This being so, and disregarding the crooked ways of making profits, let us then make up the complete summary of the preceding losses by the United States people during the period from 1891 to 1897 inclusive, as follows: 2d Table of the Concentration of Wealth. ----------------------------------+-------------------- Monopolies and Combinations. | Total Net Incomes. ----------------------------------+-------------------- The natural monopolies[155] | $ 4,255,826,950 Mortgagee monopolies[156] | 3,775,470,286 Owners of rentable houses[157] | 5,503,857,212 Monopolies of rentable lands[158] | 4,585,276,226 Owners of rentable offices, etc., | in cities | 3,033,425,468 Manufacture and mechanical trades | 7,812,000,000 Mining monopolies | 560,000,000 ----------------------------+-------------------- Grand total | $29,526,156,142 National and local taxes paid by | them[159] | 3,455,963,952 +-------------------- THE TOTAL CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH | $26,070,192,190 | The total increase of national | wealth | 21,787,908,803 ----------------------------------+-------------------- Excess of net incomes over and | above the total increase of the | national wealth | $ 4,282,283,387 ----------------------------------+-------------------- The above table of the net incomes shows the conclusions that must deeply astonish the thinking people. It shows that a “terrible change has occurred in the conditions of life in America within fifteen or twenty years.” But this concentration of wealth has taken place within seven years, when the national expenditures for wars and the incomes of monopolies and trusts started to increase. The latter obtained $26,070,192,190. Think of this total concentration of the wealth in seven years! It is twenty-six thousand seventy millions of dollars’ worth of wealth. [SN: TOTAL LOSS OF WEALTH.] While the total increase of the national wealth, during the same time, only amounted to $21,787,908,803, which was entirely concentrated in the hands of monopolies and combinations, together with the additional concentration of yet another amount of $4,282,283,387. This astonishing fact indicates that the _net income of about one million families in the United States has been greater by $4,282,283,387 than the total increase of the wealth collectively produced by the nation_ during the period under consideration.