This will enable them to
retire before decrepitude comes on, and orders are left for the
poorhouse ambulance to call on its way out.
If every city occupied three times the ground they now do, they would be
gainers in all ways, and the moral degradation into which large sections
of them have sunk would disappear with the conditions that produced
them.
The capacity of Europe to feed her people is being crowded, we are told,
and then our flag is again run-up, and during the whole exhibition the
Chinese system of bunking is quietly fastening itself in every city of
consequence in the country. When those sorely pressed people, whose very
existence is being threatened by these foreigners of a degraded
civilization, awaken to the extremity of their danger, the bunking
system and its introducers will find perjury and the habeus corpus mill
powerless to save them. Mark this, however. The big capitalist imported
the Chinaman, and his powerful influence has defeated all attempts to
remove him. It follows, then, that we must break up the big capitalist,
if we ever expect to get at the thing behind him.
We are not indifferent to the hardships of the oppressed of other
nations, but we cannot get out of our own perplexities by saying that we
are more favored in some way than are others.
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