The weekly examiner., 1901-07-20
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 tell you for certainty that if the peo- pie of this country, the every day com mon people of America, and all who live by honest labor, could, every one of them and all at once, just take this same drive of mine the past two hours, see what have seen today of princely grandeur, Oriental luxuriousness, pala- tial residences, royal homes, castles, and kingly palaces, the bare sight of the gorgeous display-fit only for a. dream phantasy, but not for mere human be- ings who, in unimagined profusion of wealth, never in their money edizzened lives dream or think of the ''brother- hood of all mankind" never think or care in their mosaic tiled billiard rooms, tapestried grand parlors, costly yachts, lordly stables, surpassing in cost and magnifcence ninety mine per cent of our best American homes-if the mil lions of American citizens could in a body see all this display of our untitled American millionaire kings, the single sight would start revolution tomorrow in every state in the Union, and I shudder at the very thought of what that result, natural and just, would mean for us all and our republic"
 The noble little woman, who thus de- scribed her feelings s-sensible, true, natural and philosophic, was widow of about s ixty years of age, who, ten years ago was left by her husbands will nearly a million dollars, and she lives modestly in small, neat, cosy home, she has. lived for nearly forty years. Having no children, she enjoys her days in helping in a loving, cheerful way her poor, needy and unfortunate fellow men and women. In the ten years since her husbands death she has given away in individual charities nearly one half her inherited fortune. Singularly enough she had without ostentation or publicity dealt out where it would bless and re- ieve want, over 5000 to the poor, the sick, the needy of her own town, in obtaining many of their names from the selectmen-during the week prior to her Newport visit. We have few such living types of Gods nobility. Our wealthy millionaires scout the idea that their wealth is trust" and that of it they should make sacred use. They never reckon how much sweat, wear mess, deprivation of ife's enjoyments, and life wrecks, million dollars accu- mulated on a single benk account means. It is an awful comparison in 8 civilized age, that of the care-worn laborer in our mills, wife and little ones to support on his meagre $1.5O per day, for which he gives his life itself, with the condition of the owner of the. mill which employs him. wi
 life labor and life wasting tdg Es his income by the dollars per minute, and who, with magnificent turnouts, thinks himself lucky in the privilege of paying his footman $3 per day, whose duty is to sit erect, fold his arms, look handsome and wear an outfit of broad cloth.
 The great strike this week of Amer ican steel workers is but beginning. Rotten principles lie underneath society when such uprisings of labor are neces- sary i'll order to secure justice. Reforms must be radical and far reaching and speedy In their coming. These immense and oft-recurring labor difficulties are but the surface indications of a social cauldron, beneath which all is seething, boiling and ready to overflow. Do our rich men realize this real condition of affairs Do they not know that the day is near at hand in America when a millionaire, to escape his just duties to his fellow men, will fail to do so success fully only by initiating the Astors, Crokers and others, in taking the next sailing steamer and emerging after three weeks as full-fedged English sub- jects. The time will come when, if they renounce American citizenship, they must renounee and leave behind American millions made by American labor.
 t It is not crime to be rich, but it is crime not to be just.
 A Newsboys' Union.
 Newsboys' Protective union, No. 9,071. A. F. of L., of Boston has just