Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-02-23
Inequalities OF Taxation.

clearly in the results shown by the census OF
$780, A recently made statement of some
of the facts disclosed by the census shows:
In 1890, of $50, 900, 100000 of wealth in
the United States, 10000 leading capitalists
possessed $3s,25o, 900, 900. leaving s2s, 275, =
100000 for the remaining 64,0O0,0O0 inhab-
itants.
1t will be seen from these figures that al
though the farmers, artisans and other toll
ers produced the increase of $4,000, 900, a
few capitalists absorbed the most of it.
The wealth Of the Vanderbilt family is
estimated to be $500, 1000. Their annual
income at z per cent is ss1, 100000
The average annual income of the formers
is $500. To pay the interest of the Wander
bilts requires all that 10000 farmers can
produce. If this thing is to go on for a few
years, a few thousand plutocrats will practic
ally own this whole country.
Think of it! Two-thirds of the wealth o,
the money-changers is not assessed one far
thing for the purpose Of taxation, while the
farmer who has mortgage on his farm pays
taxes on the mortgages he owes as we'll as OIL
his equity in land. The farmers own lese
than 81 per cent of the wealth, but pay 81
per cent Of the taxes.
The government has the power to force
every taxpayer in the land to offer his life il
defense Of this untaxed wealth.
A dollar will pay no more on your tax o,
debt than it would in 1865. bushel o.
grain will pay only one-fourth as much Or
your tax or debt,
Commissioner Porter tells us in hi,
eleventh census that the little state of Mas
Sachusetts from 1880 to 1890 increased its as.
sessed wealth s5ee, ,377, 1874, which was SO
600, 600 more than the SIX great states OF
Indiana. Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, North ant
South Carolina, And yet these six states art
more than ffty-eight times as large as Massa
chusetts and have seven times as many peo,
pie and twice the assessed value.
If we add Florida, Kentucky and Kansa.
to the list making nine, the state of Pennsyl
vania gained more than the nine. live ado
the two Virginias and Tennessee, making
twelve, New York increased in wealth more
than the twelve. The west and south pro,
duce most Of the wealth; New York, Pennsyl,
vania and Massachusetts get it.
The census reports of 1890 show that there
are on record in the United States niue
million mortgages, which average $3.50 each
making total Of about $4,000, 600, 600.
The census reports also show that the av
erage value of each farm in the United Statel
has deprecated $l,620; the average per acre
Of depreciation since 1864 has been s2s.
That in 1910 the farmers owned 30 per cen
Of the wealth of the country and that they
owned less than 21 per cent in 1890. Tota
nunaber of farms in the United States, 4, ,245,
955 !; of these 1,024,9O are renters.
Of these renters 702, ,224 are compelled tc
divide equally their crops with their land
lord, while the greatest share asked of thu
British farmers is one-fourth.
Over one million American renters. Will.
thu homes of our people, the heritige of GU,
children, are owned and controlled by for
eigners. Think of it! Foreigners own "a,
00Q O00 acres of our land enough for farm
of 100 acres for 500, 900 of our renters. Two
hundred and eighty-on million acres of oul
land owned by railroad corporations and syn
dicates enough to make nine states tht
size Of Ohio.
Who own the railroads? The money power
composed principally of English lords and
dukes. And yet we have over a million
American farmers without farms.
In Now York, with 1900, 900 inhabitants,
only 13 900 own their homes. In Chicago
with population of 1900, 900. less than q
per cent own all the real estate. From 1886
to 1890 the. producers increased the wealth
Of the country so per nt-they increased il
from 81, 900, 100000 to 5000. .O0o, ,0oo
Who got the increassS-Ex2
NOTICE
,lslherehy given that open bids will be re.
ceived for moving the Fielden school
house, in accordance with the vote re-
Gently taken according to law, TO point
onsthe northwest quarter of secllan u,
on the west line thereof, and about forty
tioh IL, in township 18, Tange7a on The
hours OF and o clock >. %. Said bidi
t9hs received q the county building, In
W3liianip0ft. -
by order 81 the School Board.
b. O. CAMPBELL, Clerk.