Show DOUR gOUR OUR MILLION MEN CANT GET WORK IN FLUSH TIMES OF ROOSEVELT at would a man of the temper and spirit of ot Jesus Jesusa a man who nobly exem exemplified exemplified exemplified religion know about the people of ot this country countr and how would such a manby man manby by b the agency of or his hl vote bring good tid tidings ings to those who most need them This was Vas the Inquiry propounded by bythe bythe the Rev Re William Thurston Brown yesterday yes yesterday in his address at the First Uni Unitarian tarlan church churchWell churchell churchWell Well ell he would know for tor one thins thing the facts concerning cone conc tile the Industrial status I of the great mass of ot in inthis Inthis Inthis I this country continued the speaker He Be would know that according to the investigations of at such careful and Impartial Impartial impartial students of or Industrial matters as Mr John Graham Brooks of Harvard and Charles B for some years on the editorial staff start of ot the Outlook there were wr wrIn in 1900 1300 a period of prosperity five the million five hundred thousand Cami families CamillIs families lies llIs or million persons In Inthis Inthis inthis this country whose total property mounted amounted to not more than while at the same time tine according to the authority tv of the Chicago Tribune one on man John D Rockefeller was estimated I to be he worth one billion dollars In other I words for some pom reason on or other one man In the United States owns more morl than other people In the States He lie would know kno too that while the U wealth of ot the one man is pro productive wealth all the while piling up more inure wealth so gO that though he has given perhaps n a hundred millions tor lor education and other purposes purpoSe there has been no decrease in his Ills property on the other oth r hand the wealth of the Is un unproductive unproductive productive wealth consisting solely in things for tor personal use I Such a man would know too that I more than half halt of or the people of the Unit United ed cd States live Jive In rented homes hom j more inure than in 10 mortgaged homes He H would know that 96 per cent of all the people In New York City do not own the th houses hou es they thE live hive in and only only onh per pcr cent of or the people of Philadelphia own their own homes According to Mr ale lr Tt e per cent of ot the families of or this country count hold more than half haIr its aggregate wealth more than all the rest put together SIt nel of ot all the families hold holot only of the national wealth A Ai I i iman man of ot the spirit of or Jesus would not only know these facts but he would discover r what they the mean why this condition con ex exIsts hits Ints and what Its effect Is bound to be on I all nil the people concerned A man Inspired by b the passion of ot re rl religion ligion would woul 1 surely know kno the contents of tho Eighteenth Annual Labor Report pre prepared prepared prepared pared br by ir air Ir Carroll D Wright ht United Status States commissioner of oC labor and pub published lix In a report which Mr Roose loose i veils administration suppressed as soon I as ns Its 11 1 damaging dama facts became known In that report import l jOrt isan Is an accurate statement of or orthe the condition of as os to employment and non employment as well as of or wages wage wag I and cost of living It tells us that where whereas as In l j S s per cent of or the were employed ah alt the time and 13 1 5 per I t cent employed ed only part art of or the time In I 1900 78 per per cent et nt were were employed all the tine i time lime and 22 2 per cent only part of the time while in 1903 a time tIm of ot unparalleled I lewd prosperity according to Mr lr j jelt yell velt elt and others only 50 per cent Of ot o the were employed cd all nil of the I time and und per TIer cent were employed only part of or the time The same report gives JIe as the tine chief cause o of unemployment the closing losing of or o manufacturing establishments That one thine accounts for 57 7 per of ot the unemployment sickness 23 w percent per percent ler cent strikes only 2 per cent and drunk drunkenness drunkenness enness for tor just 26 5 of oC one per er cent Today Toua It is estimated by ly b men qualified to too know that not less than four tour millions of oC men representing not less Jess than per persons persons sons are permanently out of oC employment 1 Mr air lr Yoakum of the tue Rock Island Ifland railroad says sa 1 there are railroad men men out of or work and with no possibility of or finding I work for tor some time to come The charity organizations of ot all our large cities arc are completely complete swamped in their efforts forts to todeal todeal todeal deal with the situation and the bread breadline breadline line has become a fixture in these se same big cities clUes When R hen you and I r go into the election booth next Tuesday to perform the sacred function of or our citizenship if Ir we have sits any an kinship whatever to Jesus or any other man whom the th world worM has judged jud religious if Ii we have haw anything of or the essence of or o reunion religion In our makeup we w e shall shull think what our vote ote Is going to mean for tor these millions of people who olio are Arc and antI under tinder the present system s stem must continue to be out nut of ot employment for tor A considerable part Jart of the time unable to find a chance hance to earn each a living forbidden by b conditions for tOr which they are In no noway nowa noway way wa responsible to provide proville food tood and the theother theother other necessities of ot life Ilfe for tOr those chose whom hom they tho love JOc True Trite we may ma adopt the creed Cleoo or of Cain and said I am not my brothers keeper But that will wll not alter the facts acts Here are at least Je st twenty millions of right rl ht now a fourth of all the peo peer peole ole isle le of the th country count who are denied the firSt tl t and fundamental fun right of every ever hu human human human man being the right to work ok and receive the means of a decent living Here are at least four tour million men who want work who cannot get fist work and Who rho because of that th t condition of things are hopeless and ami n helpless What hat are you going to 10 say to them by b your vote and what do you OU propose so far fur as a you af fir concerned concern Id to do for them It Int merely an emergency emet enc In In th the i ivery very times when most people with whom you and I talk were saying that the cairn coun try tr was enjoying prosperity j jat at the very ver time when Mr air 11 Roosevelt was wassa saying saving sa In that In 1901 his iris own commission I Ier er of labor Mr tr Carroll D Wright right an es x minister and an expert col eol collector I 1 lector of or Industrial data was war saying sa ii In i ian Ian an official that per vent cent of j I jall all the working people p of oC tills this countr I were forced to be Idle part Jart of ot the time j that they the did not receive e sufficient in to wages to maintain themselves In decent condition to labor and nd that even then thos who worked hardly received more than thao enough to ensure them the necessities of oC existence I IVe We Ve are all going to say sa on Tuesday what we think of that state of or things We Ye are going to vote ote either for tor Its con continuance e or against its continuance Our votes are either going to say fU to this vast army arm of ot unemployed men and women these men and women whose status In la our modern modem society Is that of ot habitual and forced unemployment We Ve have no nil hope for you ou We Ye dont know J oVo of or any an hope for tor you OU God only knows what you ou are going to do You represent a problem on which we have hae nothing to say a All we have to say sa Is that we are In favor tavor of ot continuing Indefinitely a system s stem of things which cannot be maintained without an array army arm of o unemployed men and women We Vo care far more for tOr what we think are arc our own interests than we care what hat becomes be becomes comes omes of some millions of or human beings beins whom we 0 have never ner seen Or else elRe weare we weare weare are going to say sa by our votes otes We e here and now by our votes give ghe notice to all the world that this system which dooms you ou men and women to this condition lor of industrial hopelessness and helpless I news nes ne s shall Chall end We e cast our ballots for tor forthe forthe the ending once for or all of an ait industrial system which denies millions all chance to earn a living Ing and then adds insult i to Injury by branding them paupers pauper when rather than see their loved loed ones oritS starve stane they the apply for lor charity or brands I Ithem I them criminals when they th prefer to steal or rob rather Tather than submit to the humilia humiliation 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