Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-03

ing for progress should know the answer,
which is this:
A FEW OF US-VERY FEW-HAVE
A GREAT DEAL TOO MUCH. AND A
VERY GREATSMANY OF US HAVE TOO
LITTLE.
We have tens of millions of citizens
worried about the future and worried
about the present as well.
There is in this country not only wealth
enough for all-if it were intelligently de-
veloped and justly distributed wealth
enough for population ten times and a
hundred times as great as the population.
of to-day.
Millions of acres are unculGvated. Mill
ions upon millions are cultivated badly and
yield half a crop or less-because the
workers lack money and tools and knowl-
edge.
Power is going to waste in the great
waterfaIls-or if it is used it is used as a
monopoly, TO make a few rich instead of
making the millions free from bodily
slavery.
There are machines enough to clothe the
whole population-but the mills and the
sewing machines stop, when small per-
centage are well and beautifully clothed
the others haven't the money.
The production of food is already ample
but intelligence and cunning scheme to
make millions by the sale of food at high
priceS-and there is no counteractina
benevolent wisdom to work for wide dis
tribution at low price.
The crops of the nation this year will be
wonderful in their abundance-the corn
and wheat and oats will be cornered and
manipulated. This broker, that specuIator.
an endless army of middemen and profit
takers will make their millions.
And when the distribution of the great
crop is over, those that store up wealth and
take more than their share will have new
millions. And those that produced the
wealth from the soil will be only about rs
well off as they were before-havinn inst
enough to keep going And those that con-
sumo the earth'S products will pay the ton
price for only as little as will keep them
going, and worry and fret as they paw for
that little
Wherever you see great wealth in tbis
country you see the same picture:
A great army of consumers paving tba
top price for what they get!
A great army of workers STRUGGLING n
get fair wages for what they produce!
And between the two, the farseeino
manipulation and organizer who has put .
dam across the stream of wealth and wbo
dips out his millions, his TOO MUCH
while the others must be contented with
their TOO LITTLE.
To those that see only the events Of To-
day and to-days injustice, this is denres-
sing world full of disbursement alr,oSt
without hope.
Every development in our history means
that somebody gets great deal for which
he has worked little or not at all
The great Steel Trust is formed oioor
TIC industrial structure based on the solid
foundation of iron that the country n,ust !,
those that organize this structure take" ono
millions of dollars in artifcially created
lleu pains.
Ihe industry is purchased in lump for
dred millions or less. And ii is sold TO tbo
fifteen hundred millions. And on this vast
ton the public must forever pay dividends
sumner must pay and the cost of living, of b,
rent must go higher.
Fortunately there is bright as well as a
of industrial conditions, to the picture that
a few with too much, not knowing how TO $,
they have, and the millions with too Httl
worried and anxious about the days to com
That which is an evil to-day, luckily.
blessing tomorrow
The old warriors built their aqueducts
pure water might be brought TO THEM. I
PALACES, TO THEIR BATHS.