| “Extra Census Bulletin No. 70” represents taxes on property including corporations for 1890 | $465,000,000 |
| Licenses, poll taxes, etc. (about) | 50,000,000 |
| ------------ | |
| Total (the same as that contained above) | $515,000,000 |
The Bulletin adds that “three-fourths of this tax falls upon the relatively poorer classes.” Dr. Spahr, ibid., p. 156.
[172]. See here, pp. [64], [65], [68], [72].
[173]. Dr. Spahr, ibid., pp. 157, 158.
[174]. The World Almanac, 1899, p. 164. Mr. Upton, here, p. 27.
[175]. The World Almanac, 1900, p. 539.
[176]. This average would mean that in every 100 families 90 have 5 and 10 have only 4 members. See the decrease of family membership: foot note, p. 18.
[177]. “It is interesting to remark that, while in 1893 the number of the propertyless families reached over 7-millions, the national and local Building and Loan Associations having net assets of over $450,000,000, have,” in 25 years, “helped to secure” only “probably over 400,000 homes,” says Mr. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of Labor. The World Almanac, 1899, p. 168; ib., 1900, p. 172. But that inability is aggravated by the taxation unjust to the poor. See here, pp. 174-178.
[179]. Encyclopedia of Social Reform, p. 1346.
[180]. Encyclopedia of Social Reform, p. 1346.