Show THE TARIFF MULE KICKS V the social economist the monthly magazine published in the interests of the league of american mill owners to tench teach the people that hint robbery is right has an article artcle I 1 in in the march number on the census distribution of wealth which is i 9 valuable v 11 luibl C to the thinker for its unconscious admissions it assumes a 3 as sound political economy that it is better that the wealth of this country should be in the hands of a few men and gives the following table of the distribution of wealth in 1800 g families 1 capitalists wage noylene total i of this is eon consumed yearly in living or each nine per cent of the population owns 7 70 40 per cent of tho the wealth ninety one per cent of the population owns 30 per cent of tile the wealth the millionaire families average each the capitalists each and the wage workers 1497 1407 each of which mist be consumed each year in order to live the 01 91 per cent are dependents of the 9 per cent their ac actual average wealth is per capita ilow how has it been dietr distributed over 1 per cent or were w ere distributed in 1800 there are many items that go to mate make up this amount arno take tak c one of them he the gugar sugar industry represented by forty nine firms the sugar trust taxed the people for its private benefit in that one year over 48 not one cent of this 48 went into the treasury every cent of this went into the pockets of the owners of the forty nine refineries in tile the ten years between 1880 these forty nine refineries taxed tile the people for their own private benefit this thia represented I 1 per cent of the total wealth of the country each person had contributed iia 9 of the 1993 ho he had bad to the I 1 private rockets pockets of the members of the sugar trust this 1 per cent of the wealth was transferred during these ten years to the forty nine line refineries maling making them so much richer and each one of tile the 0 COO people so much poorer in ili the lie fame time or one half of one per cent was paid by the people in private taxes to the private steel rail trust erich each man woman and child had contributed 5 ot of his sharo share of to benefit liene fit two hundred men another I 1 per cent was paid to the makers of pig iron steel blooms and manufacturers of iron another I 1 per percent cent was paid to the woollen orillen N mills of this country another I 1 per cant was paid to the cotton mills orthis of this country and so on oil until today as this report shows over 70 10 per lier cent of all the wealth that each inan had bad in asco has been ab f orbed by bv one million men representing per cent of the population it lias has been done by bv a retribution redistribution di trib ution of the wealth it has been done by robbery iery under forms of law air there has been no DO in cical c in wealth per capita and no tiler other way could it be done one the redistribution of wealth abi liis is taking P from one mans pocket to put ill in anol herB liers has been for twenty years the avowed object of protection the only reason why any man mail has voted for it or supported it or advocated it has bas been thu that lie hoped in the geri general eral ledis trib ution to get the plunder for himself it has been in an appeal to the same dishonest Fenti sentiment ment of the country to which the 1 mean gicca boods swindler appeals a bunco game of the protected mill owners no more intended to let lc l others into their soft snap than the green F goods men inen do the republican ref farmers of the land were caught by the kofl oner er of counterfeit protection and cast votes for it their votes were purchased as openly as if they had bad received 10 per lier lead head they bargained for them hem at stated market prices the protected mill owner said to them III 1 I will not almy you 10 for your vote vole but I 1 will put a tax of 10 cents a pound on wool that will wil I 1 enable you to steal lorents a pound on tho the wool you raise by compelling tile the people to go without or pay you that much more rillis this will put GO CO cents of stolen money in your pocket for each sheep you raise I 1 will put a duty of lorents 10 cents 0 on n co corn rn of 15 5 cents on wheat and r so 0 o on it is not bribery we art are redistributing r the wealth of ahr th count country rv W we e are taking it from sonic men inen and riving giving it to others it is the law there is no danger of your going to prison wo we have taken care of if that if you vote with us you get some of the plunder if you do not you are arc left ifft out in the cold tho the people hare been milked of their wealth in other ways but the main main work has been accomplished through tile the tariff by the authorization of private individuals to tax lax the people for their private bent benefit fit that is the direct and immediate cause cafeo of our having breadwinners bread winners unemployed of farmers hiring birin the lind land aliey formerly owned of 91 per cent now depending upon 9 0 per cent for their daily bread of the hard times and poverty that pinches inches families and does not pinch or hurt families the writer in the so social cial decono inist sums up the present situation in these words IN no 0 person who analyzes the cecial functions performed by all productive wealth to their ultimate can conclude that any immediate interest of humanity would now be served by an increased equalization in its ownership lie writes for the 9 0 per cent who have robbed the 91 per cent but the 91 percent per cent aie bardl hardly likely to agree with him T E W |