unrepublican economic laws, and must end, therefore, like the rest, in
failure and disappointment?

With our resources restored to the people, which can be done only
through Confiscation, prosperity would diffuse itself throughout the
country as easily as the sun scatters its light.

We will now outline, as briefly as we may, what will be the effects of
Confiscation, and what Confiscation means. It means the limiting of
every individual fortune in the United States to $100,000.

And the excess of every fortune now exceeding that amount to be
confiscated and turned into the public treasury. No exceptions to be
made as to persons or the thing owned. Money, land, buildings, bonds,
stocks, everything - wherever an excess is found, confiscate.

The anarchist! It is justice and the intelligence of the people that
these new tyrants dread. The equity of this reform should be evident to
every one who knows that this government was originally established for
the good of all. And the time has now come when the work commenced in
1776 should be again resumed, and our latest masters got rid of some way
or other.

But, it will be asked, will not a fifty times millionaire give
employment to as many men as will 500 men with $100,000 each. No. Not
even if madam and himself are at home from toadying up and down through
Europe in search of a princeling. (Stop this fad of the spoiled darlings
of fortune and you stop a leak through which over $1,000,000,000 of
American money has already disappeared. We will sustain this with facts
in its proper place.) One million dollars divided among ten men will do