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Show I MR. ANGELLS PLAN. Our humane friend, George T. Angell, does not mean to be funny in his earnest search for something some-thing to correct the financial evils of the countrj-. He disclaims all egotism and basks in that humility humil-ity of soul which might say: "Xow I don't know whether I know or know I don't know." He does not pretend to understand much more about finance, he says, than the cobbler whom the old Dutch governor gov-ernor of Xcw York, Peter Stuyvcsant, found haranguing a crowd, in a public street, and told that if he ever caught him again prating of things he knew nothing about he would tan his hide for drumheads, that ho might thereafter make noise to some purpose. For all of that, Mr. Angell has an original plan for putting a stop to the "national danger ol placing plac-ing nearly all the financial power of tho nation m few hands," and he puts it i" toth short and sweet. It is to "limit the amount of property which anv . one person shall be permuted to hold and compel all over that sum to be given to charities chari-ties or paid into the public treasury for public improvements.". im-provements.". If such plan be declared unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, "then change the constitution." - -Suppose, Mr; AngHl. ire. fitpplv the single tBxl-plan' titnelincome tax proposition. Both of these plan? havo encountered the fierce hostility of that "financial power concentrated in the hands of the tew"' already mentioned. All the more reason why they should bo given a fair test, so as to discover dis-cover through operation whether they make for the good or the injury of the mas-es. Even should both fail, the people are no worse off than before. |