Chicago
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Chicago
I have looked the over and taken thy meas-ure though Golgotha of the west. Though callest
thyself the Garden city! You claim to be the center of the new dem-
ocracy, of the great free west, of the land of
plenty. But with all thy democracy doth a man earn
a living easier within thy borders, or have a
happier time because thereof? Does he not toil harder, have coarser fare,
longer hours and a lower margin of subsist-
ence? For a city of democracy must be judged
by the status of its toilers and by the fine
houses of her pork-packing princes. Are not your workers being supplanted by
Chinaman, by Polack and by Italian, who
live on a much lower plane? And does not the great blot of slavery show
in thy streets more pointedly almost than
anywhere else in a lot diseased niggers? Blood is the bane of the hustling prosperity
that now attends you and an adept pig-sticker
is the embodiment of thy manhood!