despairing mothers, their hearts wrung with
agony and their eyes blinded with tears, attempted to save their
children from starvation by placing them in the keeping of sympathizing
friends, they were beaten, insulted, and with babies at their breasts
thrown into jail, bleeding and stunned, by the brutal police acting
under orders from the far more brutal mill owners.

The world will never know the suffering and terror these poor working
people--especially the women and children--had to endure for daring to
ask the millionaire mill owners for a pittance more in return for their
labor to keep the wolf of hunger from their gloomy hovels.

When the Socialist party gets into power those mills at Lawrence and all
others like them will be taken over by the people and operated for the
good of all, and then the workers will keep the wealth they produce for
themselves, instead of turning it over to the greedy mill bosses; they
will have decent homes to live in, food in plenty on their tables, and
their children will go to school to be properly educated instead of to
the mills to be ground into profits to gorge their idle owners.

In March last, Mrs. L. F. Jellson of Salem, Oregon, gave poison to each
of her four little children, her own offspring, because they were
starving and she was poor and had no way to get them bread. She then
poisoned herself and all she asked in the note she left was that she and
her darling children be buried together. This poor heart-broken soul was
driven to destroy herself and her precious babes because the world as it
now is would not allow them to live.

Think for just a moment of all the food there is in the world and all
there might be and then tell me if socialists are wrong and foolish and
wicked for saying that the self-murder of this poor woman and the murder
of her children is a terrible crime of which society is guilty and for
which there is no excuse on earth or in heaven.

A recent investigation showed that in the City of St. Louis there are
16,000 young women who receive as wage-earners less than $8 per week and
over 3,000 who receive from $3 to $4 per week.

It is easy to see from this why so many little girls and younger women
are forced to enter upon the path which leads to shame and sorrow and
which seldom bears the impress of returning footsteps.

When the giant Titanic met her fate, fifty little bellboys went down
with her to the bottom of the sea. They were ordered, according