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firmly believe that men now living will
| live to say: 81 have seen the millionaire
IN IN great power, and spreading himself
like a Green Bay tree, yethe passed away
and, 10, he was not; Yea, / sought him
but he could not be found.'' While all
prophets past and present are united as
to the disappearance of the millionaire
they are divided rs to the means of ex-
termination. Some feel that they are to
be legislated out of existance. Accord
lngly the state Of New jersey has under
taken to pass a bill which limits the
amount OF property man can leave to
his heirs to $1,000, 900, the oyerplus of.
his estate going to the public treasury.
Others hold with Frederic Harrison that
no anarchist or communist is working
so desperately to bring. OF. their abolition
as are the rich themselves, by their
thoughtless or studied selishness. Others
feel that we must change our ideals Of
successful manhood-no longer bow
lower to the millionaire than to the
statesman, philosopher, poet, orator or
inventive genius-to feel that the rich
man is only one of a hundred shapes of
| a successful manhood the rich are
not better than the common throng,thev
are simply different, Still others think
that self control is to be the final ideal
watchword of our nation in this relation
of society to form of appetite.
Nathanial Cobb, more than fifty wears
ago, sat down in his counting house in
Boston and wIote the following solemn
covenant: by the grace Of God, I will
| never be worth more than $4,000.
1t IS my own feeling that not by any
single one of these things will the exter-
mination of the millionaire come, but by
the united efforts of them all. For the
sake of the masses, we ought to labor
increasingly for the abolition of million
airs, They have been drinking to the
health of the masses long enough; let
them give the masses something to drink.
The laborer is not getting his fair share
of the growing wealth which he is Gre
ating. "Poverty is slavery, says Byron
For the sake of the millionaire themsel-
yes we must abolish them. Seneca said:
"Great wealth is great slavery" The
slaves of poverty and the slaves of great
wealth ought both to be freed by ma
tion that could not rest until she had
given liberty to her colored slaves. A
man may have to-day legal right to
million dollars but he has no moral right
to it while millions of human beings a.
round him are suffering and dying for
that which he is boarding but cannot use.
Oh! for Portias to teach these latter
day Shylocks this truth, so that both
they and their helpless, hopeless victims
will be saved from taking any more
pounds cf human flesh! Such cruelty
would be divine mercy. For the sake
of our republic we must abolish the
millionaire.
To-day We have government of. by
and for the millionaire.
Money is good thing, but the good
is often the enemy of the best, aud our
civilization wants the best. He is fool
who despises gold; but he is Infinitely
bigger fool who desires above all else in
life mountains OF gold.
We shall always have labor and capi-
tai in this world, but in coming age we
shall have neither excessive labor or ex-
cessive wealth. For ''give me neither
wealth nor poverty" is yet to be, not on
i ly the good mans prayer. but the smart
mans motto. and the rich mans choice.
l-REv. HOLP IN Pnblic Sermon.
A petition, asking for the pardon of
M. NJ. Madigan, has shown up, certain
members of the Board of County Com
missioners having been asked to sign the
same. It strikes us that this pardon
business is carried on just a little too
i far. A man is no more than convicted
for crime end imprisoned, than petit
ton asking fora pardon is circulated.
In the above case fair and impartial
trial was given, and sentence passed up
on by as far and impartial judge as.
ever tried a case. Later the supreme
court sustained the verdict, and now.
when no other way seems open to defeat