The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-09-13
Modern Briaandase.


As you seem to DO the only editor
who 10 not prejudiced. II you will al
ow me space I'm your valuable col
aims would like to address few
to tho suffering peo-
Pile OF this country. with a warning to |
the PRECEDENT" CDan. Lamont. as n
administration, would be
only farce without him) and his
private secretary, Grover Cleveland.
The Earl OF Chatham, England's great
once said, ''Show me the
laws OF a country and will show you
the condition of its people, Starting
upon this proposition, we are led to
the conclusion that the laws OF our
country are not In accordance with
the principles OF Justice and equality,
for there is nothing In the condition
of the masses that denotes prosperity,
but rather tendency to poverty and
tory has been marked by such general
dissatisfaction.
Wherever we turn Is discomfort. la |
Dor idle, or at least working on short
time and low pay, mill after mill silent, |
furnaces cold aud unproductive, |
tramps filling our highways, the gaunt
wolf OF starvation staring into DESC
late homes, and strikes against starva-
ton wages. those forerunners OF revo-
luton. spring up on every hand. On
tue other side, we see grannerles burst
ing with the abundance with which
God has fattened the land, palatlal
mansions rising In fabulous magniii.
cence, and mountains OF wealth, the
product of halt requited labor, poured
into the golfers OF the idle and ntlluent.
All over the land the wall OF distress
comes NO from poverty stricken
homes, crushing out the manhood and
womanhood OF human kind, blighting
the beauty and buoyuncy OF youth, and
destroying the faith OF mankind In an
all.wise, merciful father.
In land of plenty, where the will
ing hand of industry has created UNI
told wealth. why should that hand he
parulyzod for want of the very wealth
1t has created? Why should comforta-
BILE food clothing and homes be denied
to those WHO have produced these
things in such abundance. Reader,
these are questions that must soon be
answered before the tribunal of long
suffering but much enduring people.
In view of these fncts and the respon-
stbili.!es that rest upon US as American
citizens. l earnestly ask that you lay
aside your prejudices and with me
briefly consider Il few of the eircum-
stances that have brought about this
deplorabte condition. 1t IL within the
memory Of many of my readers when
millionaires were indigenous to Amer
lean soil.
But that period has passed. and to.
day we boast OF more millionaires,
(IO00) than amy other country OH the
glote. Ifumps have Increased i'll a
geomctrtral ratip, while strikes. riots
and anarchists trials constitute IN eX-
citing topic OF conversation in all
glasses of society. There is no doubt
but thnt the unequal distribution OF
: tho products 81 labor Is ono of the
most fruitful sources OF social and
: political disturbances. Any rational
person must admit that Il nations
prosperity does not lie 30 much In the
amount OF its wealth, us In Just dis
tributiun of that wealth among those
who luve produced 1t.
I That nation is most prosperous.
whose laborers hold warranty deeds.
: rather than leases OF their homes, aud
4 a hundred cottage homes, and 1t hun
I dred wOrklngmen is greater evld eDct
+. Of national prosperity than II millioT
I of prosperity in the hands OF q sing ID
: individual, and the ownership of hom,
u is the great safeguard Of liberty. |
4 ls impossible for a people long to re
I main free who do not own their homes
II History bears uR out in this statement
ard We trace with miuuteness the con
/. nectton between land monopoly ant
}, national death, God has implanted il
= the hunhn heart ali unquenchubit
9 thifst for knowledge and for liberty.
y knowledge Of that liberty whicl
i makes men free from tho bondage o
IL their physical necessities. and breaks
II the miracles of that slavery, which
q through all ages. the strong have i'm
- posed upon tho weaker portion 0
= mankind.
t Since tho day that Esdu sold hi
8 birthright for mess OF pott0ge
7 crafty men have taken advantage o
the physical necessities of their lesi
= artful brothers; slice that day, TIVE
g hungry men have been selling The
" birthIIght OF their liberty for n mos.
d of pottuge, which barely enables theu
e to eke out a miserable existence
From the days OF Esau W the presen
Al time, two classes OF people have OK
ss listed unon this earth The ono elias
~ who live by honest labor, the othe
= who live OFF or honest labor. iron
II earliest times the one class have llvet
y by filling the soil, raising locks ant
- herds, delying i'll mines. working ii
u wood, brass and iron, or deriving thei
& subsiance from the waters over whcl
Is God had given them dominion.
is The other class consisted OF roviEl
st bandits, who under chiefs and leaders
a subssted by swoopinE down upuI
x and plunderIpy the honest toilers
lie Sometimes a etrong band would talk
i. possession of n rich territory, subdu,
4. It's people, and divide Inc spoils be
10 tween themselves; the chief BEGAN
4 king, the brigHuds nobility, and con
e. uIlered pecplo who onlv The doy h.
es fore were happy possessors of homes
Is became slaves OF this roljber band wi,
ruLbiessly wrencned from them thnl
homes and the products of their toi
To-day the same two classes exist n
Il of old, not only in Europe. buf In nj
~ America, which gave such glorioIl
a promise of protection To its toiIln
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