They say you are doing so by making the rich richer, expecting that wealth will eventually trickle down to the poor masses.

That will be the explanation - it always works on the poor, bewildered mass of fools outside.

But the Bell System's big problem in 1887 wasn't the poor and struggling masses.

Father Aristide, who is 38 years old, still enjoys wide backing from the nation's poor masses.

The grinding, relentless, tedious labor of a woman born into Egypt's poor masses.

She said he had added, "In politics, it lies at the feet of the poor masses."

Gulfs between a wealthy minority and poor masses are, of course, nothing exceptional in the developing world.

Not damage property or crops of the poor oppressed masses.

The danger, though, is that a black elite will still leave the mass of the population underemployed, poor - and increasingly resentful.

They robbed the gold and lit fire to the ledgers that had the loan records of the poor mass.