The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-08
AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES.
Amounts to More Than all the
Money in Circulation.

Money in Circulation.
Here are eight men whose aggregate
possessions show a wonderful pros
perity of the people, especially of
these eight people: John D. Rockefel-
Ter, S135, Zoo, 900; w W. Aster, s120, O0O,-
600: Cornelius Vanderbilt, $4,000, 900;
Jay Gould, $4,000, 900 Henry NJ Flag
Ter, 100000, 900. Charles Pratt, s55 ,0OO,-
900; William T. Vanderbilt. $50 O0O,-
900; John Flagler. s4o,OOO,OOO; total,
$625, 000, 900
Then comes Fred w. Vanderbilt,
George Vanderbilt, William Astor, and
Louis C. Tiffany. each worth s35, OOO,-
1000. or worth an aggregate wealth of
| $40 900, 600
These are. followed by c. P. Hunt
lington, Leland Stanford. Andrew Car
negie. Mrs. Elliotte F. Shepherd, Mrs
w. H. Vanderbilt, Henry Hilton, H
Victor Newcomb, S. w White, Levi
P. Morton, Augustus Belmont. J. Hood
whom is worth $50, 900, 900. and when
taken together, these twelve persons
are worth s36O,OOO0OO.
Then follows the list of those worth
$25, 100000 each, whose names are as
| follows: Eugene Kelly, William
Rhinelandre, John W. Mackay. Rus
sell Sage, Theodore Havemeyer, Will
liam Rockefeller, Oliver H. Payne,
Robert Goelot, Ogden Goelot, Austin
| Corbin, A. Stewart Webb, w. D.
Sloane, Pierre Lorillard, Robert CHEESE
brough, Calvin S. Brice, G. P. Morri-
SIM and Henry Willard, in all sevan-
| teen. whose combined wealth is $685.
900 900
These are followed by a list of nine
teen names who are worth 10000, 900
each as follows: H. o. Havemeyer,
Robert Bonner, H. o. Armour Pier
mont Morgan, Louis Lorillard, Mrs
H. Mex. Twombley, William c.
Whitney, Louis Morgan, Mrs. Bradley
Martin, John Jacob Aston, jr, w ].
Askell, the Misses Furness, John H
Starin, Darius c Mills. Charles L.
Tiffany, Arson Phelps Stokes, Henry
G. Marguand, John D. Sleyback, and
Henry Harlan aggregated wealth of
these nineteen persons of $780, 600, 000
Here are sixty persons whose wealth
combined amounts to the beautiful
sum of $3.50, 100000. This shows a
very prosperous condition of the last
l6S 100000 people of our country. The
entire circulation for the United
States is only 81, 400 900, 900, while sixty
citizens of this country have posses
sions aggregating nearly a half mil
lion dollars more than the whole
amount of money in circulation fol
the use of the entire people. Is it any
wonder these great barons can contro
the money markets of the country
and in controlling the money market
they dictate the price of all Other
commodities?
In addition to the sixty foregoin;
named persons. there is given a list O
| twenty-five persons who are eacl
worth 100000 900, and twenty-seven VIII
{ are worth $5,000,000, and fifty-sevei
who are each worth So 600, 600 In al
there are 166 persons whose combine,
wealth amounts to 81, 400, 000, 900. Thi
lis certainly very strong evidence O
) the prosperity of our country, espe
cially of the list published in the Jour
nal
The amassing of such fortunes int
the hands of a few people puts int
their hands a power alike dangerou
r to the liberty and prosperity of tn
: unite their wealth for any purpose
I they are enabled to carry out that pun
Dose and since human nature lead
most persons to do that which is tn
greatest advantage TO self, these fe-
} may not only use the power of thei
wealth to crafty their whims an
pleasure, but they will and do use tina
: wealth to enhance their power, and, g
wealth is mower and has always bee
an oppressive power, when massed
any great sums. the oppression of tn
masses is not difficult TO account 70
$ with such astonishing accumulation
q lin the hands of the few.-New Yor
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