The Arizona sentinel., 1896-07-18
NUMBER 35:'
MiiiiOEaires.

Few persons realize the meaning os million dollars. Did you ever gee q | person who had earned on an average $50 per day-300 days in the year for (66S) sixty-six and two-third yearsf Ii not you never saw person who had earned 2 million dollars. The Us; $. census statistics show that one-tbird of the people have an occupation; the other two-thirds, composed largely of women and children, are considered as having no occupation: '1
 Edward Atkinson and other sta-- tisticianS estimate that the produc- ton of wealth amounts $2O0 per capita, or $600 for each person who has an occupation. As statistics show that about three-tourths of these are en- gagged ir productive labor, the average amount of wealth created by each person engaged in avocations which, add 10 the wealth of the country is $500. One man who accumulates q million dollars in one year. absorbs One-half of the wealth produced by 25OO laborers. The special New York correspondent of the Globe Denaocraf estimated that William Waldorf Astor was worth $fa0,Q00.COO, and that his income was S9,l35, ,0OO.8 The New York World estimates his yearly in- come st $S, ,900, ,000-.aking nine mil-s lions as an average lie absorbs oue= half the earnings of 22,500 persons: The World published q list of 119 mill lionaires in New York whose incomes aggregate $97, 7,744,250. If these fig4 ures are correct, 119 of these persons accumulate each year one'half of the average earnings of 244, ,360 wealth prol ducers. If to this we add the incomes of 120O other milliQnaires who resides in New York and Brooklyn and 27O0 who live in otker parts Of the country, wo will see at once that they have ba- come greater menace to the country than several million tramps. The correspondent of the Globe estimates i that there are nine men whose in& comes aggregate I23 for each time tho clock ticks day and night and Sundays too. Isit any wonder chat millions of people are impoverished? These nine men are estimated to be- worth $720,O00,00G. If this enormous sum was in silver dollars 1t would re- quire 1O3 trains of twenty cars each; allowing ten tons to the car to transI port it. If 1t was put in sacks of fifty ' pounds each, the same weight of sack of flour, 1t would require eight and two-thirds million men to carry it, and if they were placed three feet apart the line would reach from New
 York to San Francisco and back again nearly to Chicago. If it was ia q solid mass of gold it would make s pillar ten feet square and over 123 feet high. II this monument was lo+ cated at ulian and four-horse team hauled two tons at load and made two trips week it would take over six years and four mounths 10 haul 1t to San Diego. If it was in one dollar
 bills or greenbacks and they were
 placed touching they would cover 269 farms of 100 acres each. If the bills were placed end to end they would reach around the earth at the equator nearly three and one-hali
 times. Of what advantage to laborers is it that the accumulated wealth is $1000 per capita when few non- producers own one fourth of 1t? Why Should working-men vote for the old
 parties which for over forty years have been building up financial
 system. which gives to a Vanderbilt the possession of wealth beyond the ? dreams of ayarice, and condemns the poor to 6 poverty which has no refuge ornl starvation but the prison or the / grave"-a system which grinds the 1 ives of women and children into shin'
 ing coin for the plutocracy.
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