Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Trust Question, a Solution
Each and all, in accumulating the. Great fortunes of today, has done so with due notice that this country is not for them in particular, but for all, and that the country, when it is ready, may carry out this policy.
Some who have accumulated great fortunes are to be admired for the skill and honesty with which they have. Done it; many more. For the spirit to excel which has led them to do everything that was possible within the letter of the law; but there are many. Especially among the owners of the later fortunes, who have built them up by the methods of the brigand, and while there would be greater justice in requiring onlv the last of these parties to lay down the greater part of their accumulations, here again it would be impossible to make distinctions equitably; and after all, no fortune has been made without the toil of the masses, and the masses have not always received their full share of the reward.
These parties should not be deprived of wealth, nor should anything be confiscated, unless an attempt at evasion were made.
They should be allowed an abundance; but, having retained an abundance, they should permit others to have a chance.
If they possess real ability and. Are worthy citizens, their value will not be lost to the country, as there are fields enough in which they can attain distinctions that are more desirable than that of possessing much.
One of the greatest practical difficulties in putting through such a plan, would be to prevent the escape of the multi-million aires with their fortunes, from the country. To prevent this, measures of the greatest severity would be necessary, but they need work no greater hardship than the giving away of the excess of their fortune to those of their choice, where there is conformity to the law.
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