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
Tenants of farms and homes, 32;
the correct number of, table, 36.
See: Propertyless.
Trusts: definitions of, Appendix II;
development of, 154-156;
incomes of some trusts omitted, 151-2;
trusts more active, 180;
the view of Henry Brown, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court on trusts, 162.
Wages: economic doctrine of the rate of, 141;
wages would be twice as low, 141;
artificially kept up, 142;
reports on the fall of wages, 142-3.
Waite, F. C., special agent of the 11th census in charge of True
Wealth: ascertained the earnings of the natural monopolies for
1890, 99, 101.
Wealth: table of, 27;
accumulation of, 27;
True wealth, 99, 101;
land is the source of wealth, 54, 55;
average wealth per family, $5,125, table, 29, 47;
per capita, lower table, 27, 38, table, 51;
aggregates of wealth owned by different classes, 1st table, 29, 45;
wealth owned by individuals, table, 51;
chart, 50;
concentration of wealth, tables, 150, 169 (for 1897);
increase of wealth (for 1900), 181;
increase of in 7 years, 139, 140;
increased phenomenally, 140;
who profits by the increase of, 144-5;
concentration of in industries, 154;
largest fortunes of, increase most rapidly, Dr. Henderson, 172;
wealth reduced with the increased number of families, 171.
See: in the tax table, 178.
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FOOTNOTES:
Footnote 1:
Quoted from “The Public,” Number 69, July 29, 1899.
Footnote 2:
Louis Post, ibid.
Footnote 3:
His name cannot be here given.
Footnote 4:
This work will show the real causes of it and the rapid tendency
toward it.
Footnote 5:
Encyclopedia of Social Reform, p. 1435. Ed. by Rev. Wm. Bliss and
published in 1897 by Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York and London.
Footnote 6:
This 5 per cent includes personal, unproductive property of all sorts.
Footnote 7:
Mind that these statements are of one authority only, viz.: Mr. G. K.
Holmes.
Footnote 8:
House-scarb means: all domestic or household property that may be
carried on from one rentable house to another.
Footnote 9:
Dr. C. B. Spahr, Pres. Distribution of Wealth in the U. S. (1896), p.
69; published by Thos. Y. Crowell & Company, Boston.
Footnote 10:
Encyclopedia of Social Reform, p. 1388.
Footnote 11:
Ibidem, p. 1388.
Footnote 12:
This table gives you the exact equivalent of diagrams found on p. 12.
Footnote 13:
So far, we give honor to Mr. Holmes in advance.
Footnote 14:
One of the best authorities in statistics.
Footnote 15:
Reported in Binghamton Independent of Aug. 12, 1899.
Footnote 16:
“The Public,” Chicago, No. 74, Sept., 1899.
Footnote 17:
The diagrams and statistical tables supply the life contents for these
premises.
Footnote 18:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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