The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-10-15
A}tIlmoud 0lsp2trh
4 Senator on the Poor.

:, There is ~ reason why ~" poor rh"'','
knnr Donr. There are no clamps ol co.,
an,onuus. There Is II" h2fr.H'-"u. Wv.
~ ,yr,,,,cS cf Sr,c"cee. The doors - cfe''
a,,,.t,,c-f oC rcmuucra'ivc toll stand orc'
n al. and education and opporl unltN af
within the reach Of all TO win tn" hl@arS'
nri7cS. The poor begin, indeed, nj INC
Invcst round Of the ladder. tut there i n"
reason why they NAV not climb 10 the top.
most. Stewart, Vanderbilt, and Drew; n,
no advantages at the start. ihcV nave h"i
mn fhc;r huge fortunes without help IRON
wealthy parcHt, or connexions, , ~" AZ
who emulate thcir career may lnIuc H.
The children Of the wealthy sVuonder Tor
f1un-. tho children oI the poor create 'h"m
S,.rh has been a general law II American
life
The Great Teacher said. "Thc poor y
haze always with you." This saying i no.
only true, hut necessarily true. It s.iu't ~
i,ano,sibic that there should not l." poor
ncoplc n that two bodies can occupy u"
same space 1t IN" same time. IL All 'he
,rrcnulrtckS in the United states were cqilatN
divided amongih he people each person ""dlo
,,1yr ahout Ten dollars. There would he nc
rich If there were no poor. The poverty o
The poor feeds thr tlrilt Of III" rich " hn
soy. Of a community would that be where
MI were rich: Who would black boots.
d,.;vc caryiaocs. till the earth, do black
smiths work. perform hard labor OF any
sort. NO reason why The poor should
r,arn moor" indeed. Who docs n''
know industrious. hardWorkIh@' h"he>'
men. who have toilcd in vain all ih'''
lives in the effort to lay up somcthin"
for 4 rainy day: Who does not kno"
that every man quits hard manual labor a
soon rs he possibly can. and that one OF TIC
,,rst things successful or thrifty man Gors
i 10 live by his witS:-that l., 10y aV2lliE.
himself Of the MD Of his accumulated cap
-al> The whole Of the real estate in Rich
mond. for instance, i valued nj S2j,ooo.'t".
Now. /, is plain that if there were here
twenty-five men worth one million OF col
lars each the whole Of it would belong
ia them: and equally plain that tive
hundred and fifty men worth "n'
hundred thousand dollars each mi2h'
own II all. This or It similar II.
lu~iration would hold good "F"rYNhrr"
Before the war VIRGINIA was the ri"h"~'
State in the Onion. There Wa> in hi, stat
50 much property that if il he'd been equally
divided nmm~.t tn" pcorl" each person
would have had ahont Thousand d"l3'i>.
Tbi. was inzt'v considered II re IN extra
ordinary stale Of things. II alI lncn W'rf
equally economical, and equally capable ~
accounting property. there would 4" am
c0uid hc no such millionair1> a STEWART.
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