The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-05
DIFFERENCE IN TFIE r1nfEs

DIFFERENCE In THE TIMES.
And this constitutesa the: real differ
ence between +Carnegie's and Washing-
TONS times. John Carroll and George
Washington were large land owners.
They were among the richest men in
America, But their riches were most
ly in land, and because there was so
much land to be had by any one for
the mere going and taking they, to
large extent We're what We would to=
day call ."land-poer.": It. is true that
they had farms and slaves and inde-
pendent incomes, and that they lived
In: what was relatively to the lowest
state of society, much comfort If not
a modest kind of affluence. But it
never entered into their heads that God
Almighty made them superior to: the
genrality of mankind, or. intended them
to be the stewards and directors for and
of other men. ...e: 49,: =
If social conditions when washington
and Carroll lived were for most men
of the "homespun" order, they were
marked by a general freedom and indie
pendence that is absent now: The peo-
pie were in the: primitive state; were
almost entirely given to agriculture.
But If man liked not his employment
with others he could carry an axe in
the western wilderness and clear a farm
from the virgin land for himself.
Thomas JEFFERSON, writing from Paris,
to Madison; referred to- this very mat
ter! Our people, he said, could remain
":virtuous and happy so long as there
remained open to them land where they
could go and earn an independent liv-
ing. but that should the: time come
when this opportunity should be cut of
from them then the people. would be-
come piled up in great, cities. az tI1ey
were there in Europe, and would 20 to
! eating one another as he saw them do
| Ing there. .. ~;. :, i. ,5 10
If Jefferson was now. alive he would
see e.; all 4 that he considered to be Tie
| mighty west and an enormous tract be-
yond It entirely fenced ii, and ft1onono-
lied. But few weeks ago he mighlt
have observed the United States govern
ment open some prairie land to SETTLE
ment in the remote southwestern part
Of the country, OKLAHOMA Territory
ana by selling lots Oh what might: some
f&@ 's6metbins IKE Il, 4dd ,G6d, ~ r. ~
No.HoMEsrEADt, TRAGEDY I; ID Hty i,
. RED YEARS AGO.
Uf take a a1hdtthef KIND Il Contrast i
| Was there anything hundred years
! ago td parallel ;. even relatively .,se the
Homestead Strike tragedy? Iffi4gins
Charleg. Carroll cpaehing IN Europe. and
| refusing to interfere on receiving word
that men in'his employ were being shot
and killed by other men in his employ
and all because hislmanagers proposed
a reduction of from ten to twenty-five
per cent IN wages: !. ~ -; Il.
In view Of such facts Mr.. Client is
scarcely warranted in saying that .the
disparity Of, conditions between i Ia
borer. or H. Charles Carro1l or a Georlg;e
Washington was probably greater than
exists between a laborer and Car:
negie."'~ ~ :! ~ -
+ But let us turn to- Mr.. Labor Com
missioner Wright: "ffe rich are gov
Ing richer, many more people than
FORMERLY growing rich, ana the poor are
growing better OIL" That IL the core
OF his contention. And vet. .Prince Hal
might have said: "See how a plain tale
can, put thee down.. TITS " matter Of
official record that one person in every
ten thai NOW die,iin New York is buried
IA Potter's field Ut public expense! Has
there with all the relative increase in
| the productio of wealth been any.re-
+ latite@less$naas in. bdsiie> ana sprl;vzate
charity? BY no means. Or Is the aver
age iffash the great working mass al
rugged, as robust, as independent in