Arizona republican., 1915-09-13

do so by what, to the poor unfortunate creature, seem to be insurmountable difficulties. In the investigation car fled on by the committee of the Illinois legislature in connection with the min confessed that his firm was making a profit of seven million dollars per year and was paying only $5 to s5 per week to many of the women employees. He said s3 to $5 was enough for a girl who lived at home. Then he said with naughty air: An honest girl, properly reared. will not yield, no matter what her wages are.' That is true in many cases, thank God, but who gave any merchant prince or any one else pe right to reduce the wage of workers to such danger point? As one suggests: Hell is empty and the devils are here" Men and women have right to toll under sanitary conditions. Work un- der an unhealthy atmosphere is a blow at life the great gift of God. The Christian conscience has been awak- ened and no longer can we tolerate factories that reek with foul air and fever. Prisons are not allowed to re- main seething in filth and slime.
 Man has right to an opportunity for worship. He should have a chance on the Lords day to lay aside his tools and all his toll, and repair to the house of God. I do not believe that God has ever given to any man the right to an other mans time on Sunday, The plea of pleasure does not grant this right The Moloch of Mammon cannot grant this right Sad indeed is the history
 
 sought to be true to God, and who for their fidelity have gone to the stake. to the scaffold and to the block But is it not about as sad that men still imprison their fellow men in chains of toll and in dungeons of seven days la bor. while church bells call to worship and to prayer?
 Then people need sympathy and help. There are some who are ignor ant and they need the help that the stronger and more enlightened can give. They need protection from their own folly. They need protection from the human vultures and wolves that are ever ready to prey upon any victim that may come in sight. They need enlightenment and guidance amid the problems that confront them. Those of highest educational advantages owe their lives and powers to such
 Drummond tells how some UniveF- sity men in the spirit of Jesus Christ undertook to help the people in God forSaken place in East-end London. They rented a house and became known as settlers in the poor district. They Assumed no air of superiority. They did not tell the people that they had come to do them good. They made friends with the people. They got to know them. They did not hurry. They studied the city, and the workmen were astonished at how much they knew about the city government, edu- cation, sanitation. One day there came a great war of labor. The working men said: These young fellows have heads. Let us go and talk the matter over with them" Not many months after that these young men were the arbiters of a strike and three or four thousand families were saved from the horrors that usually attend a great strike. At the next election one of these young men was elected a member of the mu- nicipal boards and in a few months he was head of the board. Another got into the school board and in a snort