Gilded Age Poverty Analysis

When we hear the phase Gilded Age, we tend to think of a period of rapid economic growth. This economic growth took place especially in the North and West, which lead to huge corruption throughout the country in various aspects. From managing industrial growth, to the lack of leadership in a political level; From overwhelming wealth of a select few, to tremendous poverty. The Gilded Age had everyone on their toes. combined with many tensions mixed with opinions on how to move the nation forward. In the following four articles,(….) Through the writings of Andrew Carneige, and Jay Gould, some of the wealthiest men of the era, both believed that the government should not be involved when it came to certain business choices. It is evident to see throughout these documents that if you were higher up in society, it changed the way you viewed and appreciated things.(…)
Jay Gould a upper class member know for his key part in the railroad business and also a stock speculator made his beliefs evident in his interview with Senator Henry W. Blair. This interview was conducted after the U.S. Senate initiated a
In a speech given in 1885, titled “An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty” George expressed his views on poverty. He believed the people that suffer from poverty are not poor from their particular faults but because of the conditions imposed by a whole society, which everyone, poor and rich, were responsible for. He states that there is a cause for all of the poverty, and this cause would be traced down to the primary injustice. George mostly blamed poverty though on land monopolization. It was an absurd thought to him that people were able to sell land that they did not create. This whole speech was created to try and change how society was working, and to allow equal income for everyone, to give the less fortunate a chance at a better better