INDEX.
Average: rate per cent on debt, [123], [124];
average wealth of the rich, the well-to-do, the middle, and of the poor classes, [28], [29];
of over 27-millions, [51], [52];
average, for homes in debt, [113];
for farms in debt, [111], [112];
differences in averages of different authorities, [38];
—rents, see: Rent.
Blocks illustrating comparison of individual wealth, [50].
Bread-winners by C. D. Wright, [85].
Capita: per capita wealth, [27], [38];
per capita debt, [122], [123].
Capital: aids to increase production of wealth, [55]-[57];
concentration of capital increased, [140], [155].
Cities: per cent of the homeless in, [80];
cities’ families in debt, [114], [115];
large cities’ families in debt, [114], [115];
cities belong to [24] and [14] per cent of their population, [118], [132].
Comparison of the poor and the rich by dollars’ worth, [7], [8];
comparison in tables, [42];
of the family-groups, [39];
of the U. S. with France at the time of Revolution, [16];
with Rome, [17];
by Crosby Hon. Ino. Reciprocal comparison of the middle classes of two tables, [39].
Concentration: of wealth in higher spheres, [153];
1st table of concentrated wealth, [150];
2d and final table of, [169];
explanation of this concentration, [170];
concentration of wealth increases, [180], [181];
concentration of wealth greater than the total increase of it, [170], [171].
Consumers’ opinion on remuneration of capital and laborers, [97], [98];
do not know the bases of justice and rights, [98], [99].
on homes, [113];
increase of, 1880-89, [119]-[122];
increase of public debt, [167];
total debt on acres and lots in 1890, [121], [124]-[5];
percentages of families in debt in cities, [114], [115];
debt of the U. S., states, counties, school districts, etc., foot note, [126];
of New York, foot note, [134];
amounts of, on real estate, [121];
per capita, [122];
extinguished debt, 12.68%, [122];
interest charge against debt, [124];
combined interest charge against families’ debt, [125], [126].
Distribution of wealth: 1st table, [28];
1st R. table, [29];
2d table, [32];
2d R. table, [36];
2d Right table, [45];
1st and 2d tables, [47]. Table I, [6];
diagrams for conclusions of Mr. Holmes, [5];
diagrams for conclusions of Mr. Shearman, [12];
Table II;
conclusions of Mr. Shearman, [12];
diagrams for conclusions of Dr. Spahr, [20];
double table III for these diagrams, [21];
conclusions of Dr. Spahr, [18];
conclusions of Geo. K. Holmes, [5], [6].
Dividogenesure: definition and origin of, [70];
divides people into classes, [71];
its tacit power of enslaving the people or expelling into the sphere of charities, [72];
it enforces idleness, [73];
is the main cause of misery, [74];
is sister of primogeniture, [74];
is a pernicious principle, [74];
its favorites without moral responsibility, [75];
is a system of slavery distinct from any other slavery, [75], [76];
the propertyless are special victims of it, [92], [103]-[4];
is a foundation of iniquity, [87], [88];
implies degrees of hardship against its dependents, [117], [74];
its hardship according to the rates of gain from each employed individual, [103]-[4];
its rates are not wages, but pure losses, [106];
differs from primogeniture, [131];
future of the nation under dividogenesure, [106]-[7], [181].
Energy: human energy embodied in objects, [98];
crystallized in articles, [99];
human energy concentrates into the hands of speculators, [99], [100].
Extortion: from the public by excess of selling prices over cost of production, [158], [159];
by mining monopolies, [161];
by stock-watering, [173], [174].
Families: groups compared, [39], [42];
basis of family-worth, [39], [41], [42];
statistics of—occupying farms and homes, [79],—hire farms, [81],—hire homes, [81], [82];
farm families in debt, [111], [112];
home-families in debt, [113];
table of farm and home families, [116];
one million of rich families, [92], [103]-[4];
dividends of the million families, [103], [104] and [138]-[9];
one million (families) masters, [181]-[2];
263,380 families of the well-to-do class included into the average of the poor of the 2d table, [32];
exposed by comparisons, [39], [42];
surplus million families found in the tenant group, 2d table, [32], [34], [35].
Farms: acreage of, [148];
acreage for the increased population, [164]-[5];
rent, [165];
increase of rented farms, [166];
percentage of incumbered farms, [166], [167];
farms in France, [49].
Future of the nation (possible), [106]-[7].
Gainful pursuits, persons engaged in, [91]-[2].
Galileo signed Jesuit Verdict, [16].
Great Britain, distribution of private property, [48], [49].
Herron, George (Professor dismissed from the Iowa College), [107].
Holmes, G. K. U. S. Census Expert on Mortgage Statistics, [6], [14], [15], [24];
Holmes, G. H., view on mortgages, [132].
House-Scarb defined, [8].
Income: daily income from the poor, [138]-[9];
gross incomes of the workers decreased, [143];
net incomes of many trusts omitted, [151]-[2];
net incomes of the owners of the central parts of cities, [152]-[3];
net incomes of the manufacture and mechanical trades, [157]-[8];
net incomes of the mining monopolies, [161];
total net incomes of the natural, mortgagee, rentable house, and land monopolies, [150];
total net incomes of all monopolies, etc., table, [169];
excess of the incomes over the total increase of wealth, [169], [170]-[1].
