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Show Editor Years Ago Took Fling at Vast Wealth The concentration of wealth In the United States was looked upon fear somely as far back as 1800. That yeai the Washington (N. J.) Star made this editorial comment, according to Cap per's Weekly: "Alexander T. Slewart, the mer chant prince, dears' $1,000 a day. Sun day excepted, the year round. Cor nelius Vanderbilt pleads guilty to twice that sunn. William B. Astor rates his Income at .$4,"30 per diem; sleeping or waking, he findo a $3 bill dropping inte his hat every minute of the 24 hours. At every turn cash stares at him in the hiost insidious manner. Banks fling their dividends at his head; ruth less financiers beat him with coupons; unpitying and soulless corporations dump their lucre at his doorstep, and contemptuous hill-stickers plaster his door with greenbacks. One might wonder what he had done to merit such treatment. The only charge that can be brought is that he is a rich man's son and therefore must suffer." |