The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-19
THE FARMER: MARCH 19, 1912
walked away.

walked away.
 "There's a smart man." said White nodding in the direction of Blagg. ''He has all the facts of our social condition at his finger tips. He can tell you how many people starved last year. apG he can tell you why they starved. He ran show you in our scheme of governu cnt the hundred flaws which permit all these vicious inequalities of wealth"
 "Can he tell you" quizzed Philip ''why shiftless men fail in business Why 6rones hang to the lowest posi- tions? Why unambitious wcrkmen are the first to be laid off when a pinch comes? Why improvident people have nothing saved for a rainy day? It is all very well to talk of inequalities, but most of the talk have heard has been irra atiOnaI and so useless. I think our sociological mistakes can be remedied and will be remedied, but if the rem edy were left to the people who talk most about it we would have things radically wrong the other way. How are those wonderful string beans get ting onT'
 "Finer' replied White, brightening Come insidc. and look at them" and teuched upon the point of his greatest enthusiasm. he showed Phillip about ais garden.
 Mrs. White and Elsie came across from the Whites cottage. Elsie had run down for an early morning call and was on her way into the garden. Seeing Phillip. she was about to re. turn to the house instead, but her mother dragged her on.
 Good for sore eyes to see you. Phil lip,' hailed Mrs. White. eve owe a mighty lot to you. MT. Kelvin. and it's fine to get chance to thank you. Goodness. we've been here an age. it seems. and we haven't seen you once in all that time!'
 "I have been rather busy, Mrs. White" said Phillip. "but you may rest assured that have not forgotten my old friends"
 'T knew you hadn't" she returned heartily. 'I told. Elsie so."
 Tn the meantime Blagg had gone to his operating room. and. having test ed his instruments and made ready for the days work. he went to the window overlooking the garden and gazed out in deep thought.
 Young Rensselaer, strolled into the room. partly to escape from his aunt's insistence that he should court and marry Lillian Breed and partly be- cause both Blagg and his art interest ed him.
 Kelvin seems to be a nice sort of fellow" said Blagg.
 'T should say he is!..' declared Rens- selaer T punched cows with him for six months out in Montana. and nev- CT found a better or squarer fellow anywhere"
 "Yes." admitted Blagg, eff the world were made up of people exactly like Kelvin it would be all right; they would all have an equal chance. But since the world contains but a few men like him. he is dangerous
 "Nonsensew replied Rensselaer, "why?'
 Because he alone, aided by Breeds money, was able to destroy tre- mendous institution like the Stock EX change" returned Biagg heatedly. 'It should have been wiped out Of exist ence, no doubt. but in the process of breaking it up thousands of helpless poor were thrown out of employment and faced starvation. and these are the people who invariably suffer. Then Kelvin, by merely opening his mouth with Breeds consent, stops the panic What does he do? He issues to the press this morning an announcement that the cash drain has stopped. that Breed no longer requires shipments o1 actual money for his bread. and that $1OO.OOO.OOO of currency. very small percentage of what he has taken in. is to be put back into circulation. What happens next? Immediately confidence will be restored; people will go back to work. Don't you see the monstrous thing in this? The very lives of hun. dreds of thousands of men. women and children have depended upon this mans word! It is monstrous! Some day that system will be swept away and with it must be swept young Kel win and all his kind"
 You talk like Kelvin himself used to talk out on the ranch" Rensselaer, remarked. Kelvin has his own dreams of reform. You ought to compare notes."
 Gro Be Continued.)