The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-06-21
HENRY GEORGE.
Worlds Within World -. Pen
Pictures Of Society--Who
ID the Fool?

Worlds Within World - Pen
Pictures Of Society--Who
ls the FoolP
tIIenry George, in Frank Lcslies illustrated
Newspaper
There are worlds and worlds even
within the bounds of tho same herizoli.
The man who COMES into New York
with plenty OF moneywlo puts up at
the Windsor or Brunswick, and is re-
tcived by the hospitable hosts in Fifth
avenue mansions, sees one New York.
The man who comes with dollar and
a half and goes to 25-ccnt lodging
house sees another. There are also ID
cent lodging and people too
poor to go even to them.
Into the pleasant avenues of the park,
in the bright May sunshine, dashes the
railroadwrecker's daughter, her tasty
riding habit floating free from the side
Of her glistcning bav, and her beltcd
groom, In fresh topboots and smart
new livery, clattering after, ut re-
spectful distance, on another blooded
horse that chafcs at the bit. The stock
gamblers son, rising from his trottcr ut
every stride, in English fashion, his En-
glish riding stick grasped in the middle,
raises his hat to her nod. And as he
whirls past in his Iondon-madc dog cart,
q liycried servant sitting with folded
arms behind him, she exchanges salu
tations with the high-born descendant
of the Dutch gardener, whose cabbage
patch, now covered with brick and NOR
tar. has become an estate" of lordly
income. While in the soft, warm air
rings musical note, and, drawn by
metal steeds, the four-in-hands OF the
coaching-club rush by. with liyericd
gaurds, and coach-tbp filled with chat
tering people, to whom life, with its
rounds of balls, parties, theaters, fir
tations and excursions is II holiday, in
which, but for the invention of new
pleasures, safety would make time
drag.
How different this bright world from
that OF the old woman who, in the
dingy lower street, sits, from morning
to night beside her little stock ol
apples and candy; from that Of the
girls who stand all day behind counters
and before looms, who bend over sew.
ing machines for Weary, weary hours
or who come out at night to prowl tn.
streets!
One railroad king puts the grea
provinces of his realm in charge o
satraps and goes to Europe; the nev
steel yacht of another is being fitted
regardless Of expense, for voyage
round the world; q third will not g
abroad-he is too busy buying in hi
"littlc old railroad every day. Othe
human beings are gathered into lin
every Sunday afternoon hy the Rev
Coffee and rolls man, and listen to hi
/ Preaching for the dole they are to get
And upon the benches In ths square
l sit men from whose sullen, deadene,
] faces the fire of energy and the ligh
of hope has gone-the Cramps" an,
}. "bums," the broken, rotted humal
driftwood, the pariahs of our society.
1 stroll along Broadway in the even
ing, and by the magnificent saloon O
the man who killed Jim Fisk, l meet
good fellow whom knew years ago i
California, when he could not jingl
more than one dollar OH another. 1t
different now, and he takes wad q
bills from his pocket TO pay for the b
cent cigars we light. He has rooms i
the most costly Of Broadway hotels, hi
clothes are cut by Blissert and h
/, thinks Delmonico's about the only plae
= to get decent meal. He tells nj
about some "big things" he has got int.
and talks about millions rs though the
l were marbles. Ii man has any spec
i'll him Mt all, he says, it is just as cas-
to deal in big things as in little thing
and the men who play such large hand
in the great game arc not smarter tina
other men when you get alongside ,
-- them and take their measure As
politics, he says, it is only a auestio
who hold the offices. The corporation
rule the country, and are going to rn
= it, and the man is II fool who don't r.
Y on their side. As for the people, VIII,
do they know or care? The press ruiz
the people, and capital rules the pres
Better hunt with the dogs than |
hunted with the hare,
L We part, and as 1 turn down Il
street another acquaintance greets m
and, as his conversation grows inte
esting, 60 out Of my way, for to dels
. him wns sih, as he must be at work at
in the morning. He has been trying
8. read Progress and Poverty" he say
but he has to take it in such lit
snatches, and the children make such
wife is afraid to let them out on Il
street to learn so much badness-that
is hard work to understand some part
it. He is journeyman baker, but
has good situation as journeym'
bakers GO. He works in restaural
and only twelve hours day. Nc
,fu, bakers, he tells me, have to work for
teen to sixteen hours. Some OF t
places they work in would sicken IN
not used to it, and even those used to
are forced to lay off every now a
again, and to drink, or they could II
stand it. In some bakeries they L
less good stock, he says, but they have
,ty. charge high prices, which only I
re re richer people will pay. In most
V them you often have to sift the magg,
out of tho -four, and the butter is
ways rancid.
There is such rush across the .
I lantic that it is difficult to engag,
passage for months ahead. The do'
of the fine, roomy houses in the fashi.
able streets will soon be boarded up,
their owners leave for Europe or
seashore or the mountains. Eve
body is out of town." they will 81
Not quite everybody, though. So
/ 200, 900 or 1905 900 people, with,
counting Brooklyn, will be left to sw
ter through the hot summer. I
ar, swarming tenement-houses will not
boarded up; every window and d
buy will be open to catch the least bre;
of air. The dirty streets will be era
ing with squalid life and noisy with
aud play of unkcmpt children who ne
saw green field or watched the c
of breaker, save, perhaps, wi
charity gave them treat. Drags
. wnman mill La striving h, nuinf min