Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — MILLIONAIRES AND POOR MEN. [ARTICLE]

MILLIONAIRES AND POOR MEN.

The cause of Woman’s suffrage hAs just made a big advance in Illinois. A law has been passsd which permits women to vote at all township elections.

Although Carter Harrison, the regular democratic nominee for mayor, was elected in Chicago, last week, the. elections through the state oE Illinois, generally, resulted very favorably for the Republicans. Their gains in the towu and lowusliips were remarkable, all over tne state.. In Kansas, too, the Republicans have matte wonderful gains.'

Hon. W. D. Owen, the first occupant of the office of Superintendent of Immigration, was previously chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, and made the subject of immigration a special study. He was thus specially well fitted for the peculiar jduties of the position. His successor, Hon. Herman Stump, was a member of the same committee of which Mr. Owen was chaiiman, and later became its chairman. It may therefor fairly be assumed that Mr. Owen has in Mr. Stump, an efficient successorHad Mr. Stump’s most prominent opponent for the position, the Hon. D. H. Patton, of Remington, received the appointment he might have proved efficient, but there has certainly been nothing in his previous official career to entitle him' beforehand, to the supposition that he would. It must in fact, be admitted, that, in choosing his appointee for this office,- Mr. Cleveland’s choice has, to all appearances, fallen upon the fittest man. A not altogether common occurrence in this administration, by-the-way.

John E. Risley, the newly appointed Minister to Denmark, was an officer and au active member of the treasonable organizations in the North during the war. The evidence which shewed his connection with them convicted the detW dfrntF, arrd- the-tleat h penalty was imposed. % H. H. Dodd, one of the men mentioned intimately with Risley, was arrested at the same time but made his escape during the trial through a window in the government building. The Terre Haute Express publishes the following letter in its' possession showing Risley’s interest in and connection with the matter;

New York. Aug. 8, I.SG4. H. H. Dodd, Esq., Indianapolis: My Dear Sir: -Hunt <fc Co. have played the devil, according to reports. Does he attempt to implicate auy of our friends, and it atf'cct our people in any degree? Can Morton overawe our people by tiis military organizations? I have read with deep interest the merger newspaper reports of affaiis in our State, and am anxious to learn more. Write to me if you can find leisure. Direct to care of Thomas Parker & Co., 49 Wall street. Very truly yours John E. Risley.

H arvard College appears to have become a center of pessimism, for every voice that comes from there brings some warning of the 6vils awaiting us in the future, resultant ujxiii our recent strides in money-getting. Colonel T. W. Higginson, in a recent speech at Cambridge, after portraying to his learned neighbors the ills we suffer from our Tariff system, said: } 4, i remember when I was a boy i* mil ridge that there was but

one man in Massachusetts who was ever suspected of such a thing as being a "millionaire, John P. Cush* ing, of Watertown, an east India man. It seemed so hard a thing to believe that any man could be worth a million dollars that I remember it being discussed: ‘ls it aupposahle that a man could be worth a million dollars?’ That was half a century ago. I ask yotMvhat is a million dollars now? Genteel poverty. A man may keep up appearances on it, but he is sympathized with by his friends, who have Teally got some sympathy for him on account of -his not having a better income.” We heard of Colonel Higginson’s speech through a spinner of Fall River, who pertinently remarks: “I too can remember when millionaires were scarce in this country. At that time I followed a pair of mules thirteen hours a day for $5 a week. Now spinners on fine work, since the recent advance in wages, can earn S2O in a week of fifty- eight hours.” How strange that such otherwise able men should so misinterpret the tendency of the times! Colonel Hlgginson ought to know that when employers were poor labors were poorer; when rich men were few civilization was low. Once everybody was poor.” Then a few became well off, then a larger number, and to-day every body is better off than once the few were. Instead of deploring this tendency we should in every way encourage it, that ‘the poor may. no longer be with us. —The Social Economist for- J anuary.