Out of that, he's got to spend fifty cents a day for food; fifty-five cents for rent; ten cents for car fare.
And at the end of a hard day's work—he owes himself fifteen cents.
Yet the rich people say that the poor people are getting prosperous.
They say, look at our streets. You see nothing but automobiles.
You don't see half the poor people now that you used to.
Certainly you don't.
Half of them have already been run over and the other half is afraid to come out.
Why, between the automobiles and the trusts the poor man hasn't got a chance to live.
And if only the gas trust gets a little stronger, the price of gas will go up so high a poor man won't even be able to commit suicide.
They'll have him both ways. He can't live and he can't die.
And that's why I am with the socialists.