The Passing of the Idle Rich
Mr. Frederick Townsend Martin, a wealthy society man, who speaks of himself as belonging to the wealthy aristocratic class of America, is telling some awful facts in Everybody's on “The Passing of the Idle Rich.” He feels that the American plutocracy has been built on fraud, that the workers of the nation have not their rights, and that the attitude of this class has been breeding revolution. In Everybody's for March he says: It can not be for long. We in America are moving fast toward social revolution. Conflicts between labor and capital are assuming the proportions of civil war. The once powerful middle class, which is the safety of every nation, is to-day weak, and is every day declining. Soon, politically, it will be but a memory, and the battle-field will be cleared for conflict. Some of the wealthy are awakening as to what may break, aye, and will break soon upon the world.