Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-09-24


meP" She answered: eyes, John"
That was all that was ever said about it.
Miss Weston's name was'nevsr mentioned
by either of them.
In after years when John Thornton
pressed his lips to the white scar on Miri.
ANS forehead, and saw the look of Joy in
her face, he felt happy. and rejoiced that
be had such Chicago News.
How Vast Fortunes Have Been Made.
THE EVILS THEY THREATEN THE COUNTRY.
The following is extracted from the
speech of Hon. John H. Reagan. of Texas,
in the U. s. Senate -
"Mr. President, up to 1860 there were
very few men. in fact LSbelieve there were
but two in this country, whose fortunes
were valued by millions Stephen Girard
and John Jacob Astor. If there were
others, do not remember them.
Up to that time the wealth of. this coun-
try was more equally distributed among
the people than in any other country be-
meath the sun. Up to that time the en-
joyment of the wealth produced by labor,
enterprise, and capital was more equally
enjoyed by the American people than any
where else, so far as my knowledge goes,
either in modern or ancient times. Since
that time, and within the last thirty years
class OF men have acquired fortunes
ranging from one million to two hundred
million dollars apiece.
Mr.. President, how did this come about?
Was it the result of equal laws, of lust
legislation? Count $100,O00,000 if you
can. Imagine if you can any man trying
to earn the tenth part of 500, 900, 900 by
fair enterprise, by successful enterprise. -
1t is not in human capability without the
aid of accidental circumstances or class
legislation to make any such sums OF
money.
When we come to the inquiry how these
vast fortunes are made we have only to go
to the legislation of Congress to find the
reason for it. Vast subsidies to railroads;
the transfer Of countless millions by pro.
tective tariffs, syndicates, trusts, combina-
tions of capital against labor, for the pur-
pose of extorting extraordinary prices for
given articles of commerce.
These are the means, to large extent,
by which these immense fortunes have been
made; these are the means by which this
vast inequality in the condition of the peo-
pie of the country has been produced; !;
these are the means which have loaded
down the farmers of this country with
mortgages and debt; these are the means
which have impoverished even the farmers
of New England, where they are blessed
With this class legislation for their manu-
facturers; these are the means which have
loaded down with mortgages and debt the
farmers of Pennsylvania, great aud pros
porous State given over TO protection; thsse
are the means which have made the whole
West almost land of mortgaged farms;
these are the means which have to SO large
an extent impoverished the great mass of
the people so that they are no longer able
to pay their debts, and with the hardest
struggle they can mako, find it difficult to
support themselves and their families.
While this is so, we find in the localities
where manufacturing is carried on fortunes
piled upon fortunes, wealth piled upon
wealth, millionaires multiplied by million
aires. The Senator from Mississippi dep
recated communism; the Senator from
Connecticut deprecated communism. When
the country is given over to class who
use the Government as an instrument to
enrich the few by impoverishing the many,
we have reached the most dangerous phase
of communism, and, unfortunately in this,
ObuOA OdSCo hhOWa W ulStOfyy tu0 Iu6u
who are reaping the advantages of class
legislation will neither listen to reason nor
to argument, but answer them with con-
tempt.
Mr.. President, the royal family of France,
the nobility Of France, the prisst thood of
France, before 1792 could never be made to
hear reason. They oppressed the impover.
ished, and degraded the French people,
The cries of the people were not heard
Gentlemen who are using this government
to throw the wealth of this country into the
hands of a few persons, to throw the esti-
mated sixty-one billions of dollars of
wealth, az suggested by the Senator from
Colorado, Mr.. Teller, into the hands of one
hundred Thousand men had better read his
tory and take some of its warnings to
themselves. They had better look at cur
rent facts in this country to-day, and see
that agriculture and labor are organizing
themselves to assert their rights, and when
gentlemen have driven this class Of our
people to desperation they will find that
human beings and votes count more than
dollars, even if they are counted by the
millions.
Now look at the contrast between 1860,
when the government was administered By
the democratic party, and its condition now
after twenty-six years of republican rule
In 1860 the general wealth of the country
was distributed among the masses of the
people with only two or three milliOnaires.
In 1890 few thousand bloated bondhold-
ers and c operations own the whole earth,
and Iule he country by thair combined
monopolies and trusts Some of them own
as much as two or three hundred millions
of dollars each, with mortgages upon the
lands of millions of farmers in the east
and west. Can such an accumulation of
wealth and power in the hands of the few
against the many be permitted to longer
grow without producing in this country
precisely the results that grew from the
alike causes out of the French revolution
of 1872
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