to bring out is, that the wealth and resources of the country has found
lodgment in a few hands, whereas it should be scattered among all the
people, and as long as they are getting the benefit it will matter
little to them whether they own it in their Governmental capacity or as
individuals, and the counties even are not to hold on to the forfeited
excess, but must dispose of it as fast as the people are able to buy.

But Huntington not owning all the securities of the railroad of which he
is president, we send for persons and papers and confiscate as fast as
the excess turns up, and distribute as described above. "Oh my! Oh my!"
comes a voice from out of the woods. "Is not this robbery?" No; nor armed
revolution either, but a peaceable solution of the question. Who owns
this earth anyway?

When persons and papers are sent for, and one of the interrogated is
found to possess, say, $100,000 in money and securities, $100,000 of
real estate, and $100,000 of other good things the right of choice
Should be given him as to the $100,000 he wishes to retain. For the
limiting of every individual fortune to $100,000 does not mean $100,000
of one kind of property and $100,000 of another kind, etc., but $100,000
all told.

Those of our own country are, of course, amenable to our laws, but many
of the securities of the road under consideration are owned abroad, and
persons and papers there are not responsive to our subpoenas. If it
brings disaster to a country to lose income made there, are we not close
to one of the causes of the wretched want that is confined to no section
of this land as we draw nearer to the man abroad, who is fattening from
income that is drawn from all over this country?