The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-07-25

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need &c i QIiIe how much poorer the
poor vii: ssa. r shay are to live at
g! they caa GET much poorer. Wat
greater hpcien Of poverty cel we put
on the four million American f&mi-
lies 1so oasy with their best toll car
gather less than four hundred dollars
2 veal? What more can We take from
rbsm shan we have alresdy taSet ::
The Massaclus: It's Bureau q L2h9i
has collected statistics showiog how
the poor families speno uhe!r pltlEu.
incomes. L appears 5naa s3 IS sacn
week goes for food. Shall We CUT tbsr
6oxl? Or shall ws cu5 2o"n TIE
s2.si q month trey spend COZ c!oto-
1872 or tae 81 50 g year tAsy sCeSc
for furniture and household furnish-
ing o. tbs 81 a moasa taeg pay
to1 tool, dark rooms in tainted seh-
emeo:?
Ard these are not the poorest OF
the pocr, these are sell respecting Is
bore-s, producers OF the naSloa2l
wealth; there sre millions OF cthers
yhose let IS worse than thei-s,-ten
million. RoAeru Hunter estimates, in
helpless poverty, out OF work out oi
aaalsh out Of res1t with the world.
arcken driftwcod, yaecants, tramps-
what shall we take from them?
Sixteen years ago Thomas G. Shear
man 2 DISTINGUISHED CORPORATION law.
yer an6 brilliant writer on economic
questions. oroeNesied tat 'wi6hio
lalrSy years tee UfitsC S.aass will b:
substantially owned by less than oEe
in FIVE hundred OF the na,e populs.
tion!"
In the Uu!t5d States today thert
sre 44O large Industrial, franchise anl
transportation trusts With capital
ization OF over twenty thcu>ano mil
lion dollars. Which, says the Wa
Street Journal" is ''ons-fith OF the
wealuh in the country and the ncsi
powerful part OF it for it IS wealth
under such concentrated control tna:
it practically sways tee "hvle."
It may bs objected that the chill
dren Of millionaire Ines rave q per
feet right TO dispose as they plssae {!
their fortunes sno their lives. il tnes
cncose to follow the improbable way;
OF Steam yachts snd motor cars, why
afte- al, this is a free country. *
which We might reply that no MAI
hss moral right to squander mi:
lions on shoI snd selfish pleasure!
while Thousands OF bis fellow men ar;
Darishing Of want, while tens G.
thousands by their utmost labor srt
pain can barely secure the nscsssiuie
Of lite. Remainder the vast Jo!llcs
s.nny enslsved il oU: f2csorjes snt
clues, nen. women and chii1rea
millions OF them, giving 5Ge strength
oi their BODIES and TIE hope Ct Shsil
scu:s tls5 f!w thousand rich nsE
may draw handsome dividends cn in.
vestm5ats, dirideuds which they haV=
ocre nothing to esrn AID which !;
bt 7ss them 20 spend.
Extraordinary happenings are a..
says unexpected get occs IN q cen'
tury or SO, like the advent OF g might!
conousror or refc1nar, they do cons
to pass. And if there Should ariss
in this laD3 man OF thirty or II!
who, starting with 5wo or three BIZ
lions Owned OF controlled bg hi0.,
should &c great enough to brush as de
the tranelS OF Incidence and tsnpta
zion, great enough to see that neVs1
in modern times has there been cfer
ed to G nan, net even to Napoleon, 81
stupeD6oGs 3 chance IS this to WielI
absolute despouic power, great snougs
finally to use his two or three bill
lions to it's full potsnsiality taen,-
veil there would surely be interest
ing history made in tnat EaG'S lie
time! We have had our iron Kings
railroad kings, copper k.rgs, suss
kings and ot1srs, but tnaie is or
KIND Of king we have not bad yet. Z
real king? Yes, tor how long, pray
would this republic stand agaius
the aggressioCs cf such man, a s7sa
minded oeSpot without conscience O
bounds to his smbition, or IL com
psrison to whom our Rocsfslie1S ant
Carnegiss would seem Ike bluoderins
beginners? Already Our nillioaair
nasnases have begun tc buy on
courts and legislatures, to corcup
cur cities, to debauch the public con
sciences; be would finish the work ant
60 it thoroughly, he would make tn
laws, own the newspapers, subsidjz
churches and colleges, mould publ
opinion, direct the machinery o
Justice, control the industries, tn
banks, tie insurance companies, th
conditions OF labor, requisite supp.
and demand, fix prices, absorb pro
6ts, cenural:ze everything, be every
thing.
TO PROTECT WILD BEASTS.