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Show now Is the remaining five-sixths oT the national wealth distributed? asks Harper's Weekly. Wnldron calculates in bis Handbook of Currency and Wealth thut in tho United States more than 4,000,000 families, comprising nearly n third ot tho nation, must get along on annual incomes of less than $400 per family; moro than one-half of all tho families In the United States get less than $000; two-thirds of the families gut less tbnii $900, while ono in 20 of the nation's families is able to obtain nil income of over 3000 a year. Mr. Moffett uites tho conclusions conclu-sions of experts in tlniiiiclnl statistics to the effect that whntevur may befall Individual multl-mllllonnlrej, or Individual Indi-vidual sous or grandsons of multimillionaires, multi-millionaires, the rich are destined to grow so much richer that In 30 or 40 yenrs under existing conditions the fiOOO richest Americans, instead of having hav-ing fifteen billions between them, ns thoy havo to-day, may have fifty or a hundred billions. Some well Informed persons go so far as to insert that John D, Rockefeller alone, should he live to 1020, when he would still bo a younger man that Russell Sago is to day, would himself be-nblo to'dlspoe of eight billions of dollars. Tho mind reels when it essay! to reckon what might bo accomplished with so vast a capital were it left to a mu or grandson grand-son of great strength of iutellect and character. |