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
It is evident that their fate condemns them to labor, as slaves, on
permission, and to satisfy first the demands of dividogenesure and
afterward take [SN: THE CLAIMS OF DIVIDOGENESURE REGARDED FIRST.] for
themselves what may be allowed from the results of their toil on the
rentable farms, while the millions of families which hire homes in the
448 cities and towns are still harder slaves of dividogenesure than the
families that hire their farms. They are harder slaves because they are
more liable to be freed even from the oppression of dividogenesure, and
liable to remain months and months in the sphere of starvation without
employment.
Can there be a greater iniquity in the world than the iniquity that
proceeds from the abnormal system of dividogenesure?
No! No nation in human history has seen an iniquity that can be compared
with the results of dividogenesure as they are at present, for it now
deprives men of their [SN: DIVIDOGENESURE IS A FOUNTAIN OF GREAT EVILS.]
fruits of toil to the utmost degree; it deprives them of their energy,
of their rights, and of their property; it deceives them by the medium
of exchange of commodities and products; it makes them economic slaves
of the very few masters or throws them out of the region of the slavery
into the region of resourceless starvation and degeneration; it
concentrates masses of the people’s wealth into a few hands, leaving
millions of families without income in despair and casts them out of the
rentable homes; it drags them into the courts, throws them into prisons,
drives them into penitentiaries, fits them for and chases them into the
lunatic and insane asylums. And not only this, but nearly all causes of
murders, of parricides, of infanticides, etc., and of the suicides
perpetrated by the people, can indirectly be traced to the abnormal
system of dividogenesure, which most fundamentally conditions almost all
national, social and private crimes, because sound life always depends
upon sound economic basis of a nation.
The system of dividogenesure, however, is pernicious not only to the
tens of millions of the propertyless people alone, but it has [SN: IT
COMPRISES THE PROPERTIED EMPLOYEES.] enslaved millions of families that
have homes and have other little properties not bearing direct incomes
for subsistence. These families therefore are also compelled to be in
gainful pursuits under the same conditions with the landless and
homeless. And Mr. Carroll D. Wright, onesided and severely criticised,
wrote about some of them as the American bread-winners, as follows:
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