Warner begins by rewriting the Declaration of Independence to say that all men are created unequal, and argues that equal rights come bound up with duties to society. From there he examines the unrest of the Gilded Age: workmen and employers, wages that cannot support a family, and the moral obligations each side owes the other.
A short, provocative essay by Mark Twain’s collaborator on The Gilded Age, still relevant to debates about work and fairness. Download the free EPUB.