APPENDIX. 



THE REMEDY FOR WANT IN THE MIDST OF WEALTH. 



The end of Government is to unfold 



The Social into harmony, and give 



Complete expression to the laboring thought 



Of universal genius ; fin-t to feed 



The body, then the mind, and then the heart. 



T. L. Harms. 



New Times demand new measures and new men ; 

 The world advances, and in time outgrows 

 The laws that in our fathers' days were best. 



-Lowell. 



THE experience of the whole century, and more especially of the 

 latter half of it, has fully established the fact that, under our present 

 competitive system of capitalistic production and distribution, the 

 continuous increase of wealth in the possession of the capitalist and 

 land-owning classes is not accompanied by any corresponding dim- 

 inution in the severity of misery and want or in the numbers of those 

 who suffer from extreme poverty, rendered more unendurable by 

 the presence of the most lavish waste and luxury on every side of 

 them. Even the most cautious writers who really look at the facts 

 are compelled to admit so much as this; but, as I have shown, the 

 actual facts prove more than this. They show clearly that Avith the 

 increase of wealth there has been a positive and very large increase 

 of want; while, if we take account of all the facts, and without 

 prejudice or prepossession consider what they really imply, we are 

 driven to the conclusion that, during the latter half of this most 

 marvellous of all the centuries, while science lias been enlarging 

 man's power over nature in a hundred varied ways, resulting in 

 possibilities of wealth-production a hundred-fold that of any preced- 

 ing century, the direst want of the bare necessaries of life has seized 

 upon, not only a greater absolute number, but a larger proportion 

 of our population; and this has happened notwithstanding an 

 increase of charity and benevolent work among the poor which is 

 equally unexampled. 



Many of our greatest writers and clearest thinkers have observed 



