People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — It Won’t Go Around. [ARTICLE]

It Won’t Go Around.

Jay Gould accumulated *4,000,000 a year from the age of 27 until his death. In round numbers this would be 111,000 a day or *450 an hour. If one thousand other men in the United States had gathered in as much wealth as Gould, there would not be a dollar left for the other sixty-three millions of people. Everybody but these thousand men would be absolute paupers, without a dollar of money or property. And yet there are persons who tell us that all men could dp as well as Mr. Gould if they were as industrious and economical. We are not finding fault with Jay Gould, for it is possible that the great majority of men would do the same thing under the same circumstances; but it does seem plain that every sensi- ■ ble person ought to be able to see that there is something awfully wrong with an economic system which enables one man to accumulate such vast wealth in so short a time.—Clay Center (Kxn.l Dispatch