Year: 1879

tons between you and your employers
They hare led you into strikes ~
which you have lost time and money
and exposed your families to unnecessary
suffering. They have made many OF yo"
discontented with your condition.. but have
left you without solitary remedy for its I'M
proYement. These men dislike The LIB
UNI, and Willy it because it will not Pandef
to their selfish schemes, and exposes .ne
hollownoss, impracHcabihty, and absurdlty
of their pretentious efforts for your anchor
alton, As TEE TRIBUNE has your best ln-
terests at heart, it proposes to talk to you
decidedly but kindly, md to offer to you
practical suggestion, which, If acted upon,
will provide you who have none with homes
of your own, and make your condition easier
and moro endurable.


Your average earnings in this city may be
placed ut 800. 600 per day, the year round
You earn more in summer and Less in winter,
but it is within bounds to say TINT yonr gross
earnings for the year reach the large sum OF
about thirty-one millions. There are IN Chi
csgo about $500 liquor saloons of various
kinds, devoted to the sale of whisky, rum,
beer, and other liquors. Of these probably
600 depend for their patronage upon the mer-
camille and transportation clnsses, fast young
men, and the floods of strangers in the
city. The other 1900 subsist upon your
patronage. You spend in them at
least $4,000 q day, or moro than
six millions per aunum., If We edd to this
the money you spend for cigars and unproit-
able amusements like cards, billiards, pool,
and other games peculiar to these establish
ments, the total will amount to over eight
millions, or fully quarter of your gross
annunl enrnings,-a sum so great that 1t
would support the entire City and County
Governments, and all the churches and
schools in Chicago. Several thousand OF
you ara spending over half your earnings on
liquor alone, and keep yourselves in more
or less fuddled condition the year
round. Other thousands of you spend,
perhaps, only 10 per cent of your earnings
in this wasteful and ruinous manner, and
few are manly enough not to spend cent
for alcoholic stimulants. But, taken alto
eether, between two and three hours of each
days wages arc thus squandered, and very
largely by those who ore loudest in demand
ing ten hours pay for eight hours work
This enormous amount Of hard earnings
easily parted With will purchase 5000 COM
Portable cottages per nnnum.


Suppose now that you could be induced


to spend only half rs much money on
whisky, tobacco, and amusements, you
would save four millions a year Of your
squandered earnings, We havo no hope ever


to see the day when everybody will oe tee
totallers. More or less liquor will always be
drunk. But it is possible to reduce the
quantity and mitigate the evils growing out
of it's excessive use. Is it not possible to
restrict the expenditure on liquor. cigars,


and gambling amusements by one-half?


Gould you not get along with one-half rs
much Of those three things? The saving in


Chicago, as We have said, would be four mill


ions of dollars in year. This sum will pu.-
chase 1000 lots per annum, and build


brick cottage on every one Of them. The
younemen who are unmarried could soon


save enough to buy a cottage home,


and have it paid for when they are


ready to take a wife into it. How
nice it would be to own cottage, with
shade-trees in front and a garden in the rear,
which you and your family could enjoy.


You would have no rent to pay. You would


moving every spring. You would not be at
the mercy of landlords. You would be hap
pier during your own lives, and you could
leave the world with the grateful conscious
ness that your wife and children we're not to
be turned out Of doors. In lieu of this, you
which brings many Of you into constant


trouble, which breaks down health, which


keeps many of you in poverty and your chill


dren in rags and Ignorance, which makes the


wife slave and her home constant


source of misery.


These may be unpleasant facts, but they


are none the less too true. Your pretended


lenders will not tell you Of them, because
they are not your real friends, but lazy
| loafers scheming to make their living out of
you without work The TRIBUNE, having
your moral and material happiness at heart,
and beng your sympathizing friend, can
afford to talk to you in an earnest and honest


manner as workingmen that need "not to


be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of


truth"


THE FACTS ABOUT THE NEW CITY-HALL.
The Investigation Of the condition of the
| new City y-HaQ under the auspices Of the
Council Building Committee, and the sup
Elementary report Of the Committee Of Ex-
perts, drawn out by a series Of questions
which Mayor HARRISON addressed to that
body, place the whole matter in very diff
ferant light from that which the Lemont
! Stone-Ring, assisted by its organ, attempted
to throw upon the building. The first re-
port Of the experts, who examined into the


condition Of the structure by taking the one
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