Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-22

EnslSn renamed With the family
 nearly a week. and every day end cared
 himself more and moro to his wife 8
 parents. It was in order that they
 might become better acquainted with
 him, and thus not feel that t. ey were
 giving their daughter to one so nearly a
 stranger. that he remained. During his
 stay he helped all he cou d to put the
 place in better shape, and as the rains
 did not fall during the entire week, the
 two men were enabled to do much
 towards making things look more
 cheerful.
 A shed for the horses was built out of
 lumber bought for that purpose by the
 former owner, but never erected. The
 broken places in the fence were re.
 pared; the grape vines staked and tied
 up. and portions of the over-abundant
 growth Of fruit trees cut away.
 1t was really wonderful the change
 which these lit le Improvements made
 in the looks of the place. But then they
 had the sun. and the sun with a very
 little assistance in the way of sett no
 leaning fences and gates uprig wifi.
 in a few days, make a great change m
 any picture first seen when wet and
 sodden by long continued rains.
 As the two men worked they talked talked of the wrongs of the farmers and the labor ng and business men of the cities ot C causes of so many loss es and so much poverty and su.ler.ng ana of the possible or imposs ble reme- dies.
 "There ought to be a law to prevent corporations from ownin' land thev don't need. an can't make no use on. 'cept to make them tn 1t does want to use it pay for the privilege,' sad Mir. farsons, as they were at work repair ing the fence. No man can't be real ally free unless he has home or his own, and here Cover 'ment has gone an give half the State to. corporations, am how lS the next gineration to git homes, I'd like to know.
 :" An other corporat ons are washin' down the mountains an tillin' up the valleys; SD lin the finest lands; chokin' up the river. an dastroyin' the homes of honest folks jest as eff goli was of more value than bread I've tried ha. q to get somethin' ahead ag n old age come creepin' on to us, and to give the youngsters start wh"n they left us, as Jennie is doin' now. and here what 1t all amounts to; bit of land not much bett r than wild on the side of mountain. The land God made, an all the improvements that is on to it never cost thousand dollars when they was new. and that ain't as much as my wife had when 1 married her; SO lifetime of hard work an savin'.
 ''So fur as we're concerned, mother n me mean, it don't make much diff ference any more. We're gettin' old and shan't last much longer; but ef you an Jennie ain't no luckier than we hev been, and there a mt no chang. for the better in things. I'm afeard YOU won't have even sich shantv as we've | be no better than slaves. Ye see it holds to reason that ef things don't cet no bet CT they must git WuS, fur every l year the corporations an the rch folks | IS g g.ttn' more an more of the land. | an of everything else. an the more l they git the easier it is to git more, an oy an by thev'l Il hev it all, an them as | naint got nothin' an can't git noth;n' will hev to do as they say or slarve." , '1 don't exactly understand where sha wrong starts, replied Ensign, but | Know there IS great wrong some | where. The ownership of land by cor oorat ons. and by others who only wish 70 play at dog-in-t -the-manger. is one cause for the existing condition of ;hlngs, but there must be others,
 ''Some way or other the larger por- ion of all the wealth which the people create gets away from them while they are exchanging it among them> elves. don't know how, but it does. If it 1idn,t there could not possibly be rich people who have never worked, |
 ''The merchant buys the goods of the and sells them to those who consume them, thus saving much lime which would be wasted if each in- tlvidual was forced to go to the man,l- acturer for every art cle purchased. The merchant is therefore valuable member of society he helps the pro- 1ucers to make an exchange of wealth, and is fairly entitled to receive pay for what he does. But there are the na- ional banks, don't see how they help thy; anl every particle they con sume 'r hoard up is sa much taken from the wealth which belongs to those who pro- luce it. It seems to me that those who produce wealth ought to have wit though to devise some means of ex- changing 1t among them elves without 'aying a ban for the privilege. And very once in awhile the"e comes panic. and thousands of business men Ire ruined. and thousands of labor.ng nen thrown out of employment. and hen they get desperate and try all .inds of sharp tricks to catch up again. Now If nobody is benefited by those 'anics. some way ought to be devised o prevent them. and if anybody is ben 'fitcd by them they are the fellows that 'ught to be watched and not allowed o have any hand in the making of the avs. for it is natural to suppose that hey would leg slate in their own inter- st and not in that of the laboring and business portion of the community.
 ''Then there are the railroads; they get their charters from the people on he plea of being public highways. The people build the roads and then the charge 'ast what they choose or transporting the people and their goods from one art of the country to ic @,