Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-02-10

som Of q nation wrecked, and Il world
in mourning for the hopes that lived in
the possibilities of American demOcra-
cy.
Individual folly we may laugh at,
but the folly that saps the very foun
dation of our national life, is not Il
thing for mirth. We have instmced it
in the White House, but it exists all
the way down from cabinet officers to
the policeman who swings II useless
billy on the steps of the capitol; it $
the vile pretGnsion of authority in Of
flee all the way down. II is the main.
spring in private life, and it is the ruin
of democratic simplicity. We laud
Burns, who sang "a mans man for
a that" and we kick merit Off our
doorstep if ii does not come in u
dress coat Eheu, democracy.
The Robbery Of Profit.
The Coamoncr.
John Bullard who died at New
Nork yesterday, made $2O00,00O in the
leather business. He died happier
than he would if he had made the same
amount gambling in stocks.-- Globe.
If John Bullard made $2,OO0,OO0 in
the leather business somebody else lost
about Sl,95j, j,0OO-that is, supposing
John Bullard to have been able to earn
So clear of expenses each day for the
last fifty years. If somebody lost
81, ,9j5,OO0 and John Bullard got it,
then John Bullard did not make it
he only took it, and when he took it he
took that which did not belong to him,
but which did belong to some other
man or men, In so far as he got pos
session of what he never earned, it
does not matter whether he "made it"
in "stock gambling" won it ut faro
bank, stole it from those who earned
it, or tricked it out Of some one in the
shape of "prohts;' the crime is the
same.
"Prolit5" is that appendix in trade
which consists in dcducting from the
wages of the producer at both ends
more properly an appropriation of the
earnings of another Mr.. Bullard
bought his leather of the tanner at Il
low figure. In order that the tanner
might be able to sell at Il low figure. he
must detract so much from the wages
of each of his employees, and so much
from the butcher for the price Of his
hides, and the butcher must detract so
much from the farmer for the price Of
his calves, bcevcs and sheep. Then he
must sell at Il high figure also to add to
his "prohts;" the shoemaker purchases
his leather, and adds Mr.. John Bul-
lud's profits to his shoes, and takes Il
corresponding amount out of the wages
of his workmen. The farmer pur-
chases the shoes made from The hides
of his beeycs, and pays the "proGts"
added to them. SO Mr.. John Bullard
made his 81, $4,000 above his wages by
taking little out of the farmer, lit
tie out of the butcher, Il little out of
the tanner, little out Of the manufac-
tuer, and Il little more out Of the
farmer The Sl,9o5,0UO was not made
by him; 1t was made by the other par
ties mentioned above, and he took it,
and called it profits" and has now
gone with ms braZch lace To meet ms
God! lie "dlcd happy over the an
ticipatiOns of happy meeting with
his God. when he would hear the wei
come rlaudit, "Well done good and
faithful servant, you have made
yourself rich by making Others poor;
but you dld not Steal II on gamble for
it. You showed the world how one
man can goDDIe up the proceeds OF an
other as fast us he earns them ana yet
be honest; you nave demonstrated that
man may be an honest rogue You
have raised the profession ol stealing
to place among the virtues OF leSltl-
mate business; hcncelorth ENJOY the
freedom OF heaven.
Mr. John Billiard has drawn INTO
his Golfers Sl,9o5,OO0' Allowing each
producers wages at - per day, or S9OO
per year, and 81 years an average
mans working life, Mr. John Bullard
has spent a life in absorbing the entire
earnings through life OF 66 men; or al
low these men to pay each Il dollar Il
day for their board, lodging and clothes,
he has absorbed the earnings of IS
men through life. These IS men have
worked till they became old and de-
crepid, when they were sent to the
poor house to die! We do not mean to
say that Mr.. Johr Bullard had IS life
slaves, but we do mean to say that
thesum that he has taken from all who
have been connected with him either
directly or indirectly in any kind of
dealings has been equivalent to the Ell
slavement of SO men for life. If he
has had dealings with $500 men and
has taken an equal amount from each,
he has made each of those $500 men a
slave one day out of every hundred,
which in a lifetime amounts to one
third of year, and if each of these
$500 men have contributed Il like
been enslaved all their lives, for each
one has monopoli2ed one 1-l00th part
of their several productions.
This is the fact: each man enslaves
himself to the several profit mongers