Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-22

foU0uUIOu Of WIUuOTdWd1 Is yet duOUu-
er method in which wealth can be-
come bait which unrestricted power
has the liberty to spring at it's own
sweet will. The law Of land should
protect it's output from the hoard OF
greedy foreign spectators and not a
mine, factory, forest Or acre, should
rest in the possession Of an alien
owner or absentee.
"Capital, taken from the means OF
subsistence possessed by the masses,
ing portion Of the community, is a
heinous crime. In the City Of De-
troit Polish church has been built
and dedicated at cost of not less
than 100000. The priest who has
done this work, has drawn the money
and the vast majority of these people
| have become public scavengers or de-
pendents on the Poor Commission as
| a consequence.
"Here, then, are some of the wrong
aggregations Of capital by which the
poor are made poorer and that can
not be chargeable to railroad mag
mates, lumber barons, mining kings Or
gold princes. But still farther on this
point. Poverty has been largely en-
hanced for years by the unrestricted
emigration rendered possible by ma
tional laws, that would find no place
in country school district Europe
has for years vomited upon American
shores the surplus Of it's ignorant
starving millions, and to-day this
country is harvesting the result. Still
further, in regard to the wrong CEN
tralization Of capital. We have run
to wild extremes in the line of insur-
ance. There are four companies to-
day in the City of New York, with
ramifcations all over the world,
which on promise to meet all liabil
tiles, have accumulated a surplus fund
of 500, ,000, 900, invested in stocks and
bonds which serve to enrich the mill
ionaire shareholders at the expense
of the insured. Of course these COM
panies have met every lawful obliga-
tion, but we seriously ask, is there
not something radically wrong in our
sociology that permits such an accu-
mutation at the expense of the insur
ed!
$50 much then for the evils of cen
tralized capital, and we pass to the
ranks of labor to find our fifth reason
for poverty and destitution in the ex-
travagance of labor itself.
GA dollar can only be spent once, by
one individual, but some people think
it can be spent twenty times. The
working mans home should be one Of
comfort and happiness, but when a
spirit of envy Of others, insists upon
furnishing that home, then the bread
winner gazes more frequently upon
lost dollar than upon surplus fifty.
''But we pass to the curse Of this or
any land, in the intemperance of the
labOring masses. No land under the
face Of high heaven can stand drain
of 5000, 900, ,00O yearly in the drink bill
of the United States. This is money
that gives no return to the consumer
whatever and only serves to keep
distillery or brewery running or
vast amount of tied-up capital in
warehouses filled with bonded whis-
key. We stop not to dwell on the in
ferential damages accruing from the
drink habit, nor the moral aspects of
the case, but will simply say, that
poverty must come to the home where
the bread winner contributes three
and four dollars per week, as self
imposed tribute, to the saloon. This
one fact is all that is necessary in our
pointing to the self inflicted tax of the
people, rich and poor, to make up
this yearly 5000, 900!
"And now we come to last and
versal poverty, SO widespread in it's
activity and that is found in a growth
of irresponsibility to God. The ma
ton is but an aggregation of the indi-
vidual. Where the individual
lfails to see anything superior
to himself there all responsibility
ceases. America is a nation of creeds
and churches. The Word of God is as
yet free, though many would seek to
seal it forever. The vast multitude |
of the population, however, do not go |
to church, do not read the Bible and /
only curse prayer, and "because of I
cursing the land mourneth.'
ssWe are bold in SO saying because
we believe in God and take His Word
as our rule and guide. In His Word
he saws: ssHe who honoreth me Will
I honor, and the man or nation who