The herald., 1894-08-02
A GLOOMY VIEW OF A FOREIGNER.

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in the following outgiving OF ]. Harrison
Davidson. in an article in q recent num-
Der of a popular review. The HERALD,
however, is inclined to think that Pull
man will not dominate the situation
long. Though the wealth OF tie United
States is highly concentrated, the pro-
portion given by Mr.. Davidson is ex-
sggerated. Even If it were true, We
might perhaps find consolation in the
fact that ono.third OF the whole king
dom of Scotland in superficial area is
owned by single Scotch peer. Mr..
Davidson's ideas, however, are quite
interesting, and we give them for what
they are worth:
Among other monstrous offsprings.
the republic has given birth to variety
OF kings, and among these the railway
autocrat may justly take to himself the
originsl style of king OF kings One
OF this dynasty, q certain Pullman, is
at the bottom of the present strike war
in the United States, and assuredly no
caliph OF Bagdad ever treated his sub
lects' repeated complaints and repre-
ence and contempt than has he those Of
his employees.
Mine times has he been supplicated
to submit the points in dispute to arbi-
tration, and nine times has he laughed
his petitioners to scorn. Living in
delightful summer palace at Alexandria
Bay, on the st. Lawrence, remote from
the center of disturbance and beyond
Of Aon he - n
strong guard over his winter palace at
Chicago, and then summons to his sup
port the entire police and military force
of the republic. state and federal, and
with more or less alscrity they ohoy
him. Mammon mods his head on his
throne, and his vast dominions are
shaken from center to circumference.
Never did the world see such spectacle
OF irresponsible power before. Grover
Cleveland may boast himself president
OF the United States, but the mayor of
the palace. whom he and all his satel-
lites, great and small, must obey, 10
George N. Pullman.
And yet wise and sagscious men saw
the end from the beginning. The repub-
lie OF the United States is essentially q
private property protection association.
The fell handiwork of rent-monger, in
terest-monger and profit. .monger Is
everywhere visible to such an extent
that it is calculated that l per cent of
the population owns II per cent OF
the entire wealth OF the United States,
while the ninety and nine are left to
scramble for the remaining 29 per cent.
$50 overrun is the land with mort
cages on every hand that if the ancient
Greek plan of recording them by the
erection of stone tablets were had re-
course to the United States would sp.
pear something like a vast cemetery.
Between the mortgagor or the one hand
and the bonanza farmer on the other the
once splendid yeomanry of the republic
is being rapidly squeezed to death.
humboldt declared that the valley
of the Mississippi alone could easily be
made to feed all Europe, and now, para
dox OF parsdoxea, it is discovered that
America is soverpopulated and the stream
of emigration which has 30 long flowed
from the shores of the old world to the
new hiss begun to flow back again with q
steady current. Already the refow ex-
ceeds the outflow by 10 per cent.
"Our American brsthrsn have terri
bly, hard row to hoe, but they may be
trusted, if any men can, somehow to
work out their own salvation; and it
may also be that of the European peo-
pie. Christendom is wistfully waiting
for the social mot d'ordre, and If it is
destined to come from the other side of
the Atlantic, l for one will gladly con-
cede to them the honor of hegemody."
As matter OF fact, Mr.. Davidson has
allowed himself to be completely etam-
peded, and he looks upon great and
paramount existing evils as absolutely
without remedy. This is all mere pop
pycock. The great American people
are equal to any emergency. The en-
croachments of the capitalist and of the
anarchist are alike within the saving
prism OF the ballot box. The majesty
of the American people can call halt
alike to the plutocrat and to the nihil.
ist and dynsmiter. The sober second
thought OF the masses can be relied
upon at all times to strike the golden
rule of common sense.
It may be, and it doubtless is, true
that for years the pendulum has been
swinging unduly towards the direction OF
tuo Chpibhilbtns NoIy we'll. III very
short time, through the ballot box, the
equilibrium will be restored. II the
masses have suffered injury their wrongs
will be adjusted. If, on the other hand,
there is an organized plan to spoIiate
upon capital, the evil will be very quisk.
ly adjusted-many times more quickly
than when the poor man is the sufferer.
The sense Of the injustice perpetrated
upon the workingman is OF very slow
growth indeed.
We assure Mr.. Davidson that the
picture he draws is very much blsckel
than the situation warrants. That We
have, in the United States, of late
sounded very marked depths OF indus
trial and manufacturing depression. il
quite true, but the American people are
very elastic indeed. With them there
is but q step from the bedrock to ths
pleasant uplands of prosperity. In oul
judgment, We shall bridge that gap the
very day tariff bill is formulated by
congress.