The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-27
DIVISION OF WEALTH
in GREAT BRITAIN.

of wealth in Great Britain? Our country
is young, but we can beat the English
to death. We have one man who can
take $100.0O0,000 a year. Our adult work
mgmen average about $3.50 n year for
their work. Therefore, this one man
earns as much in year as 100000 Ameri-
can workmen; that is population al
most as large as Chicago. But what Of
it? Wealth always did go according to
brains and merit. How else can brains
and merit be estimated, or anything else,
for that matter?
THE PROBLEM.
The problem that the American trade
unionst seems to have set for himself
is to screw up the wages Of all their
members without screwing down the por-
ton of this man and others OF his class.
Well. l wish him God speed in his effort
but as for me. I think ''he has another
guess coming"
Certain other little matters show the
comparisons between those who work and
those who do not need TO work in Great
Britain. All of these people, rich or
poor, must needs die. The grim reaper
does not propose to- be cheated by any
one simply because he knows how to
make money That is, he is not entirely
cheated; of course, he IS trifed with. For
, ir stance. in England and Wales the aver
dSc dSe ~ WHICH the nODlllN, gentry
and professional man dies Is nfty-five; the
artisans average age at death is not
above thirty. The rich man cannot yet
drive away the stern mower but still he
can make him NOV around the field a
few more times after his turn has come
before he really cuts him down. But I
can see nothing very wrong in this The
poor man has little to live for and why
prolong the agony? Let those live who
va p,,S n
| In the matter of children, the differ
cree in the condition Of the classes is
| quite apparent In the most favored dis
tricts the death rate of children is only
about half as high as In the closely
| packed working districts. Still, this
does not so very much matter, for poor
people have more children anyhow than
| the well to do
GRIM REAPER.
The condition OF these two classes OF
English people is fairly well shown nt
death: In fact, most things are then re-
| Vea!ed. Take for instance a hundred
| estates; only four Of these hundred show
| $1,000 and upwards owned by their pos
| SCISSOR al the time Of death. Only six ont
of the hundred show anything at all.
| Nlnety-four per cent, of all tho Englisl,
! people ole without so much as giving n
| probate lawyer chance to mako a Tee
'"N'''b ~ loo iilplS tIuIl o,oVD estates were
probated with more than $4,000 each. and
the class who left more than this amour,
represented seventy per cont. Of all Tho
| property that passed through probate
court In Great Britain, In 1898, sevept,
estates were probuted, aggregatng $3.50
100000, or these seven were moro tina,
100000 each.
or course the constant invention Of nev
machines and methods makes produc
lr,a l,.l,.N
man has no chance to take even thi
Increase of productive power. The han
OF the landlord and the usurer Is 50 stron
lover all the island of Great Britain tina
1t Is for them to say how much they vii
keep and how much they will give ava,
The English trade unionists as elias
seem better to appreciate the facts tina
their brethren In the United States. AS
general rule they have come to beliey
) that no Greatly improved condition ca
come to the common mass whie/a fe,
, are left masters OF land and industr,
STREAM OF GOLD.
r AgitatorS of high degree and low hav
: long been crying out against the systel
that despoils the mass OF tho BIRTHS
. people for favored few and still am q,
all tho clamor and outcry. business goe
on, men are born ana toll and die, an
know not why they are born and ia
and die Political economists, speake,
novelists, agltators and poets publ S
their Views broadcast to tho, world Il,
still the "old lady of Threadneed
Street" lives in her huge stone nous
sends out her yellow gold each day an
| takes it back at night. always a III,
more than she sends out and by meal
: OF the magic power of this yellow streal
controls the industry, the trade. III
politics and even the religion of all II
world.