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Show TOO MANY MILLIONAIRES. The number of abnormally ru'h men being created in this country is a matter of grave concern. The accumulation of such great fortunes in a short space of time would indicate the employment of dishonest methods. Certainly the practices resorted to by these men in their scramble for gold are not in accordance with the nreeepts of the golden rule. Wholesale dishonesty in buspiejs brings reproach upon the fair name of America, and susplies the ground work for future discontent and possible pos-sible revolution. It means disaster in years to come. Xo country can survive in these days when the majority of the wealth of the country is in the hands of a few. Revolution becomes the cov.rt of last, resort. This great country itself is the outgrowth of rebellion re-bellion H'i'is; repression. Two million dollars is enough for any man to own. If he can not live on that amount there is something radically wror,T with him. Congress would do well to place a limit upon the si;.e of the fortune and the income of every resident of the United States, whether that resident be citizen or alien. The spl""di,'. work of our forefathers forefa-thers should not he jeopardised to the pree 1 of the fmaeiai octopus. |