CHAPTER VI.

CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH IN MONOPOLIES, ETC.

Increase of the national wealth in seven years 139

Wages: the doctrine of; artificially kept up; the fall of 141

Net incomes of the natural and mortgagee monopolies from 1891 to 145 1897 inclusive

Net incomes of monopolizers of rentable houses for the same 146 period

Net incomes of monopolies of rentable farm lands for the same 148 period

Net incomes of some trusts unascertained 151

Net incomes of the owners of offices, hotels and other rentable 152 properties in the centers of cities

Development of trusts in manufacture and mechanical industries; 154 concentration of capital

Net incomes of manufacture and mechanical trades 157

Net incomes of mining monopolies 161

Increase of the propertyless population 164

Grand total of the total-net-incomes of monopolies, trusts, and 169 combinations in seven years

Excess of the net incomes over the total increase of the 170 national wealth in seven years explained

National and local taxes for seven years paid 174

Increase of the propertyless and that of national wealth after 180 1897 up to 1900 stated

Appendix 187

Index 191