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Misery, crime, and suicide follow in its wake. It supplies ready victims for the gallows.

Enough for All.

The world is neither over-populated, nor are its crude products all utilized. Properly organized there is ample room for all -- from the lowest to the highest -- without conflict, and without pressure. Man is paying a heavy penalty for all his imperfect organization of society, in the large loss of material prosperity that would otherwise be promoted.

Better food, clothing, shelter, recreation, and amusements, are needed for the comfort of all. More farms should be cultivated, manufactures developed, metals mined, railroads built, rivers and harbors improved, machinery originated and perfected.

Opportunities naturally exist for the energies of all, but man's selfishness towards man has discouraged industry, by sanctioning for ages, through law and usage, the excessive value of money and interest, thereby causing deprivation and suffering to the many for the benefit of the few.

The Love of Power the Drawback.

The instinctive craving of humanity has always been for higher civilization, but the love of power has checked its progress. In all ages the sway of poer over weakness has been supreme. Its reign, unlike that of kings, has been an unbroken dynasty from the beginning. No race or time is peculiarly responsible for its tyranny. It springs spontaneously in the breast of man. It is most often for power that wealth is eagerly accumulated, long after it has gratified all other desires.

Even many of the poor, without considering the chances against them, hope, some day, themselves, to gratify this love for power; but failing to have laws enacted for the just distribution of wealth, they are usually disappointed. It is estimated that two-thirds of all the wealth in the country is already in the hands of three per cent of the population, and is is still rapidly concentrating. In view of this, what chances for wealth are within the grasp of the poor?

Labor watches with a jealous eye the growth of capital, the exponent of power; but capital is always on the alert to guard its interests. Each now recriminates the other, and both stand glaring and defiant; but it may be the province of this generation to work these discordant elements into order and harmony. It can only be accomplished by increasing the profit of industry and lessening