Excerpt from The Plague and Peril of Monopoly: A Lecture on Labor, Laborers, and Employes, Delivered, in Lynn, Salem, Haverhill, and Georgetown, Mass;, In the Autumn of 1882 No sadder sight is ever seen than a working man, or working woman, able, willing, and obliged to work or to starve, 'and yet starving - and perhaps children with them - for want of work to do. And when we know how often great numbers are in that condition, the spectacle becomes sadder still. And when we remember that our resources are ample to feed and clothe all the peoples of the Western Hemisphere, what can we say of such a spectacle? Our country seems some sleeping giant, pillowing his head on almost the Arctic snows; his feet nestling amid the ever-blooming flowers of the sunny South, and grasping in his left hand the rising, and in his right the setting, sun; and capable of producing and diffusing plenty, prosperity, and felicity to unnumbered millions of human beings About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.