St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27

on the necessity of this chief virtue are to be
found in lifes pilgrimage. Our present text
is found in learned essay written by some
what celebrated L.L.D.,-not d. d. this time,
reader-who resides in the great city of Wash
lngton, where our wise men congregate, and
who writes to that great paper, the 1ndepend-
ent, published in the metropolis of
this great country, somewhat as follows:
Vanderbilt obtained all his property by
doing his work better and cheaper than 9TH
ers; he had right to all he possessed, and it
was for the public welfare that he and such
as he should have full license and encourage
ment to do so again and again, to the utmost
limits of their power
In support of this last proposition he as
sertS that the said Vanderbilt had his living
and nothing more out of his vast estate. He
does not give credit for this remark to the
man who retailed the anecdote about the
rich man who replied to murmuring
servant. You get your living out of my
property, don't you? You are as well of as
l am, for all that get out of this large estate
is my board and clothing" The learned
doctor of laws, while giving credit to Wander
bilt for more usefulness than anybody else
would have done, should not fail to give liter
airy credit to the author of that illustration of
the injustice of grumbling. As Vanderbilt
lived rather extensively, and absorbed
the services of hundreds of servants
who might have done better work
retained for himself only subsistence and
shelter, seems fishy as we'll as silly. But we
do not care to comment on this feature of the
essay, nor to reply to the arguments. Each
reader can do that for himself. We merely
wish to call attention to the fact that some
learned men, and good writers, are willing to
advocate anything that is wrong and de-
testable, and that some great public Journals
are willing to publish anything that makes
despotism. Nobody need envy the rich
man whose stomach refuses to
receive without grumbling the Or
binary and healthful Diet which
strengthens the workingman. Nobody need
envy the wretch, who, for the sake of money,
has neglected the proper training of his
children, and finds them thorns in his side
and smoke in his eyes. But we may object TO
the dySpepsia-cursed nabob, that he is not
fit man to have power over Us. He wants
power to tyrannize, to add to his wealth and
Importance. We do not want to be under his
thumb. Thomas Newcomb. LII. D., is just
one of the men who could drive the laboring
classes to madness, if they had no more wis
dom than he gives them credit for.
He is a dangerous man and the
Independent any other great
journal that defends the way in which old
Cornelius obtained his vast fortune, or keeps
silence when such stupid articles are pub
lished in its columns, is one whose influence
is evil. A D. d. of Boston, whose last name
is Webb, man of ability, of wealth and great
influence, in sermon published by the Home
Missionary society and sent broadcast, ex
claimed: ''What! socialism in this land,
where farm may be had for the asking?'
He thought it unreasonable even to astonish-
ment. IA farm for the asking If
he had even given moments
thought to the matter, he would not
have made such an ass of himself as to say
such a thing. 1t would take all of 81, 900 to
put a family on the land they can buy, but
cannot get for the asking. IT was cruel
falsehood, and DR.. Webb uttered an incen-
diary thing when he sent forth such a heart
less, soulless, diatribe against those who are
striving to help themselves and others o at of
the slough of despond in which the masses
are being mired. I regret that such evil
words come from the lips of Christian minis
tiers, and rejoice that many others are doing
much to neutralize their bad effects.
Minneapolis, June 25. SOCIALIST.