Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-12-21
W sDSEsoAY =. DECEMBER q, 1892.
TnEnE are strikes and discontents

the prisons and insane asylums show
constantly swelling ratio of un-
fortunates Poor men are submitting
With less and less grace TO the for
tunes that environ them. Machinery
is making greater and greater strides,
picking up and doing more and more
of the work of men; and the money
chiefs of the world, conscious of
their own power and the discipline
with which they command their
forces. turn carelessly away from the
angcs which are going on in the
material world and in the souls of
men. and exhaust their thoughts on
the r o Vn securities and on what will
strengthen those securities. One
would suppose that those men, Of all
others, would be most fearful of the
future; that they would see by
shrewd instinct that the only safety
for their children and for their for
tunes would be in using all the pre-
cious metals, and with them driv-
ing the locomotive farther into the
wilderness, and give the hands which
are stretching up asking for work en-
ployment, through which they might
earn a livelihood for themselves and
for the dear ones who cling to them.
A perfect blindness seems to have
darkenel the hearts of the world
capitalists; they have less regard for
the poor mortels than the rich men
of 100 y,ars ago did, and it is natu-
raj. They have used machines of
iron, which never complain; they
have seen those machines fashion
with perfect exactness what q mortal
can never do twice alike; and in en-
ploying those machines they have
drawn away from the poor; they know
nothing of the SORROWS of the I'M
fortunate, and they care nothing for
them. They settle down to the be-
lief that, after all, mans life is too
short to be worn out in worrying
over the affairs of unfortunate pee
pie; that the best that can be done
is to take care of themselves, and
they do not reflect that this carried
oat to the full will cause the suffering
hosts to, one of these days, move in
their despair upon the property of
the rich Property will then be the
most unsafe thing in the world. The
children of the rich to-day have no
possible guarantee for the safety Of
their children's fortunes % years
hence.
When the high and low in society
are drawn apart, when the poor
celse to respect the rich, and the
rich cease to have any commisseration
for the poor, then, in lands where
those thoughts prevail governments
are helpless, and confusion is sure to
come as that cause leads straight up
tn that effect. If those Commits
soners in Brussels only knew and
realized fully the truth, they would
b more anxious to come to an ad-
justment than ever were commits
Sioners who were entrusted with a
great duty before. There are yet
two continents only half peoplcd,
one of them is almost entirely lost
in barbarism, and the civilization in
great part of the other is bu. a
caricature on real civilization. The
wise thing for the rich strong ma
tons, would be to hoard their money
and to invest it in roads, in cities, in
bridges and in smoothing fields, and
in giving employment to the poor
who clamor under their windows. If
they close their ears to those cries, if
they shut their eyes to the squalor
about them, if they dismiss the old
unpleasant question with the thought
that it is every mans duty to look
out for his immediate self, then sor-
rows will come-sorrowS either to
them or to their children-and the
mighty inheritance which they are
b lilding up will be dis sipated und +
the smoke of burning cities, or un Ter
the despoiling of desperate hand i.
That conference ought to have high
thoughts, and the Governments be-
hind them ought to impress upon
them the fact that, under the unrest
which is now shaking the world,
there is danger; that above all things
work must be given to the poor, and
the children of the poor must BE-