uper. The women work as
hard as the men. They toil in the iron mills. They make nails,
they dig coal, they toil in the fields.

In Europe they carry the hod, they work like beasts and with beasts,
until they lose almost the semblance of human beings--until they
look inferior to the animals they drive. On the labor of these
deformed mothers, of these bent and wrinkled girls, of little boys
with the faces of old age, the heartless nobility live in splendor
and extravagant idleness. I am not now speaking of the French
people, as France is the most prosperous country in Europe.

Let us protect our mothers, our wives and our children from the
deformity of toil, from the depths of poverty.

_Question_. Is not the ballot an assurance to the laboring man
that he can get fair treatment from his employer?

_Answer_. The laboring man in this country has the political power,
provided he has the intelligence to know it and the intelligence
to use it. In so far as laws can assist labor, the workingman has
it in his power to pass such laws; but in most foreign lands the
laboring man has really no voice. It is enough for him to work
and wait and suffer and emigrate. He can take refuge in the grave
or go to America.

In the old country, where people have been taught that all blessing
come from the king, it is very natural for the poor to believe the
other side of that proposition--that is to say, all evils come from
the king, from the government. They are rocked in the cradle of
this falsehood. So when they come to this country, if they are
unfortunate, it is natural for them to blame the Government.

The discussion of these questions, however, has already done great
good. The workingman is becoming more and more intelligent. He
is getting a better idea every day of the functions and powers and
limitations of government, and if the problem is ever worked out--
and by "problem" I mean the just and due relations that should
exist between labor and capital--it will be worked out here in
America.

_Question_. What assurance has the American laborer that he will
not be ultimately swamped by foreign immigration?

_Answer_. Most of the immigrants that come to American come because
they want a home. Nearly every one of them is what you may call
"land hungry." In his country, to own a piece of land was to be
respectable, almost a nobleman. The owner of a little land was
regarded as the founder of a family--what you