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Show LET THE QUESTION BE SETTLED. Sirs. Elizabeth Thompson of New York desires to have this problem solved: In tho first year of our second contiry of national SiUience toero arc said lo bo 3,OiX,000 of unemployed por;oDs in tho Voi'ed States. Who can toll ua why or how this appalling situation arose? Vh can set forth, in colors sulliciently vivid tho depredation and demoralisation it is briDging upon tho suujrors and uoon : our country T Wo arc dealing with wide-spread effects; let us search into their c nisei. Aro the; the ripened rip-ened fruits of our boasted civilization? Or is this crisU an ordeal through which every nation must pass ? Now, if ovtr, is tho tituo for our legislatures, our political poli-tical eo-monikts and our social science reformers to exert themselves for the' bcneiit of a bankrupt. In order to do something to solve this problem, Mrs. Tnompjou mike3 the following offar, which is vouched for as genuine by the New York press: I desire that evory aspect of tho sub- : ject may bo thoroughly discussed in the columns of the American press. To tl:ut j end I ott-.T three premiums, or.o of otioj hundred dollars in gold, one of seventy- ( live dollars, ar,d one of lifty dollars, for. the best nowpaper articles of about 2.000 words upon some feature of the labor question, con?idemd in its widest teope. These articles aro lo besigned by some nom de plume, and swnt lo Ihe o:f'iC of tho Library Table beforo tho lit j of October next, and tho awards shall be ' made by a committee to bo appointed by tho American Social Science association 1 at its meeting at Sarat'to in July. 1 ro-i serve tho right ot ac.cp'.ing at li'cn'y , dollars any of tho essays which may not I recgive the yrenrutu;. I |