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Rh increased to over 1,000,000. Of that 1,000,000 we have 468,492 people living in 14,872 houses, being an average of over 31 persons to each house. It is among these people that the greatest want exists. How severely many oi these people suffer, God only knows, and few of their fellow men ever take the trouble to find out. The sufferers are left, for the most part, to friends who are attracted to them by personal appeals, to the chance visits of the police, or to starvation. The vital records of 1873 show a total of over 900 deaths in our city from "marasmus." Any intelligent and truthful physician will say that in 99 cases out of 100 of these "marasmus" is but another name for starvation."

It was in view of this heart-rending state of things, that the workingmen's meetings were called, and which were denounced by the monopolists and their minions, as inflamatory and seditious.

Wendell Phillips says, "The great problems of civilization, are poverty, disease and crime, and the last two are chiefly occasioned by the first."

It is but necessary for the honest Farmers, Mechanics and Workingmen, generally, to resolve that they will be befogged and befooled no longer by scheming politiicanspoliticians [sic] and their greedy allies, who are running the government to destruction—it is but necessary, I say, for them thus to resolve, and to fix upon a plan and concert of action, whereby to rescue the government from those audacious and corrupt rings, and thus to restore it to its original designs of "deriving its Just powers from the consent of the governed," and of "securing the greatest good to the greatest number."