ADDRESS OF REV. H. EDDY, D. D. 13 f 



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Band and gusset and seam, ^ 



Till over the buttons I fall asleep, || 



And sew them on in mv dream. ^ 



Oh, men, with sisters dear! f^ 



Oh, men, with mothers and wives! P 



It is not linen you are wearing out, || 



But human creatures' lives; H 



Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! ' b 



Jn poverty, hunger and dirt, ^ 



Sewing at once with a double thread ^ 



A shrowd as well as a shirt. 

 O, God! that bread should be so dear, 



And flesh and bones so cheap! 



Yes, how cheap are God made muscle, blood and bone in com- 

 parison with a dollar! You talk piously about the sacrifice to the 

 ancient God Mammon and pity the wretched victims and the more 

 wretched votaries; but there never were more human victims laid |1 

 upon the altar of Mammon than now. It would have been a piti- |f 

 able and horrid sight to have seen the army of Napoleon lying on || 

 the Russian snows stark, white and stiff with frost, but a more iff 

 fearful sight would be revealed to-day should the garrets be an- If 

 roofed, revealing the hundreds of thousands of women toiling in ^ 

 poverty, hunger and dirt to keep life in them by a despairing and ^ 

 agonizing effort. These poor starvelings become timid and afraid. ^ 

 Men and women become coy and trembling in their misery and 

 want; afraid of the great glaring eye of the well dressed and well 

 fed world. 



Again, when we look at the well dressed, well shaven and staid 

 financier, and the workman in his blouse and overalls, we might 

 think that the latter had hardly any relation to banking institu- 

 tions, stock exchanges, government bonds and all the rest. But 

 isn't this a mistake? Have not the working men, as a class, a moie 

 vital relation to the financial prosperity of the nation than our 

 best financiers? These are only the manipulators of the money 

 which comes and can only come from the work of the farmer, the 

 mechanic and the day laborer. It seems to me that 152,000,000 

 of live stock of all kinds have a very great financial power repre- 

 senting as they do two billions and a half of money. It seems to 

 me that 500,000,000 of bushels of wheat have power to move the 

 market in a very decided way, and we know that they do. It 

 seems to me that nearly 2,000,000,000 of bushels of corn, repre- 

 senting $700,000,000, have some power to cause at least a ripple ^ 

 in the market. Or take the aggregate of farm products, namely 



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