The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-09-30

Hu. lake.
and sea- with Telegram hs extending their
nervous reticulations from State to State.
the remOtest members of this gigantic
republic are animated by a vitality as
vigorous as that which throbs at its
mighty heart, and it is through the quick
ened intelligence that has been cOmmuni-
Gated by those ideas that these conditions,
which have been fatal to other nations,
have become the pillars OF our strength
and bulwarks of our safety.
FOwERLEss TO EEsLAvE.
We have become, Mr.. President, the
Wealthiest nation upon the face of this
earth, and the greater part of these enOF-
nous accommodations has been piled mp dur
ing the past 20 years from 1860 to 1880
N Notwithstanding the losses incurred by
the most destructive war OF modern times,
the emancipation of four billions OF slave
property, the expense of feeding the best
fed, of clothing the best clothed, and OF
sheitsring the best sheltered people in the
world Notwithstanding all the losses by
IRE and food. During that period OF 20
years the wealth of the country increased
at the rate OF $25O,O0O for every hour.
Every time that the clock licked above the
portal of this chamber the aggregated,
accumulated, permanent wealth of this
country increased more than so. Sir it
rivals, it exceeds the hctions of the Ara
bian Nights. There is nothing in the
story of the lamp of Aladdin that sur
passes it. 1t is without parallel OF preCs-
dent; and the national ledger now shows
a balance to our credit, after all that has
been wasted, and squandered, and eZ-
pended, and lost, and thrown away, of be-
tween sixty and seventy thousand million
dollars. I believe, myself, that upon a fair
cash market valuation the aggregate wealth
of this country today is not less than one
hundred thousand millions Of dollars. This
is enough, ME. President, to make every man
and every woman and every child beneath
the nag comfortable, to keep the wolf away
from the door; IL is enough to give to every
family a competence. And yet We are
told that there are thousands or people
who never have enough to eat In any one
day in the year. We are told by the stat
isticians OF the Department of Labor OF
the United States that, Notwithstanding
this stupsndOus aggregation, there are a
million American citizens, able bodied and
our cities and the country highways and
byWays il search of labor with which to
buy their daily bread in vain.
Mr.. President, is it any wonder that this
condition of things can exist without eL-
citing profound apprehension I heard,
or saw, rather, for did not hear it saw
IN the morning papers that In mis- speech
| yesterday the Senator from Ohio Mr..
/ SHERAEAHl devoted a considerable part of
| his remarks to the defense of millionaire
[ that he declared that they we're the frOth
/ OF the beer of cur political system.
Mr.. SHERMAN. I said spectators
p
/ are very nearly the same, for the million
aires OF this country, Mr.. President, are
not the producers and the labOrers- They
/ are arrayed like Solomon in all his glory,
/ but they toll not neither 90 they spin "
yes, they do spin. This class, hlr- Presi-
| dent, I am glad to say, is not confined to
/ this country alone. These gigantic &C
! cumulations have not been Ehe result of
! ,osustry and economy. There would be
90 protest against them II they were.
8 70 Hrarrunfua
/ IEsther, under "a government OF the
! people, b. the people, and Tor the people"
! under q system in which the bounty of
nature IS supplemented by the labor of
/ all, any citizen can show G moEal-ysss or
| g legal-title to $500, 100000.
Some have the temsrity TO ask whether
or not any man can show clear title to
/ 800, coo, 600. There nave been men rash
! so constituted by speculation or 0thsE-
D wise, any citizen can show fair title TO
] $4,000. 900, when the distribution per
! capita would be less than $1,000. Il I
we're put upon my uCir dire, should hest
tate before admitting that, IA the sense OF
! giving Just compensation and eq uivslent,
any man in this country or any other
country ever absolutely earned O million
dollars. I do not believe he ever did.
I What is the condition today, Mr.. Prssi-
I dent, by the satisfied I repeat that the
people are not anarchistss they are not
socialists5 they are not communities but
they have suddenly walked to the cOnUsP-
ton of the fact that the bulk of the prop
erty Of this country is passing into the
hands Of what the Senator from Ohio, by
a suphsmism, calls the "spsoUistors Of
the world
WALTZ DIsIEIBUEEos.
A table has been completed for the puE-
pose Of showing how wealth in this ooun-
try is distributed, and it "a full Of the
most startling sdmOnition- It has aP-
peared in the magazines; it has been
commented upon in this chamber. 10
has been the theme Of editorial discus
sion It appears from this that there are
ia the DATED States 200 persons Who
havs an aggregate OF more than 10000
600 each and there has been one man, the
a4fdas Of tae century at whose touch
every thing assmsa 60 turn TO gold Who
has acqaIsecs within la-s ttsEs she lifetime
Of a single individual, out OF the EsF<a-sst7
Of tbs national wealth that vas oaEned b.
the labor Of eli applies 70 the common