People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — Millions in Want in a Land of Plenty [ARTICLE]

Millions in Want in a Land of Plenty

Henry D. Lloyd, in “WealthfAgainst Commonwealth:” t Nature is rich; but everywhere man, the heir of nature, is poor. Never in this happy country or elsewhere —except in the Land of Miracle, where “they did all eat and were there been enough of anything for the people. Rome banished those who had been found to be public enemies by forbidding everyone to give them fire and water. This was done by all to a few. In America it is done by a few to all. A small number of men are obtaining the power to forbid anyone but themselves to supply the people with fire in nearly every form known to mofiern life and industry from matches to locomotives and electricity. They'control our hard coal and much of the soft, and stoves, furnaces, and steam and hot water heaters; the governors on steam boilers and the boilers, gas and gas fixtures, natural gas and gas pipes, electric lighting and all the appurtenances. You cannot free yourself by changing from electricity to gas, or from the gas of the city to the gas of the fields. If you fly from kerosene to candles you are still under the ban. We are rapidly reaching the stage where in each province only a few are left; that is the key to our times. Beyond the deep is another. "This era is but a passing phase in the evolution of industrial Caesars, and these Caesars will be of a new type—corporate Caesar. What we call monopoly is business at the end of its journey. The concentration of wealth, the wiping out of the middle classes, are other names for it. To get it Is, in the world of affairs, the chief end of man. The first Bible printed in America was Elliot’s Indian version, in 1658.