steadily on the increase, and the potter's field received the bodies of
eighty of her subjects that were frozen to death in London in four days
of January last. Yet the rich have been paying an income tax in that
country for generations past.

When the rich merchant, or rich anything else, insures what he is
dealing in, he adds the cost of his policy to the thing he sells. The
income tax is but another premium, and he tags that on where he pinned
the other. The laborer has always paid the expenses of the rich, and
always will. The laborer can never dictate terms to the rich. The labor
leaders even have come to recognize the hopelessness of the unequal
contest. The power of the rich to do as they like can never be destroyed
while they are allowed to retain the riches that gives them this power.
A readjustment and a limit set to the amount an individual can own is
the only remedy. And the sooner that unassailable truth is recognized
and acted upon, the sooner will you get rid of the lobbiest and the
pauper.



II.

We need more money per capita: say some more would-be leaders, who have
found the only way out of the land of bondage. Increase the currency to
$50 per capita, and business and prosperity will once more fill the
land. Money has become scarcer, they continue, and therefore dearer.
Those who contracted monetary obligations last week find that they are
now paying more for the use of that money than it was worth when the
debt was made.