ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND families of children will be
brought up more nearly as American children ought to be.
Which is more important:
THE WELFARE OF 150 CONTRACTORS' FAMILIES? (They will have
enough anyhow.)
Or THE WELFARE OF 150,000 WORKINGMEN'S FAMILIES? (They will
have only a decent living at best.)
Perhaps you have drifted away from the early American idea, and
refuse to admit that one family is as good as another. It may
seem anarchistic to suggest that the workingman's wife, who acts
as wife, mother, cook, washwoman, nurse and housekeeper, is as
good as the lady who has less to attend to.
But admitting--which we don't--that one hundred and fifty
contractors' families are more important than one hundred and
fifty workingmen's families, surely all will agree that ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND of the alleged inferiors ought to
offset the 150 alleged superiors. ----
If the contractors win, the Paris dressmakers will be richer, and
a few families will have a little added to what they do not
really need.
If the workingmen win, the future of hundreds of thousands of
men, women and children will be made brighter, and the
citizenship of the future made stronger by men better fed, better
clothed and better educated.
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