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LL LOWELL: B

June 2

, St. John's M. E. Chur

he fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States there can be no such thing as "slave" in this country. Under the decision of

ite slave" when applied to the per

mother trying to support them; the tenement doubtless very bad. Suppose we condemn the tenement,-pull it down,-then these people would have no r

ry way. There is great competition in this business. That competition leads every employer to pay the highest wages that can be recovered from the sale of the pants, also allowing the sweater's

sweater would be employed if he did not earn what he makes; then the manufacturer, or clothier, could pay less for making the pants, because he now pays all that the trade will bear. If it cos

nd had stayed, perhaps, in Italy or in Russia, instead of c

titled to go with her children to the almshouse, where suitable shelter, clean rooms, and good food would be pro

to give alms to those who can or may support themselves? Is it better to give alms to those people in their attic, or

the sweater or middleman, and (3) the working-woman with her children, which is the slave-owner and which is the sl

th more than she gets

act, might disclose to you that the poor sewing-woman is poor because she sews poorly, a

elves, without pauperizing them yet more than they are pauperized under their present con

nt passion by the use of the term "slave?" Can you defend or justify this term, under th

is to be found among persons who, without intelligence, create animosity, and by their method of pr

erely you