Inventions: as aid to human energy, [85], [86];
they are blessing and curse, [86];
inventors were a blessing to humanity, [98].
Landowners of England, Scotland, Holland and of Germany, [56].
Logical Premises, [5];
logical premises of life, [25].
Losses: special of the wage-earners, [157];
special of the farmers, [160];
special of the miners, [161];
loss of the previous wealth by the people, [171];
total loss of wealth in 7 years by the U. S. people, [170].
Mayo Smith, Prof., compares French proprietorship of land with that of England, [49].
Monopolies: definitions of, Appendix II and III;
profits of the mortgagee, [145];
profits of the natural, [101], [145]-[6];
profits of monopolies of the rentable homes, [146]-[7];
profits of rentable lands, [149];
the total net incomes of [4] classes of monopolies, [150];
grand total of the total net incomes of the monopolies and combinations, [169];
explanation of the net incomes of the monopolies, [170]-[1].
See: Incomes, the excess of.
Mortgages: statistics of, [111];
development of, [119];
significance of, [128];
semi-optimistic views on, [128];
view of Mr. E. Atkinson on, [128]-[132];
of Mr. G. H. Holmes, [132];
view of Rev. Wm. D. P. Bliss, Editor of Enc. of Soc. Reform, [133];
Semi-pessimistic views: view of Mr. J. P. Dunn, Jr., Burden of Debt, [134];
losses of property by foreclosure, an example, [135], [136];
view of Mr. D. R. Goodloe, [136].
See: Debt.
Mulhall, Mr., comparison of farmers of different countries, [93].
Napoleon Bonaparte, [107]-[8].
Poor: grow absolutely poorer, [172].
Population: in families, [18];
increase of in 1897, [163], [164], [165];
in 1900, [182].
Primogeniture, Great Britain and Japan, [70], [74], [136].
Productivity of the Americans: on farm, [93];
in industry, [94], [95], [96].
Propertyless: “Less than half the nation,” [18];
“tenants,” group 1st, 2d table, [32];
causes of the increase of the propertyless, [52];
propertyless is a resourceless man of multiple expenditure, [61]-[68]-[71];
he is a source of multiple income for many propertied, [68];
without employment, [69];
pay rent or are expelled, [77]-[78];
unseen forces compel him to be a slave, [76];
more than half the population, [82];
made the nation in 1865, [85];
could build and inhabit 33 most populous cities, [83], [84];
have nothing to hope for, [86]-[7];
number of in 1897, [179];
number of in 1900, [182].
Rates of interest are higher against the poor debtors, [127]-[8].
See: Debt.
Real estate indebtedness, [121].
See: Debt.
Rent: house rent per family, [147];
house rent on farms, [149];
rent paid for homes and farms by increased population, [164]-[5];
average house rent, [147];
totals of rent paid, table, [169];
according to Dr. Spahr for 1890, house and office, [152]-[3];
Resources: of the propertied, [53]-[60];
of the propertyless, [61], [64]-[5];
a semi-resourced man, [68].
Rich: comparison of, [42];
deeper reasons why the rich grow absolutely richer, [172]-[3].
See: Distribution.
Rome, mistress of the world, [17].
Shearman, Tho. G., conclusions of, [11], [12], [24], [32];
his basis of averages differ, [38];
one average covers 89.4% of the entire population, [40].
Spahr, C. B., Dr. conclusions of, [18], [20], [24];
See: Taxes.
Statistics of wealth, by J. K. Upton, special agent of the [11]th census, [27], [181].
See: Mortgages.
Steam power: increase of, [57].
Taxes: proportions of national taxes, [175];
indirect taxes paid, [176];
decrease of national taxes, [176];
unjust to the poor, [176];
local taxes: proportions of, [176];
local taxes less unjust to the poor, [177];
local taxes paid, [178];
the poor pay taxes on gross incomes, [179];
total taxes paid by the rich and the poor, [178], [179];
taxes increased by the war, [180]-[1].
Tenants of farms and homes, [32];
the correct number of, table, [36].
See: Propertyless.
Trusts: definitions of, [Appendix II];
incomes of some trusts omitted, [151]-[2];
trusts more active, [180];
the view of Henry Brown, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court on trusts, [162].
Wages: economic doctrine of the rate of, [141];
wages would be twice as low, [141];
artificially kept up, [142];
reports on the fall of wages, [142]-[3].
Waite, F. C., special agent of the 11th census in charge of True Wealth: ascertained the earnings of the natural monopolies for 1890, [99], [101].
Wealth: table of, [27];
accumulation of, [27];
land is the source of wealth, [54], [55];
average wealth per family, $[5],[125], table, [29], [47];
per capita, lower table, [27], [38], table, [51];
aggregates of wealth owned by different classes, 1st table, [29], [45];
wealth owned by individuals, table, [51];
chart, [50];
concentration of wealth, tables, [150], [169] (for 1897);
increase of wealth (for 1900), [181];
increase of in [7] years, [139], [140];
increased phenomenally, [140];
who profits by the increase of, [144]-[5];
concentration of in industries, [154];
largest fortunes of, increase most rapidly, Dr. Henderson, [172];
wealth reduced with the increased number of families, [171].
See: in the tax table, [178].