the capitalist, when the life is of no more profit to him, but which make the capitalist slave willing, yes, anxious to lay down his life that his family may get bread enough to keep them from actual starvation."

"MEN WITH FAMILIES WORK FOR BOYS' WAGES.

"Men with families, says the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, "are employed as bottle blowers at boys' wages in the George Jonas Glass company at the little hamlet of Minotola, N. J. They live in houses owned by the company, to whom they pay rent; and they are compelled to trade at the company store on the cash book system; they are compelled to contribute toward the support of the preacher; they are prohibited under pain of discharge from meeting together to plan means for throwing off the shackles that bind them in the bitterest kind of slavery. Children much below the legal age of 12 years are employed; and unless a man has two boys whom he will place at work in the factory he cannot secure employment; and if he is fortunate enough to have two little children whom he is willing to turn over to his employer he will be permitted to go to work at apprentice wages.

"Slavery is a mild word to use in describing the condition of the workers in Minotola. The entire town belongs to the company and the employes are not allowed to walk on the company's grounds after being discharged. One man had to walk down the railroad track in order to get to his home, where his wife was so ill that she could not be moved from the company house in compliance with

the order to get out. And all of this is going on in a few hours' ride from the nation's capital; where lackeys cringe and crawl before the very men who have caused all this suffering of the poor."

The following story is enough to freeze the blood with horror:

CHILD SHOT FOR BEGGING BREAD.

The past winter (exact date has slipped my mind and I have mislaid my notebook) a white child went to a back door in the city of Birmingham, Ala., and begged for food. This is unlawful, as the hungry child probably knew. When he stepped back into the alley, a policeman shouted to the little chap and like any other child who had done that which he knew was punishable, he feared the officer and ran from him. The blue-coated brute shot the boy dead. If he had been a negro child, there would have been the assertion that this was another case of race hatred; but we do not hear it cited as an example of the hatred of the millions of capital for those who are poor! There is too much of this warping of events to make them fit preconceived ideas. This eleven-year-old child was killed by a policeman "in discharge of his duty," so the officer did not lose his position on the force and there was no lynching. One can but hope that the quick death of the murdered boy was easier than the slower one by means of starvation.-W. S. Abbott, Oak, Cal.

That crowds are always hungry in the large cities is attested every Christmas by the thousands of poor who flock

to the big charity dinners given by the newspapers, lodges, churches, etc. The day after Christmas the Chicago papers published the following:

"Between 11 o'clock in the morning and 9 o'clock at night 10,000 men and boys and about 100 women ate platesful of turkey and potatoes and drank cup after cup of steaming hot coffee in the old Waverly Theater. This is what they ate and drank:

"4,500 pounds of meat, chiefly turkey.

"125 bushels of potatoes.

"4,000 loaves of bread.

"1 barrel of gravy.

"2 barrels of cranberry sauce.

"150 gallons of pickles.

"500 gallons of milk.

"150 pounds of good coffee.

"In the whole crowd of 10,000 forlorn, hungry people the police failed to discover a single professional crook. After the first 700, who were mostly from cheap lodging and barrel houses, had been fed, THE CROWD WAS MADE UP CHIEFLY OF MECHANICS AND LABORING MEN, WHO WERE HUNGRY AND OUT OF WORK."

Of the ten thousand, nine thousand and three hundred were mechanics and laborers who were hungry and out of work! That is quite a different story to what the same daily newspapers, in their servility to wealth and power, have been trying to have the people believe. They didn't