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Show HOLtAND'S MILLIONAIRES It is harder to be a milllonairo in England than In tho United States? for there you aro rated at "pounds" so that to bo worth 1.000,000 pounds Is really to be worth $5,000,000 And in Holland ono can have $102,000 florins flor-ins in fact, be a millionaire. In this way a farmer with a large potato crop might enter the ranks of millionaires mill-ionaires by 'simply possessing 1,000.-000 1,000.-000 tubers The standard of value tho value of determining the unit has a great deal to do with It It the penny wore the determining unit one would still bo rich as n milllonairo with only $10,000 Holland, which heretofore has been relied on to lend large sums of money all over tho world, but which recently recent-ly has found employment for her capital cap-ital at homo and In her own colonics, has only 5CS millionaires, and of theso about 13G could qualifv ns millionaire under the American dollnr standard. There are only J7 persons whose in-como in-como approaches $10,000 a year, and 1.35S who receive between $4,000 and j $S,000 annually. And yet, in propor- : tlon, Holland Is ono of the wealthiest ' countries in the world A wealthv I country without great fortunes! And of tho so-called millionaires there is only ono who has retired from business. busi-ness. This is an ideal condition of 'distribution. 'distri-bution. Industry and thrift eecms to havo Inured to the general spread of prosperity, and tho national humaneness humane-ness of sontlmont soema to have been an effectual barrlpr against the species spe-cies of speculative greed which makes tho fow rich beyond all safety and the many poor bpyond comfort Pov-, er't't' Is almost a thing unknown In tlhiK little country where the peaco tribunal) sits. The corporation exists there, but Jts shares aro as a rule so generally distributed as to give It tho uspct of a giant co-operative concern, and the day of the small establishment es-tablishment shows no signs of passing. pass-ing. It is a significant fact that much of the money that goes to make up the great loans Holland Is ablo to give the rest of the world is tho savings sav-ings of tho masses. Tho explanation of this, of course, Is not to bo found In the financial systems, sys-tems, as such, but in tho temperament tempera-ment of tho people. They are placidly content and Industrious Work with tho hands still holds Its ancient nnd honorable place The people aro untouched un-touched with the oraze for sudden riches, and their inborn honesty makes it simply impossible for many kinds of parasitic exploitation to find support among them, Thoy live In the traditions of a great past and In sufficient comforts of an unhastlng present, and thoy aro probably getting get-ting as much or moro out of llfo than their feverish neighbor nntlons who heap up Gold and pllo up effort for tho excitement of tho game. Detroit De-troit News. nn |