Show I DEBSS VIEW iI i I Labor Leader Declares the Country is not Prosperous Kansas City Mo Jan M Eugene V Debs of Indianapolis the labor l leader In an address at the Academy of Music this afternoon said We are told today to-day that we are In an era of unparalleled 1 unpar-alleled prosperity I Bay that It Is n ghastly lie Love and abject poverty do not dwell together and there are I thousands of children being raised chidren ralsc under un-der conditions which cannot fall to make them paupers I Mr Debs Bald the trust of today is I the outgrowth of natural evolution and In Itself JR i not an evil Tho century which Is just closing marks an epoch and I critical period in industrial conditions con-ditions in this world The competitive system Is the bane of the Old today I is responsible for the conditions so graphically described In that raphicolr crlbp poem The Man with the Hoc The new century cen-tury will not tolerate this system and im > iHv vejurs will see it absolutely abolished |