Eugene V. Debs was an American union leader along with one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. He along with his team of people fought the atrocity’s the world threw at them, and every time he threw it right back. He fought for his position during his lifetime and truly deserves everything said about him.
In Eugene V. Debs statement “My Brother’s Keeper” he maintains that he has a moral obligation to keep his brother in safe hands. He makes an accurate point because any brother is family, and family should never be left in the cold. Keeping your brother by your side, leading him to the path of success, is what encourages him to become a better person, which then builds a better community not just for yourself, but for the world.
As a Brother’s Keeper your liability is to make sure your loved one grow up stronger than ever, not starving, or poor. Eugene V. Debs expresses his views on this by saying, “What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?” (Debs 1) Here Debs shows what kind of person he is by giving an example of what many people have become and how he acts. So if he see’s fellow …show more content…
The factory store fire killed more than a hundred and forty-eight people. Women and children were jumping out of the building trying to survive, but ended up hurting even more people by crushing them. The net they intended to use was not sturdy enough to hold everyone and snapped. Here is where a “Brother’s keeper” comes into play, when there are protectors like the brother’s keeper they will do anything to protect the fellow people he loves, along with the rest. There would be far fewer tragedies if they had a protector by their side, then again this was the progressive era and the people running the factory gave little to no care for their