Bisbee daily review., 1904-03-16
HEPBURN ROASTED BROWN.

Benny of New Jsssey Supplies the
 Fuel and Ssirs the Fire.
 Congressman Hepburn of Iowa, the political oracle of the Republican party in the house, whose dignity and i'm portance will not tolerate a question from any new member of that body. was roasted to Q turn on Dec. II by Mfr. Benny, one of the new congress men from New Jersey. On Dec. l Mf. Hepburn said in congress: aS
 ~Today every man in the United States who wants to work finds em- ployment in the great labor fields of the United States and at a compensating wage"
 To show that neither of these state ments was true Mr. Benny said:
 'I live in the city of Bayonne, a city of 10000 inhabitants. Every morning at the gates of our great manufactur- ing establishments-the Standard Oil company, the Babcock & Wilson Boiler company, the Safety Insulated Wire and Cable company and other large concerns-hundreds of men congregate and beg for work. Across Newark bay, at the works of the Singer ManufaN turing company, other hundreds gath CT, also looking for work. Every large factory in Jersey City, New York and in every other city that 1 know of will furnish similar sight each morning.
 Every man in public life, if he lives in city and is known to have a heart in him, can testify that he is overrun with applications of deserving men looking for work. And the men at these factory gates are men who really want and who deserve work. In addI- tion to this evidence, do not the news papers almost daily contain accounts of works shutting down, certain rail- road companies laying off 10000 mep within the last three months, and & onP'
 The great Hepburn also said on Dec. l:
 "When has there been a time when the distribution of wealth was as great as it is now and when the humblest and poorest had so large a share of the
  There never has been a time"
 In reply NIT. Benny said:
 Has the gentleman not read the fig ures in the United States census. of 19Uo. which show that S99 per cent of the people own 72.67 per cent of the wealth of this country? Has he never seen the estimates of MT. Charles E. 6pahr, whereby it appears that l per cent of the people own 54.S per cent of the wealth, another 10.9 per cent of the people own 32.2 per cent additional, which added together shows that 11.9 per cent of the people own 67 per cent of our wealth, the other 13 per cent of the wealth then remaining being owned by 3S.1 per cent of the peoplei Add all these items up, and you will see by these figures all of our wealth is owned by just 50 per cent of the peo- Dle, the other 50 per cent of our people, or in round numbers 4OO0O.OOO souls. owning absolutely no part of the coun- fry's great wealth.
 Has 1t not been stated over and over again without contradiction that when the board of directors of the steel trust meets the twenty-two men who there sit down own one-twelfth of the entire wealth Of the United Statesf
 Docs that show the present to be a time when the distribution of wealth is greater than eyer before and that the humblest and the poorest have a larger share of tfe accumulation of the year than ever before? Shame on the sug. eestion."
 Robert Fitzsimmons. the freckled pugilist from the anipodes, has ob tained a cafe concession on The Pike at the worlds fair.