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two or three cold potatoes are the usual contents of the 

 dinner pail. There is no allowance made by the employers 

 for accidents or illness. When the doctor is needed, each 

 visit must be paid for when it is made. When the rent 

 day comes, the rent is taken from the month's earnings, 

 and if the head of the family can work no more, the 

 family is turned out with all the bitter cruelty of 

 * business. '" 



Men and women of America ! Has every feeling of 

 humanity fled from your hearts? Has every spark of 

 patriotism died within your bosoms? Will you stand idly 

 by and see the very life-blood crushed from the bodies of 

 your countrymen from your own brothers and sisters? 

 Will you sit with folded hands and look complacently on 

 the agonies of the dying Republic? That Republic which 

 is the heirloom of the Fathers of the Revolution estab- 

 lished through their unselfish patriotism and bought with 

 their blood? 



Chancellor Kent, the great American jurist and law- 

 giver, once said: u When the spirit of liberty has fled and 

 truth and justice are disregarded, private rights can easily 

 be sacrificed under the forms of law." Is it possible that 

 the " spirit of liberty has fled?" And that " truth and 

 justice are disregarded" in this broad land of God's giving? 

 Oh, America! Where is thy proud boast of protection to 

 thy citizens? Where is the freedom that rang out from 

 the hills in glad song in thy early days? Millions would 

 be spent to protect an adventurer who had slandered a 

 foreigner and was detained in a foreign dungeon. But 

 the women and girls of our country are permitted to writhe 

 in the grasp of a heartless, relentless, scheming, grasping 

 and hell-born set of moneyed aristocrats who worship at 

 the shrine of Mammon, and would sacrifice the flesh and 

 blood of their own country-people with less pangs of con- 

 science than the Hindoo mother who yields her child to 



