People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — “Anything More, My Lord?" [ARTICLE]

“Anything More, My Lord?"

In answering a correspondent, the New York World quotes from the census to show that 3,000 families own over $12,000,000,000 —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; Missouri, $887,000,000; Illinois, $809,000,000; Kansas, $347,000,000; Kentucky, $547,000,000; Tennessee, $382,000,000; Colorado, $220,000,000; Texas, $780,000,000; Alabama, $258,000,000; Mississippi, $166,000,000; Indiana, $856,000,000, and California, sl,101,000,000. * ' The combined assessed wealth, real and personal, of these 12 great states of the west and south, as shown by the census of 1890, foots up between $6,000,000,000 and $7,000,000,000, while the combined wealth of 3,000 plutocratic families foots up over $12,000,000,000 —nearly twice as much, -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. i ~ We nominate Cleveland as one of the members of the McKinley cabinet —that is, if he is not too far behind with his fishinsr.