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not, control. Of these in the United States in 1910 

 there were more than thirty-eight millions! 



The researches of students indicate that in favorable 

 years, year in and year out, one-fourth of this number, 

 in round numbers ten million wage-earners in our coun- 

 try have not sufficient wage to meet, not the requirement 

 of the three phases of human interest just cited as con- 

 stituting normal human living not that, oh, no!, not 

 that, but not enough for the basic FIRST, not enough for 

 action, not enough for necessaries of actual physical life, 

 shelter, clothing, and food. This takes no account of 

 the incompetent poor who are and always must be cared 

 for, because for one reason or another, fault of body, or 

 fault of mind, incapable of self-support; such are not 

 here mentioned. Our concern is with the normal laborer 

 only, the man or woman who could and would properly 

 maintain himself or herself and those in dependence, if 

 wages were constant and sufficient. 



In other words, in the richest country in the world, 

 in the country of which we are so proud, where industry 

 and invention so rejoice and triumph, in this country, 

 there are millions of wage-earners whose income in any 

 single case is insufficient that a man shall have at any 

 one time sufficient food, sufficient clothing, and suitable 

 or adequate shelter for himself, his wife and two or 

 three children; this says nothing of insurance, or of 

 accidents, or old age. Does any one suppose that in 

 presence of the constant display of superfluous wealth, 

 made by large numbers of our people, in presence of the 

 wide-spread idleness of thousands who do no useful ser- 

 vice, simply because labor is not necessary to their daily 



