Show BETTER IN EVERY WAY Cardinal Gibbons who recently returned re-turned from an extended foreign tour says Whatever may be the grievances lof the laboring classes here I believe our men are better paid better clothed better housed and have fairer prospects than those of any nation I visited Every intelligent American who travels abroad brings back a similar report and everybody knows this report is correct There is probably no countrv n nJ in the world where the laboring classes enjoy life better than here where workingmen work-ingmen can bny more for their woes than they can get in America where men work less than here for the same amount of money or where the condition con-dition of the toiling classes is better than it is in the western republic And yet there are widemouthed howling demagogues among us who are tellint the laborers that they are downtrodden and oppressed and too many of the workingmen are so ignorant that they cannot understand that these blatherskites blather-skites are deceiving them for their own selfish purposes In New York City last fall over 60000 men were so blinded and bamboozzled by the demagogues that they voted for a municipal ticket which if elected would have given the commercial metropolis of the nation into the hands of a reckless irresponsible irrespon-sible mob In Chicago more than 30000 socalled workingmen believed the blatherskites and would have placed them in charge the city Today To-day many thousands of men in various parts of the country are depriving i themselves of Workstriking against I wages which would place them far aheadof their European fellows in the I matter of creature comforts and socia 1 I pleasures The workingmen in America Am-erica would be happy and contented if they would refuse to listen to the fellows fel-lows who labor only with their jaws The American laborer who is industrious industri-ous and faithful and who heeds his own wise counsel is the man who soon becomes be-comes the employer or lives at his ease without work |