text:  There is a certain class of writers some of whom ought to know better who have lately taken up the cudgels upon the pseudo-philanthropic side of the question and have expended a vast deal of uncalled-for indignation and maudlin sympathy upon the rich and poor of this country--the former of whom they would make out to be the most selfish and hard-hearted of created beings and the latter the most amiable and ill-treated