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Show How About More Equality? A poor "reliefer,'- an aged man in one of the states, committed com-mitted suicide because his check was stopped and he knew not whither to turn or where to go. He had one relative, a brother, broth-er, far away who could not raise money to come to his funeral which was held without ceremony except a few words by the undertaker. At about the same minute in a near neighborhood neighbor-hood a multimillionaire passed away. Before dying he had three of the world's best specialists and three highly trained nurses. He was buried at great expence in one of the finest cemeteries of the country. There is nothing calls to humanity from his grave, but from the grave of the poor man comes a call to men to resolve that they will do their utmost to build a better and kinder and nobler civilization and a remembrance that the '"'reliefer-' was a martyr to our blundering, cruel, blind system. |