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The Era Of Invention

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
December
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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lne highest authonty in Michigan on economie questions last Monday evening gave before the Cocker league in Ann Arbor his opinión that the result of inventions so far has been the differentiation of a class of laboring men such as was not seen even in feudal times. We give elsewhere an abstract of the speech. There has been absolute improvement in the condition of laboring men, but no improvement relatively. That is, there is a constantly widening gulf between the rich and the poor. Our system produces the "unemployed" and the tramps. Before this question, the questions of prohibitioH, free trade, protection and surplus revenue, are infinitely Bmall. They are great questions, of course, but are not so fundamental as this whicb. Prof. Adams discussed. We might have prohibition to suit Mr. Dickie himself, but it could not stop the forces which are at work producing fearful inequalities in the conditions of mankind. This ought not to be forgotten whüe we wrangle about the man for president in 188S and the policy to be adopted. That judge who granted the anarchist Most a stay of execution of the sentence of imprisonment knows a thing or two. He said he had no doubt that Most was guilty, but very rich crimináis could always get a stay of execution, and although Most is poor he should have equal privileges before the law. There is a little gleam of sense in that; but what will become of our jury system if one man can delay justice because he is rich and another because he is poor?

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Ann Arbor Register