People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1896 — Plutocracy Illustrated. [ARTICLE]

Plutocracy Illustrated.

In answering a correspondent the New York World quotes from the census of 1890 to show that 3,000 families own over $12,000,-000,000,000 —over twelve thousand million dollars—of the wealth of the United States. At such a time as this, the World is not likely to be accused of assisting the Democratic party. So, accepting its figures, let us see what they mean. The total assessed value of all real and personal property in Nebraska under the census of 1890 was $184,000,000; of Missouri, $887,000,000; of Illinois, $809,000,000; of Kansas, $347,000,000; of Kentucky, $547,000,000; of Tennessee, $382,&00,000; of Colorado, $220,000,000; of Texas, $780,000,000; of Alabama, $258,000,000; of Mississippi, $166,000,000; of Indiana, $856,000,000, and of California, $1,101,000,000. The combined assessed wealth, real and personal, of these twelve great states of the west and seuth, as shown by. the census of 1890, foots up between six and seven billions, while the combined wealth of 3,000 plutocratic families foots up over twelve billions —nearly twice as much. What more need be said?—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.