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 There is a corrupt influence from large concentration of wealth and its unhappy distribution which will cause more beggarism, more softening and more syncophancy than all the laws which can be put upon the statute books regulating the hours of labor of women and children. Indeed the story of prosperity in every country shows the same picture again and again—pictures which one may find in New York City any time.

Says our great historical student, Professor J. Franklin Jameson:—

Yet all the causes of the decline of Rome were working in this soil—the results were not long in forthcoming.

In these days of the ocean cable and the fast racers of the sea, waves of public opinion and thought and the struggles of other lands reach us so quickly, that whether