The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08
Senator Morris Would Have Govern.
ment Take Part Of All For.
tunes Which Pass the
$4,000 Mark.
HAVE NOT EARNED IT
Great Wealth Inherited by People Who
Have Not Raised Finger
Toward Creating

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Sept S.--Reacting
from its dry discussion of tariff rates
the senate today plunged into dis
cussion Of the fundamental right of
wealthy men to pile up their for
tunes, and of the means by which this
process could be reversed
That the inheritance tax can be ap-
piled effectively to break up these
fortunes was the plea of Senator
Norris of Nebraska, when he urged
his amendment to the tariff bill, fixing
such tax on all bequests.
Norris plan would tax inheritances
up to $4,000 one per cent. The rate
lis gradually increased until from an
inheritance above s50,000,000 the
public would take rs per cent.
1T would not take away from any
person" said Norris, "a single dollar
that he had any part in creating. In
every instance, SO far as ever OBJ
served, where a person has inherited
one or more millions Of dollars, he has
never raised one finger to do any use
| full work toward that accumulated
wealth
| 1eviewing the Astor fortune Norris
showed that the s9o.0o0,00o left to
/ Vincent Astor by the death of his
father represented investments OF
] lonly $4,000, 900 in New York City
real estate a few years ago. THE
trouble with this Inheritance tax,
4 declared Senator Clapp, is that II
tends to reconcile the American peo
4 pie with the system which allows one
4 man to live in idle luxury, upon the
I! toll of millions of his fellows. We
i must get past these frills and down
to the fundamentals, so that the peo
s. pie may in the first instance, retain
for themselves the results of theil
labor" Scoring Andrew Carnegie he
declared his hope for day when
instead of people waiting for tht
crumbs from this heaped-up banque
board of the rich when the taking o
, the crumbs tends to enslave thu
mendicants, there shall be one grea
, banquet board around which all shall
sit in free and just enjoyment o
!, what all have earned.
Norris presented figures to shoy
-lthat his amendment would take 10
, the public s44,00o,oO0 from the $50
, O0o, 900 inherited by Vincent Astor.
! Wealth Not Divided Evenly.
: COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept s.-Consid
: cradle comment was heard today o.
. the lecture of DR.. Washington Glad
! den. pastor of the First Congregation
g al church, and we'll known sociolog
cal writer, entitled Latest Phases Q
0 the Social Problem" DR.. GLADDEN. de
8 clared that there were more me
g worth s10O,0O0,o00 today than ther
4 were men worth $1,00o,00o sixty year
i ego and said he believed the wag
r workers were not getting their fal
e share of the wealth they produced.
"It has been shown that $500
. wear is needed to maintain a famil
!. Of FIVE in New York. said DR.. Gla'
q den "If this is true there are larg
; number of American families livin
n below the line of comfort, decency an
# physical efficiency"
# Such conditions, he said, cann'
3 help but breed discomfort. J beiie'
e the wage workers have a right
think that they are not getting the
fair share of wealth they produce
continued Rev. GLADDEN.. Pointir
n out that since 1850 the country's po
. ulation has increased four times al
: the wealth fifteen times, he sa
wages have not kept pace.