PLUTOCRACY.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 24, 17 November 1883, Page 3

PLUTOCRACY.

Lt is a sorrowful paradox that the free Republic of America, the home of labour and tko land of promise to the oppressed ot! all nations, should lead the world in monopolists. What other nation on the t.n.c of the globe can show a list like this:— Yandeibilr, 20*0,000,000 <lo!n ; | Gould, 100,000,000 dols ; Ktuiford, i 100,000.01)0 duls ; ilunriru; ton, 100,000,000 dols; (Jioc'k'M-, G0,00<).0()0 doK ; Mi-, Hopkins -')0,000,000 dols ; S ige, 40,000.000 dols ; Flood, 40,000,000 dols ; Fair, 40,000,000 dols ; Mackey, 30,000,000 dol-s ; Field, 25.000,000 dols ; Keene, 20,000.000 dols ; estate or! Thomas Scott, 20,r00,000 dols ; Garret!, 20.000,000 dols ; Tilden, 1^,000,000. Fointeen men tlni, own 920,000,000 dols ; fourteen men control all our railroads ; put their tax on eveiy moit.el of food we consume and evciy aiticle of: raiment we wear ; control our Legislatures wholly in .some States and i. lively in all ; own noaiiy evety foot of valuable land along the highways of ticiflie ; tax alike the native product, the import and the expoit, and, in fact, run the country and regulate the present condition and future destinies of fiftyfive millions of people to please their fourteen selves. This autocracy of wealth and dangerous ascendancy of the few is the direct pioduct of a quarter of a century of republicanism. Yet they talk of the revival of the party of immoral ideas. Fortunes are sometimes suddenly made, John 13.il nes, of Moais & Co., North Carolina, a few weeks since possessed but live or six hungiy hounds and about twenty .icie->of unfruitful LuA ; now he is the richest man in the country. Two weeks ago, whilst wandering over his turn, Barnes discovered borne gold o»e; he said not a woidbut proceeded to dig 1 out the precious metal as best he might, and thus collected scvcial pounds ol oie< A remarkable silver mine has be -n dirfcovcrod twenty miles south of Tuscoro, Arizona, in th'j BcinU liita jMoui^t.itns. i The ore crossing i-; 100 feet wide, and over a mile Jong. Us avenge value is 275 dols. per ton. A Methodist minister made the rich discovery. What i« called the biggest and richest copper mine in the world has been discovered in Nevada, 100 miles north-cast of Bodie. Neariy 2000 ft up the mountain above Soda Springs Valley the ore bed shows a width of 100 ft, and in many .shafts the ore asays' 18 per cent, copper. The oie now uncovered is estimated at 45,000, tons, valued at over 2,000,000 dols."— The ' New York Star.'