THE PASSING OF THE IDLE RICH
THE PASSING
OF THE IDLE RICH
BY
FREDERICK TOWNSEND MARTIN
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1911
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Kingdom of Society | 3 |
| II. | The Madness of Extravagance | 23 |
| III. | The Subjugation of America | 61 |
| IV. | Who Are the Slaves? | 89 |
| V. | The Awakening of Society | 109 |
| VI. | For Thirty Pieces of Silver | 133 |
| VII. | The Tribune of the People | 153 |
| VIII. | Fighting for Life | 169 |
| IX. | The Social Nemesis | 197 |
| X. | The Death-knell of Idleness | 219 |
| XI. | The End of the Story | 243 |
“The habits of our whole species fall into threegreat classes—useful labour, useless labour, and idleness.Of these, the first only is meritorious, and toit all the products of labour rightfully belong; but thetwo latter, while they exist, are heavy pensionersupon the first, robbing it of a large portion of itsjust rights. The only remedy for this is to, so faras possible, drive useless labour and idleness out ofexistence....”
—Abraham Lincoln.