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Show One Result of Protection. Governor Campbell at Ada. I have the authority of the Amn-ican Exv-omitit Exv-omitit that in '. the number of people in the United States who owned their own homes had in twenty-five years fallen from five-eighths to three-eighths, and how long will it take them to fall to one-eighth or one-thousandth? one-thousandth? History is not without lessons in this regard, aud I quote from the I'ro-grfx, I'ro-grfx, published in Boston: "When Egypt went down 2 per cent of her people ow ed 07 per cent of her wealth. The people were starved to death. When Baby-lou Baby-lou went down 2 per cent of her people owned ail her wealth. The people were starved to death. When Persia went down 1 per cent of her population owned all the land. When Rome went down 15O0 men owned all the known world." In 1S."i0 iu tnis country the capitalists owned 372 per cent of her wealth. Today they ow n more than twice that amount of her wealth. Have they been more honest, more industrious, more enterprising? Have they lived closer? Have they deserved better at the hands of providence or of their countrymen than the far .Tiers and wage-workers, wage-workers, or even the lawyers, doctors and preachers. |