THE Chicago Dressmakers' Club recently gave out the figures that there are a few women in Chicago who each spend $75,000 a year in personal adornment. There are about a hundred who spend $50,000 each a year, and about ten thousand who spend $5,000 each, while a well-dressed club woman spends $1,500 a year. We have no means of verifying the figures; but figures of that character are constantly given out to the public, and the individual who does not have even $1,500 a year to spend for clothing and for all the rest of the necessities of life is naturally led to make comparisons. These statements may not be exactly accurate in regard to the number of persons who are making the extravagant expenditures. But there is nevertheless much wanton extravagance; and because of this extravagance, and because the people are told of it from time to time, often in a boasting way, by the wealthy, we have the Socialist, the I. W. W., and all of the rest of those who are stirring up discontentment and spreading revolutionary ideas among the people. They say that the economic situation is wrong when one person can have so much to spend and another has so little. Those who have the small amounts to spend are very greatly in the majority. It is stated on quite good authority that there are thirty-five million people in the United States who have an average yearly income of only $433 each. We have had vigorous agitation over these conditions for more than a quarter of a century. They are in every land on the face of the earth, and the agitation is everywhere, and it is becoming more and more pronounced. Many of the well-meaning and well-minded persons who are carrying on this agitation are strongly of the belief that they will correct these evils in the world, and that there will be a more even distribution of wealth among the people, and that consequently the suffering and misery that exist to so large an extent will be greatly reduced, if not altogether done away; but the Bible shows us, through its prophecies, that these conditions will become worse and worse, more and more pronounced, until rioting and violence will fill the world with distress and perplexity everywhere, and the situation will finally call for the personal second appearing of Christ as the only power that is able possibly to cope with the situation.