Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-08


 with wind and sand d,-the first graver she ever had here that sculpturing i, most gigantic and most fantastic.
 This is Glen Eyrie and the Garden of the Gods Many forces have acted through countless ages-for what For the eyes of one Struldbrug. When wished to enter Glen Eyrie and read these ancient scriptures, l found them under lock and key of the president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad,
 See the voraCious StruIdhug the Central Pacific The brat came into the world with the dark blotch on its brow badge in Luggnagg of the newborn Struldbrug, The legislation which brought 1t forth Is lie Congress de- clared that a certain station called Ar cade is at the foot of the Sierras. This one legislative lie gave to four men about four hundred thousand dollars. We made the road, gave it to four men. and gave them land enough for an empire on each side of it. Within a hundred years this Struldbrug may have wealth enough to buy one of the minor king doms of Europe. Already it virtually owns California. The surplus earnings of the State flow into the coffers of this and three other Struldbrugs The other day, l read in my morning paper this item: "Ihe president of the Central Pacific Railroad is making arrangements to buy the village of Blank. It is his intention to import two hundred German families to settle in this village and till his lands Import two hundred families. The title of my paper should have been "Through Struldbrugery to Slavery"
 See picture on the Atlantic sope,- Hudson River and New York Central, an old Struldbrug with the blotch of youth forever dark on it's brow. Who Senates. tue watering of stocks, the swearing to falsehoods, by which it has come about that Vanderbilt has hun dred million dollars? If affairs go on for the next hundred years as they have for the past fifty, the journals of 1883 may contain an item like this: "Nan- | derbiIt, the fifth in line from CorneIiu. atter whom, as antiquarans tell us, certain Starr King called sharks the | Nanderbllts of the OCean), IS about to complete the purchase of Massachusetts. | lie intends to convert all the houses into tenemement houses and to import the Irish nation to fill them and to operate | his mills and railroads
 In the name of humanity, Burke in- dicted the despOiIer of India. l mdict the despoiler5 of humanity. No man can honestly get or innocently keep one tenth of hundred million dollars. When you read that such mans for tune is estimated at twenty, forty, or sixty millions, what do you say? From this gilded poverty will come nothing. No man with twenty millions ever added to the worlds real wealth one immortal work or thought. Colossal wealth i'm poses colossal cares. They tethe" the mind to ledgers and bank vaults"
 Bunyan in his "Sighs from He'll or GrOans of Damned SouI,' makes the vail break from the lips of Dives Of the hell or the heaven dreamed by the divine cobbler we know nothing, but we do know that on
 This bank and shoaI of tune"
 the groans are on the lips of Lazarus And Lazarus lS always at the gates of Dives. And the more superfuity is in the palace of Dives, the more suualor Is Tn the hOyel of Lazarus. from "NOb Hlll' in San Francisco, went to Mission Bay. l had seen palaces surpasSing any thlng winch royalty has built in Europe, and now l saw poverty more galllng than anything which caste has imposed in Asia. l saw five hundred men, many of them intelligent and worthy, standing to the knees in foul mal- Odorous mud, and shOvellng all day for wages which would barely cover the body and keep within it a living soul. Words spoken to me that day over coarse, cold dinner which a well fed dOc would have spurned, l cannot forget. a, long as misery pleads in the ear of justice: "l am an American, and some thing from my earnings has gone t0 the building of the Pacific Railroad And now the men to whom we gave it have charged hundred and thirty dollars to brlna me from New York, and given fifteen dollars of this to the Pacific Mail Company as hrlbe to put their rate up to hundred dollars. They steal fifteen dollars from me right out, and now they pay me one dollar a day for delving in in this foul mud; and delve must or die.
 l know that the world is poor.
 know that nature $ only gift to man is air for the lungs and water for the lips. And know that, to wrest from reluctant nature the props of life, man must toll. But this, too, l know: l know that to ea,h toiler of Massachusetts there should be left, at the end of each day, after covering and feeding the body. a surplus of more than three cents
 Three cents Three cents a day lsee Report of Massachusetts Labor Bureau to each toiler surplus of three cents lay for the savings bank. What, then. Is a savings bank:
 A friend went to the Prevalent Say. ings Bank of Boston, on the 2d day of January. to watch the toilers as they