The impending crisis : $b conditions resulting from the concentration of wealth in the United StatesBouroff, Basil A.
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The impending crisis : $b conditions resulting from the concentration of wealth in the United States
Bouroff, Basil A.
Trusts, Industrial; United States -- Economic conditions; Wealth
Concentration: of wealth in higher spheres, 153;
of employees, 155, 156;
1st table of concentrated wealth, 150;
2d and final table of, 169;
explanation of this concentration, 170;
concentration of wealth increases, 180, 181;
concentration of wealth greater than the total increase of it, 170,
171.
Consumers’ opinion on remuneration of capital and laborers, 97, 98;
do not know the bases of justice and rights, 98, 99.
Debt: on farms, 111, 112;
on homes, 113;
increase of, 1880-89, 119-122;
increase of public debt, 167;
total debt on acres and lots in 1890, 121, 124-5;
percentages of families in debt in cities, 114, 115;
debt of the U. S., states, counties, school districts, etc., foot
note, 126;
of New York, foot note, 134;
amounts of, on real estate, 121;
per capita, 122;
extinguished debt, 12.68%, 122;
interest charge against debt, 124;
combined interest charge against families’ debt, 125, 126.
Distribution of wealth: 1st table, 28;
1st R. table, 29;
2d table, 32;
2d R. table, 36;
2d Right table, 45;
1st and 2d tables, 47. Table I, 6;
diagrams for conclusions of Mr. Holmes, 5;
diagrams for conclusions of Mr. Shearman, 12;
Table II;
conclusions of Mr. Shearman, 12;
diagrams for conclusions of Dr. Spahr, 20;
double table III for these diagrams, 21;
conclusions of Dr. Spahr, 18;
conclusions of Geo. K. Holmes, 5, 6.
Dividogenesure: definition and origin of, 70;
divides people into classes, 71;
its tacit power of enslaving the people or expelling into the sphere
of charities, 72;
it enforces idleness, 73;
is the main cause of misery, 74;
is sister of primogeniture, 74;
is a pernicious principle, 74;
its favorites without moral responsibility, 75;
is a system of slavery distinct from any other slavery, 75, 76;
the propertyless are special victims of it, 92, 103-4;
is a foundation of iniquity, 87, 88;
implies degrees of hardship against its dependents, 117, 74;
its hardship according to the rates of gain from each employed
individual, 103-4;
its rates are not wages, but pure losses, 106;
differs from primogeniture, 131;
future of the nation under dividogenesure, 106-7, 181.
Energy: human energy embodied in objects, 98;
crystallized in articles, 99;
human energy concentrates into the hands of speculators, 99, 100.
Extortion: from the public by excess of selling prices over cost of
production, 158, 159;
by mining monopolies, 161;
by stock-watering, 173, 174.
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