St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
ACTUAL PRODUCERS ROBBED
Ofthe Results of Their Own Hard
Work.

To the Editor of the Globe.
1t is indeed a pleasure to find that
those questions involving the Interests
of the masses of people, and upon which
hinge the future. not of Our nation
alone, but. of the world, are gradually
coming to receive so much thoughtful
consideration, and if more space could
be given in the daily press to
such admirable articles as that recently
contributed to the GLOBE by a Mr..
Markoe and less to the reports Of muir
ders and suicides and other hideous and
demoraliZing reading matter, we might
the sooner reach that point where we
could correctly measure all the existing
errors and injustices, and be qualified to
cope with them. l do not so much
blame the press for the publication of
such vile matter, to the exclusion of
other, as the people for demanding it,
and it is true that great portion of the
newspaper-reading public do demand it,
as is evident from the fact that by just
SO much as newspaper is given to SEN
sationalism, by just that much do we
find its circulation boosted beyond
that of ITS contemporaries of more
merit and higher morals. The
time is certainly ripe for thought
upon questions of more Importance than
brawlS and family scandals. There are
CRYING wrongs which need eliminating.
and must be eliminated soon, for delay
simply makes more difficult an adjust
ment of the conditions which those
wrongs bring about. 1t Is not a time
for revolution, but for education. We are
fr oi,1ia hinE
history tells us greater nations than
ours have fallen to total destruction.
This is neither idle talk nor pessimsm;
it is the truth, startling as it may seem.
We are confronted already by appalling
conditionS-a few enormous fortunes in
the midst of widespread want.
High tariff Republicans and free
trade Democrats alike are being
forced to recognize these facts
and rarely either get farther in ac-
counting for them than to charge them
| to a too high or too low tariff. according
to their political tendencies. Grover
| Cleveland said: ut is condition which
confrontS u.s. Senator John James
Ingalls,, an ardent supporter of an
OnerouS tariff tax system which has done
much to bring about these very con-
| ditions, recently said:. There are
I ldIStl pllNdGS lUl OuHCcs tHCtO 10 SICdICl
| political power in fewer hands: in other
words, there is more tyranny in the re-
| public than in monarchy" Ii the
| Capitalization of wealth continues for
the next half century at The same rate
that it has for the past fifty years,
something like 10 per cent of the
| population will have over 80 per cent of
| the wealth at the end of that time
| Does this harmonic with the funda-
mental principle Of equality upon which
| our constitution and our government
are supposed to be founded? Mr.. Mar
| koe, in his recent article, ventures the
assertion that the evils of the present
day "are the result of disregard of the
principles Of right and justice between
| mau and man." Mr.. Markoe is most OBJ
viously right. He further asserts that
| this is to be ''aScribed to some radical
defect in the education and training of
our citizens.n l do not think such
errors grow SO much from the defects
in education as from the lack of it.
Moral, political and scholastic education
are the tools with which to equip men
| and qualify them to obtain their natural
rights, and, having secured them,
to guard and keep them. Without
| sentiment this world were morally a
barren waste, but of what use is it to
preach sentiment to the men of the
everyday world, when, stading in fear
of the awful pangs of poverty, they
permit themselves to be swallowed dp
bv the contagious hankerip~~ ror the
mighty dollar alone? We might advo-