Bisbee daily review., 1904-03-29
HEPBURN ROASTED BROWN.
Kenny of New Jersey supplfes the Fuel and Ssfrs the Fire

Benny of New Jsrsey supplie. the
 Fuel and ssfrs the Fire.
 Congressman Hepburn Of Iowa. the poliricai 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 a turn on Dec II by Mir. Benny. one of the new congress. men from New Jersey On Dec. Me. Hepburn sid In congress:
 States who wants to work finds em- ployment in the great labor fields of the United States and at q compensat ting wage"
 To show that neither of these state ments was true Mir. Benny said:
 "I live in the city of Bayonne. a city Of 10000 Inhabitants. Every morning et the gates of our great manufactur. ing estabiishments-th Standard Oi, company. the Babcock & Wilson Boiler company, the Safety Insulated Wire end Cable company and other large concerns-hundreds of men congregate and beg for work. Across Newark bay. at the works of the Singer Manufa~ tnrfng company. other hundreds gath. CT, also looking for work. Every large factory in Jersey City. New York and in every other city that know Of will furnish similar sight each morning.
 .SEyerv man in r.,rhiin if ba liyoo in a 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- ton to this evidence. do not the news papers almost daily contain accounts of works shutting down, certain rail- road companies laying off 10000 men within the last three months, and Sc on?-
 The great Hepburn also said on Dec l:
 When has there been a time when tue distribution of wealth was as great as it is now and when the humblest and poorest had so large a share of the accrmulaticns of each year as now! There never has been time
 In reply Mir. Benny said:
 Has the gentleman not read the fig- ures in the United States census of J9U0. which show that Sa9 per cent of the people own 72.67 per cent of the wealth of this country? Has be never seen the estimates of Mir. Charies E. Srahr. whereby if appears that l per cent of the peopie own 54.S per cent of the wealth. another 109 per cent of the people o|n 32.2 per cent additional, which added together shows that 1I.9 per cent of the people own ST per cent of our wealth, the other 13 per cent of the wealth then remaining being owned by 3S-1 per cent of the people? 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- pie. the other 90 per cent of our people. or in round numbers 4O.Oo0,O00 souls. owning absolutely DO part of the coun- try's great wealth.
 Has it 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-tweifth of the entire wealth Of the United Stntes?
 Docs that show the present to be a time when the distribution of wealth is greater than ever before and that the humblest and the poorest have a larger share of tie accumulation of the year than ever before? Shame on the SUE gestion."
 MT. Fox's Toilet.
 On one trip through the Kentucky mountains, performed by John Fox IT,, in pursuit of local coiOr," he stop ped overnight at a cabin, where h, slept up next to the clapbcards and went down ladder to breakfast. He washed his face in creek below the house and dried it on siding of coffee sack hung against the logs for family use and combed his hair before piece of broken glass stuck between the chinking and daubing.
 As he was making his toilet he was closely observed by the small boy of the family, who was clothed in pail of cottonade pants hitched to hickory shirt. with one '.gailus" fastened by a nail. Shoes aud hat were hacking. and his hair hadn't been combed for six weeks. He watched the visitor 50 close " that MT. Fox thought he was mak- ing an excellent impression on the young barbarian As he put on the last touch the boy. unable to contain himself longer. broke in:
 "Say. mister" he inquired. 'tafp't you a good deal of trouble to yerseifr'- Reader Magazine.