People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1893 — SLAVERY. [ARTICLE]

SLAVERY.

There Are More'Slave* In the (Jolted States-, To-day Than There Were in 1801. There are more slaves to-day in the> United States, than ever before. When, Lincoln called for volunteers, 4,000,000) of slaves ga<ve trp all their earnings,, above what they mast necessarily comsume for food and clothing, to masters. Let us see hour many we have to-day. The bureau of statistics shows 9,000,000mortgages in the country, averaging *450, aggregating £4,050,000,000. Theannual interest on this amount, at T per cent, is $333,500,000, which must be. paid by somebody. If the wealthy paypart of it direct, they make it, off the* laboring class, so the laborer has it to» pay after- all. The average laborercaiinot count on saving, above the. living expenses of his family, more than 25 cents per day, and at this cate-it will take all the saving of 8, 600*000 man. Ao pay the annual interest on these mortgages. Since at least fiw persons, constitute the family of each one of these men it means that 18,000,000 of people are to be restricted to the barest necessities of life, in order- to meet the demands of tins mortgage system. A million of the best sons of America died or received wounds that slavery j might be eradicated from our country, i and eighteen jtnilliou wage slaves still ! struggle under hard masters in this ' lan-.l of the free. —Mount Vernon (£U>) ‘ Progressive Farmer.