| CHAPTER I. |
| DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES. |
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| Preliminary: opinions and views | 1 |
| Conclusions of Mr. G. K. Holmes, U.S. Census Expert, illustrated by diagrams and Table I | 5 |
| Conclusions of Mr. Thos. G. Shearman | 11 |
| Diagrams, Table II, and explanation | 12 |
| Conclusions of Dr. C. B. Spahr | 18 |
| Diagrams, Table III, and explanation | 20 |
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| CHAPTER II. |
| STATISTICS OF WEALTH OWNERS. |
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| Statistics of aggregate wealth | 27 |
| Economic classes of families analysed | 28 |
| Holders of wealth, tenants and mortgagors | 32 |
| Reciprocal comparison of contradictory classes | 39 |
| Comparison of the poor and the rich families | 42 |
| Right table resulting from comparisons | 45 |
| Comparison of families in tables of different authorities: averages of family wealth | 47 |
| Illustrative chart showing worth of individuals | 50 |
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| CHAPTER III. |
| THE PROPERTIED AND PROPERTYLESS PEOPLE. |
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| Fundamental difference in number of resources of the propertied and propertyless | 53 |
| Sources of multiple incomes of the wealth owners | 54 |
| (Extent of mechanical forces applied to labor in favor of the wealthy) | 57 |
| A propertyless man himself is a source of multiple expenses in favor of the propertied | 61 |
| Primogeniture replaced by dividogenesure, the principle of dividogenesure defined and explained | 70 |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
| ABNORMITY OF THE SOCIAL SITUATION. |
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| Numbers of the people subject to dividogenesure | 78 |
| (Percentage of the homeless population in cities and towns and of the landless on farms) | 79 |
| The propertyless a great nation | 83 |
| Bread-winners and others in gainful pursuits | 89 |
| Productivity of the American people superior | 93 |
| The people labor in favor of speculators | 95 |
| (Artificial world a witness for justice and rights) | 98 |
| Yearly net gains of the natural monopolies | 101 |
| Rates of injustice of dividogenesure expressed in daily incomes derived from millions of dependent individuals by the wealthy few | 103 |
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| CHAPTER V. |
| THE MORTGAGOR FAMILIES. |
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| Loss of rights precedes loss of property | 110 |
| Statistics of farm and home families in debt | 111 |
| Percentages and numbers of families in debt in the United States after 1890: double table | 116 |
| Increase of mortgages on acre-tracts and lots | 119 |
| Amounts of indebtedness and life of mortgage | 121 |
| Per capita debt and average rate percent on the debt | 122 |
| Annual interest charges on debts combined | 126 |
| Public and other debts in force after 1890 stated | |
