| Show 0 OF IV I 1 irr irn I CLASSES FOR mob a great many year years before the tho war of the rebellion the united states of bf america was looked upon by the working classes of euro europe e with longing eyes being considered by them an illimitable goshen in which plenty was puro sure to reward the laborers toll toil a land where freed from the enormous taxation md nd imposts to which he was compelled to 0 o submit to support the extravagance af f the royal and aristocratic rulers of urple the fhe he laborer might by industry ind and prudence pru cence soon surely become a landholder and holder hoider and in a few years obtain a results which be he could never hope to obtain in britain ar or on the he continent of europe this has beep een one of the great causes of the rapid development and excellence excel lenea lenca ili in every branch of industry to which this a comparatively new country has attain attained and which has enabled her to comete compete pete with and excel most of the countries of europe inmany in many of the most important branches of industry and the arts the recent report of commissioner wells however shows that year by year the workingmen of Ameri america caare are becoming coming le more burdened expense aad that the prosperity of former years ears is waning and alid that in this coun try ry as well as in europe the people are surely dividing into two classes tb tle tie a very rich and the very poor alarmed at such buch a condition of affairs hon W D kelly congressman from philadelphia fa w who 0 is known a as one of the champions of labor fearing that if such reports were m made ade public they would have havea a tendency to retard emigration and to dissatisfy the taxpayers odthe country made an effort to suppress their publication he says if mr wells report be true a good con coni i science requires the american Gori congress gress to notify the laboring people of the world that they can not improve their condition by coming to this country the report of mr wells is no doubt true it is in the very nature of things that it should be so and whether it is made known by publication or not I 1 makes wakes little difference the facts exist and aud will soon become known by their ef 7 fets feets the burdens bundens of in republican pub ilean licau america areat are at the presen present time fully as heavy if hot heavier than in any country in ili europe and the wide spread corruption in the administration s of almost every department of our national affairs has a continual ten dency to increase those burdens the rapid centralization of wealth too in the hands of the very few in hi this country is unparalleled and theun the unprincipled use of the power thus acquired as witnessed during the recent wall street gambling operations cannot but cause wide spread distress the opera tion lion of the railway subsidy ning iring ring 1 I in voting away millions and millions of acres of the public lands also helps to diminish the prosper ity of the masses at home and the inducements to foreigners ers to emigrate by placing under the control of a few capi capitalists tails calls esth the e homesteads of the people a and i nd enabling them to demand their own prices for that which the government formerly all but bu t gave away all these facts and many more which might be adduced show that the alican equality for which the nation was formerly conspicuous and which rendered it so attractive to the oppressed of all nations Is fast passing away and show that here as well as elsewhere when power and wealth are acquired and exercised by the few who are not guided by pl they are not used pro bono publico but are made to an swen private interests and to selfish seln self ish ends |
