A socialist was damning the wicked extravagance
of the rich. A thoughtful person
said : " In New York City was a wealthy
family, the Bradley Martins. They were
driven out of the country by public indignation
because they spent their money with a
free hand. In the same city was a wealthy
man named Russell Sage. He was no less reviled
and calumniated, because he spent as
little as he could and lent the rest. In which
instance was our 'fierce democracie' wise and
righteous?"
The answer was prompt and, O, so copious! Before it ceased to flow that philosopher was a mile away from the subject, lost in an impenetrable forest of words.
Of course Russell Sage was no less valuable an asset to the " wage slave '* than the Bradley Martins, for there is no way by which one can get profit or pleasure out of money except by paying it out, either by his own hand directly, or indirectly by the hand of another, for wages to labor. Eventually, sooner or later, it all reaches the pocket of the producer, the workingman.
We have so good a country here that more than a million a year of Europe's poor come over to share its advantages. In the patent
