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necessity to himself ; but infinitely more, for the greater majority 

 of men must work, or the race disappears from the earth. Man- 

 kind is a vast army 14,000,000,000 strong at the present time, and 

 his only base of supplies are land and work. Cut off from this 

 base of supplies and the great army succombs, and the angel of 

 death visits every land and every home. He that works does his 

 part to help the race to live. He that does not work does his 

 part to help the race to die ; for if all followed his example the 

 race would soon disappear. And this crime is intensified in its 

 scarlet guilt upon the man who not only does not work, but amas- 

 ses millions on millions by the employment of labor as his stock 

 in trade : his millions being the product of hard-handed toil, with- 

 out which it is certain his millions could not have been produced. 

 It is certain that his surplus millions do not help the race to live. 

 In a certain splendid room in New York city four persons during 

 the business season dine together, and they dine at the expense of 

 the Western Union Telegraph Company. These four men repre- 

 sent $300,000,000. These are sober men ; they drink neither the 

 costliest brandies nor the finest wines, nor smoke the best Ha- 

 vanas. But what are they doing with this astounding sum of 

 money in a world of wretchedness, want and sorrow ? They feast 

 the aristocrats of Europe as they visit our shores ; but the thou- 

 sands of men and women who helped to make their mammoth 

 fortunes live on starvation wages. In a private letter Geo. Ban- 

 croft, the historian, mentions as the most dangerous of men the 

 " selfish rich." Joseph Choate, the famous lawyer of New York city, 

 at a meeting of the charity organization society of New York, said, 

 " I do not believe it is possible for a man to accumulate ten, twenty 

 or fifty millions of dollars without leaving in his train many scores 

 and hundreds who are worse off because of his exaggerated 

 wealth." He further said in the same speech : " It is not the 

 owners of this wealth who are to be relied on to go down to the 

 bottom of society and hunt up those who hive been impoverished 

 by their great fortunes." Mr. Choate could say such things to 

 his aristocratic friends, for they know him to be a money maker. 

 He is of that class of lawyers who demand $1500 or $2000 as a 

 retainer. But he clearly admits the fact that great fortunes create 

 corresponding begaries. Great, superfluous wealth does not help 

 the race to live ; but disintegrates and rolls ruin over society. 

 Great wealth is wage stealing, and a monstrous absurdity in a 

 republic. 



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