Show economy as a poorman foorman poor man sees it 1 I hear bear and read a great deal about economy and it 16 sounds sound swell welt enough as one listens to it but ja is it juat just that the skilled labor of bur bui country hall hali be only one remove above the beggar in the streets nobody objects to economy we know that we are poor and we are willing to accept the situation if a crisis comes we are willing to wear rags and live on hubka huska till it passes but when the country is full of money when men are working every day days something Is wrong if it the tried and faithful workman does not receive for the labor of his hands enough to supply his family with temperate modest comforts comfor le jos joa and with something even for their their culture something to fit them for the future mind blind I 1 dont undertake to say eay what this wrong is or where rethe the fault only that it banot Is not with the laborer Why should my life ilfe be such a ceasel ceaseless bes bew hoping against hope a round of such suet small economies econom ies iea that the soul shrinks and withers away beneath them and mine ia Is not a solitary case there are scores of such sueh right here and the thousands but all the while the great corporations are turning down the screws and you can scarcely look into a paper that does doea not speak of a reduction somewhere in the wages of help it la 19 merciless merciless merci ess company |