The Nome nugget., 1902-02-12
IHE RICH AND HE POOR.

This proverb was written about 1000 years before Christ; and nearly 20O0 years after Chrst's birth find it to be 1t in the time in winch il was uttered. After 20O0 years, then of what call Christian civilization the human reIaa0s very much the same Wealth makes friends today iust aa 1t did in Solomons time: and it separates the poor from their neigllbors q}tie readily and w1h as much ease. We have taken on . superficial polish in the last two thousand years, hut the hear.s and minds of men to be actuaed by tine sorlid impulses that Solomon points out n lis pr0yeTb quoted. That we have made groa, material! progress with the passing of the centuries will Ike admitted; we have advanced in some of te arts and sciences have peopled the utternost parts of the earth nations have arisen, have fourishea ald have passed away leaving only memory behind; and yet man re- mains in body and mind iauoh the wealth. seeking, weahworshiping animal that he was in the dim and distant past before Christ the great teacher taught the universal brotherhood of man. II is not to credit and it is proo of the o-repeated state ment that civilization is failure. We not half so wise as we think we are. We are prone to look back upon the people who lived before aggregation of very simpe-minded folk. Let dis abuse minds of that idea and try to learn thing of value from the lessons handed down 10 Us through the centuries
 We have had occasion Heretofore to roitr to the modern tendency to worsh hip Mammon not because it is new departure in social economy, but be- cause the ccntralizaton of wealth, apparent these days to the most unobservng, Is brought vvidly be- fore in the great combinations of capital which rapidly and surely sezing every industrial avenue in the land, and which, if permitted to continue un- checked and unabated, vii! surely nail the working man to the of labor for all time, until there lo L. bull led and cherished. There was time in the brief history of nation that the road wealth olen to all; but we submit that in tie past quarter of century that road has been blocked almost eectually, especially in the older sections of the republic, to the who emharks in the struggle
 for wealth competence, equipped with noth- ing his brawn and brain. Time only few years ago. when the man of modest money capital might hope to succeed in the older settled munities Not now, for the Trust regns veritabe
 uggernaut, that rinds beneath it's renorseless wheels all those who dare stand in its way attempt to- impede its progress.
 The Vanderb:lts and Goulds, and Astors and Rockeieers and Morgans of today are all powerful in the financial world; even statesmen and lead ing politicians of both the great political parties- the who fashion to their liking the policies or pretended policies-f fer the greater part wear the collar of wealth.
 Fancy Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate who has accumulated of millions in the past quarter of a century, starting in this year of grace 1902 to struggle against billion dollar trust which he him. self has been instrumental in creating; think of John D. Rockefeller as young man of today with 8 few thousand dollars ptting hls puny strength and in fnitesmal capital against the Standard Oil Com pany Imagine some ambitious young man attempt ing to parallel Gould or Vanderbilt railroad or a Kentucky young trying to break the whisk, trust, or n budding and hopeful Californian essa wing to bring the Havemeyers and the Spreckelses to derstand that he would break them if they dd not re- duce the price of sugar And so night go down the line enumerating what would bcfa the young men who wished to become proprietors of any kind of factory whose products controlled by trust. He would be ground between the upper and neither millsones of folly, and at the beginning of his busi ness life be broken and disappointed man.
 Chained to life of toll is the lot Of nine enths of the human In the sweat of his face shall man eat bread but the great combinations of capital tend to make his bread dearer and bitterer to the taste Where it will end, who can tell? The hope of the present generation lies it seems to in the develop ment of countries, such Alaska, where the opportunities for amassingca competence are less cir cunlscribed, and where moaey handicap has not, yet, been placed upon honest human endeavor.
 We are assured that readers of the NUGGET have enjoyed the very interesting series of articles apper taning to this section from the pen of Capt. Conrad Sienl. Capt. Siem has shown himself to be facei