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Lying Down to Feel Less Hungry
That Day VIII Come Back No More.

But either could hire rstclass white man to work
year for hundred doars-the man boarding him.
self They could not hire good man to work now one
month for a hundred dollars.
And Jefferson and Washington could buy human beings
for fixed sum- and work them all their lives slaves.
They made their great fight for freedom FOR A FEW.
Only those that had property could vote at all Only those
that taxed without representation BY England real
lied the injustice of such taxation.
Freedom for few, for the most intelligent, the
object Of all the early fighting
Books were written, poems and songs composed, ma
Ona days celebrated in honor Of the fact that men
no longer slaves, were longer without vote IN
government, all human beings were free.
Mere freedom seemed to be at one time the ideal Of
perfection though it freedom to starve free
dom worry freedom to live in the gutter and rest at
last in Potters Field proud to say: 81 have MASTER
when every man able to hand out dollar or loaf Of
bread q master.
Slaves and serfs have been made Gree And wars
have done it. The land Of Revolutionary days,
after we had won the war; was free to buy his slave and
pay the bill without putting any English tax stamp
The man IN New England who sending women to
work in the mills before daylight and keeping them there
until dark free to import his package Of tea and
nay nothing to England.
BE called that freedom, but it was not freedom
This is the day to think of this and Of the real
freedom that it should bring the great share of freedom
that it undoubtedly WILL bring not only in Europe, but
in this country
Read Of conditions as they were in England when
Emerson went there to visit his adored Carlyle then read
the afterthewsr program of the British Labor party map
ped out not by malcontents but by constructive
thinkers representing the English workmen
What was the condition in England when Emerson
wrote about Barmby, who worked fought and wrote for
the hastaTved, underpaid white wage slaves Of Great
England7
Barmbys writing despised, denounced and hated, of
course by SNUG prosperity satisfied because it had too
much Emerson described it. ga cry of the miner
and for bread for daylight and fresh air. for space
to exist In and time to catch their breath and rest them
selves in; demand for political suffrage and the power
TO tax counterpart to the liability Of being taxed
demand for leisure for learning for arts and sciences for
the higher social enjoymentS."
In that day the free man of England was not allowed
TO vote. he votes now because he had demanded the
right with strikes riots and brutality And the women
Of England vote Also they win do in the
Gdered outrageous not merely rebelEous but criminal
when such men as Barmby speaking for the poor de-
anded that they should have the right to tax well
''the liability of being taxed"
Think Of the progress that this war has brought in
the line Of taxation Men in Washington representing in
Congress all the workers of the United States are put
ting the taxes In billions upon those that able to pay
the tax.
And above all as you read the program of the Brit
ish Labor party which win be largely the program Of
labor everywhere when the war ends consider the con-
dions they existed in England but few years ago
Here is another quotation absolute fact incredible as
seems to now when read of trying to live on
one penny Gay ana lying down to overcome the psngs of
'In time of distress among the manufacturing
Vouobed by rd Ts ia o TO
Of Peers, and Mr. oConnen and others in the Commons
wages reduced in of the manufacturing villages
to Gxpence week. that forced to sustain them
selves and their families at less than penny day. when
the most revolving expedients resorted to for food
when families attempt by recumbent posture to diminish
the pangs Of hunger"
Within the lifetime of those reading this page the
Government had nothing to say to the hungry family ex
cept Iie down and you viii not feel so hungry" And
government says and enforces with its power the
rule: "You must give enough to feed himself and
those that depend upon him. And enough time to rest and
enough to care for his children"
And most important Of all, the changes that war
brings IN its bloody path are changes based Of
Justice, peaceful argument and representation
Contrast the days of "Jack Cade, with his budreoul
and his torch the days Of impotent violence and these
days Of comparative justice.
Contrast the conditions under the acqusrs in France
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