Show or tho the cable tolls us that to in london an authoritative circular has boon been issued advising local authorities to modify the tha disi reas among the employed by making roads constructing sewers cleaning st itro roots eti and by bj pitying paying tho the men man employed a regular days wages the same cry comes from ill all around the world the question ot of whit what to do with the worlds poor is ii the tha terrible question ot of tho the age in b single century of inventions more than halt half the worlds work was taken liken from the arms of men mea and given to a arins arias of 0 stool again by abor saving machines a creature without thought or lie heart art wa without soul foul was wn manufactured tint that could with absolute precision perform the work ol of a thousand men and its ila products make no mistakes again these theia soulless loul loas machines have invaded a hundred olda ol of industry rod and ere are able dow to do the work which formerly required tho the work ot of skilled laborers laborera and to do it with a tha laborer nover never dreamed of 0 performing and so 0 o where civilization has reached its highest stages there Is most congestion and most trouble there Is hardly any work that an aa ordinary unskilled man can do that cannot bo be better done dona by a machine and the tha machine has no to labor union onion it never strikes as its food to Is either simply the tha water that TUBS runs down the bill or the tha firo fara and water combined and it works ott on with this small compensation without complaint until it 11 boors out and aad capital loans leans more and more mora to those monsters monitors and draws farther and farther away from human beings who want salaries Fal arlei for their labor who watt want food for and for their families who have hare to clotho their children who would like ilka to ed educate bucato them the tha old theory was that the machine by cheapening the cost of production would garo increased demand and that therefore no one would be tho the loser by it but it is truo true that amous among the abo nations who claim most moat enlightenment Is where the people are most distressed distress od wo we mean tho the very poor people there Is most confusion conf nelon there crimes crimea are increasing faster then than anywhere else there here minds are ara breaking down under the strain of trying with bands tied to make a living for families to clotho families and to educate them capital capita investing in those machines mach loos Is able to produce what the poor man las baa to have bavo tho the poor and rich aliko alike lave bavo to have and thus all tho the world being put under trib nto wealth gradually drifts to those who havo have money even as the rolling snowball catches all the tha snow upon tho the hillside and the spectacle Is pro of abnormal fortunes on ono one handoc hand of abject poverty on the other and under the eaves of every balaco of 0 the rich there aro are the cables cabins of 0 the starving poor now all this can bo be adjusted without such upheavals as will perform tor for society what a geological period makes for the earth Is the mighty problem of today to day we wa see sea no remedy except to drive the locomotive farther and farther into the wilderness to open now new fields for skilled and unskilled labor and at tho the same time assess the fortunes of the rich to institute a syntta of education which will make lasko it 11 possible tor for mortals to wrest a living from tho the world to in spite of these machines there Is ro no sovereign after all except mind blind and a training of ct mind a train Jing with that wisdom which seeks to put tuon men upon the piano where all that thai Is la a mind can be made effective will tavo poor mortality from the compo litton II 11 lion 0 of machines made of fron iron and brass lir iss the longer this plan of dealing with the question qua atlon shall bo be put ax 02 the moro morn distress dl atress will come until it if sot not arrested the cities will blare with riots and those who have property properly will have to no protection train from tho the mob |