Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-29

, while the work was diversified and in
the open, man retained his vigor of
body and mind and lost none of his
strength. He managed to preserve his
stature and strength even during the
period of serfdom. 1t was commonly
admitted that none but an English
man could bend the bow of an English
man.
Artificial Light Destroys.
The male was still the provider for
the family. The female was still first
of all the mother, second, the preparer
of food and clothing. While the mans
work was in the open and diversified,
and the woman's work was in the
home, where she could rest when nee
essary and pass from one task to an
other-in itself a rest-the race kept
fairly healthy. The hours were long
and the labor exhausting in the sum-
mer, in seed and harvest time, but the
hours of labor in the winter were
short and brought recuperation.
This balance between labor and rest
was maintained until cheap artificial
light was invented. With artificial
light and machine manufacture hu-
manity entered the present. Now the
male has very largely ceased to be the
sole provider for the home. We now
have the family wage. Man cannot,
with all his hours of labor, earn suf-
ficient to take care of family. Mar
riages are becoming less numerous and
are entered into later in life, very
often not at all. Promiscuity, aban-
doned early in the hunting period, and
pairing marriages, abandoned at the
close of barbarism as unhealthy and
destructive of life, are returning.
Robs Children of Birthright.
Boys and girls who should be in
school and on the playground, or in
pride and play helping father or moth
er with their work, are sent into the
factory, where the boy is stunted tend
ing machine and the girl is robbed,
first, of that girlishness of mind that
later makes the real woman, then of
the physical development and strength
that alone can make vigorous moth
er. She is compelled by conditions to
continue in the factory until married,
comes mother, often remaining, do
ing the same thing over and over,
while every bone and muscle is aching
from fatigue, until taken with "labor
pains"
Before she has recovered her
strength we send the mother back to
the factory and her child to day
nursery, where it sucks cows mix
from bottle. The mother becor1es i'll
because she cannot give the child its
natural food; without it, the child
sickens or dies. This process is re
peated over and over until the race is
crippled and healthy human life threat
ems to become nonexistent.
Once Stalwarts Now "Bantams."
The English were the first people to
be driven into this life. They were
five feet nine, with forty-five inch
chests, when their factory life began.
In the factory districts they are now
more often five feet two, with thirty
five inch chests. They are given the
hideously descriptive name of ban
tams, and are organized into ban
tam battalions and sent to defend the
factories which, by reversing the pro-
cesses of evolution, robbed them of
the health, strength and stamina
which were theirs by divine right.
And still we turn deaf ears to the
lessons taught by science, by expert
ence, by religion. And still the de-
forming, life-destroying business goes
merrily on. And the end is not yet.
For we cannot persistently violate Ma
ture's laws and remain in health.