The Masses
From The Waste Land Wiki
Kyle Flores (Talk | contribs) (→Vol. 4 No. 1) |
Kyle Flores (Talk | contribs) (→Vol. 4 No. 1) |
||
| Line 136: | Line 136: | ||
''"'Crushing of the weak by the strong, he [Chancellor Andrews] says, is an eternal principle. Time will come, says the chancellor, when wrecks of humanity will be put out the world mercifully by skilled physicians just as Mr. Rockefeller terminated the existence of the weaker oil companies.'"'' | ''"'Crushing of the weak by the strong, he [Chancellor Andrews] says, is an eternal principle. Time will come, says the chancellor, when wrecks of humanity will be put out the world mercifully by skilled physicians just as Mr. Rockefeller terminated the existence of the weaker oil companies.'"'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | In this article, Dague criticizes the way major corporations treat their employees. The system used by the heads of large corporations, ''"are working night and day to continue an industrial system founded on greed, under which the working people are cheated out of four-fifths of the value of their earnings, that a few Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, and Baers may amass billions of wealth, not by honestly earning a single dollar of it, but by stock-watering and beating working-people down to starvation wages."'' In Dague's eyes, workers are exploited for their work. While the owners of these large companies are making unimaginable profits, their workers are barely making enough to survive. The workers are being worked into the ground, and once they can no longer work, they are being replaced. | ||
| + | ''"According to the the purported quotation form Prof. Andrews, it would seem that the Senate Committee overlooked the methods proposed for disposing of the worn-out old workers 'broken in spirit and wrecked in body.'"'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | Dague also accuses the government for not doing more to intervene in the injsutice that takes place. ''"'The government is bound in its own defense, for its citizenship, its life, to interpose between the strong and the weak. No man can meet obligations and discharge the duties of citizenship, in a free government who is broken in spirit and wrecked in body through such industrial peonage. It is just as much the government's duty to protect citizens from such outrageous treatment as from the burglar and highwayman."'' Dague does not believe that the government is looking out for the interests of the public. Rather, like the large corporations, they are looking for maximum profit. Dague appeals to the majority as his criticisms support the workers rather than the large corporations. He believes that the workers deserve more for what they do and that the government needs to do a better job of providing equality for the workers. | ||
===Vol. 7 No. 1=== | ===Vol. 7 No. 1=== | ||
