People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — Eighty Millions Stolen. [ARTICLE]

Eighty Millions Stolen.

The court estimate of the Gould estate at (80,934,580.79 is as interesting as it is important in the affairs of a country in which every man is supposed to earn all he gets. When a man owns a dollar he gives a dollar’s worth of skill or genius in exchange for it. Unless he steals it or defrauds the of it, he gives back for every dollar he takes at least a dollar’s worth. No one can deny that this is the law of prosperity. No one can reasonably assert that this immense accumulation conforms to it. The estate was accumulated" by'the*' very simple system of printing figures and dollar' mark? on_ptec.es of cheap paper, and thAn by corrupt control of the law-making power of the people forcing the workers of the country to surrender enough of their earnings to give value to the paper. That is financiering. It differs from stealing because thieves are punished, while the heirs of financiers dine with the prince of Wales.—New York World, Jan. 11.