The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-07
LEGISLATION AGAINST puaY,r
ABUSES.

Justice Henry Ii. Brown. OF the Tinted
States supreme court. in his recent address
before the American Bar Association dis
cussed the present relations between lahor
and capital and examined the yarloua
schemes which have been proposed for the
equalization Of labor and capital, Justiea
Brown eviscerated the demagogue argu-
ment that the rapid accumulation of
property by the rich would soon place all
the wealth of the country In the hands of
the few. He vigorously maintained that
rich men are essential to the well-beinr Of
the poor and denied that poverty is becom-
ing more general. He declared:
while in this country at least nriyst.
fortunes are larger than they have ever
been before, the condition of the iaho.,r.
class has improved in equal ratio. Thers
was never time when the worktng
classes were so well paid, or when that
wages could buy for them so manv of IN.
comforts OF life a. now. Not only are ths
worktnEInan's wages higher hut hIs
hours of labor are shorter. lie is hetssr
housed. better clad, better fed, hettsr
taught; reads better and cheaper papers.
sends his children to better schools sn5
enjoys more opportunities for reereatina
and Tor seeing the world than ever hefass
lie not only practically dictates his ern
hours of labor. but in large manufaetarln.
eehters he Is provided with model Lodging
houses for his family, with Libraries
parks, clubs and lectures Tor his ents,,.la'
ment and instruction. with chean errn--
sion trains for his amusement on Sands..
and holidays, and not only absolutely IN,
relatively tn the rich Is vastly better on
than he was fifty years ago
Justice Brown might have fnr,ha.
pointed out that the causes ahieb 49,.
led to the accumulation Of great f.,r.nn..
are gradually ceasIng TO operate and ut,
soon have disappeared almost en,,..lw
Commodore Vanderbilt might be cited :.
an illustration of man of San,,.a,t.
energy. courage and genius for eomsI,..
tion. who rose TO muturity q; a time whs,
the application OF steam To water and and
transportation furnished an enormous o.
portunisy for such q man to IegstImas.i.
acquire great fortune. Had Com fne.l,-.
Vanderbilt been horn thirty yea - narli.r
or thirty years later than he was no ami.
have lacked his magnificent oppar,nnitr
Just as Napoleon born in the feis.tf Of f.,,,;.
the Fourteenth would probably u.x..
been even a marshal of France. ami No..
in the reign OF Charles the Tenth wan,la !
MAKE the world srax rsse
To point moral or adaFn a tafe
The French revolution made the ea-a.-
OF Napoleon possible; wi:hou; il he vo,,l. /
have lived and died gifted. dlsanna5s,s. |
adventurer. who was born either too e.rlv
Or too late. The fellows Who sasI,u.., /
Vanderbilt were like the crowd 81 arahl-
tious but inferior young soldiers 81 f,,.
tune out of whom Napoleon ,aaie h.
most OF whom we're sas,tg.-x
who shared his success bus Jacket n.
Eeneraiship. The Jay Gould breed af to-
tune winners were fellows who roha,.t ~.
great enterprises which Vanderbilt or..,n
zed and victoriously established. nat !.
Napoleun'S corrupt civil and military ~
'rdinates, like Fouche. Maszcna aEl S,s.f.
-obhed right and left At every oprzsstunftv
The great opportunity which gave the ..-,..
general his chance gave the peeaia,s- ana
srecker his chance.
Vanderbilt made his fortune - x.-.
con won his victories, because he r,s. :.
he right time and had The renf,.s =, 81,
he opportunity. while Goa!I ana ~.
rowd made their fortunes. s.as s.....,s.
hey were generals, but because the. wers
amp followers. marsndeys, eer-gr.s 49,
ermasters. eommisssries. -. a=sx 81
rusis. With the great opporsanstv AZ :.
Extraordinary revolution in ,.sns,.,-..