The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-11
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
a scathing Arraignment of Those Forms
OF Capital That Prey on Life


OF Capital That Prey on Life
To the Editor of The Globe.
Your editorial, The Loan Sharl, ora
It's Illustrations of his methods is true
en anu needs as, many repetitions in order to
and women of moderate means are draw,
INTO the fatal maelstrom of ruin, povertv
and despair by methods so unprincipled
mat nell paleS before them. He'll is said
TO be military necessity to some peo-
pie, but there are few people who clean
up their garbage before the health officer
arrives; who even make health officers
needless, because they allow no garbage
10 Sccumulate and then sigh malaria
1 nut there is force from which the
IAN shark. who don't do manual labor.
n no ives ms very existence, which you do
n oOI mention, and that is the Surfeited
sfbp,IIih 81 who intrusts his money to the
80 10 loan STIMULATING for a higher
rate of interest to himself than he ought
10 ieJbeIve; than he needs, or than the
m NV should allow. 1t is the capitalists
tiieIhoG or Unsuitable greed and oDpres-
SStpu Wnich the loan shark follows i'm ax
'oT II his own unrighteous usury.
+bt "a me capitalists love of money and
middle classes which creates ali the mis- trse
cry OF the world. To have money caDitoI
ms ner b up wars between nations. slaughter
ttnS human beings in order to obtain in
tSIesl on piled up millions. then canita1
,1itsj FOUND and donates to a church or
nnTsi3ny society. have not heard any
CONSIDERABLE sum to famished Ireland
or indeed of any effort to really better
ttppnultlons OF the poor at home Rather
crush %S dow OF capital is to seek out and
Sa,,a uonn everyone possible in order to
| big ones. iii'o lhe watts OF
nr l admire Mr., Carnegie's score of the
| detest Carnegie's own methods vi So1s
Pdylhg ms worknen and DONATING then1
tro,,oa, philanthropist chases poor
get the money for his benevolence go
| T LIE, Is mixture of conceit and weakness
h neien Goulds philanthropy builds naval
hospitals. but her family greed aids in
getIng up wars in order to transnort
soldiers to death. And Hetty Green tbe
i fern orser m Efi drinks the blood of labor
| hypocr1tes and both are ignorant of
everything real or imperishable
-, W hiteIaw Reid, with his hand ever in
the public treasury, rich beyond naming,
| commonplace and a glutton, starves his
| help on the Tribune. l would rather see
me man who edited the Tribune, Mr..
NlckefSon, l think. while Reid was strut
tlhg In Paris; minister to England. than
! 10 see Reid there. Nickerson is more in
ttehlgent He had to live near if not in.
! the slums while editing Reid's paper he
cause he was not paid enough 10 1.-Two
comfortably. England is not a fool. She
| does not fail to recognize brains if we
| SHS her chance. but public glutton
paia by public taxation, like Reid. is a
Another evil besides the loan evil is the
! IdWyer evil Could We have a commits
M
Inc press can be such a power Courts
| ana lawyers today are tools of the Internal
| regions and the cunning of MeDhisto
mere Is no profession on earth TODAY or
| ever more baleful than this overcroWded
ever increasing throng of LAWYERS and
| thelr hades. the courts Judge on the
| Dench or advocate at the bar all are cor
rupt servants of the money god. the loan
| shark But | am glad to see that Wash
Igton GLADDEN. bravely stands strong.
lie says: The business man should show
ms charity in his business dealings
| while making his money to those ass0
Grated with him." Every missionary CON
| Germ knows that millionaire desDises il
| except as tool for his conceit and it's
pity such things always take the money
pe1ore they discuss the honor and cringe
| to the donor.
Go on. Glo e, upllft the poor in
SWede Glen, where a riIl from your
Mississippi flashes clear by clean door
yards and tiny homes of neatness and
toll. L don't think man who has never
done manual labor for living is half de-
VelOped. and as for women, uplift them
also until they see in the ancient gar
SoyleS OF architecture their ugly emotions.
concealed in their faces, caught ana per
petuated by art; tell women to keep sweet
souls, intent on noble purposes ra Their than
ehFlouS ambition, and then she has the
sweet influence of Pleiades in her face
Marion V. Churchill Dudley
Campbell, Mimi, April 5.