Show A CITY I There I t Is a terrific arraignment of P in the American l Magazine f 11 r May IY in which the utter ness of the aires xures is Js thoroughly exposed f the th center renter of the steel industry in inthe inI I the United States and in 1907 the eat t i mated r tariff profit in the steel trust truet i j atone alone one was a JS 0 The question aa as ast t wh who got tho the money mone If is answered as follows Oo 00 o look at the steel palaces and aM IB Is New N w York Torl and aI Pars Par Go Co Goa GoI L I a al lt x tM who w o nil fill nili i i glittering lae fl of p pleasure aMire in the i great oHMs dUes of nt 0 Europe end and this country who wO ho figure in divorce and aad murder trial tt tri s who v ho art are writing their names Rames on foundation fon and a 4 bequests and trl tr V great rr 1 ry has been wade made during pi f j that th the duties dutle are r for tor th the protection of et the work werk ingen n The falsity fal of 01 0 thIs argument arguments s found in the fact that the steel tr employee j work twelve hours a aila ila for seven ves hours h in the week and anti antin n ju jn two to weeks fill a lonG lone turn turK turna a L t shift and all LU LUthIs a athis this at U SI 32 S a day dale As Aa to te the manner in inv Inh v h rh c h this workingman fp 1 the existing is III thus th t K Ev were found to exist edet it r Pr r 7 section of the city ett ct Oer the UH privy I r present i vaults 56 flouted ODeS sense e of ot decency Ci E ri Cookeries pre perched ed on OR the Ute hlll hUI hUIS S c s were ere swarming with w men n em emAId and AId children families IhmS tu In tui hio Inn i o r n Om and accommodating boarders r i 1 a orner Iner thereof Cellar rooms reema were wre he the Ie abiding places of other families In t man rna water wa WM a luxury to be only through nuth nuch effort of ftC o i tt and straining muscles Co and alleys fouled by bad drainage draIn draInage I age and piea of ot rubbish rubb were playing grounds for tor rickety grimy children An enveloping cloud of I L I i smoke and Uld dust through which light and anc I air must filter Alter made housekeeping travesty In many neighborhoods ant an and ane I every fery e ery phase of or the situation was nten Intensified by the UM evil of overcrowding o t tb houses b upon lots ioU of families Into houses of people into moo rooms The highest death rate In the work world from typhoid fever feer is found in Pitts Pittsburg PIttsburg burg the underlying cause being the th lack Jack of pure drinking water With the stamp of death upon so 80 many labor laborers laborera ers era their wives 8 and families one might naturally suppose some s me of these thes millionaires would come coma forward with plans plena and funds for ameliorating tile the horrible conditions providing a better bettex system of drainage and sewage purer water waler more habitable dwellings eta Not ot GO so When en approached on the mat matter matter mattar ter tar they scy r We dont w want nt to go Into the hous housing housIng ing big business We are manufacturers not Jl t real estate dealers dealer We re may ma be b forced to haNd bund houses In certain ne new districts in n order to attract and hold labor but bat In an old eld ld settled community let the laboring man tako take care earl of himself him himself self We e dont believe belt eve in paternalism As to the children brought up under such suck conditions the report repert states that th t few of them are aN up to the mental standard and an Increasing percent percentage age are imbecile The schools are de do described scribed as all follows The school buildings are In many man case capes crowded dark dirty often of three th stories and bad fire risks The condition coMI of ef the children in these schools good and bad rich and poor may be known by b the large arge proportion having defective teeth reduced hear hearing hearIng ing tog imperfect vision An excessively large number of them are aro mouth breathers partially so because they are unable to breathe through their noses in the tile smoky amok ar of and a very vel considerable number are arc below the tl stature and the weight do de determined for fer the average child In a large percentage the defects of teeth nose noN and aM throat bring brim them bolow below the physical normal These Th se arc are the chil children children dren that wear seer out in childhood This Tills is the answer to the plea that the tite the workmen are protected by tariff on steel But the whole story has hIlS not been told In the article quoted i While Ue the laborers and their wives and I i children show how mental moral ami anil phy physical ph leal decay deca the possession of unbound unbounded ed wealth is h transforming its greedy possessors into beasts instead of hu human human human man beings The following dispatch recently appeared in the Philadelphia North orth American May Ia Pitts burgs burghs about to attract the country s of through the exposure attention aUe again degradation and shame which has stirred stirred be It has bas been Uv Lh city as never made and rore Three arrests have been more are to come The reported extent of f crime in Pitts Pittsburg burg indicates that something in the na nature nature nature ture of a wave of degeneracy is sweeping sw the city The worst of the situation Is to bf be ex exploded exp p tied when the police VOlke have hae trailed d the members and visitors to various club clubhouses houses heuse throughout the city These it fa k said Mid form ferm the hotbed of the singular vices iceS which are shocking as Germany was s shocked by b the round table and an England by b the arrest punishment and banishment of Oscar Wilds Wilde Toung Young street boys bOs are gossiping gos and juggling the names of prominent men with witha a I liberty Itt rt that is appalling The Th pollee polite admitted tonight that sev several eral rat warrants have hae been issued Some of the revolting details of the above dispatch have hae been eliminated but mt enough can be gathered from road read Ing ng ing It Jt t to show the depths of depravity nto Into which some of the citizens of the enter center of the steel industry founded I upon pon the tariff system stem have fallen If I Ithe the he holy writ is to be 00 believed bell ved brim lion atone and fire descended upon Sodom and med Gomorrah Gom orrah for the very crimes p practiced In today toda Yet the Aldrich bill proposes to con continue the burden upon the backs of the people eople of 0 the whole country tn in n order that hat tho the workman may continue to toll toil welve twelve hours a day for his pittance I while hIle living In filth and squalor while his ils employer becomes a stench In the nostrils of the civilized world |