Show HEWITTS PLEA lion hon abram 11 HeN hewett iett taking his text from the new nemr mill billie hotel in new york the poor mans waldorf writes a labored article to establish that while ne a few men have accumulated great ereal fortunes fortune the community has made vastly larger fortunes out of 0 them ile he cites the case of sir henry bessemer who mho out of 0 his treat great indention has possibly accumulated while through that the world has been Q ben benefited C probably to the amount of 1000 2000 millions of dollars mr fath er cr ln in law peter cooper would mould never have written an article like that ile he would have treated the bessemer invention as of the same kind of work as that performed by columbus in discovering for overcrowded and king and priest ridden europe a new world something the of which to mankind cannot be estimated wo we can think of but one inventors Inventor 9 wealth that has haa excited any criticism in the united states and hla his was more the elaborating and perfecting the plans of othera than an invention we refer of course to pullman and people nver never complained of him until lie ho sought to subordinate the manhood of employees peter cooper might have taken sir Bess emers invention for a text but he e would i then have proceeded to picture the avarice of steel makers who ila haeng that great girt gift lit in their hands would form a trust and compel tho the people who mho bought steel to pay them three prices tor for it can mr new diew elf show chere the people have made infinitely more out ot of that c lass class of men than they have made out of the people but they are not the worst breed of millionaires for or they in order to carry on their business are bound to employ vast numbers of men and at least a rait pait of their gains through the laborers they employ find their way back into the gendral circulation of tho the country none of that eliat doss class has caused the depression which hovers like flke a pall upon this republic and causes cause half its laborers to tf work mork for hefts wages it la 13 not this class that has caused half the property values of this his country to grav gravitate tate to the coffers r of if of 0 tile the people when the war was mas sore the gold in the country did what it always does when there is any danger it either went vent into hiding or poised its golden minga w ings and soared alnita an ay acoss arloss the atlantic the gov nt was almost in n its Is death throes hracs in it a alfe and death juggle si for existence and it did what the desperate business man does when he cannot utilize his property and must b hac el e money moncy it issued notes and these were passed from hand to hand they were gill all that the farmer and manufacturer got for their products all that the soldier at the front who was making 0 f his own bret a walt wall between his country and hla big count rys roes foes received but tho the war mar mleh till intensifying burdens went cut on anil and the government then said that those who mho would buy tho the interest bearing bonds of the country should have their interest in specie silver aliver and gold and all the advance which would surely como come to these notes with till the close of 0 the mar millions of these bonds mare bought at a pleat discount the mar closed and the notes doubled in value but that was not enough the men who held the he bonds wanted more by the insidious plea that by paying in fit coin tho ilia bonds could be refunded at a lower rate of interest the law was passed making them payable in coin the government then owed nearly millions the individual and corporation debts of the country amounted to elie twice ica as much more or to a sum bum equal to quite halt half tile the assessed valuation of 0 oil the property of tho the republic Rc public then lindo under r ano another ther plea to reform the currency curr I 1 at a time when specie payment had bad been bus suspended and the ilia press an and d people at and id tenth i ot 0 congress ConR reas ikney knew a nothing thing of ahat hat was intended a me was passed destroying halt the primary money of 0 tile the co country antry then ia haf 0 bol bork mas complete the ills bonds bond 3 anti and all other indebtedness were mado made pay in arll tho thi wert VAR wo a instantly a p 1 a I 1 e n I 1 1 tt though prices began to shrink though crime with poverty began to increase the men frien who hold held that indebtedness indi maintained their hold imeldi elahi ir upon tile iho presidency or one or the other houses of congress ConK rw one broll they enlisted tile the great nejapa airs p era of the country on their little twice havo have they collected their full prin principal c I 1 pit t in antt iest and the wealth i of tile the country has gravitated to them ahey they havo have grown arro arrogant grint as well as ova and now in their ln indolence olence standing above lite that they bave ninde cry out that any ho no would chango change the order which has haa wrought such run to tile the masses must bo be re rc and a dangerous revolutionary lutio nary and abraham 11 howett Is one of it the crowd and its ills article in of millionaires who ito havo fortunes was mas only intended to divert the indignation of I 1 wronged people front from the real ral culprits who mho for twenty five eara like en gorged coi coa have been picking the bones slid arid pecking out the eyes of tile the pro prost Strato nuo and heir help P 94 |