The Worker and the Millionaire

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 230, 7 October 1901, Page 1

The Worker and the Millionaire

N.vi’OLeon said that every one of his soldiers “ carried in his knapsack a marshal’s baton.” The London Spectator says that trades unionism has never been as strong in America as in England because in America the best workingmen hope to rise and are studying the way up the eminence rather than life on the plains. 11 Americans are not jealous of millionaires, because every American with brains thinks he may be one.” The New York World agrees with the Spectator and commenting on its contemporary’s preachment, it adds :

“ To-day, when the contrast between great fortunes and the average accumulations of industry and thrift is greater than would have been deemed possible a generation ago, it is doubtful if much jealousy or bitterness is felt toward the rich simply because they have been more successful than their fellows. It is only when rich men combine to secure control of the Government in their own selfish interest—to form an oligarchy of wealth, a very real plutocracy—that feeling is aroused, and justly. But ‘ the hope tu rise,’ the belief that still 1 tho Republic is opportunity, - remains the most prevalent and conservative force in this country,”—Exchange.