Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-01-01

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children. A child 10 surely - vel
worth saving as pig. IA.
lam often asked why ! take sue,
a passionate interest in politics. !
learned Ioag ego that the price Of ice
he quality AND price OF milk, the 62lf
larry proFlsis,ps in tenements and fac,
1ories as 10 space, air, light. drainage
etc.; the wage terms, even the mater
of hours. all settled or affected pro
toundly BY laws, all these are matters
Of life and death. The veriest novice
knows this.
Our ighorapt and brute-like apas !
in the presence Of appalling encroat Ii
ments by landlords and employers Is
tcondemning just so many human be,
ings to certain death and seems to me
to challenge our humanity.
The man or woman who wishes to
close eyes, ears. heatr and brain to
these wrongs is acting a. an accomp
lice to the crime.
Nearly two thirds Of the children
In the. public schools are defective
Tech hearing, s...it. health. These
must be given free medical. service
and care The SIC is the ultimate
parent of every C lid. The precious
public. has commef] iahzed the child {
environment, the child itself, main
tanned conditions that made the child
detective; sweating of women; starva
| ton wages; oyer-crowding; child Ia
Dor; disease breeding slums, all pua
at a premium for the building of prince
| y fortunes Lei them, Jnen force Tic
1 iEst charge on the, public funds clri :
feeding and teaching of tie children.
1t is cheaper to produce produce
han parasites to be cared for later I
| iails and work houses.
These defects cause children to BIZ
backward in school and if thrust Of,
| With such handicaps they become the
oete with the stronger and more fo
mate in the labor market.
Our so4called crime expense cos
e producers of this country su
! '@imated by experts from $3;000.00n
otto $14,000,00008 per day in hart
armed. cash alone. Mr.. Earnest Cou'
er tells us II per cent of the inmat'
are under voting age.
Think of the broken hearts, th
| ear dimmed eyes, wrecked and deVe.
d lives; we know now that thes
light have been saved. Childre
5ken from the mast dreadful cond
| ions and given good .su'" 9undine
bloom into health, usefulness and good
ness only 2 per cent deriating from
the normal.
| Our standpat sena ols. Oliver am
penrose in Pennsylvania, voted agains
the puny, paltry appropriation of $50,
600 for the CT lid Welfare work anC
for the $7,000,000 battle ship. Perhaps
lis is their Interpretation of atriotism
ut the gnorant, diseased, incompet
ents within our borders are a tenfolt
greater menace to this country's wei
afre than any enemy outside our Dor
ders.
| The horrors of peace cry out to us
more mistakenly even than the horrors
! / war
shall say little this time of the
child sentenced to hard labor in oul
industries. The young lives are sap
ped, ravished and darmened by pre-
mature toll. We read of monument
Just built which cost $1,500,000. We
see millions upon millions of the
wealth produced going into the lux
ury of automobiles while the toi1ers
and their young famish.
The people who appropriate ohr ia
Dor product set us to building stone
] heaps when we are perishing fol
bread. Shaw in a recent article points
out that those who have the purchas
ing power determine production. They
tell us that children must work be
cause wages are low. They have the
cart before the horse Wages are
low because children work. Always
more helpless class can be used to
beat down the standard of life of all
Adults need work. When we de
clare and enforce our decision to es
tablish industries as departments OF
public service, secure to all the right
to use land and machinery and the
tsocial value of his or her labor pro-
duct, (for it would be no ones inter
est that one should be idle; the more
who produce the fewer hours would
We need to work. When we do this
every child will be free to go about
its host Important business of grow.
ing up to the full physical and mental
stature of manhood and Womanhood
Dying children starving children,
sick children, toiing children, defect
i've children. married, wounded, degrad-
ed children. What can appeal to us
more to ,be up and doing, to falter
not, to convert our revolutionary
phrases into revolutionary deeds of
steady constructive effort for Social
ism, to wage relentless war, on pow
Eerty the most terrible pestilence the
world has ever known. / would rath-
er be a woman and not have a vote
than to be man who has a. vote and
hasn't sense enough to use it. It is
more important to know how to vote
than it is to vote.
Then rem Numbering this let no won.
an lag and faiter about studying and
working in the Socialist movement.
We will overthrow a system organ
lied for the prime purpose of making
dividends and establish the co-opera-
tive system of industry to the end OF
making human beings strong frae