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Title: Wisconsin medical recorder
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Janesville : Hall & Thorne
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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ward. That marksthe congested district of thenorthwest side. A little fur-ther south the west side slumaround .Twelfth street andHalsted and the Chicago riv-er is outlined. Then the lo-cation of the stock yardsjungle is marked in the dots of death. Turn now to the lake shore. Here iswhere the people live who own the stockyards, the west side factories, the SouthChicago steel mills. Here are wholewards without a single dot. Wasthere some strange mark above the door-posts of the homes in this locality thatstayed the hand of the angel of deathYes. It was the dollar mark. Where pure food could be purchasedand proper care given, there the handof the avenging plague was stayed. Onlywhere those lived who did the work of producing the wealth of Chicago werethe babies sacrificed. Roosevelt talks of race suicide.Here is race murder. It is against such thingsthis that the socialistises his hand. He knowsthat the fields of Americaare broad enough to pro-duce an abundance ofpure food for every in-
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fant that sees the light. He knows thatscarcity and impurity alike arise be-cause of a race of parasitic profit-eaters. WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 317 the courts, the question of the legality ofthe methods employed is unimportant.It is because some have wealth they donot earn and others are deprived of—are not permitted to enjoy—the wealthwhich their labor creates (owing to in-dustrial anarchy, or want of proper or-ganization) that we have red lightdistricts and the other horrors about uson every hand, so manifest to those notlamentably ignorant of industrial con-ditions, or too blind to see them. Solong as a Harriman is permitted towork himself to death in a few yearsgetting possession of $100,000,000.00worth of property, when he never pro-duced a useful thing in all his life, justso long will we have fluctuating indus-trial conditions, and needless povertyand crime, and young men afraid tomarry and young girls driven by neces-sity or misfortune to sell the use oftheir bodies to

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