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Show THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. The census figures of the wealth of this country In 1930 are not yet compiled, com-piled, but the Hon t'irroll D. Wright, ln an article ln the Independent, estimates esti-mates the total at nlnetv-four billion dollars. 7hl3 Is an Increase of thirty billion dollars, nearly, over 1SD0, when the figures wcro Si 0J7.011.1D7. An enormous Increase, both relative and nbsolutc. For the purpose of working out his problems Jlr. Wrltsht takes the ear 1?)0 for his comparisons of the efficiency of the people. In 1S0O there were !7S savings banks, with M3 S70 depositors, the deposits aggregated 1 1 10.277.504. an average of $215 13 for each depositor, or applying the total population as a devisor, the average per capita was 1 1.75. But there are now 1007 savings banks, with CSiS,?!3 depositors, their total deposits reaching .' M7,0D1,SS0, the average due each being J10S 30, or a per capita for the whole people of $33 15, against $1 75 In IS'iO About half of these deposit are by wage earners, and small holders own nearly all of the (s$l.Sti6,170 assets In the bulletins and loan associations'!!? the country. The census of 1000 shiws ISOOOOOfl persona worklrg for wngeo, thl excludes ex-cludes salar receivers, professional men, proprietor, business men of nil kind. It Is assumed that the average wages paid these Is UW per )ear, making mak-ing an aggregate of $7,209,000,000 paid to hls class alone. Mr. Wright examines next the prnpo. tlllon that tho roch nre growing richer and tho pror poorer, that tho property of the country is being concentrated In the hands of tho few at the expense of the many. He speaks of thoso 'who gather their statistics from their minds," nlleglng that seven-eighths of the families of the country hold but one. eighth of the wealth, whllo 1 per cent of ths families hold the remaining seven-eighths. Hut there are no fact on which to base any su-h conclusions On the contrnr) the general wealth Increases In-creases enormously faster than the holdlrgn of millionaires. "So far as In-vcsttgatlon In-vcsttgatlon shows," a) Mr. Wright, "the property of the largest owners forty years ago constituted a greater percentage of the total property than the property of the largest owners constitutes con-stitutes of the total property at tho present time that Is, there Is an In-created In-created distribution of property among the smaller holders" This Is proved absolutely by the figures first quoted The distribution of wealth affects all classes, not one alone. Then the wealth of very rich m-n Is very commonly over-estimated, It Is a usual thing to find that there pi not more than half the value In nn estate that It was supposed sup-posed to have, nnd It Is generally divided among man); m that the large accumulation la so separated as prartliall) to disappear. Again, the millionaires ais using their money more wisely, during ths put year more than a hundred million dollars have been given for educational and religious purposes, pur-poses, and the whole body of the people are .,eneft.d by such distributions The write- onrlule wl'h this sentiment, senti-ment, which Is undoubtedly true. Any community la better off not onl) ethically, ethi-cally, but econnmlcnll), where theie aie some wealthy men rather than where alt are poor The accumulation of walth will g on, Its distribution affects af-fects all classes, and wh.le the m nil tone of the community does not decay, all must participate In the general distribution dis-tribution " |