Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1889 — How to Become a Capitalist. [ARTICLE]

How to Become a Capitalist.

Somebody must save money, and the people who save it will be the capitalists, and they will control the organization of industry and receive the larger share of the profits. If the workingmen will save their money, they may be not only sharers of profits but owners of stock and receivers of dividends, says Washington Gladden. And the workmen can save their money if they will. It is the only way they can permanently and surely improve their condition. Legislative reforms, improved industrial methods may make the way easier for them, but there, is no road to comfort and independence, after all, but the plain old path of steady work and sober savings. If the working people of this country would save for the next five years the money that they spend on beer and tobacco and base-ball, they could control a large share of the capital employed in the industries by which they get a living, and they could turn the dividends of this capital from the pockets of the money-lender into their own. There is no other way of checking the congestion of wealth, and of promoting its diffusion, so expeditious, so certain, and so beneficent as this. I wish the working people would try it.