"SLEEPING "FACTS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 16

"SLEEPING "FACTS.

Interesting Information that, is Never ■ given General Publicity, Heard in Congress. While every utterance in Congress , is duly recorded by stenographers and appears in the Congressional Record, i and while hearings before committeoß ) and commissions are likewise a matter ■■ of record, yet, owing largely to tho ; voluminous printed documents, the ] greater portion of vital matt-ei'3- are — i4oot~*tu""' _ a- speech ; made on tho floor of the House stated ; the following facts, having been collected by the New York Child Labor -Commission: — Children's dresses are paid for at the j rate of 50 cents per dozen; the average -;. daily output for one person in 1-3 .hours i is one dozen. " Violets are made for 3-V cents per ■ •'! gross, and a mother, three girls and a grandmother earn 60 cents per day. -_.j The average wage of an entire family ~ at garment finishing is from 60 to 70 .- cents per day. 444: Making cigarette wrappers brings 10 ~ cents per 1000, and a woman working .- from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. can make 2dols. -. per week. —Exchange. • ;

If patriotism and war, its necessity, V be good, then Christianity, as giving j! peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner £ we root it out the better. ' But if ■! Christianity really gives peace, aud if "> we really want peace, then patriotism ?-, is a survival of barbarism.—Tolstoy. £ > t

Such natural powers as he may havo ] should be cultivated by the study of j history, science, and literature. Ho- -s must not only keep close to tho people, >< but remember that he is one of them, •, and not above the meanest. He must f" feel the wrongs of others so keenly ;" that ho forgets his own, and resolve ? to combat these wrongs with all tho \ power at his command. I The most thrilling and inspiring ora- '.[ tory, the most powergul and impressive- ;: eloquence is the voice of the disinherit- '; ed, the oppressed, the suffering and 4 submerged; it is the voice of poverty \ and misery, of rags and crusts, of "^ wretchedness and despair; the voice ' of humanity crying to the infinite; the voice that resounds throughout the • 4 earth and reaches heaven; tlie voice ■- that awakens the conscience of the ' race and proclaims the truths that - fill the world with light and liberty, and love.