Show the real milk in the coconut Co canut speaker reed haa in the current number of he illustrated ameran Amer cn anart icleon wealth and one of ita in which he rath r loosely considers the advantages which have accrued to the general public through the increase ct wealth generally speaking be limits himself to the advantages which come through cheapening cheape nini process in paper and bookmaking which he considers to be incalculable with this phase of bia discussion dis cassion no one can reasonably and banit but the impression ought to be created that the modern tendency to concentrate money into the bands ot a comparatively few people is not nearly fa vast an evil it baa been pictured to he people generally are much better off than they were they live better and have intellectual pleasures which were scarcely 1 bought of years aeo but it would of the heiert of folly to ascribe these advantages exclusively to the piling up of wealth alona ane lines with which americana have lattery become familiar the constant evolution which if going on leada inevitably to the of the masse the french revolution which barbed the culmination ot feudalism also sounded the regeneration of the bommon people they were no long to tie mere hewers of wood and drawers ut water the new era found ita concrete expression in the american republic which fora century haa been out the destiny of the cdamon people under thia new era during that time marvelous advances have been made not alone amoni what might be called the ruling classes but from the up the intellectual standard lis ben baited high any averlee baa heretofore prevailed and the standard ot comfort has shown a corresponding sp upward tendency fur some years past however this system has been disjointed we have been moving alone lines which leoti to increase the ol 01 the lives ot bome cements le ments ot our litan but unfortunately at the expense of the other thia period marked an rapid increase m wealth but unfortunately it baa been accompanied with ite concentration in the haade of a limited number theao have rapidly grown richer but he ices fortunate have either grown poorer or barcly held their own general happ inece can only corn to the american people under e uch clodi cioe ae tend to diffuse rather than to wealth Money rightly considered si ie one of the eledene ele nene of human but JefTer eona dream of a country in which there should be no very rich and no very poor people still to be realized and to the degree that we fall abort of it to that degree will we misa the ideal at which we should aim in this country |