us look again, and we see a vast body of men who possess 
and command these signs of wealth, to enormous amounts 
that are not employed for useful purposes of any kind, but, 
on the contrary, become the means of inflicting serious 
injury upon those engaged in productive labours and honest 
enterprise. 
“ Capitalists ” can and do speculate in concert, — in the 
stocks and public securities — in foreign exchanges and the 
rates of interest, to the extent of many millions, quite apart 
from any legitimate requirements of commerce and industry, 
and by which means immense fortunes are suddenly gained, 
at the cost of those outside of the “ cliques ” concerned in such 
operations on the “ Stock and Money Markets. 5 ’ By such 
gamblings, too, the streams of commerce are disturbed and 
obstructed in their due course, and often turned into dangerous 
and even ruinous channels, — whilst the gigantic gamblers 
themselves, keeping their own counsels, are quite beyond 
the reach of either moral or legal restraint. Many of the 
parties working these mischiefs are well known to the 
public at large, and they are even honoured for allowing 
some outsiders (in return for penning a few good words for 
them) to join in the “swag.” These well-known facts show 
the pernicious tendencies of the concentration of wealth in 
a few hands. They prove, also, that floating or circulating 
wealth can be more readily combined in working mischief 
than fixed wealth can be; that the power of “money lords” 
can be used for helping themselves, at the expense of others, 
far more readily than that of the landlords can ever be ; and, 
at the same time, the former are more certain to escape the 
censures of law and of public opinion than are the lords of 
great estates. It is more easy to expose than to find a 
remedy for such social evils. We must trust to the “teeming 
future ” to bring forth some remedies or mitigations of the 
obstructions to the progress of productive industry and 
honest enterprise by such misuses of wealth as are above 
pointed out. 
