salary about 50 cents at a time. Andy if I am able to judge the feeling of a man who gets a $40 raise, by the emotion that used to surge through my heart when I got a 50-cent raise, that fellow is going to act altogether different then the opponents of Socialism are trying to make us believe.
Breaking Up the Home.
I'll tell you how that fellow will act. He'll come home all out of breath, throw the dinner pail as far as he can throw it, and shout at the top of his voice: "Hurray, old lady, come out here. Uncle Sam raised my wages from $10 to $50. Put on your glad rags, and dress up the kids. Let's go down town and take in every dog-gone picture show on the white way." Then he throws in a couple of hugs and smacks and kisses that can't be expressed in words.
Destroying Religion.
But would he still go to chuch? Oh I guess he would. In fact, am pretty sure he would, because he bought himself a new suit of clothes on Saturday night. His old girl got a merry widow hat, and all the kids have new shoes. You couldn't keep that family out of church with an ox team. And there they'll be, bright and early Sunday morning, all togged up in their new fineries, but instead of standing up in the Amen corner, kind of humble like, they'll walk right up to the front, and take a seat; because from now on they can pay the pew rent, and don't have to stand up along the walls. And when the preacher comes around for a little money to pay for the new carpet or to buy a pipe organ, in place of that old wheezy, asthmatic reed organ, instead of giving the preacher a lead slug or a counterfeit
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