and law IN
terpreters, and some of them also lawbreakers.
We put all kinds of men into all kinds of offices
They proceed work ndustrousy as they canhrst FOR
THEMSELVES the that prosperous and
don NEED help.
the picture at the top of this page.
Look at the man chained machine where he works
long as his eyes hold and the candle will burn.
Look at the woman bed child new born beside
her and the other children i've although many
he told his real thought would the
Frenchman said: Il don t see the necessity"
Look at this It accurate picture OF many and
many home this land of money, prosperity and
freedom
When you are told that and whipped to
death China and cut 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
the truth though they be innocent you
thinking able to produce great books and plays and
pictures could bear it.
Why don t you wonder for a change how FREE AND
HAPPY AMERICA the sight truthful picture like
this one?
What pitiful joke all lawmang when includes
plan for the abolition of such misery this.
pretty poems liberty and vigorous denuncatons
of conditions in savage countries
We send the savages missionaries hymn books and advice
And home maintain system that keeps and makes possible
such homes" this.
of the misery and the suffering this
ROOM that is a dwelling and a workshop?
Is
and stupidity
We buy thing where buy cheapest, asking
how it made or what became of the maker.
nothing 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 ones drop off
If you talk about passing establish minimum wage
you hear protest that supply demand
must
In other words you that this
willing able SUPPLY the children, and if business
DEMANDS that they be ground up and slowly killed in sweat
shop methods, YOU MUST NOT INTERFERE.
When you say that it is just Illegal to WORK
death it is BEAT him death you called Socialist
and agitator
If you say that picture such as this truthful and duplicated
this country of wealth.
disgrace every rich in the country your is the
that Cain gave after killing his brother, Am my
brothers keeper"
Horrible this picture, unpleasant to look at 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 to be done also to make the and the unhappy
know THAT INJUSTICE WEIGHS UPON THEM, and to
courage despite their individual feebleness and despair
unite and struggle and in the language of the great Social Dem
ocratc Party of Germany demand place the sunlight
One thing in this dreadful picture is marvellous and beaut
u-nd that is the patience the goodness of the the
slave fastened by chains of hunger and poverty that machine
And infinitely beautiful the love- eternal and uncOmpain
ing of the mother whose feeble heart will work to the last
children that Natures memorable law has thrust
upon her.
Soon-just her strength will perm-she will be
again her feet working helping giving to the children
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 crime criminals The wonder
that the number of criminals not multiplied by ten thousand
greater miracle could you than the miracle
HONESTY AND GOODNESS in this homer? You can not make
THAT into thief What miracle that he and
patiently enduring the brutal indifference those
prosperous
marvellous that suffering woman struggle to
children be hard working patient
do NOT teach them to be piCkpockets and thieves.
This world holds together very comfortable warm