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Show I Jf.f PLEADS FOR BETTER LABOR CONDITIONS Hj ','f Ulshnp Potter discussed the problem Hj 1 1' of the rltlieu nnd the (onsumcr In his BBJf j f , ! Hire ut 'i.lle on Wt.ln. sii lie de IJ J rlarert that much of the tcsponsllilllts j for the solution of the problems of labor yl I nnd mpUiil depends on tho consumer BBH j i nnd Is governed hi the law of supplj H l' ! nnd demund He sutd 111 part BBB ' lt rhe woiklngmau of today Is the BB I slave of the machine He follows It all BBC J , " iluy long In Inexorable routine, and If ho BBB l-ft In Us way as It drives on wind. In H I ! Its Inexorable fury it may kill him As H I ' we look at the j ace we rccngnixe that j j) It Is Imposslbl to drive ourselves at this BBjl ) ,, l'e We find In the tusk the destiue- BJ " t in of the forces of life itself. BBJ ., In the mines and watcrwts we nnd I i ' I men who have luvtr seen their vm- BBI ' It lloyeis And as vol ir to tou h one I J , of these Uvea with v nir own you have I If.,' " ort of smrt tor v..u cannot but I ' rtgard I Im as a nit re ml li the great I ! wheel of .ul.itm m mil so tiles sav I that soma lives must ha satlltteotl in i I thn coal hole In wiavlug at tht ti id , K that the great column of cu.umrit I must mnv nn on ran e.ll the the ..,ltSh.vVv,,..n,uSouwm-,hesare Hcsiwimibillty of Consume!. 'lhtse e iiidlll ns hive hten lo some extent unit mini bv the ti.mmand f law Milt rlgh. hern mints In the re-siionslbliitv re-siionslbliitv of the t msumer It Is a question vvht tlitr wo ought to encourage encour-age tho proilin lion r goods with In dlfferen'-e to iho Infamous methuds of their production ' But when the nuestl-m of shortening the hours of labor und similar demands nie talked of we heai some complain Thes sus that the demands of labor thnaten to oveithtovv the whole foundation foun-dation of our lommerclal system. And thty want to brush trem aside I tell sou vv j must not brush them aside. Thero Is a limit to the reduction of thi lime of labo- whlth might Ui danger dan-ger .us but this, tilings must be tun sldtr. I and atutllr I out with lutein gtni knowltilttt if al the fiets and tiiulltluus whlth we have not now at Inn I 1 Moial Question Considered. I I ut It Is n t orh (f lhe body end mint of the worklngmin th it we must (in ,ru mrsilv.s It Is Hie inoril ns-pe. ns-pe. is of his t n 11 1 Ion It li history thil Hi, lab nils- tt.mmuntlles tho ir mtscuotis he. ling logethei of men und w mtn In i iluttd and degr uli d In tlmu withiut lea.ird tt sinllary toiidltlous and with a whnllv mill mi-ll tusid prev ult nte of Iniempt r inee, his had a dt in .rattling effect Mid In casts when the model towns weui establish, d ll h i l en fo.nl that iharact. r was not formed entire l h envlrnn.miii lt han been found that ir we uplift the suul we must to. kin with the in. i n mid not wlih hla home We must awake In hi in ihe love u( right ami decern and without that we ..in build a host of modtl villages and i tompllsh nothing I have hturd It sal.l of on- of lha sn-ntll. il model nwns Mr worklngm.ii that the men never looked at the man who htrt crentetl the villus. It was his nut theirs and often mistaking his t tstes for tonvittioi the people vv, le not sltlsfled ind revolted against the lldes Then that in m slid that the worklngmen weie ungrateful grumblers We must inUse th it the wnrkitigman wants fair pi tv As one of th. m said Hit nihei dm In th stt-tlemeut stt-tlemeut of a liber dlfttt ult ' Don t give ns ton mmh to Idling |