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Show GEOWTH OF BIG FORTUNES. Great Change in the Money-Making Situation of Country. Relatively to tho total wealth of the country, the groat fortunes aro not as big today as they were 100 years ago. in'JS!?!1"- Bingham of Philadelphia left $3,000,000 to his children at the opening of the last century, this was relatively a bigger pile of money than the Rockefellers Rocke-fellers now possess. The same was true of the $0,000,000 left by Stophen Glrard. twenty-five years later. And tho statistics statis-tics collected In the State of Massachusetts Massachu-setts show that the nggregato of tho bulk pr small fortunes grows faster than the total of big fortunes-. Wealth distributes itself more thoroughly nnd evenly In this country than In any other of the world, i do not say that we havo reached an , ,Soncl,llon m this respect. I heartily heart-ily believe that the time has come to lav greater restrictions on the wavs in which wealth Is acquired, and to make it contribute con-tribute more largely to the expenses of government by Income taxes and Inheritance Inher-itance taxes. But oven In advance of tnese we have reason to count ourselves happy In the character nf our Industrial development, says National Finance. Take one side of this alone. Tho bulk or the American people are engaged in rarmlng of some sort, or the raising of cattle or sheep. Last year the value, of kinds of product was about Jo.OOO.OOO.OOO. Who got this trifle of money? Part, indeed, of both products was consumed on the farm or the ranch. fut .nA Iet lm,f was aohl (or whoso benefit? Was the laborer on tho farm ai- ,the. starvation level and robbed of hlH fair share of the product? All over the est the complaint arose that workers work-ers were not to be had at any price. It was so bocausc those whom the farmer -wanted tb employ wero getting good wages at other work nnd did not choose to maKo a change. That both the farm-era farm-era and the workers are sharing in tho prosperity of the country in shown by tho Increase of deposits in the savings batiks and similar institutions. |