Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-16

tives. Before taking his seat he was
elected TO the United States Senate. lie
was also a Justice Of the Supreme Court
OF the United States. He began his po'iti-
cal life az a Democrat. but afterwards
became Republican. He was one Oh
Mr.. Lincolns steadfast friends ana adj
visers. He refused TO vote for the con-
viction OF Andrew Johnson when john
son was impeached by the House oil
Representatives. and thus cut himself
off from the Republican party He after
wards drifted back into the Democratic
party. He has continued 10 DRIFT untii
new we ind him addressing Populist
meeting and preaching doctrines whose
practical operation would be the uproot-
ing OF the whole social system OF the
country and the return of chaos.
'rhe money power" Is what Mr.. Trum-
bull charges with having caused all the
evils that afIilct the body polite. For
ages" says he. 1.-THE money power has
controlled legislation the world over, ana
has for many years exercised a control
ling influence even in this country rs
n means of checking the operations OIL
this power. Mr.. Trumbull would sweep
away the foundations on which modern
society rests. lie would abolish the right
10 accumulate-that Is, Of course. indei-
nltcly accumulate-and the right to m
herit. or rather the right to dispose OF
property by Will. He Is quoted by the
Washington Post as follows:
Laws which open ;he door 10 large
fortunes by devise, by inheritance. or by
specula ton. have no tendency TO promote
the happiness of the people At large
and often not even the happiness
OF those for whose benefit they
are made. II the accumulation OF
vast fortunes goes on for another genera
ton with the same accelerated rarihi'y
as during the present the wealth Of ms
country will soon be consolidated in the
hands OF few corporations and indi-
viduas to as great an extent as the land
ed interests Of Great Britain now are"
Neither strikes OF the laboring classes.
which array against them the MONEY
power and the governmental power which
controls. nor the governmental control 81
the great abroad and other corporations
will remove the existing conflict between
labor and capital. which has its fOunda-
ton in unjust laws. enabling the fen TO
accumulate vast estates and live IN luXu-
rious ease, while the great masses are
doomed to incessant toll, penury, ana
want What Is needed is the removal 81
the cause which permits the accumula-
ton Of the wealth Of the country in Few
hands, and this can only be peaceaby
brought about by a change of the laws
Of property"
TO provide By law that n man should
not at his death dispose of his property
would be simply to provide by law that
he should dispose Of it during his
lifetlme for we take 1t FOR granted that
the most radical Of communists would
not deny 10 any man the right to dis
pose Of his property during his lifetime.
So that the big fortunes would be turned
over during the lifetime Of the accumu-
lators to the faVorite relatives or friends
Of the modern Croesuses. The transfer
to these children or friends would need
TO take place when the footstep OF death
was near Thus the Trumbull scheme
has no merit whatever 1t Is not even
plausible. 1t ought not to mislead any
body. We give It merely as one Of the
signs Of the times