The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-10-25

accrued to the advantage Of the people
pling in heavy clustersl Yes! all over the
land they are seen. But who are the gath
those for whom the vines were planted.
They have been snatched by score of rob-
bersl The $4,000 900 of rightful legatees,
have been ousted of their heritage and are
relegated to the beggarly role of cleaners
phi INT cleaners iu the rich fields Of their
ancient patrimony!
fhe masses of the people do not partici-
pate in the advantages of protective legisla-
ton Monopoly, through the treacherous
decades in this country, brihcd by the
greed of unscrul ulous monopolitts who
pose, falsely, as the benefters Of their fell
low-ctizens, their true position being naught
but beneficiaries, monopoly has strangled.
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measure, and the Judgment is that its fur
ther existence, as OF help to the masses, is
not needed.
What do we see around usl Enormous
wealth has been amassed, palatial structures
are reared in every city in the land, within
whose interiors are seen evidence of cpulous-
ness fairly rvaling the most GORGEOUS
palaces of Europe. Private houses are seen
whose cost Of erection run up into the mil
lionsl Within their walls are secreted the
richest treasurers of art and literature, to
accumulate which the world has been ran
sacked! Velvet pile and lace-draped
walls, windows glistening with multi-col-
ored precious stones in the place of glass!
troops of subseryient menials silently fit
, ting by! gorgeous equipages and costly
steedsl All say plainly: "See what the
, young republic has achieved! See how rich
we are!-Are aoe rich ?-And who are we?
We are not rch--the people are not rich.
The average weeks wage in this country is
far within $1,000, but the accumulation Of
, wealth, the money, the riches are still in the
country. Some score or so of years ago the
man who now earns $1,000 or s1S,C1 weekly,
earned, at that date, $4,000 per week. 1t
n dropped to $500, then to $500, until it
now is from $1,000 to $1,000, and still the
. riches, the opulence, the capital is present
a with US and around us-to an extent one
hundred fold of what it was twenty years
ago! Yet, nothing is truer, or better known
imam Guat GnG aages ala steadily reducing
] over the land
& It is not necessary to do otherwise than
il state the fact that the capital OF the land has
G at length found its way into the hands of a
n limited few, it would hardly be exaggeration
e to say that half dozen plutocrats control il
ALL A reason for this state Of things is not
difficult to discover. 1t will be readily con-
/ ceded that business acumen, the proper
It opportunity being given may compass any
e end. But that simple assertion does moi
d suffice to account for the strange spectacle
It of inordinate fortunes and abjcct penury
Ii simultaneously existing in such land al
SC this! In the land of plenty What pic
a ture for America in the nineteenth century
mi A voluptuous Sybarite rolling along in hi
ID Especial train of cars'-for one hupdre'
le miles ahead of him, passenger, traffic, AM
ID United States mail trains are shunted asid
le to ensure his easy and uninterrupted pas
lie sage!-The people bow the kuee in enforced
t. homage! What, think youl are the thought
IN that surge in the brain Of the intelligen
he mechanic! What, prithee, are his thoughts
is his, an American citizen!-what sarcasm
he this ''civis Romanus est of our Republic
of See that stalwart workingman, see th
of expression on his face as the gaudy pagean
of his master fits Ike lightning by, he look
Id askance for the moment and then resume
al his toll but thoughts of his little children
stinted in clothng-his thrifty, drudgin
lis wife, he thanks God for such q help-matt
les His eyes fall upon his well-patched ga
re ments. All around him, as he returns /;
,rt sunset, to his dearly rented tenement hom
ice he sees along his road, dirty, draggled, chi
dren, repulsive, hold of expression, ar
dy -tongued. They swarm around tt
he grimy ill-smelling little red-brick tenemen
lit. (these vaunted homes of the America
try workman), idling all day long-n scho
Of for them, their parents cannot c,othe the
gh sufficiently well to attend the public scho
of It school which is supported by tax
lu- they pay. The poor, pitiful little childr
er- growing up amidst poverty, blasphem
of brutality, squalor, filth, ignorance and vic
is because the father ''is on half time"
sics our large cities the above is common sig
to and in this United States-this Land
hat Prumise!-.his Ell Dorado of the world! L
ties workingman, under the present state
the things is not in the advantageous circu
stances he was some years ago From u
the time to this moment his condition has be
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