Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-19

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The LESS CRUSHED Df THE 0"hAiha'
| 1he exlgencle5 OF business under the present
system. which permits the crushing of the less
nv the greater runs n family auickly down hill
! ,nor j. a Trrit.5 c,o,o. Son,t,r bis so, no
! comes =. n,arcbont. no foils In bns;nos and ms
son becomes a booIkecner The bookkeepcr
| ,lio, cn3,Ia~I, "a ,r;.hnr, ,ror;u;o,, For hi
| IyiGov a1d :bo nn,bio 10 effuc,te tbeir hov
sess Nm ,,royx nm nj t,Lo = nos;t;on ,s street
| car cond9rtor With a dollar aud half n.r dnv
| for eley., Lours' WORK . Tbereatter that
| family now tnirIv ,monr tho l.boriny classes 90
| through ali the longings and privations and
miseries and dlscomforts that are meant by an
existence exec OUT on per Diem o. Sl.oc 70
and children co,,trihrt;on. 10 tho chrrcL anG
finally bread and meat, with perhaps an aver
aye saving of 4 or cents per day 10 be applied
| to- .museInert or a doctor's hin ma cirrun
/ stances NAV hermit,
po1J.p .xp . u.,r. NV
| -, -,
| heiciui "oo. no" II IL possible 1or lam
| lily whose income Is Sl.oO a day, not counting
| days of sickness to exist, much less to know
ANYTHING of banpiness2 Let tbose who find IL
| troublesome 10 oct along ON II 5OO N vear or
| $1,000 a wear or $40 600 a year-and each of
| these incomes finds its nossessor undar cr,mnel
| and uncomfortable limitations in these DAVIS Of
| wealth-ponder deeply these questions. And
| above all if they have children let them ask
| what will be the position of their ereat-pra,d-
| children in a republic whose laws encoura re
| the induitous Accommodations of the few
| strong at the expense of the weak MANY
| We are producing TODAY in this country more
| than all OF its inhabitants can consume and
yet fully one-third of the labor Is wasted in eff
| forts which are necessary under our social sys-
| tenn, but which are of no benefit to mankind
at large. The efforts to force people to buy
| the waste through uncombiped service the
| time spent in projecting ones riphts-aII mean
| loss SO great that if checked tha working
hours could be reduced 80 per cent and the pro-
uue.Aoh vi "c"ith hlcreaeed.
| WHY SHOULD THIS WASTE CONTINUE!
why should THIS waste be continued, men are
"SAiiiS themselves! IL governmental science so
| impossible that at least, II there cannot be a
just distribution of the products of labor. the
waste cannot be stopped and added to the gross
| total for divisions!
But there is moro being asked than this The
process OF education has been rapid during the
! past quarter OF Il century. There thou-
sand men in the country today with fair COM
prehenslon OF the needs of the country where
! ulcre was one at the close OF our great war
Social topics are hourly coming into politics
Out III Kansas tine other day there CAME about
] u change of 100000 votes from the old parties
after campaign OF discussion, scarcely cover
| ing SIN months time.
Mr. =; .S,a.,, I'm =, ~ receht article Oh
people and the insolence and nstnniatia,, ~
millionaires, and said that upon the questions
which are already stirring the portions OF the
| iahu 70 winch senator ingalls, aliudes the MEM
| Ders oi the Christian church should have no
| uncertain position The reforms which are
| proposed are not concerned with the abstract
| question OF the individual right to own private
| property. but whether laws are to continue to
/ Oe passed under Which distribution Is unequal
/ ana lnequltable-an the advantages to those
VINO are III the SWIM, all the exceptions and
| struggles to those who are without.
WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF A FEW
| One has only TO turn tn the list of million
.iras Of t.r.,,;uior.;ra. a., -, IN
', Vi iiiioi'iiee anu even hity hill
hoiaires 10 understand now rapidly the wealth
OF the country 10 being conferred i'll the hands
| OF the rev.
1t Is, however, most idle to inveigh against
wealth on the one hand and poverty ON the
other, unless men can be induced to believe
that not everything of even temporal happi-
ness is dependent upon such riches. That the
world Is filled with people anxious nos only
| for their own release from strife but for their
neighbors greater comfort, is proven by the
| enormous interest in such volumes as Mr.
Beilamys. Nearly half million copies have
been sold of looking Backward''-a book of
no great hteIary merit. but treating OF the
VI '''e u"'ei WHICH VIC i've
.. 10 rHouhhS'iNe.
" viz Po'PA0 III TIC ohi'eo
''o' II progressing "t'n hiai'eious rapluity.
Inc great corporations themselves are leading
educators. The economy of large operations
with single direction has been SO evident
that year by year the greater RAILWAYS nave
been gobbiing up the little ones-the larger
express companies the lesser ones-the big oil
companies the weak ones Street RAILWAYS in
cities, from being in many different hands
have come by purchase to be operated by
single companies. Steamboat and transporta-
ton companies have been consolidated into
mammoth lines Local telegraph stocks he We
| communication throughout every portion of
| the United States is under the control of
one board of directors Telephones were
| placed under "a central control from the start
and at last great stores like Mr.. Wanamaker's
| and Macy's are conducting such vast ,bu.iness
| upon such slight expenditure for management
| and rent that the shop and small merchant are
rapidly disappearing from the face of the
| earth
| What becomes of the merchant He becomes
/ a clerk in the establishment of his successful
rival, and lives upon such allowance as his ri
| val out of his bounty stinginess chooses to
make, as dependent ts were the con-
aiie princes III oiuen times upon
oe ,,,-,s1,'' y mn 'oA4 u'ioiS
mn .oS'iDhHA iioN of RAILWAYS.