Excerpt from Our Prospects: A Tale of Real Life
Why is it that in this world of plenty there should bo so much want, suffering, and misery? Why is it that with all the wisdom with which God has endowed men, there should be so much cruelty, so much viciousness and wholesale murder and devastation?
This shows, evidently, that society is not well organized, that the education of the people is very defective, and the example set before the masses, by those whom circumstances have placed at the head of affairs, is deplorably demoralizing.
Seeing this, and feeling for my follow-men, I have, notwithstanding that I am a merchant and actively engaged in business throughout the day, devoted my leisure hours, to point out with my pen, the mistakes of life, and the errors of society, in sketches which I have contributed to several prominent newspapers, under the nom de plume "Milotiz," as "The Miser"s Fate;" "My Old Umbrella;" "Tho Plain Truth," etc., which were, as I am informed, highly appreciated. Being published only in newspapers, which are generally destroyed, or filed away, my "Tales" with their defects and merits, were lost to the reading public at large, which has induced me to issue, in book form, my latest production.
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