West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-10-22

>heir nominal value Tor any amour
not exceeding nve dollars in any on
payment"
No law was aver passed by Con
| gress OF which this language can b
considered arevision.
Tue Revised Statutes were enact
ell in bulk. They we're intended /,
be revision merely OF the existing
laws, without change or introduc
tion OF new m alter, aud Congress
was assured by its committee on Re
vision that no new IN after had been
introduced into them. IL was not
possible for the members of the com
mittee TO have personally verified
the exact accuracy OF the revision.
They must necessarily have relied
upon assurance given them by the
persons actually engaged In the
work. Whoever may be responsible
for this error ia che Revised Statute.
the ancient money OF the country,
instead OF being Intentionally legis
lated out OF existence by Congress-.
was revised out OF existence. IRE
port OF Silver Com mission. Vol. 1 /,
page 90.)
"One erroneous revision, tending
tosetfect particular object, may en-
cite only suspicion that the error
arose from design and mot inadvert.
ence. But two erroneous DIVISIONS,
both tending TO effect the same OBJ
ject, change the suspicion into an
almost conclusive conviction. When
to a surreptitious introduction into
the Revised Statutes OF words de.
monetizing all the silver coins of the
United States, is added the surrep.
titious introduction of words pro.
hihiting the currency OF foreign sil.
yer coins, the design being masked
against casual observation by the
generality OF prohibition of the
currency of foreign coins, both gold
and silver, 1t Is impossible to doubt
that the laws of the country have
boon tempered with. Who the per-
petrators OF the crime were, is not
likely ever TO be satisfactorily known
IL is by no means certain that they
we're the persons offl ;ially connected
with the revision. The artful sug-
gestlons which mislead those who
draught laws, often come from out.
side and unsnspected parties" IRA
port Of Silver Commission. Vol. l,
page 1913
To all this overwhelming array of
evidence, may add the testimony
of the following active participants
in the legislative aud executive pro.
ceedings which attended the crime
of 1873; Grant, Thurman. b ,cx,
Blaine, Stewart, Teller and Voorhees,,
and a host OF Others, all OF whom
testify, upon their own personal re
sponsibility aud veracIty. that the
most important public measure
since the abolition OF slavery, was
accomplished without their knowl
edge or suspicion, at q TINA when
they we're active particip ants ia the
national Legislature.
These conclusions are Of course
very unpalatable to comfortable op-
timists. But what other results
could possibly be expected, Ia view
o! we'll kn)wn facts?
THE OWNERS OF THE UNITED STATES
There can be nj reasonable doubt
there has been an accumulation OF
wealth in few iuiividual han Is in
The United States, during the last
twenty-five years, vrstly in excess of
any which has taken place In other
parts of the world. Ia no other
country have railroad.managers
manufacturers, oll-reflners, mine
owners, bankers, and land specula
tors accumulated fortunes so rapid
ly as they have ia this. In no other
country, aud least of oil la England,
during the last thirty years, has the
burden ofstaxatiOn been cast so ex
clusively upon the working class, or
the machinery OF public taxation
been used 80 unscrupulously for
private profit.
The United States Of America are
practically owned by less than $50.
600 persons, constituting less than
one In sixty of It's adult male popn.
lation.
Within thirty years, the present
methods Of taxation being continued
the UnIted States Of America will
be substantially owned by lesa than
10000 persons, constituting less
than one in Eve hundred Of the adult
male population" 1T. @. Sherman,
in the Forum.
But. Senator, this Is not all; In
1893, four years after Mr.. Sherman's
article, the New York Tribune com.
menced the publication In it's Sun
day edition Of a series OF articles.
called American Millionaires," in
which the results discussed BY Mr..
Sherman we're brought down to 500.
A short time ago, ] applied at the
Office Of the Tfibune-for copy OF
the pamphlet into which these arti
cles had been compiled and publish
ed. ] could not obtain one and vas
toll = 800 ~.tt -