THE POOR WIDOW.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 4

THE POOR WIDOW.

FROM THE OMAHA "WOELHHEEALD.” Tho "poor widow” has been the greatest asset the interests have ever had. She lived before th ewar and a defence of slavery was made because the "poor widow" owned five or six slaves which wore her only means of .support. Their emancipation would bo a most cruel thing for it would reduce - her to' poverty. After the war, she became a stockholder and any effort to keep the corporations in bounds would ruin her more certainly than the loss of her slaves. After the "neurotics," as- President Taft calls all those who. have opposed ‘ the extortions of the corporations, had got the railroads-, under some sort of control, the widow turned up ns tho owner of industrial stocks, tho dividends on which were her only means of living. It seems she owns large blocks of woollen trust stock and any increase in the wages of those who receive from six to eight dollars a. week will ruin tho ‘Vidow” again. Out in Oregon dhe is in terrible dis-. tress. It seems that the "poor widow” owns many twonty-five-thonsand-dollar lots and acres upon acres of land. The new tax that it ■ is proposed, to place upon land will take the last loaf of bread out of her humble homeTho poor widow has had a long and ter-J

riblo career and tho future seems as dark for her as the past has been.