AMERICAN PROBLEMS by WILLIAM E.BORAH 1924

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er and the father while we parade our humanitarianism
by taking care of the child. I
say, sir, we shall have acted the part of hypocrites
if we take that child from the factory,
unwholesome and dangerous as its surroundings
may be, and turn it upon the street to beg
or steal because we have failed to protect the
workman's home.
When the European war broke out what was
the condition of labor in this country?
On the
1st day of August, 1914, according to statistics
now accepted—and which have become so
well accepted as to be beyond the charge of
political manufacture—there were out of employment
in this country 2,500,000 men. "Who
has the power to describe the condition which
those figures indicate—2,500,000 men out of
employment, struggling upon the ragged edge
of hunger, with their children asking them for
support and for the means which it is not within
their power to supply?
But suppose I should be in error and that I
overdraw the picture. It reminds me of a
statement made by a distinguished divine, who
said that if
a man accepted and believed the
Christian religion, and it turned out to be baseless,
no harm was done; but that if a man re-