The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-09-13

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In 1850 ..,........4t per cent IS per cent /
In 16i0.....,.-...,33 per cent 81 per cent !
In ISL. a per cent % per cent /
In 1890, .,.......,ll per cent s. per cent |
At the same rate of change the fig |
ures for 1895 would be Is per cent for
the workers and 81 per cent for the |
parasites.
In 1860 the producers owned Z out |
of 16 dollars of the property; in 1890 |
AZ out Of 16, a reduction of nearly 40
per cent.
By the census of 1890 it appears that
Of the 520000C00O00 of wealth increase |
since 1860, the producers got S600, 100000
and the non producers Tor capitalists
pure and imple) got SIS, 100000
81 times as much, though not One-tenth
as many, a disparity of more than 800
to l.
Of the wealth produced in 1890 labor
got S30,000000 and capital 1900, 100000
again disparity of 800 to /.
This means that, on an average, when
a laborer receives 81 for his toll, some
capitalist receives $500 for holding title
deeds to property under our laws.
Alarming Results.
100000 mortgages on houses and
lands.
81 per cent of tho people owning no
homes.
Total debt of the country more than
S30,O00,O some say SAC, OOO,OOO0O0
The yearly interest of 6 per cent is
more than 8l,800,OO0OOO-a sum greater
by one OF two hundred millions than
all the money, gold. silver and paper,
existing in the United States at the
present time,
If the actual toilers, exclusive Of
women and minors who spend their
time in school, we're 100000 this
means an annual average tax of $50
each to support the pride and luxury
of the idle rich.
Railroad Wrecking, stock watering,
stock jObbing, and all manner of villain
Gus schemes for getting other peoples
money, Astounding everywhere.
Our congress, our state legislatures,
our city councils, bribed to pass laws
favoring the schemes Of greedy cOrpor-
ations, while laws passed to restrain
them are nullified by hired judges, or
openly defed. like the interstate COM
merce act, the laws against perjury,
etc.
The rich Systematically lodging a
large share of their taxes, and the su-
preme court doing their bidding by
prOnouncing the income taXUnConstitu
| tional, Notwithstanding it had once been
pronounced constitutional, and Eng
land and several other mOnarchial
countries have such a tax.
These crimes, practiced under forms
of law, or indirect and public defiance
of the law, weakening the peoples res
pect for the law, till millions hate.
rather than love government, and are
fast Fipening for instruction.
The saloon kept open by the power
of capital in spite Of the moral sense of
the better class of citizens, running
millions of families and entailing a
total loss of 615,000,000,000 a year.
Wages crowded down so low, by vari-
Gus means, that millions of the more
unskilled toilers are so impoverished
and imbrUted that they naturally
| gravitate to the saloons, justifying the
word of that WOrld-renowned philan-
/ thropist. Miss Frances Z. Willard,
when she says: "TWenty-one years of
| study and observation have convinced
me that poverty is prime cause OF in
/ temperance, and that misery is the
mother, and hereditary appetite the
! father, of the drink Authorizations
And so constituencies capitalappears
before US in this attitude: With one
hand it opens the door of the saloon,
and keeps it open. spite of protests Of
all good citizens, and with the other it
drags the wretched toiler-by impOYer-
ishing with half pay-tO that door,
thrusts him in, entices from him the
little it has doled out to him, and then
kicks his debauched frame into
drunkard's grave, a dreadful sacrifice
to the hideOus mammOnism OF the age!
Can we wonder that Miss Willard
adds: "FOr this reason l am an avOwed
advocate of such a change in the social
conditions as shall stamp out the dis
ease and contagiOn of poverty, even as
medical science is stamping out lep-
rosy. smallpox and cholera; and / be-
lieye the age in which we live viii yet
be characterized as one of those dark.
dismal and damning ages when some
people were SO dead to the love Of their
kind that they left them in poverty
without a heartache or blush
Crime increasing at such a rate
that it has more than quadrupled in 40
years, and poverty increasing at even a
/ create ratio.
Farm Values Depreciating.
Farm property continually depreCiat-
| ing and becoming more and more bur
dened with mortgage Indebtedness SO
| that from 1890 to 1890 the increase was
/ 156 per cent, and in 1894 farm stock
/ fell in value s340,00OOOO, and in Ohio
that same year, the depreciation was
1 100000, and the increase OF mort
I cages amounted TO 100000,
People crOWding into the cities IA
/ greater numbers each year, until, IN
/ 1890. they contained 1912 per cent Of
the population. while in 1870 the per
centage was only S.35.
The total debt of the country in
creasing three times faster than the
wealth and six times faster than the
population.
The daily press bought up and made
/ the moHthpiece Of plutooracy, some
/ great papers being even owned by for
{ eigners, tra8uoing and yillifyIng the
/ friends Of the people. misleading the
masses BY cunning sopAistEies, skilliul
/ Misrepresentation and constituencies
/ faisehoods, turning what out to be
fountains Of light into smoking Pits-of
+ darkness.
Finally. Discomfort everywhere
voices Of pFoisstation aud warning
multiplying; 8gitat0rs increasing IN
numbers aud iBflgence on every hand;
more than 1000 newspapers and periO-
ideals already in circulation denQHne-
ing the present order. or rather dis
ORDER pamphlets without number Of
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