The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-09-08
the LAW OF WEALTH.

TnG LAW OF WEALTH.
These times should not in anywise
discourage the young men of our land.
The times that have existed the past
year have h0Dbeen without their prec-
edents in all ages and in every land:
They have existed under high tariffs
and they have existed under low tariffs;
they have existed when silver was de-
monetized, and when silver was coined
free and unlimited; they have existed
when the currency was contracted and
when the currency was expanded; they
have existed when we had national
banks and when we had no national
banks; they have existed when the Re-
ublican party controlled the govern
lent, when the Democratic party have
cen in control, and will continue to
xist if Populists assume control. For
erifcation of these facts we cite you.
. the pages of history. No party, sect
v creed have had monopoly either on
sO0d, nor on bad times; neither have
hey had a monopoly on prosperity or
oppression. Parties and policies assist
ut never create good or bad times. 1t
self evident that parties who have
wealth can always increase their store
# wealth. This is a natural law.
further, there is no person who has at.
aimed the age of thirty years that has
lot had the opportunity to form a nu-
cleus about which wealth could be
placed, and independence, financially,
created. If he has not done so he has
broken a natural law and the natural
consequence in this age OF direct CON-
petition and wealth getting is, perjury
and poverty. We do not advocate the
doctrine of wealth getting to the exclu-
sion of all that is high and noble, to the
exclusion of brotherly love, the highest
type Of love, to the exclusion of art and
literature, that ennobles the soul and
subdues the baser passions, but rather
Is a measure of protection and ad-
vancement. Pure and noble thought
comes only where is peace, prosperity
and industry. An industrious young
man of energy and good character,
with steady habits and fair health, has
more wealth in his possession than is
contained in gold mine, and no mat
ter as to the times his success is as cor
tain as the fact that two and two are
four. Poverty and anarchy walk hand
In hand, because poverty is produced
by rebellion against natural laws; it
breeds misery and discomfort; riot and
anarchy, because the poor must be
clothed and they that are an hungered
must be fed. If they are not fed and
clothed by the fruits of their toll they
will be fed by riot and plumber. With
the increase of wealth in the hands of
a few comes increase of poverty to the
pockets Of the many with only three
ways of distributions: Frugality,
peaceful dissemination, confiscation.
BY frugality of the masses, the first
and fairest means, a readjustment can
be accomplished. 1t means a gradual
concentration of wealth in the hands
of the many. 1t means business con-
Quoted on cash basis. 1t means that
the laborer shall own and gradually
improve his home; and that the far
mer shall improve his land without q
plaster being put upon it, and, after
years of toll and regular payment of
interest, that it will not be sold under
foreclosure when the best years of life
has passed and leave no home to shelter
his and his wife's aged heads; it means
increased employment for every one and
a steady decline of that sycophant of
industry, the money lender. No home
can prosper under the shadow of a
mortgage shutting out the sunlight of
happiness; shutting in the misery of
q constant drain on their little all.
2. Peaceful dissemination. BY this
we mean that when millionaire or a
very wealthy man dies, his heirs will
distribute his accumulated wealth with
lavish hand. But this is a very uncer-
tain method and very liable never to
occur. 3. By confiscation. That is by
the people rising en- npasse and destroy
ing all property, or the government ap-
praising and assuming control of all
property, driving out capital aud sti-
fling individual energy and industry, f.
nally resulting in demolition and chaos.
It is for the young man to decide weth-
or the country shall prosper, and the
cornucopia of peace and plenty shall be
filled, whether education and civiliza-
ton will advance and expand, vice and
wickedness be throttled BY true cour-
age and manhood, or whether anarchy
and poverty, ignorance and supersti-
ton, riot, crime and RIGHTEOUSNESS
shall prevail, and whether each of you
will work for vhurso1f r1raaorvino vonr