148 LAND AND LABOR. 



power, and ability to provide for and " insure his 

 daily subsistence/' has not been attended by a corre- 

 spondingly improved condition of the great masses of 

 the people, and an advance in the general tone of so- 

 ciety ; but, on the contrary, it has served to suddenly 

 place enormous wealth in the hands of the few, and 

 to bring corresponding destitution and distress on the 

 many. 



