The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-01
OUR DANGER,
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

government in which he will find the
very prosperity he tends to create viii
sooner or later destroy his experiment "
Congressman Hall of Missouri, the
champion of income tax, estimates there
are IL, 900 persons or firms who severally
receive an income of $250,00O per yeaI
in the United States aud this is true at &
time when the entire public press i;
lugubrious with the tales of woe from
the masses.
In the cities of Washington and New
York palaces are in course OF erection
and the globe is secured 20 secure rare
curios for interior decorations. The
hand-painted fans which Louis present
ed to Madam Pompadour may have ten
ded to bring on the French
revolution. Tie pleasures and pal
aces of Versailles NAV have been a
cause yet Versailles is shoddy compared
! with the yOiuptuous art of the wealthy
American, for the Bull, carara aud mar
quetry of that period have all been inn
ported, labeled ''empire." and given a
place of secondary Importance. Many
are the avenues OF Culture which the
American voluptuary finds it necessary
to explore and Hussein a, ,ha of Tehran,
/ mot Te-he-ran) Persia is commissioned
to ransack the Orient for artistic prayer
rug and carpet interviewer with golden
thread, legends and neyer-fading color5.
The Philadelphia dude and the Broad
way swell no longer sound the double r
at the end of car, but like the prince Of
Wales, say kahr with gutteral h.
In all things imitators, the Americans
find it necessary TO establish an aristoc-
racy of blood. The Sons Of the Ameri-
can Revolution is organized and already
many needy persons secure their daily
bread in genial genealogical tasks,
! delving in the thousands of town and
and county histories that cucumber the
shelves of the congressional library. Not
many years ago pragmatical cuss In
Liverpool mined the ancient archives of
that port and published book contain
ing the names and occupations of those
who sailed for America III the Seven
teenth century. This work was finally
| suppressed and it finds no place in gen.
ealogcal lore.
Coming through st. Louis last fall l
was deeply impressed with the sight of
Of hundreds of workingmen out of
work sleeping like drove of hogs on
bit of green sward the environment of
a bank, the vaults of which contained
kegs and kegs of gold. Verify Amer
lea is an anomaly. OF all things rococco
it presents the finest specimen and the
confusion said to exist in the ancient art
of Japan so cleverly stolen from Corea
is not a marker to the confusion which
fln ,,,inIc oc ha eli
ticians as to The best method to get the
time in joint again.
Having therefore like Gautier in his
preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin eN-
hibited his conceit, permit the
writer who fully indorses the
same (not De Maupin) and who does not
believe in either Anarchy Or Socialism
to introduce the views of the Honorable
Henry Billings Brown, associate justice
of The supreme court of the United
States, the greatest legal tribunal on
earth, relative to the best methods of
righting the wrongs of the present day.
We will leave the politicians 10 decide
the questions of tariff, income tax and
silver, although the business interests
would suffer less if all three questions
were out of politics. Justice Brown
said:
Legislation can do much to improve
the relations between employees and en-
ployer, and to palliate the evils of the pres
ent situation. 1t may fix the number of
hours of legal days work, provided that
payment be made at certain stated
periods, protect the life aud health of the
worklngman against accidents or diseases
arising from Ill constructed machinery,
badly ventilated rooms, defective nppll-
nj IanperonS npH ma
limit or prohibit altogether the labor of
women and children i'll empl.a nents in
furious to their health or b., Ond their
strength. 1t may 60 deeper still. Bear
ing in mind that the most grievous cause
for complaint lies in monopolies and COM
blnatiOnS, II may by constitutional
amendment, if necessary, forbid the char
ter of business corporations for any other
purposes than those of mining, ,manufactur.
ing, insurance or transportation, especially
for farming or trading purposes, or raffick
ing in any manner IN the neCeSSarIes OF
ilfe. With the aid of the judicial power it
may put an end to combinations having
for their objec the control and monopoly
of particular articles OF manufacture, or
may accomplish the same purpose by
authorizing such articles to be placed
temporarily upon the free list.
1T may put stop to the vicious system
of building railways and other public
works through construction companies
organized by the directors OF the road in
their own interest, to whom all the bonds
and all the available stock is turned over,
and equipping the ssme through car
trust certificates, also issued TO the direct
ors, who thus retain TO themselves title to
the rolling stock-a most cunuingly de
vised scheme. by which the stockholders
and creditors are first defrauded for
the benefit of the bondholders. and the
bondholders are thus defrauded for
the benefit OF the directors. By the
election of competent and fearless ex-
ecutive officers the people may do much to
secure the management of corporations
for the benefit Of the stock holders and the
public and may throttle those cooperative
Frankenstens, which, created by the
legislature, have misused their powers 10
corrupt the will and paralyze the arm of
their creators. Upon the other hand, ir is
equally its duty to protect the laboring
man, whether union or non union, in his
right to work for whom and at such
wages as he pleases. and TO secure his
person against violence. Ia protecting the
public against 7hs tyranny uf capital i5 is
equally incumbent upon the leg stature to
guard against the tyranny OF labor F"
ENOLAS
Kildare, O. T., Feb. Is. 1894