The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-16
Who and What Made Pauper
Labor in the Old World
and the New?

Briefly, the answer to this question was
taking the substance of their industry from
the great mass of the people by class laws.
and other unjust acts of legislation. In the
countries of the old world privileged classes
are titled and separated from the wealth
producers by legal enactments. This
injustice has proceeded for thousands Of
years. When il had consumed one nation
or people it attacked another, as the plane
of civilization was raised higher by educa-
ton and refinement. The destroyer oil
older nations has moved steadily onward
with the rise and progress of every nation
and people, and when the highest point in
culture and so.called progress was reached
the accumulations Of the industrious, wealth
producing class was taken by force of law
and custom and given TO the non producing
and idle class.
This has caused poverty and crime in the
lower strata of the civilized human family.
and RIGHTEOUSNESS, prohigacy, waste and
INV vi "hotHei Siaue III tue upper Vi
wealth absorbing class. Such conditions in
civilized society are not natural as non.
thinkers claim, but unnatural and remedial
whenever industry and frugality assert
themselves, and the people are willing to
demand justice and claim their rights.
With the object lesson Of ages in Europe
before them, the people ofthis country are
more culpabe than any other race or nation
of people on earth. or that ever existed on
the earth, for permitting such conditions to
fall npon them as exist liz tine United States
today. In The old world class poverty aud
class luxury, extravaganza, pomp and pride
crept on the people by slow degrees, and
grew out of a condition of savage conquest
and enslayement. In this country they have
come upon the people with hurricane like
who had inherited the most Unlimited
free dom, and the richest abundance In
natural resources of a new country. The
people have submitted almost willingly
and without murmur 10 be despoiled oil
their property without uttering a protest
worthy of notice. They have tamely laid
down both liberty TO large degree, in the
sense that they have refused to exercise it,
and their property, and permitted the class
robbers to take it up and appropriate it to
their own use under form of sham laws.
The poverty which has overiaken this
people is the most astonishing thing in
history. There is nothing like it to be
found in the past. The bravest and mos,
self asserting, and altogether the mos,
cultured en- masse of any people on the
globe, find large part of their population
among the most poverty stricken people in
the world, while the fabulous wealth they
have produced is held in the possession of a
few thousands Of their fellow citizens,
many of whom in the recollection of those
who suffer were once as poor as they. And
this wonderful transition, this Aladin-like
growth of wealth and this emaciated. starv-
ing poverty, have all come upon the people
within the short space of single generation
These conditions are SO like dream that
| the victims and spectators are unable to
properly realize their existence, and appear
to contemplate them in a dazed, helpless
kind Of way.
The same old world conditions which are
affecting our people were brought upon
| those old nations by the brutal methods d
armed force, but not SO with our people. A
system of quietly concocted laws has trans.
ferred the wealth produced by The many to
| The pockets the few. This unnatural state
ofthings, this notorious public injustice and
lnhumanity Gre being exposed by noble
band OF reformers, who are attacking these
common enemies of mankind by arguments
and facts they can neither meet or deny
| Will the careless multitude harken TO their
warning and be aroused from the hypnotic
condition they seem to have been placed in
by the common robber of the human race