Show evil of economic inequality Is more brutal now even than in ancient days by MAYOR JAMES M CURLEY CUMLEY ol of boston bodon la Is humanity in the grip of evil yes according to my interpretation as aa to what constitutes evil the evil of economic inequality as it applies to the struggle for a livelihood is more brutal in our day than in ancient times because of the subtle chara character eter of its concealment in ancient times the lash of the taskmaster made death both s speedy and welcome for its victim idour in our day with three quarters of the adult male population lation receiving an average wage of less than per annum death is slow blow but nevertheless welcome beca because use of the inability of the workingman from his meager weekly pittance to provide the necessaries necessaries assent essential for the prolongation of life of the infants who die annually in america more than one half are victims of malnutrition and the the industrial system under which prospective and nursing mothers are obliged to toil in manufacturing arid and mercantile establishments at a time lime when they should not no only be tho the objects of tender solicitude but the recipients of the means which it is possible to provide for bodily health I 1 the fact that women are employed in the united states and that more than BO 50 per cent of these women are engaged in what might properly be termed manual labor is a most powerful indictment of both our economic and social sy systems h two million children of school age are at work in the united states and it is not an unreasonable assertion that 10 per cent of these children upon arrival at mans estate will be of little value to the community in which they live A livelier patriot patriotism isri than that which sheds its blood willingly for ling flag or country is imperative that motherhood may receive her heritage t comfort and the necessaries of life that children may be clothed with the armor of education to combat ignorance that man ma may y receive receive income sufficient to provide for life and not more mere existence to the end that th the dread specter of misery may not steal the sunlight in its waking hours and th ohp 4 poverty and pauperism may not make of his hia slumber a hideout nightmare |